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Badass JKR making history. 💖 (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass Remember Irena Sendler? (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass THE LAST SURVIVING WOMAN TO HAVE SERVED AS A WORLD WAR II BRITISH SPY TURNS 100 (coffeeordie.com)

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Badass Annie Oakley : “ I ain’t afraid to love a man I ain’t afraid to shoot him either” (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass A Victorian Magazine Asked Spinsters Why They Were Single, And The Answers Were Incredibly Savage (www.ranker.com)

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Badass When Andrea Dworkin Told Pedophile Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg She Wanted Him Dead (www.thedistancemag.com)

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Badass Northern Cheyenne tribal historians revealed that it was a female warrior , Buffalo Calf Road Woman, who killed Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer (x.com)

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Badass Two women dancing and menstruating. Rock art by Indigenous Australians from the Upper Yule River, Pilbara, Western Australia. (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass You don't need a man to be successful

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Badass Anne Rice passes at 80

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Badass Meet the Dutch girls who seduced Nazis — and lured them to their deaths (nypost.com)

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Badass Elinor Otto, longest-serving ‘Rosie the Riveter’ who built airplanes until she was 95 – obituary (web.archive.org)

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Badass Why are our cities built for 6ft-tall men? The female architects who fought back (www.theguardian.com)

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Badass The Godmother of Rock’n’Roll – Sister Rosetta Tharpe (www.youtube.com)

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Badass A Complete List Of Women's Inventions (and Contributions)

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Badass The Janes 1960s underground abortion network | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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Badass Based JKR artwork from Le Figaro newspaper (featuring Simone de Beauvoir and Colette) (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass Feminist, surgeon, spy: Meet the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor (taskandpurpose.com)

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Badass The Kindergarten Teacher Who was Jailed for Wearing Pants To Court | by Jhemmylrut Teng | Lessons from History | Medium (medium.com)

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Badass Hedy Lamarr overview from NewScientist [She came up on Jeopardy today and nobody knew her name] (www.newscientist.com)

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Badass Following up on u/tomyris's post: here is the first woman to get a doctorate in science. Laura Bassi: the Bolognese Minerva (Goddess of Wisdom) (en.wikipedia.org)

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Badass Before the Bus, Rosa Parks Was a Sexual Assault Investigator - HISTORY (www.history.com)

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Badass Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model (theconversation.com)

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Badass Carry Nation Used a Hatchet to Smash Booze Bottles Before Prohibition - HISTORY (www.history.com)

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Badass How Emmett Till's Mother Turned Her Personal Tragedy into a National Movement (archive.is)

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