Awesome Chicks

Women who are beyond done with all of this shit.

Born on July 23, 1899, in Springfield, Illinois, Ruth Ellis was the oldest “out” African American lesbian known. 

 She died in her sleep at her home on October 5, 2000.

RIP Ruth Ellis! You will always be a true icon in the LGBT community and real inspiration!

People will always remember your name! Women’s History Month is for you!

A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]

Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]

Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the U.S. [1907]

A 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]

Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]

Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]

Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]

Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 - 1945]

The first basketball team from Smith college. [1902]

Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]

Afghani medical students. [1962]   (man, screw fundamentalism.)

A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]

and just to wrap up…

Maria Skłodowska-Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, doesn’t give a single fuck about misogynists saying women shouldn’t ride a bike because they could “get orgasm”.

Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a West African princess and a goddaughter of Queen Victoria, looking unimpressed with your shit circa 1860s.

Alina Janowska, a Polish actress who fought in the Warsaw Uprising. Her codename was Setka (Polish for hundred) because you could count on her one hundred percent. [1944]

Helena Grossówna, another Polish actress and dancer who fought in the Warsaw Uprising. She was a lieutenant in Armia Krajowa (the Home Army, the Polish anti-Nazi resistance movement) and she lead an all-women battalion.

I love this photo of a Polish woman that was taken right after the bombing during the Warsaw Uprising. She’ll fight for freedom AND look fresh AF. [1944]

Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper and one of the best snipers in history.

Don’t forget that Sally Ride, the first woman in space, was a lesbian!

Astronaut Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space, enjoys the view from the Shuttle Endeavour, September 1992. Note her necklace her necklace floating in the microgravity.