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Here is my new video! We filmed Chris’s last scenes for Two Housemates at the Youtube Creator Space. We had a very pleasant time! Also, as I say in the video, I’m incredibly grateful for all the help we’ve had on the show and all the support from you guys. It mean’s a lot to have you all around.

I grew up believing that women had contributed nothing to the world until the 1960′s. So once I became a feminist I started collecting information on women in history, and here’s my collection so far, in no particular order. 

Lepa Svetozara Radić (1925–1943) was a partisan executed at the age of 17 for shooting at German soldiers during WW2. As her captors tied the noose around her neck, they offered her a way out of the gallows by revealing her comrades and leaders identities. She responded that she was not a traitor to her people and they would reveal themselves when they avenged her death. She was the youngest winner of the Order of the People’s Hero of Yugoslavia, awarded in 1951

23 year old Phyllis Latour Doyle was British spy who parachuted into occupied Normandy in 1944 on a reconnaissance mission in preparation for D-day. She relayed 135 secret messages before France was finally liberated. 

Catherine Leroy, War Photographer starting with the Vietnam war. She was taken a prisoner of war. When released she continued to be a war photographer until her death in 2006.

Lieutenant Pavlichenko was a Ukrainian sniper in WWII, with a total of 309 kills, including 36 enemy snipers. After being wounded, she toured the US to promote friendship between the two countries, and was called ‘fat’ by one of her interviewers, which she found rather amusing. 

Johanna Hannie “Jannetje” Schaft was born in Haarlem. She studied in Amsterdam had many Jewish friends. During WWII she aided many people who were hiding from the Germans and began working in resistance movements. She helped to assassinate two nazis. She was later captured and executed. Her last words were “I shoot better than you.”. 

Nancy wake was a resistance spy in WWII, and was so hated by the Germans that at one point she was their most wanted person with a price of 5 million francs on her head. During one of her missions, while parachuting into occupied France, her parachute became tangled in a tree. A french agent commented that he wished that all trees would bear such beautiful fruit, to which she replied “Don’t give me any of that French shit!”, and later that evening she killed a German sentry with her bare hands. 

After her husband was killed in WWII, Violette Szabo began working for the resistance. In her work, she helped to sabotage a railroad and passed along secret information. She was captured and executed at a concentration camp at age 23. 

Grace Hopper was a computer scientist who invented the first ever compiler. Her invention makes every single computer program you use possible. 

Mona Louise Parsons was a member of an informal resistance group in the Netherlands during WWII. After her resistance network was infiltrated, she was captured and was the first Canadian woman to be imprisoned by the Nazis. She was originally sentenced to death by firing squad, but the sentence was lowered to hard lard labor in a prison camp. She escaped. 

Simone Segouin was a Parisian rebel who killed an unknown number of Germans and captured 25 with the aid of her submachine gun. She was present at the liberation of Paris and was later awarded the ‘croix de guerre’. 

Mary Edwards Walker is the only woman to have ever won an American Medal of Honor. She earned it for her work as a surgeon during the Civil War. It was revoked in 1917, but she wore it until hear death two years later. It was restored posthumously. 

Italian neuroscientist won a Nobel Prize for her discovery of nerve growth factor. She died aged 103. 

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jinxedinks added: Her name was Rita Levi-Montalcini. She was jewish, and so from 1938 until the end of the fascist regime in Italy she was forbidden from working at university. She set up a makeshift lab in her bedroom and continued with her research throughout the war.  

A snapshot of the women of color in the woman’s army corps on Staten Island

This is an ongoing project of mine, and I’ll update this as much as I can (It’s not all WWII stuff, I’ve got separate folders for separate achievements). 

Annie Jump Cannon was an american astronomer and, in addition to possibly having one of the best names in history, was co-creator of one of the first scientific classification systems of stars, based on temperature. 

Melba Roy Moutan was a Harvard educated mathematician who led a team of mathematicians at NASA, nicknamed ‘Computers’ for their number processing prowess. 

Joyce Jacobson Kaufman was a chemist who developed the concept of conformational topology, and studied at Johns Hopkins University before it officially allowed women entry in 1970. 

Vera Rubin is an astronomer and has co-authored 114 peer reviewed papers. She specializes in the study of dark matter and galaxy rotation rates. 

Mary Sherman Morgan was a rocket scientist who invented hydyne, a liquid fuel that powered the USA’s Jupiter C-rocket. 

Chien-Siung Wu was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, as well as experimental radioactive studies. She was the first woman to become president of the American Physical Society. 

Mildred Catherine Rebstock was the first person to synthesize the antibiotic chloromycetin.

Ruby Hirose was a chemist who conducted vital research about an infant paralysis vaccine. 

Hattie Elizabeth Alexander was a pediatrician and microbiologist who developed a remedy for Haemophilus influenzae, and conducted vital research on antibiotic resistance. 

Marie Tharp was a scientist who mapped the floor of the Atlantic Ocean and provided proof of continental drift. 

Mae Jamison is an astronaut who holds a degree in chemical engineering from Stanford University and was the first black woman in space.

Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and considered to be the world’s first computer programmer. 

Patricia E Bath is ophthalmologist and the inventor of the Laserphaco Probe, which is used to treat cataracts. 

Barbara McClintock won a Nobel prize for her discovery that genes could move in and between chromosomes.

Josephine Baker, though today remembered for her dancing, singing, and larger than life personality, actually played a significant role in WWII. She joined Women’s Auxiliary of the Free French Air Force, got her pilot’s license in 1933, and by 1944 she raised 3,143,000 francs for the war effort. She entertained the troops, which was a doubly whammy of justice. She refused to entertain segregated troops, so the French military was forced to integrate the troops for all her performances. She also smuggled secret messages in her music across countless borders. 

Audrey Hepburn is known as one of the most beautiful and talent actresses of the 1950′s, but her contributions to the world started far before her first film and continued until well after her cinematic heyday. In WWII stricken Austria, Audrey, then an aspiring ballerina, would give secret ballet performances to raise money for the Austrian resistance. She even helped smuggle secret messages for the resistance. On one such occasion, she was stopped by an enemy soldier. He asked her what she was doing and she, pretending not to understand, presented him with a bouquet of wildflowers she’d been absentmindedly picking. She was let go and the message was delivered safely. It was her experience in the war which would later prompt her to become one of the founders of UNICEF. 

Hedy Lamarr was an actress well known for her piercing gaze and deadpan wit. What she’s less known for is being a brilliant mathematician who invented the frequency hopping spread spectrum. Without her invention, we wouldn’t have bluetooth or wifi. 

Ching Shih was one of the world’s most successful pirates. At the death of her (pirate) husband, the former prostitute took command of his ships and started her pirating career. At the height of her career she commanded 1800 ships and more than 80,000 male and female pirates. She became powerful enough to challenge every empire’s naval forces in the world and her Red Flag Fleet was feared from the Chinese coast to Malaysia. Unable to defeat her, the Chinese government caved and offered her amnesty. She surprised everyone by taking it and became one of the few pirates in history to retire. She also took care of her crew even after her retirement; most of Ching’s pirates were pardoned. She died a respectable millionaire. 

Sophie Scholl was an active member of the White Rose non-violent resistance group in WWII Germany. In 1943 she, along with her brother and the rest of the White Rose were arrested for passing out leaflets encouraging passive resistance. She and her brother were beheaded by guillotine just a few hours later. Her last words were “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”

(Written by Emporer-of-nerds) Constance Markievicz (was a) Very important figure in the Irish independence movement, first woman elected to the British House of Commons, and one of the first women to hold a cabinet position in government (Minister for Labour of the Irish Republic (which was a short-lived revolutionary state predating the current Ireland/Éire))!

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English ambassador to Turkey in the early 1700s, and documented her experience carefully. When she saw the Turkish perform an early method of small-pox vaccination, she urgently wrote home. She is responsible for the first variolation small-pox vaccinations in Europe. 

Marie Skłodowska-Curie is a fairly well known Polish woman. Unfortunately she’s often known as the ‘assistant’ to her husband. She was a pioneering physicist and chemist, who’s work with radiation was groundbreaking. She was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the only one to win one in two fields for her discovery of polonium and uranium. It’s also notable that she was the first woman in Europe to receive a doctorate degree. Her discoveries made the x-ray machine possible, and Curie immediately put it to work. She invented a small, mobile type of x-ray machine and worked with her daughter at casualty collection points in WWI, using the machine to locate shrapnel and bullets in wounded soldiers. She died of pernicious anemia, a result of years of radioactive exposure. Many of her notebooks are still too radioactive to be read. 

Margherita Hack was an Italian astrophysicist and became administrator of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory, bringing it to renowned respect and fame. She was a prolific science writer and was awarded the Targa Giuseppe Piazzi for the scientific research, and later the Cortina Ulisse Prize for scientific dissemination. Asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honor.

Though the realm of science fiction is considered men’s territory today, the first science fiction work was actually published by Mary Shelly. Her book, Frankenstein, changed the world of literature as we know it. Far from an aspiring author, Mary wrote Frankenstein on a whim. She, then Mary Godwin, her lover Percy Shelly and their son were visiting friends one dreary summer. They were kept indoors by rain most of the time and to amuse themselves, they suggested that each person write a ghost story. That night, Mary had a grim ‘waking dream’. “I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.” She said, and set about writing what she thought would be a short story. It ended up as the novel Frankenstein.

What would comic books and action movies be without their masked heroes? Nothing. And they owe it all to Emma Orczy. Full name Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála “Emmuska” Orczy de Orci, she’s the author of a series of books about the Scarlet Pimpernel and his adventures, and is generally considered to have introduced the idea of a masked super hero to the world.

Zelda Fitzgerald was a vivacious woman skilled in dance and writing. Unfortunately her husband thought she was a pretty good writer, too. So he plagiarized her. ““It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. Mr Fitzgerald—I believe that is how he spells his name—seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home,” Zelda Fitzgerald told the New York Review when reviewing her husband’s latest novel The Beautiful and Damned. He went on to plagiarize several of her short stories, even lifting direct quotes from her and giving them to his female characters. Eventually she became so strained she was committed to an insane asylum.

Eileen Chang, also known as Zhang Ailing or Chang Ai-ling, was one of the most influential modern Chinese writers. Chang’s fiction centers around the love between men and women, and is considered by some scholars to be among the best Chinese literature of the period. Chang’s works set in 1940s Shanghai and Japanese-occupied Hong Kong focuses on everyday life, unlike most of her peer’s work. The Taiwanese author Yuan Qiongqiong found inspiration in Eileen Chang, and poet Dominic Cheung commented “had it not been for the political division between the Nationalist and Communist Chinese, she would have almost certainly won a Nobel Prize”.

Mariama Ba was a french speaking Senegalese author. She was raised by her very traditional grandparents and had to fight for her education, as they did not believe women should be educated. From an early age she criticized the sexism found in African traditions. Her frustration led to the publication of her first novel, So Long a Letter, in which she depicted the anguished and hardship a woman experienced at the death of her husband and his other wife. Abiola Irele said it was “The most deeply felt presentation of the female condition in African fiction.” It was awarded the first Noma Prize for Publishing in Africa.

Surprise! Hellen Keller’s contributions to the world did not end after she finger signed ‘water’ to Anne Sullivan. Hellen Keller was a suffragette, birth control supporter and authored 12 books in her lifetime. Her first book was published at age 11, and her subsequent book, The Story of My Life, told her story of how she’d viewed the world since her earliest memories.

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most prominent  modernists of the twentieth century. Virginia Woolf was raised by wealthy,liberal parents and her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915. Her poetic,  non-linear style inspired her peers gleaned much praise. She is known today as one of the most influential feminists of all time.

Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson was a night club dancer, fry cook, prostitute, opera singer, and writer. Most notably, she was one of the most influential authors of all time. She published seven autobiographies centering on her childhood experiences, the most famous being I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, three books of essays, and many books of poetry. She has been award more than 50 honorary degrees.

Louisa May Alcott is primarily known for her novel Little Women, which is a semi-autobiographical work. Louisa was also a feminist, abolitionist, and lesbian, or bisexual, writing :I am more than half-persuaded that I am a man’s soul put by some freak of nature into a woman’s body… I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.” One account of a romance with a man, Ladislas Wisniewski remains. However, Alcott deleted her journal entries of him before her death.

Nelle Harper Lee is best know for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which illustrates the racism she witnessed growing up in Monroeville, Alabama. Harper Lee: American writer, Harper Lee, is best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

(submitted and writhed by @heavenisamatriarchy ) Chien-Shiung WuWu was a brilliant scientist who also had an experiment named after her, an experiment that tested if magnetic moments in nuclei conserved parity (if left and right could be switched and the world would be exactly the same- it would not, it turns out!)

Louise Mack was an Australian writer who became the first female war correspondent. In WWI she worked with the Evening News and the london Daily Mail, giving eye witness accounts of the German invasion.

Fanny Cochrane Smith was a full-blood Tasmanian Aborigine, and considered by most to be not only the last of her race, but the last speaker of her language. Luckily, she had five wax cylinder recordings of her language made. Though one is now lost forever, her recordings of Tasmania’s songs provides a vital look into pre-invasion Southern Hemisphere Pacifica. She was very self critical, and when she heard her own recordings, she cried “My poor race. What have I done”

Miles Franklin, born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was feminist Australian writer who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career. She is celebrated today by the primary school Miles Franklin Primary School which is named in her honor and holds an annual writing contest in her name.

Nellie Melba, born Helen Porter Mitchell, was an Australian operatic soprano. She was one of the most famous singers in the Victorian era and the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician. She took the pseudonym “Melba” to allude to her home town of Melbourne. During the First World War, Melba raised thousands in war support. It is rumored that her love of peaches lead to the creation of the dessert ‘Peach Melba

Edith Dircksey Cowan the first woman to be elected into Australian Parliament and was deeply involved in social issues, particularly those which involved women and children. In 1894, she helped found the Karrakatta Club, wherein women “educated themselves for the kind of life they believed they ought to be able to take” and eventually became president. Later, she campaigned for women’s suffrage which succeeded in 1899.

Emmy Noether born Amalie Emmy Noether was a german woman described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstian, Jean Dieudonne, Hermann Wyl, and Norbert Wiener as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.  She developed the theories of rings, fields, and algebras. Though she is primarily remembered as al algebraist specializing in topology, Noether developed a physics theorem which explains the connection between symmetry and conservation. Several mathematics groups have been named after her, including the Notherian group, the Noetherian ring, the Noetherian scheme, the Noetherian module, the Noetherian space, and the Noetherian induction.

Lene Vestergaard Hau is a Danish physicist who lead a Harvard University team in stopping the speed of light.

Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska), AKA Irena Sendlerowa was a Polish woman who served in the Polish Underground in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. She was head of the children’s section of Zegota, a Jewish aid group and smuggled more than 2,500 jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, providing them with new documents and shelter. Not counting diplomats, she saved more Jews during the Holocaust than any other person. She was captured by the Gestapo and sentenced to death, but managed to escape her fate and survived. She was awarded Poland’s highest honor, the Order of the White Eagle.

Maria Leontievna Bochkareva was a Russian woman who formed the Woman’s Battalion of Death (metal as FUCK) in WWI. Former child prostitute and abuse surviver Maria was in placed in charge of creating an all-female combat unit after the over throwing of the Tsar in March, 1917. Her Women’s Battalion of Death gained 2,000 female volunteers.

Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, AKA, Lydia Litviak, AKA, Lilya Litviak, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. She was the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy plane, becoming the first female fighter pilot to earn the title ‘Fighter Ace’ with over 12 solo victories, four collaborative victories, and 66 combat missions total.

This amazing woman is Irena Gelblum. She was submitted to me by skyeofskynet , but unfortunately I can’t locate any sources on her achievements that are in a language I can read. If anyone knows of her achievements, PLEASE PM me with them. They will be added in the next installment of this post, and in her upcoming feature on www.herstorydaily.wordpress.com and you’ll be credited.

Anna Tomaszewicz-Dobrska (1854-1918) was the first female Polish doctor to practice in Poland, and the first doctor to perform a cesarian section in Warsaw.

Maria Konopnicka was a strong willed Polish advocate for women’s rights, and Polish independence. She was a poet, novelist, translator, journalist and critic and used the pseudonym Jan Sawa in her much of her works, which centered around the hardships of the peasantry and Jews. A crater on Venus was named after her in 1994.

Hélène Sparrow was a revolutionary doctor and microbiologist. She worked to stem the spread of typhus in WWI stricken Poland and worked to spread the vaccinations of relapsing fever, spotted fever, diphtheria, and scarlet fever. She became head of the vaccine service at the Pasteur Institute and published over 103 scientific works.

((( Louise Mack, Fanny Cochrane Smith, Miles Franklin, Dame Nellie Melba-and Edith Cowan were suggested by bluebird-love . Irena Sendlerowa, Maria Bochkareva, Lydia Litvyak, the Night Witches, Irena Gelblum, Anna Tomaszewicz-Dobrska, Maria Konopnicka and Hélène Sparrow were submitted by @skyeofskynet . )))

The Nightwitches were also suggested BUT…I’m saving them for something big. 

THE FIRST BLOG POST OF HERSTORYDAILY! I’ve set up https://herstorydaily.wordpress.com and asked a childhood friend of mine to run it. While I will keep updating this tumblr post, herstorydaily will post about one woman every day with a little more detail than I put into these posts. 

New comic!

Yeah, I might have watched a movie and gotten kind of mad.

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the fact that there are people on this website who can feel discomfort or genuine fear because of art that was intended to make you feel that way and instead of giving the artist a pat on the back for portraying rape in a way that it should be think “SHUT IT DOWN ANYWAY!!!” is a gem

if rape is really such an issue, and if a book can really have such a great affect on a person or a society, then shouldn’t we have more depictions of rape like this, which will make the mass majority of people really uncomfortable? wouldn’t rape being portrayed in any sort of bad light be a good thing if it can influence a person’s thoughts on rape?