The Mayan Lair

Illustration: Alex Reynolds/NPR

Last year I did a few write-ups and drawings about some lady fighters from history who fought openly as their gender (there are plenty of disguised-as-a-man soldiers and plenty of trans soldiers, but those are outside the scope of this series).  This is by no means an exhaustive list; there were plenty of great figures that my schedule didn’t permit me to tackle (at least not yet).  But as Women’s History Month gets started tomorrow, I thought y’all might enjoy reading about some of history’s toughest broads.

Last year I did a few write-ups and drawings about some lady fighters from history who fought openly as their gender (there are plenty of disguised-as-a-man soldiers and plenty of trans soldiers, but those are outside the scope of this series).  This is by no means an exhaustive list; there were plenty of great figures that my schedule didn’t permit me to tackle (at least not yet).  But as Women’s History Month gets started tomorrow, I thought y’all might enjoy reading about some of history’s toughest broads.

Enjoy!

Fitting

So, America, it’s going to get worse. Much, much worse.

Near Dark (1987). Italian poster.

“Roses” by Brooke Didonato

We’ve created a controlled environment to conduct an experiment in blowing your mind.

Like, the whole thing was unbelievably fucked up from the get go.

“Wait, this is still a thing? Which other planets competed?”