This past Saturday marked the one hundred year anniversary of Quentin Roosevelt’s death in aerial combat over France. Now, this struck me for two reasons. The first is that Quentin was born nearly one hundred […]
Christine de Pizan, the first person to write while female (as told by my ninth-grade self)
I promised months ago in my post on Caterina Sforza that I would talk about Christine de Pizan, the medieval figure I chose to be for Medieval Day in the ninth grade. In looking back at […]
Frequent Fascinations: May and June 2018
So I realize it isn’t the end of the month but I’ve been gone for two months during which I’ve found a lot of new obsessions too delightful not to share. If you don’t know […]
Wang Zhenyi: the creative genius who made science rule
From an early age, it was clear that science just wasn’t my thing. I really tried but my style of thinking couldn’t break down huge concepts to smaller levels. I loved watching “Bill Nye the […]
Let’s Catch Up, Shall We?
Yes, she lives and she is profoundly sorry for her two-month absence. But, she is back and for some reason talking in the third person. First things first, thank you so much for your patience […]
Half a century before she could even vote, Victoria Woodhull ran for U.S. President
Recently, I’ve started to feel older. Not old, necessarily, just older and more aware of the history I’ve seen in my life. I’ve started to realize that I’ve lived through events that people will ask […]
Margaret Getchell: the first female business exec who revolutionized retail
Because this blog site has yet to live through Christmas, you have yet to experience the pure euphoria the holiday season brings me. Every year, around this time, I start to go through withdrawal and […]
Frequent Fascinations: April 2018
Well, yet another month has whizzed on by…I can’t believe tomorrow is May. It seems like I barely had time to be obsessed by anything other than sleep. Nonetheless, I have five wonderful picks that […]
Why I’ll never watch Dancing with the Stars without thinking about Beryl de Zoete
One of my many weird and wacky obsessions is “Dancing with the Stars.” I can’t get enough of it. I love watching the way that celebrities are taken out of their element and transformed by […]
The anything if bland Lilian Bland: photographer, aviator, car dealer, gambler, you name it…
Since I was a little girl, I always moved around rapidly from one hobby to the next. I would be obsessed with making a script out of a book I was reading and then I […]
Ida B. Wells: The Foul-Mouthed “Princess of the Press” who spoke out against the South’s horrific lynchings
Something I’ve noticed reading story after story about women throughout history is that so many accounts base the women they feature off of the actions of another woman. For instance, I’ve read about nearly ten […]
But Here’s The Thing About: Hedy Lamarr
In my Writing for New Media class, we had a reading the other day that recounted the history of communication, tracing in tedious detail the evolution of telegraph to cell phone. I kept waiting to […]
Jackie Mitchell, the girl who took on Ruth, Gehrig and the world of baseball
It’s National Library Week and I’m feeling the nostalgia of my elementary school days when we had a whole week of reading celebrations. We would keep track of all the books we read throughout year […]
The Night Witches: the all-female flying battalion that saved Soviet butts by kicking Nazi asses
There’s been a lot of talk recently about Russia and all of the horrible things their government has done whether it be their involvement in the U.S. election or the sports-doping scandal or literally anything […]
Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley: “We hired men. If they were good enough.”
If you’ve read my latest post, you know that I spent the past week slowly settling into my busy life working as the editor-in-chief of my school newspaper. Well, coincidentally, this week, I’ll be settling […]
Frequent Fascinations: March 2018
I can’t believe March is already over. I keep thinking that it should still be January or October or something like that. Nonetheless, it is the end of March which means it’s time for me […]
Victoria Ocampo: the power behind “the power of words”
This week has been one of the busiest of my life. On top of starting my new classes for the quarter and working on getting an apartment, this was my first week as the new […]
Ruth Coker Burks: the reason that I believe in angels
I’m going to start off by talking about something a little controversial: religion. As a young woman, I’m still trying to figure out what I believe. I have an immense amount of faith but in […]
Dr. Vera Peters: The Compassionate Kickass Cancer Combatant
I am coming up on the end of my spring break and so many of my friends have taken this time to get their wisdom teeth out. A lot of them, like me when I […]
The two things I love about Savannah: St. Patrick’s Day and Savannah Women of Vision
When I first came to Savannah, Georgia to tour Savannah College of Art and Design, I didn’t love the city. It was hot and humid and sticky and everything was fancy and pretty and elegant […]
But Here’s the Thing About: Cleopatra
Today, I’m starting a new series for the site that I am calling “But Here’s the Thing About.” Each post within the series will focus on a woman from history that everybody knows or thinks […]
Artemisia Gentileschi: the master of artistic revenge
I’m starting this post on incredible Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi by talking about about my dog. This is relevant, I promise, because I almost named her after Artemisia. When we first saw a picture of […]
Why we can thank Frances Glessner Lee for all of our favorite crime shows
Fun fact about myself: I’m a writing major at an art and design school. Nine times out of ten, it’s awesome. I’m surrounded by talented, creative people doing awesome things, going awesome places, and they […]
Raymonde de Laroche: the first female pilot and a lesson in resilience
Okay, get excited, y’all. Today I’m bringing you my bread and butter, my specialty, my favorite area of women’s history: early aviation. I love this topic for a multitude of reasons. The first is I […]
How Viola Desmond made Canadians aware of their “angel complex”
I love Canada. I love the cold, I love the food, I love the friendliness and I once had a male professor who told a student from Canada that, “I’m straight…but your Prime Minister is […]
Frequent Fascinations: Birth through February 2018
I thought that it might be fun and a bit ridiculous (and therefore totally on brand) to create a “Monthly Favorites” series of posts like the ones that all of those way-too-put-together beauty gurus upload […]
Caterina Sforza: taking care of business since 1463
Around this time each year, the ninth-graders at my high school had a Medieval Day. They researched a figure from medieval history, wrote a paper and dressed up like them for a full day while […]
Millicent Patrick and the reason I hate horror movies
I don’t like horror movies. I don’t understand how people can watch them. I get easily scared and I don’t like to be scared and so, therefore, I can’t and won’t watch horror movies, nor do […]
Mary Somerville, the world’s first “scientist”
I think it’s great that the word “scientist” has been shedding its predominantly male connotations that it has held onto the past several decades. Partially because it’s awesome that more women are entering into STEM-related […]
Maybe Paul Revere was “The Male Sybil Ludington”
Alright. I can’t think of a better place to start than Sybil Ludington. I first heard about “The Female Paul Revere” when I was in middle school and I remember thinking the middle school equivalent […]
