Tag Archives: badass women
The temp from Chiswick: why I love Donna Noble
Tweet*Major Spoilers for the relaunched Dr. Who* Nerds like me know Christmas is Dr. Who season (I guess the UK doesn’t even pretend with “Happy Holidays”). I’m a huge geek for the show, one of those rare popular scifi/fantasy properties that (anecdotally speaking) has a more vocal female fanbase than male one. Which makes a [...]
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Badass midwife wins 2011 CNN Hero Award
TweetMidwife Robin Lim has won the 2011 CNN Hero Award, which comes with a $300,000 prize to help her cause. About Robin, from CNN: Robin Lim, an American woman who has helped thousands of poor Indonesian women have a healthy pregnancy and birth, was named the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year on Sunday night. [...]
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Today’s Badass: Elizabeth Warren
TweetI am reluctant to get on the politician-as-savior bandwagon. Actually, these folks are mere mortals. And I firmly believe that if we expect them to be more ideologically pure, or just plain better than the rest of us, we’re begging to be deceived. That being said, the way she handled this moment made me dig [...]
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Quick hit: the role of Black women activists in the Civil War
TweetThere’s no better way to start the week than with some hardcore history nerdporn. So it’ a good thing that the Disunion blog at the New York Times, which chronicling the Civil War as it happened 150 years ago, is has posted a really interesting article on the role of Black women activists in the [...]
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Thirteen year old badass on slut shaming