Suffragette City: The Reluctant, History-Making story of Wyoming’s Esther Morris
“Although I have often regretted I was not better qualified to fill the position,” she wrote, “like all pioneers, I have labored in faith and hope.”
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The History of Manless Climbing
What does true gender equality look like in the climbing world?
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The Forgotten History of Female Athletes Who Organized Their Own Olympics
Men barred “those delightful creatures” from competing at the Olympics. So female athletes protested by making their own games in 1922.
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10 Women’s Sports Stories That Would Make Great Films
ESPN series 30 for 30 is excellent—but covers almost only dudes. Here are some female athletes they should feature.
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The Untold Story of Women in the Zapatistas
Zapatista women now choose their own partners, they often have two to four children, and there has been a dramatic decrease in domestic violence.
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Hey Hey! Ho Ho! Where Did Radical Cheerleaders Go?
A brief history of radical cheerleading, which mixes peppy chants with anti-establishment politics.
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America’s Forgotten Female Astronauts
In the 1960s, a group of women spent months training for space travel. But they never got to go.
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Black Women Worked as Some of Nasa’s First Computers
Back when “computers” referred to people, Black women were some of NASA’s most crucial mathematicians.
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Apostle of the Cacti: How Minerva Hamilton Hoyt Saved the Desert
Minerva Hamilton Hoyt’s erasure is so predictable because Americans have mythologized the creation of our national parks as an inherently masculine endeavor.
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The Radical Working-Class Roots of Improv Comedy
Most comedy fans don’t know that improv was created by a female social worker.
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