- 1. All-Black on the Silver Screen: 11 Goth Girls in TV and Film That Led Us to The Present-Day Wednesday
- (TV)
- We’ve been seeing a whole lot of Wednesday Addams’ creepy, yet cute, on-screen looks since the release of Netflix’s Wednesday in late November, but Jenna Ortega wasn’t the first to bring an “every day ...
- Created on 03 January 2023
- 2. The Trailer For "The First Lady," A Film About Trailblazing First Ladies of America, Starring Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Has Droppe
- (TV)
- “How do you really feel about being first lady?” As a deep violin strikes in the background, we see Viola Davis pose for photographs as Michelle Obama and Gillian Anderson clip her hair back in front ...
- Created on 22 February 2022
- 3. Hair Art: The Morbid Trend That Dominated the Victorian Era
- (Living)
- ... origins. In fact, most of the "hairwork" created throughout history has been rooted in a sweeter sentimentality. Mothers framed sweepings from their children’s first haircuts, friends exchanged locks like ...
- Created on 05 April 2021
- 4. Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
- (Living)
- Trump wasn't the first to suggest a spoonful of disinfectant for all that ails you. At a White House coronavirus task force meeting in April 2020, the president wondered out loud if an “injection” of ...
- Created on 25 March 2021
- 5. 10 Timely, Empowering Books to Read During Women's History Mont
- (Books)
- ... “Jolene” remix. Kamala Harris was elected the first woman, and the first Black and South Asian, Vice President of the United States. And, of course, countless women in white coats have helped and healed ...
- Created on 08 March 2021
- 6. How These Women Cartoonists Shaped the Flapper Image in the Roaring ’20s
- (Arts)
- ... was also home to another darling of the flapper comics scene who would later collaborate with Brinkley. Just as adventurous as the flappers she drew, Fay King was one of the first women in her hometown ...
- Created on 10 August 2020
- 7. We Know The Schuyler Sisters — Now, Meet The Other Real-Life Women Behind "Hamilton
- (Movies)
- ... only named woman character in the show aside from the Schuyler Sisters, Maria Reynolds, is one half of the first recorded sex scandal in American political history. The daughter of a merchant from New ...
- Created on 10 July 2020
- 8. Meet Julie d'Aubigny: The French Gender-bending Opera Diva Your History Teacher Didn't Want You To Know Abo
- (Feminism)
- ... 14, Julie, now considered a beauty, became the Count’s mistress. One of the first biographical accounts of her life, by the Parfaict brothers in their 1756 Dictionnaire des Théâtres de Paris, describes ...
- Created on 29 April 2020
- 9. Natalie Portman’s Cape and 9 Other Feminist Moments We Loved From The 92nd Academy Awards
- (Entertainment)
- ... matters deeply," the film features an African-American father learning to style his daughter’s natural hair for the first time in the absence of her mother. What made this win even more empowering was ...
- Created on 10 February 2020
- 10. How The Once Enslaved "Stagecoach Mary" Became The Gun-Toting First Black Woman Mail Carrie
- (Feminism)
- Going Postal A legendary figure in the old West, “Stagecoach” Mary Fields had to be tough as nails to claim her spot in history as the first African American woman to work as a mail carrier in ...
- Created on 19 August 2019
- 11. Britney Young of Netflix's "GLOW" Talks Authentic Storytelling, Rising Above Typecasting, and Season ...
- (TV)
- ... right. I remember when we first came out in Season 1, I read so many articles where people who didn’t really like the show would say, ‘They’re trying to push their feminist agenda down our throat, they’re ...
- Created on 13 August 2019
- 12. Just A Few Of History's Baddest Queer Bitche
- (Feminism)
- It’s Pride season, and we’ve already started planning our outfit for London & Brighton Pride (hint… RAINBOW, LEOPARD PRINT, GLITTER). So let’s celebrate everything LGBTQ+! To kick things off, here ...
- Created on 07 June 2019
- 13. Looking Into The Execution Of Mary, Queen Of Scots
- (General)
- ... Plot, including Mary, was duly arrested. The Babington Plot postscript and its secret cypher In September 1586 the first of the conspirators were executed, including ringleaders John Ballard and Anthony ...
- Created on 03 May 2019
- 14. A Comprehensive History Of Women's Underwea
- (Style)
- ... selling liquid stockings (AKA, shit fake tans). When the war was over in 1945, the first thought in women’s minds was celebration, quickly followed by: “OH MY GOD I NEED TO GET ME SOME NYLONS!” ...
- Created on 12 April 2019
- 15. These Women Fought For Sex Workers' And Women's Rights In The 19th Centur
- (Sex)
- ... Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act (LNA for short) and in doing so arguably became two of the first publicly known feminists. Though women before them had previously fought against ...
- Created on 29 March 2019
- 16. Mother Jones Was A Hell-Raising Trailblazer In The Fight For Workers' Rights
- (Feminism)
- ... in 1845, thousands died in the famine that followed. Many more escaped the Great Hunger by emigrating to North America, Mary’s father and brother among them. They worked as laborers, first in Vermont, ...
- Created on 30 January 2019
- 17. This Cap Was A Modest Necessity For 19th Century Women
- (Style)
- ... which is called a demi-cornette. Undress caps are, therefore, at present, of the cornette and demi-cornette kind. –The first are most in favor with the oval-faced belle, the latter is generally adopted ...
- Created on 28 November 2018
- 18. 4 WWII Heroines You Probably Haven't Heard O
- (Feminism)
- ... Inayat Khan In 1943, Noor Inyat Khan became the first female secret radio operator sent to Nazi-occupied France. It was an incredible achievement, which was somewhat lessened by two things: the ...
- Created on 24 September 2018
- 19. "All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories Of Queer Teens Throughout The Ages" Is A Must-Read Anthology That Spans Genre, Era, and Identit
- (Books)
- ... Latina, I am seeing a growing number of characters that represent one aspect of my identity, but never both. Yet the first short story in this anthology, "Roja," revolves around a young Mexican woman using ...
- Created on 26 June 2018
- 20. History Fight: Who Had The Best Royal Wedding Dress?
- (Style)
- ... that you need to sell your organs/firstborn to afford it. RIGHT THEN! LET'S GET STARTED! For much of history, wedding dresses were only available to the rich. They were a chance to show off wealth ...
- Created on 02 February 2018
