Name: Many, mostly unknown Occupation: Spies, soldiers, nurses, etc. Location: Vietnam, 1955-1975 As seen in: M√£n by Kim Thuy, brief appearance of a female sniper in the film Full Metal Jacket In the book M√£n, by Kim Thuy, the...
Name: Manuela S√°enz Occupation: Revolutionary, war hero, spy Location: Quito, Ecuador, 1797-1856 As seen in: the novels Our Lives are the Rivers, by Jaime Manrique, and Manuela, by Gregroy Kaufmann, the opera Manuela y Bolivar, by Diego Luzuriaga,...
In March 2016, women created a powerful ad that attacks Donald Trump’s treatment of women. The ad is simple in its construction: women read public statements that Trump has made about women. As the ad goes on, it gets more and more disturbing. Trump objectifies...
Name: Miss Phryne Fisher Occupation: Detective (fictional) Location: St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, 1928 As seen in: Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher detective novels (1989-) and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) The first undercover lady...
On June 12, 2016, an armed gunman entered Pulse, a gay night club in Orlando, FL, and killed 49 people. Nearly all of the victims of the shooting were Latino, and nearly half were Puerto Rican. Since the massacre, which was the deadliest mass shooting in the history...
