Kickass Women

From the Inupiat seamstress who killed polar bears to the Black motorcycle queen of Miami, these daring women lived life on their own terms.

These feminist editors, swimming suffragists, and renegade cooks reshaped the world.

Filipino tribal tattooist Fang-od Oggay has built an economy on the back of skin art.

Perhaps fiercest of all was Manuela Sáenz—spy, archivist, prankster, and companion of Simón Bolívar.

And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright.

A new book tells the tales of the queens of Jerusalem.

The new book "Pirate Women" uncovers the stories of the women who sailed their way into history, cutlass in hand.

Scholar Solange Ashby is uncovering the once-revered, now little-remembered female leaders of the Kushite kingdoms.

How empresses used "metamorphosis" to show their male courtiers who’s the boss.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

Is it possible to take the misogyny and bigotry out of cursing?

Daisy Lampkin's brick house is the newest addition to a beloved, shrunken cityscape in Pittsburgh.

Sally Snowman belongs to a tradition of freedom, loneliness, and pride.

Answering the call of the sea.