I've had some pretty wild depression the past couple years. I'm finally starting to work through it - with art.
This most-wanted WW2 spy rescued Jews and POWs, blew up Nazi trains, and used an X-rated radio rhyme to identify herself to Britain.
In 1915, this rowdy Puerto Rican activist was arrested for wearing pants in public. It wouldn't be the last time she wore pants, or got arrested.
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/luisa-capetillo
One of the most powerful women in Zulu history, this cursed princess did what was necessary to protect the realm.
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/mkabayi-kajama
When a soldier raped her, this woman tossed him in a well and threw rocks at him until he died.
Spy, smuggler, saboteur, partisan: this Jewish woman refused to go like a lamb to the slaughter, and fought the Nazis tooth and nail... even after the war, when she, alongside others, poisoned th...
'bout damn time.
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/sade-a-pitch-about-an-african-princess-sells-to-disney
As a Holocaust survivor, her poetry was too dark for some, but it was perfect for death metal.
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/modern-worthies/inge-ginsberg
At age 101, this woman was one of the last surviving female pilots from WW2, and older than the Royal Air Force by one year - she died today.
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/modern-worthies/mary-ellis
Ballet classes offer youth a chance to experience a different side of life.
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/in-nairobis-largest-slum-these-young-ballerinas-dream-big