Rejected Princesses

I've had some pretty wild depression the past couple years. I'm finally starting to work through it - with art.

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/full-width/wheredyougo

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.

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/nancy-wake

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.

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/timoclea

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...

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/vitka-kempner

'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