Eileen to the Stars

Anahit: The Queen Who Made the King Get a Job (Armenian Folk Tale)

Full entry (with footnotes) here. Book here. Patreon here. Art notes and whatnot after the cut - but real quick:

Yes, she already has her own animated princess movie. It’s not in English. It was posted in full by the animation studio here, so I hope it’s okay to embed it:

This version seemingly takes some liberties. Her uncle is in league with some shadow demon, there’s a talking dog, and her horse turns into this fiery magic flying creature…? I don’t know.

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IMC RYING!??! 

THIS IS ABOUT MY CULTURE AND I LOVE IT BEING SHARED BECAUSE NOT MAMNY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT US. <3333

Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954): Protector. Reformer. Lawyer.

Full entry here. Books here. Patreon here. More behind the cut!

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Sarah Biffin (1784-1850): The Artist Who Painted With Her Mouth

Full entry here. Patreon here. Books here – yes, the second book is out!. 

And if you’re around HeroesCon in North Carolina this weekend, I’ll be there at Artist Alley table AA-1924! Come say hi! 

Art notes after the cut.

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This is how you write about disabled people accomplishing things. You focus on what they accomplish while acknowledging their disability but not framing them as impressive for just doing something while disabled.

This blog covers women from history who were badass. This post focuses on Sarah Biffin as a person and artist not as a diabled body, not as inspiration porn. This is how you write about disabled people.

Virginia Hall (1906-1982): The Most Dangerous Spy of All 

Book 2 available here. Full entry on the website - with footnotes and citations  - available right here. Art notes after the cut.

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Punch a Nazi for her.

Ani Pachen (1933-2002): Tibetan Warrior Nun

Whew, that took forever. There is a TON more info - please check the website here for more details in the footnotes. As you can imagine, any entry on Tibet is going to have more nuance than you could hope to fit in. I tried to portray Pachen and Tibet as complex and flawed as they are/were. 

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Marguerite de Bressieux: Rapist Hunting Black Knight (15th century)

Please note: This entry is going up without the customary “poster” image, or footnotes – I will add them as soon as possible, but I’m getting yanked away by more book work, and this entry is late enough as is.

Also note: this wasn’t the entry described in the last hint. That one, a Tibetan woman, is next. It will take longer to do, and I wanted to get something up before I got waylaid by something unexpected again.

Source: https://archive.org/stream/womeninwar00gribuoft#page/128/mode/2up/search/bressieux

I just finished up this entry and added all that I could find from French sources. It’s still a bit of a fishy story, but a lot checks out.

For the full thing, check here: http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/marguerite-de-bressieux

(also I really like the poster image, above. I rarely use that color palette.)

Bessie Stringfield (1911-1993): The Motorcycle Queen of Miami

She was a great woman. Full entry here. Book here. Art notes after the cut.

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Sutematsu Oyama (1860-1919): Japan’s First College-Educated Woman

Full entry (with footnotes) here. Patreon here. Art notes behind the cut.

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Whew. That was a doozy.

You can preorder the book at this link! And check out the main site entry (click here) for art notes and breakdown of historical record versus artistic interpretation!

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