Akashinga – The International Anti-Poaching Foundation. Photo by Brent Stirton.
They are a group of women who have survived domestic violence and rape. They were unwanted. Some were cast aside by their communities, but these women are taking on poachers, and winning. Their work is changing the way at-risk animals are protected in Africa and giving them a new purpose in life.
The Gestapo called her “The White Mouse.” She could kill you with her bare hands. She was a decorated World War II heroine of the French Resistance.
Long before Rosa Parks ever got on a bus, Ida B. Wells got on a train. Then she tried to change the world.
She wasn’t supposed to be queen, but after her brother, Edward, and half-sister, Mary, died, she took over and laid the foundation for what would become the British Empire.
When her brother was called to mobilize for the First Balkan War, she went as well. She cut her hair, wore men’s clothes, and became a Serbian war heroine.
When she couldn’t get justice, she just wanted an apology. It took the State sixty-seven years to say they were wrong.
She has fought most of her life for equal treatment of women in Iran. Even today, as she remains behind bars for fighting for justice, she is thinking of others and continues to stand for what she believes is right, despite the enormous toll it has taken on her life.
When schools teach about women’s suffrage and the struggle to allow women the right to vote in America, we get the neat package. We hear tales of letter-writing campaigns, of activists walking in the streets holding signs, and of women giving rousing speeches. We are told President Woodrow Wilson supported them, which he eventually did. We learn that some were arrested. What we never hear is the story of how they were treated.
The suffragists who were beaten and tortured during the “Night of Terror” is rarely told.
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