![]() ![]() He nodded emphatically like the true scholar that he is, adding, “Agreed, totally.” “It’s time that we study more women and less men.” While Queen Elizabeth I is cool enough to have an entire span of history named after her, she’s a pretty common answer. I think the world of him and therefore expect all answers to wow and surprise me. To be fair, he generally is a very well versed, intelligent, and ardent feminist. “I think I’d have to say Queen Elizabeth. He paused, looked up contemplatively and sighed. This is exactly what Pénélope Bagieu portrays in her beautiful graphic novel, Brazen.Ī few months ago, my boyfriend, Santino, and I were wandering around the nonfiction section of our favorite Michigan bookstore when I asked him who his favorite woman in history was. In a time of offering to donate our organs to keep RBG alive and practicing, of threatened access to safe family planning, and in a time where anybody who doesn’t fall on the white conservative male side of an imaginary binary has to argue for their right to exist, we are in need of some skilled history tellers. ![]()
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