For many years, U.S. history neglected many people due to their race or ethnicity or gender. Yet they existed. Meet Lucy Lobdell aka Joe.
Category: Heroes and Heroines
Blog posts by author Lynette M. Burrows about men and women who inspire through acts of courage, generosity, and/or selflessness.
Leading on a White Horse, Girl Wants Voting Rights
What image comes to mind when you think of the women’s suffrage movement in America? A woman in a long suffragette white dress? Is she Chinese? She was.
The Rosa Parks of the Modern Trans Movement
Sylvia Rivera hated labels almost as much as she hated discrimination. Some call her the Rosa Parks of the Modern Trans movement.
More than One Kind of Courage
Courage in the face of extreme danger is admirable, but there’s more than one kind of courage. Some types of courage you use everyday.
Celebrate Women of History
I love to write about fictional characters whose story challenges them to figure out what they are and who they can be. Real-life women of history inspire me.