A NYC women's history event that you don't have to go into the city to? Sign us up. We're teaming up with @womenofastoria To host a night of casual storytelling and meeting neighbors interested in women's history. Join us at [female-owned] @chateaulewoof For snacks and a drink on us while we take you through New York City women's history, past and present. Comment ASTORIA for the event details.

Things to do in NYC in the last month of summer: a night of women’s stories from past & present. Meet your neighbors and hear about incredible women in NYC’s as well as local Astorians doing incredible work today. Spots are limited, tickets are $25. Send this to your Astoria friends (we know Brooklyn’s not going to make the hike...) Comment ASTORIA for the RSVP.

Things to do in NYC this weekend, a women’s history tour that highlights women like Frances Perkins. She built Social Security, the 40-hour work week, and child labor laws. FDR signed it, and congress named the building after him... Bonus - if you’ve ever watched Dirty Dancing, you’ve heard of her. Send this to your most insufferable history friend and join us Saturdays and Sundays to hear the whole story. Comment UNTOLD for the link.

Overlooked women in history: Barbara Gittings. She started the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis and edited the latter magazine, but she was kicked out for being “too radical” (using her real name and putting actual photographs of lesbians on the cover). Through her work she spent years fighting to get homosexuality removed from the APA’s list of mental illnesses (which is what allowed people to be fired or lose their housing). It was removed in 1973. Want to learn about more women who you won’t believe you’ve never heard of? Join our women’s history tour in NYC - running Saturdays & Sundays. Send this to someone who understand that as far as we’ve come, there’s still so much farther to go. Comment UNTOLD for details.

Central Park has over 20 historical statues of men and one dog. The first female statue didn't go up until 2020.... Want to help us acknowledge more women throughout New York City's history? Join our Women's History Tour of NYC, running Saturdays and Sundays. Send this to a friend who loves history. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

Best things to do in NYC if you want the real story, not the polite one. We get suggestions of women we should research, and also people telling us to “calm down”. Both prove the point. Our women’s history tour runs Saturdays and Sundays. Send this to someone who’d argue with a stranger about history. Comment UNTOLD for the link.

NYC history you might have missed? The woman behind the New Deal also got a shout-out in Dirty Dancing (yes, THAT Dirty Dancing). Frances Perkins watched over 140 people die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, many of them women and girls, and spent her life making sure it could never happen again. From taking stakeholders on factory tours to working on policy that made actual labor justice change, all the way to becoming the first female cabinet member as FDR’s Secretary of Labor. __ Join us on a tour or share with a friend to help witness & share their stories. Comment UNTOLD forupcoming tour dates. Tours are running every Saturday and Sunday, spots are limited.

Another one for the historical women NYC we wished more people were talking about. You’ve been quoting this 1920s journalist without even realizing. Her name was Dorothy Parker. In the 1920s, she held court every single day at the Algonquin Hotel, throwing back whiskey and trading one-liners. By 24, she was New York’s only female drama critic, writing for Vanity Fair. She was already famous for her wit. A popular newspaper columnist quoted her so often, people started repeating her lines without knowing where they came from. She had no issue being direct. In January 1920, she reviewed a play starring Billie Burke, the actress who later played Glinda the Good Witch. She said Burke’s performance came across as trashy and vulgar. Maybe she was miscast. The line landed badly. Burke was married to the powerful producer Florenz Ziegfeld, who demanded Dorothy be fired. It wasn’t her first starlet takedown either. Her editor took her to the Plaza Hotel to break the news. She ordered the most expensive dessert on the menu, and left. She never held a desk job again. Her poetry became a bestseller. She won awards. She wrote for Hollywood. She also got arrested protesting the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, which landed her on the FBI watch list and got her blacklisted from Hollywood. She helped organize the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. When she died in 1967, she left her entire estate to a man she admired but had never met: Martin Luther King Jr. The NAACP still receives royalties from her work. — Want to learn about more women you won’t belive you haven’t heard of? Join our 2-hour walking tour running Saturdays & Sundays. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

NYC history we wished social studies had spent more time on? The one who got fired over lunch at the Plaza Hotel (who then ordered the most expensive dessert on the menu, and left). That’s Dorothy Parker. In the 1920s, she held court every single day at the Algonquin Hotel, throwing back whiskey and trading one-liners. By 24, she was New York’s only female drama critic, writing for Vanity Fair. She was already famous for her wit. A popular newspaper columnist quoted her so often, people started repeating her lines without knowing where they came from. She had no issue being direct. In January 1920, she reviewed a play starring Billie Burke, the actress who later played Glinda the Good Witch. She said Burke’s performance came across as trashy and vulgar. Maybe she was miscast. The line landed badly. Burke was married to the powerful producer Florenz Ziegfeld, who demanded Dorothy be fired. It wasn’t her first starlet takedown either. Her editor delivered the news over that lunch at the Plaza. She never held a desk job again. Her poetry became a bestseller. She won awards. She wrote for Hollywood. She also got arrested protesting the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, which landed her on the FBI watch list and got her blacklisted from Hollywood. She helped organize the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. When she died in 1967, she left her entire estate to a man she admired but had never met: Martin Luther King Jr. The NAACP still receives royalties from her work. — Join our 2-hour women’s history tour to learn about more women you won’t believe you’ve never heard of. Comment UNTOLD for the link.

This is one of the historical women who should have gotten her own unit in school... Meet the woman who left everything to Martin Luther King Jr. They had never met. That’s Dorothy Parker. In the 1920s, she held court every single day at the Algonquin Hotel, throwing back whiskey and trading one-liners. By 24, she was New York’s only female drama critic, writing for Vanity Fair. She was already famous for her wit. A popular newspaper columnist quoted her so often, people started repeating her lines without knowing where they came from. She had no issue being direct. In January 1920, she reviewed a play starring Billie Burke, the actress who later played Glinda the Good Witch. She said Burke’s performance came across as trashy and vulgar. Maybe she was miscast. The line landed badly. Burke was married to the powerful producer Florenz Ziegfeld, who demanded Dorothy be fired. It wasn’t her first starlet takedown either. Her editor took her to the Plaza Hotel to break the news. She ordered the most expensive dessert on the menu, and left. She never held a desk job again. Her poetry became a bestseller. She won awards. She wrote for Hollywood. She also got arrested protesting the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, which landed her on the FBI watch list and got her blacklisted from Hollywood. She helped organize the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. When she died in 1967, she left her entire estate to a man she admired but had never met. The NAACP still receives royalties from her work. — Want to learn the story of more women who you’ve probably never heard of but probably should know? Join our 2-hour walking tours on NYC’s women’s history. Spots limited! Comment UNTOLD for the link.

We thought women's history tours must exist in NYC. Turns out we were wrong. there was no consistent company running Women's History tours where you could just book on a random Saturday with some friends, so we changed that. You can join us every Saturday and Sunday (or book a private tour on a weekday), and in Queens at the end of the month for a special community event with @womenofastoria. ❤️ (comment ASTORIA for details) _ Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates. Send this to your friend who you would take with you.

Local things to do in NYC: Celebrate the woman, past and present right here in Queens.👑 Join us and @womenofastoria August 23 for a Sunday afternoon of storytelling and oral history rewriting. Women’s history isn’t missing because it didn’t happen. It’s missing because nobody wrote it down. We can’t fix the archive but we can change the narrative. Who inspires you that you wish more people knew about? Could be someone historical or even someone in your own family. Inspiration comes in many forms. We’ll tell you about the historical women who got left out, and the women changing Astoria right now that you might not even realize. all you have to do is show up and be ready to listen. Come partake in oral history and us change the record. 💪 Comment ASTORIA for ticket details.

NYC history you might have missed? The woman behind the New Deal also got a shout-out in Dirty Dancing (yes, THAT Dirty Dancing). Frances Perkins watched over 140 people die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, many of them women and girls, and spent her life making sure it could never happen again. From taking stakeholders on factory tours to working on policy that made actual labor justice change, all the way to becoming the first female cabinet member as FDR's Secretary of Labor. __ Join us on a tour or share with a friend to help witness & share their stories. Comment UNTOLD forupcoming tour dates. Tours are running every Saturday and Sunday, spots are limited.

Things to do in New York City this weekend? How about a feminist walking tour of New York City that covers all of the women you won't believe you've never heard of? Join us Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets now open for our Fall run. Share this with whoever's in charge of your friend group plans. 💪 _ Comment UNTOLD for tour details.

Things happening in NYC this summer - A community storytelling meet up, focusing on the women of New York City's past and present. Big thanks to @womenofastoria for featuring us and doing the work of recording the live stories that are happening right now. __ Join us both later this month on August 23 at @chateaulewoof for an in-person storytelling event where you can meet your neighbors and talk about incredible women. Comment ASTORIA for the event details.

To do in NYC this weekend: Take a women's history tour that tells stories about the women you won't believe you didn't know about. __ Send those two for any things they know and race the history. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

Things to do in New York City in August? Join us & @womenofastoria for a Sunday afternoon of stories from NYC history that you won't believe you've never heard of as well as real women from the Astoria community who are doing incredible things. We’ll have some conversation prompts so that we can brainstorm and share stories of women who are changing Astoria every day, for the better. Come solo, come with a friend, come with an opinion about who deserves more credit than they got. __ Send this to a friend who thinks they know NYC history. Comment ASTORIA for tickets.

NYC history left some women out. Our goal is to remedy that. We walk this city pointing out the women history left out while @womenofastoria is writing down the ones your neighborhood hasn’t gotten around to yet. Join us for this co-hosted evening to hear stories from our tour (women you won’t believe you’ve never heard of) as well as real women from the Astoria community who are doing incredible things. We’ll have some conversation prompts so that we can brainstorm and share stories of women who are changing Astoria every day, for the better. Come solo, come with a friend, come with an opinion about who deserves more credit than they got. __ Send this to a friend who thinks they know NYC history. Comment ASTORIA for tickets.

NYC history is being made every day. Big thanks to @womenofastoria for featuring us and doing the work of recording the live stories that are happening right now. __ Join us both later this month on August 23 at @chateaulewoof for an in-person storytelling event where you can meet your neighbors and talk about incredible women. Comment ASTORIA for the event details.

NYC history that didn’t make your textbook?

[*heads up - this one is a bit graphic with details of force feeding…] 
This journalist who walked into a hospital in 1914 and asked them to strap her down and force a tube down her throat. She wasn’t a patient. She was taking notes. Djuna Barnes was 21 when she started writing for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1913. She worked in stunt journalism. Reporters who didn’t just cover a story, they lived it. In 1914, suffragettes in Britain were on hunger strike in prison. Guards were strapping them down and forcing a tube down their throats to keep them alive. Djuna wanted her readers to understand what that actually felt like. So she checked into a hospital in New York and had it done to her. She wrote every detail for New York World Magazine. The restraints. The tube. The choking. It ran with photographs taken mid procedure. In 1921, McCall’s sent her to Paris to cover the American expatriate scene. She stayed almost two decades, interviewing James Joyce and running in the same circles as Gertrude Stein. There she fell into a years-long relationship with an artist named Thelma Wood. When it ended, she turned the heartache into her novel Nightwood. T.S. Eliot championed the manuscript himself, cutting some of its most explicit passages before it published in 1936. It’s now considered one of the earliest works of lesbian literature, decades ahead of its time. Nightwood is still in print. Ask for it at your local bookshop. __ Want to learn about more women who you won’t believe you’ve never heard of? Join our two-hour tour running Saturdays and Sundays. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

Unique things to do in NYC this summer: a women’s history walking tour where you find out whose face you’ve been walking past your whole life. Like Audrey Munson who was a supermodel of her day. Her likeness is at the main NYPL, the Met, Central Park, and even on top of the main municipal building next to the Brooklyn Bridge. Her career had a tragic end and she ended committed to an asylum when she was 40…she lived until 104. Send this to someone who thinks they know everything about NYC history. The 2-hour tour runs Saturdays and Sundays in Midtown. Comment UNTOLD for the link.

Things to do in NYC this weekend: a women’s history walking tour that covers the stories you should have learned in school. Like Elizabeth Jennings Graham who refused to get off a NYC streetcar in 1854. She sued the transit company and won. Her lawyer Chester Arthur, then just out of law school, went on to become president. She became a teacher and opened the first kindergarten for Black children in New York City. This 2-hour walk covers even more women we wish everyone had heard of. Send this to a friend who thinks they know NYC history. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming tour dates.

Unique things to do in NYC this summer: a women’s history walking tour that covers the stories nobody taught you. Like the Chinese-American teenager who led 10,000 people up Fifth Avenue fighting for a right she’d never get to use. Send this to someone who thinks they know NYC history. — The tour runs Saturdays + Sundays for a limited run. Comment UNTOLD for the upcoming dates.

Things to do in NYC: a feminist walking tour that will genuinely change how you see this city - whether you like it or not. This 2-hour women’s history tour covers the women who built Social Security, outsold every male author in America, and started the Women’s Caucus in the Senate. History buffs love it but we’ve gotten more than a few DM’s to tell us to “calm down” or “stop complaining”. Whatever helps the algorithm… Limited spots: Comment UNTOLD for tickets.

History you didn't learn in writing class? Stunt journalism. 
[*heads up - this one is a bit graphic with details of force feeding…] 
This journalist who walked into a hospital in 1914 and asked them to strap her down and force a tube down her throat. She wasn’t a patient. She was taking notes. Djuna Barnes was 21 when she started writing for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1913. She worked in stunt journalism. Reporters who didn’t just cover a story, they lived it. In 1914, suffragettes in Britain were on hunger strike in prison. Guards were strapping them down and forcing a tube down their throats to keep them alive. Djuna wanted her readers to understand what that actually felt like. So she checked into a hospital in New York and had it done to her. She wrote every detail for New York World Magazine. The restraints. The tube. The choking. It ran with photographs taken mid procedure. In 1921, McCall’s sent her to Paris to cover the American expatriate scene. She stayed almost two decades, interviewing James Joyce and running in the same circles as Gertrude Stein. There she fell into a years-long relationship with an artist named Thelma Wood. When it ended, she turned the heartache into her novel Nightwood. T.S. Eliot championed the manuscript himself, cutting some of its most explicit passages before it published in 1936. It’s now considered one of the earliest works of lesbian literature, decades ahead of its time. Nightwood is still in print. Ask for it at your local bookshop. __ Want to learn about more women who you won’t believe you’ve never heard of? Join our two-hour tour running Saturdays and Sundays. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates. Comment BADASS for the link.

NYC history that didn’t make your textbook?

[*heads up - this one is a bit graphic with details of force feeding…] 
This journalist who walked into a hospital in 1914 and asked them to strap her down and force a tube down her throat. She wasn’t a patient. She was taking notes. Djuna Barnes was 21 when she started writing for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1913. She worked in stunt journalism. Reporters who didn’t just cover a story, they lived it. In 1914, suffragettes in Britain were on hunger strike in prison. Guards were strapping them down and forcing a tube down their throats to keep them alive. Djuna wanted her readers to understand what that actually felt like. So she checked into a hospital in New York and had it done to her. She wrote every detail for New York World Magazine. The restraints. The tube. The choking. It ran with photographs taken mid procedure. In 1921, McCall’s sent her to Paris to cover the American expatriate scene. She stayed almost two decades, interviewing James Joyce and running in the same circles as Gertrude Stein. There she fell into a years-long relationship with an artist named Thelma Wood. When it ended, she turned the heartache into her novel Nightwood. T.S. Eliot championed the manuscript himself, cutting some of its most explicit passages before it published in 1936. It’s now considered one of the earliest works of lesbian literature, decades ahead of its time. Nightwood is still in print. Ask for it at your local bookshop. __ Want to learn about more women who you won't believe you've never heard of? Join our two-hour tour running Saturdays and Sundays. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates. Comment BADASS for the link.

NYC walking tour for people who understand that while men usually take credit, women are more likely to share it. On this two hour tour we cover the women we wish we had learned about in school. From the woman who worked on the New Deal, ended child labor (and more), to the one who got ‘homosexuality’ removed from the APA list of mental illnesses to the most famous 1900s super model who lived for 60 years in an asylum (spoiler - you probably pass her likeness all the time…) Every single group leaves asking the same question, ‘how did we not know this???’ Runs Saturdays + Sundays for a limited run (+ private tours available) Send this to the person you’d take on this tour. Comment UNTOLD for the link.

If you’re in NYC this weekend, skip the lines. Instead, take this women’s history tours lasts that includes zero names you learned in school. Limited run - comment UNTOLD for the link.

A NYC walking tour that will genuinely change how you see this city. We’ll cover, the woman who built Social Security, the 40-hour work week, and child labor laws. A woman who outsold every male author in America in 1856, and more. Send this to a friend who would take this with you! Comment UNTOLD for the link - limited dates.

Walking through Times Square, you see it everywhere. On shirts, mugs, hats, bags... I ♥ NY. Mary Lawrence Wells was the one who came up with it. Mary came to New York in the 1950s to break into advertising. She was a copywriter in an industry run entirely by men. Instead of waiting for a seat at the table, she built her own. In 1966, she founded Wells Rich Greene - her own agency. She competed for the biggest accounts and won: Alka-Seltzer, American Motors, and New York State. In 1969, she took her company public and became the first female CEO of a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. And then she created the campaign that would define New York forever: I ♥ NY. It’s been copied, parodied, and reproduced millions of times. It’s one of the most recognizable symbols in the world. The graphic designer’s name comes up often, but the woman who created the entire campaign? Left out of the narrative somehow. — Want to hear more stories of women you won’t believe you’ve never heard of? Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates for our women’s history walking tour in NYC.

This NYC women’s history walking tour sold out last run - get your tickets for the next run now! New York has always been full of women who refused to play by the rules. Like Victoria Woodhull who ran for President before women were even allowed to vote, and Shirley Chisholm who ran for President in 1972 despite having to sue to take part in Presidential debates. Save this for your NYC staycation and send it to a friend who loves NYC history. Limited run - comment UNTOLD for the link.

Unique things to do in NYC this summer: a women’s history walking tour where you find out whose face you’ve been walking past your whole life. Audrey Munson was the most photographed woman in America in the 1910s. Her likeness is at the NYPL, the Met, Central Park, and the municipal building by the Brooklyn Bridge. An obsessed fan murdered his wife to make room for her. It ended her career and she spent the next 60 years in an asylum. Save this so you can spot her the next time you’re in the city. The 2 hour tour runs Saturdays and Sundays, to Central Park. Comment UNTOLD for the link.

Unique things to do in NYC - a female history walking tour where you meet the New Yorkers who changed history and never got the credit. Like Mabel Ping Hua Lee who led one of the biggest suffrage marches up 5th ave. on horseback when she was 16-years-old, unable to gain the vote herself because of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Save this for your NYC trip and send it to someone who loves NYC history. Limited run - comment UNTOLD for the link.

NYC women’s history you probably haven’t heard of (despite a ticker tape parade and bio pic…): Trudy Ederle, a NYC open water swimmer. 💦 Trudy grew up on the Upper West Side, the daughter of a Manhattan butcher, and she was in the water almost before she could walk. At 5, after a bout of measles, doctors warned her that swimming could damage her hearing further. But she said she was happiest between the waves. In 1925, she attempted the English Channel and was pulled out after nearly nine hours. Her crew was sure she’d collapsed. She hadn’t, but she was disqualified all the same. A year later, on August 6, 1926, she went back in. Rough tides swept her miles off course, turning a 21 mile crossing into a 35 mile swim. 🌊 Fourteen hours and 31 minutes after she started (!), she reached England. Faster than every man who had swum it before her, by nearly two hours. New York gave her a ticker tape parade when she came home. Two million people showed up. President Coolidge called her “America’s best girl.” 🧐 The warning from childhood turned out to be right. Within a few years of the Channel swim, her hearing was mostly gone. She spent the rest of her career teaching deaf children to swim at a school in Queens. — Want to learn the stories of women you won’t believe you hadn’t heard of? Join our 2-hour walking tour, running every Saturday & Sunday. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

Unique Things to Do in New York City this Summer: women's history walking tour where you find out whose faces you've been walking past your whole life. Like Audrey Munson, who was a super model in the early 1900s. Her likeness is at the main New York Public Library, The Met, Central Park, and even on top of the main municipal building next to the Brooklyn Bridge. Her career had a tragic end, and she ended up committed to an asylum when she was forty. She lived until 104. Send this to someone who thinks they know everything about New York City history. _ Join us Saturdays and Sundays for a two-hour walk where we share the stories of incredible women you've probably never heard of but should absolutely know... Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

The New York 20 Bridges swim circles Manhattan every year, 28 miles of open water. In 1926, a 19 year old had already beaten that kind of distance, and broken a record held only by men. Trudy Ederle grew up on the Upper West Side, the daughter of a Manhattan butcher, and she was in the water almost before she could walk. At 5, after a bout of measles, doctors warned her that swimming could damage her hearing further. But she said she was happiest between the waves. In 1925, she attempted the English Channel and was pulled out after nearly nine hours. Her crew was sure she’d collapsed. She hadn’t, but she was disqualified all the same. A year later, on August 6, 1926, she went back in. Rough tides swept her miles off course, turning a 21 mile crossing into a 35 mile swim. 🌊 Fourteen hours and 31 minutes after she started (!), she reached England. Faster than every man who had swum it before her, by nearly two hours. New York gave her a ticker tape parade when she came home. Two million people showed up. President Coolidge called her “America’s best girl.” The warning from childhood turned out to be right. Within a few years of the Channel swim, her hearing was mostly gone. She spent the rest of her career teaching deaf children to swim at a school in Queens. — Want to learn the stories of women you won’t believe you hadn’t heard of? Join our 2-hour walking tour, running every Saturday & Sunday. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

The best shopping in NYC? Why not go female-owned? The little data there is was hard to compare, but using what we could find, here are the best neighborhoods for female-owned shops and restaurants. What neighborhoods would you rank? #3 @flatironny had the longest list of female-owned businesses out of any official Manhattan BID #2 ~ 2 in 3 participating locations in @shopsmallastoria’s annual crawl show are female-owned #1 With the most comprehensive data, @dumbo_brooklyn showed 62% of small bsuinesses owned by women. __ Want to learn more about women’s impact in NYC? Join our women’s history tour which covers all the women you won’t believe you haven’t heard of. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

Female-owned local shops in NYC? The data is imperfect (surprise, surprise), but after scraping the internet, we were able to find a few official lists and stats. #3 @flatironny had the longest list of female-owned businesses out of any official Manhattan BID #2 ~ 2 in 3 participating locations in @shopsmallastoria’s annual crawl show are female-owned #3 With the most comprehensive data, @dumbo_brooklyn showed 62% of small bsuinesses owned by women. What neighborhoods would you rank? __ If you like knowing who actually built the city around you, join our women’s history tour covering all the women you won’t believe you haven’t heard of. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

Things to do in NYC this weekend: walk the tour that can satisfy your inner feminist rage. If the following sentences frustrate you: - She built the organization. He gets remembered as the founder. - She wrote the bestseller. They assumed it was written by a man. - Her face is everywhere. Her name is nowhere. Then you’re in the right place! Join us Saturdays & Sundays for a 2 - hour walking tour that covers the history of women you’ve probably never heard of, but we all should know. — Comment BADASS for upcoming tour dates

In 1838, a woman who had already freed at least 11 people from slavery had to stand trial to prove she hadn’t secretly sold anyone into it. Hester Lane was born enslaved in Maryland. She made her way to New York and built a life as a free woman, running her own whitewashing business, house painting, and teaching herself French along the way. By the 1840s, Hester was living comfortably enough that she used that money to buy freedom for at least 11 people, entire families included. To do it, she traveled back into slave states herself, risking her own freedom every time she crossed that line. Hester was well known in New York’s Black abolitionist circles. She sat on the board of the African Dorcas Association, a mutual aid society for Black families, and moved in the same world as David Ruggles, an abolitionist who spent his life protecting free Black New Yorkers from kidnappers looking to sell them south. In 1838, a woman named Martha Johnson, after a dispute over a property she rented from Hester, accused her of kidnapping and selling people into slavery. A formal committee investigated, meeting at Ruggles’s own home. They ruled in Hester’s favor. A public letter clearing her name ran in The Colored American. We don’t know how Hester became free, or what she did in the years after that trial. What we do know is that when her name was on the line, the same community she’d spent her fortune protecting stood up and cleared it. __ Want to learn about more women you probably haven’t heard of but should absolutely know? Join our two-hour walking tour. Comment BADASS for upcoming dates.

A formerly enslaved woman built a business for herself in 1830s New York, and used the money to buy freedom for at least 11 people. Hester Lane was born enslaved in Maryland. She made her way to New York and built a life as a free woman, running her own whitewashing business, house painting, and teaching herself French along the way. By the 1840s, Hester was living comfortably enough that she used that money to buy freedom for at least 11 people, entire families included. To do it, she traveled back into slave states herself, risking her own freedom every time she crossed that line. Hester was well known in New York’s Black abolitionist circles. She sat on the board of the African Dorcas Association, a mutual aid society for Black families, and moved in the same world as David Ruggles, an abolitionist who spent his life protecting free Black New Yorkers from kidnappers looking to sell them south. In 1838, a woman named Martha Johnson, after a dispute over a property she rented from Hester, accused her of kidnapping and selling people into slavery. A formal committee investigated, meeting at Ruggles’s own home. They ruled in Hester’s favor. A public letter clearing her name ran in The Colored American. We don’t know how Hester became free, or what she did in the years after that trial. What we do know is that when her name was on the line, the same community she’d spent her fortune protecting stood up and cleared it. __ Want to learn about more women you probably haven't heard of but should absolutely know? Join our two-hour walking tour. Comment BADASS for upcoming dates.

In 1870, a Civil War veteran named Martin Hildebrandt opened what’s considered the country’s first tattoo shop, a few blocks from where Millie would later work. By 1891, the trade had its own patented machine, modeled after Thomas Edison’s pen. For decades that world belonged to men. If a woman was tattooed at all, she was usually the one being looked at, a sideshow attraction, covered in ink as the show itself. Millie started that way too. Then she picked up a machine herself. Reportedly she practiced on her own skin first, more than 300 times, before she ever tattooed a stranger. By the 1930s, Millie was running her own shop out of a Bowery barbershop. She was the only woman doing the work in New York City for over a decade. We know she was respected. Sailors sought her out by name, coming back again and again as repeat customers. Decades later, tattoo historian Michael McCabe would name Millie right alongside the men considered the founders of the entire trade, writing that she helped set the first standards for the modern incarnation of the art. __ Learn about more women like Millie, women who have incredible stories but you've probably never heard of on our two-hour women's history tour. Comment BADASS for future tour dates.

Things to do in New York City this weekend? How about a female history walking tour. It's not for everyone, but the people who get it really get it. The 2-hr Tour covers the stories of women you probably haven't heard of but should absolutely know. __ Comment FALLDATES to get a heads up when we launch our next run of public tours for Sept-Dec

Unique things to do in NYC this summer for people who need some positive news. 💝 Fanny Fern was the highest-paid newspaper columnist in America in 1856 (after her own brother publicly called her vulgar for it). Mabel Ping-Hua Lee led 10,000 suffragists up Fifth Avenue on horseback at 16, then watched the 19th Amendment pass without her, because of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Send this to the woman in your group chat who’s tired of explaining why she’s qualified. — Comment FALLDATES to get on the list for when we launch our September through December run.

Things to do in NYC this weekend for people who know some fights are still being fought. Barbara Gittings spent years pressuring the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its diagnostic manual, and picketed the White House to do it. Antonia Pantoja took the NYC Board of Education to federal court and won the case that created bilingual education in America. Send this to the friend who thinks the fight for equality wrapped up in the 90s. — Comment FALLDATES to get an update when we launch future tour dates, September through December.

NYC walking tour for people who know good ideas don’t come with an expiration date. Elizabeth Jennings Graham refused to leave a NYC streetcar in 1854, sued the transit company, and won a century before Rosa Parks. Ellen Stewart sold designs at Saks Fifth Avenue in the 1950s before giving up a successful career to found La MaMa, one of the most influential experimental theaters in New York. Send this to the friend who’s convinced every good idea started with a man. — Comment FALLDATES to get alerted when September - October tour dates are live.

Things to do in NYC this weekend for people who know some fights are still being fought. Barbara Gittings spent years pressuring the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its diagnostic manual. 💪 Antonia Pantoja’s org took the NYC Board of Education to court and won the case that created bilingual education. 💪 Send this to the friend who thinks the fight for equality wrapped up in the 90s. — Comment FALLDATES to get first dibs when we launch upcoming dates for September-December.

This woman inspired the Wizard of Oz’s female leads + crashed the Statue of Liberty dedication with a megaphone… Matilda Joslyn Gage had been fighting for the right to vote for more than thirty years by the time the statue showed up in the harbor. She had chaired the executive committee of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Co-written the History of Woman Suffrage with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1872, when Susan B. Anthony was arrested for illegally casting her vote, Matilda joined her at the trial and allegedly called the judge a “small brained, pale faced, prim looking man”. When the city planned a public holiday to unveil the Statue of Liberty in 1886, the only two women allowed on the island were the sculptor’s wife and a diplomat’s granddaughter. Officials said the rest might be hurt in the crush of the crowd. So Matilda and the New York State Woman Suffrage Association chartered a boat. A cattle barge. Exactly what that sounds like, a boat meant to transport large numbers of cows. They sailed into the harbor as President Grover Cleveland took the stage above them and praised liberty. Through a megaphone Matilda shouted that it was a gigantic lie, a travesty, and a mockery to portray liberty as a woman when actual American women had so few rights. Matilda died in 1898. Women would not win the right to vote nationwide for another twenty two years. She might not have voted, but she made sure everyone heard her. — Want to learn more stories of women you’ve never heard of but absolutely should know? Comment BADASS for upcoming tour dates.

Unique things to do in NYC this summer: a walking tour for people who know their history didn’t start in 2016. Victoria Woodhull ran for president in 1872, 48 years before women could legally vote, and spent election day in jail on obscenity charges. Shirley Chisholm ran again in 1972 - having to sue in several states to be included in televised debates. — To learn about more women you won’t believe weren’t included in the history books, comment BADASS for upcoming dates.

Things to do in NYC this summer that’ll make you genuinely furious in the best way. Join us to learn about Frances Perkins who built Social Security, the 40-hour work week, and child labor laws after watching 146 garment workers die in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. And also Mabel Ping Hua Lee, who marched alongside suffragettes even though the Chinese Exclusion Act barred her from gaining the vote. Send this to someone who loves women’s history. — Comment BADASS for upcoming dates.

Local things to do in NYC this weekend: a walking tour for people who want to learn about women like Shirley Chisholm had to sue her own party to get into the primary debates. Or Audrey Munson, who was one of the most famous supermodel’s of the early 1900s but got caught up in a murder case (a “fan” murdered his wife) and ended up spending the last 60 years of her life in an asylum. Send this to someone who needs a reminder that persistence works. — Comment BADASS for upcoming dates

If you’ve ever heard a story about an incredible woman in history and thought, "Wait, how have I never heard her name before?" That’s basically the whole reason this account exists. Hi - we're Beth and Nikki, and we run She Shapes History NYC, where we are dedicated to uncovering the stories of women who've had incredible impact and yet have been completely left out of the narrative. The craziest part is they are not hard to find. They are documented. There are articles. They wrote books. We just don't talk about them.And once you start noticing that gap, you can’t stop. So if you’re tired of wondering where all the women are… Let us help with that. If you'd like to hop on one of our tours in NYC, comment BADASS for the link.

Best things to do in NYC this summer if you want the encore in real life: a women’s history walking tour covering the women Broadway didn’t have time for. For example Antonia Pantoja who helped create bilingual education, or Fanny Fern who was the highest paid journalist in the 1850s and wrote about all sorts of taboo topics. The 2-hour tour runs from 42nd street to Central Park. Send this to whoever you saw the show with. Comment BADASS for the link.

Things to do in NYC that cost less than a Broadway ticket (WAY less): a 2-hour walking tour with real suffragists included. Did you know a woman ran for president in 1872, 48 years before women could vote? Or that Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to run for president, had to sue to be included in televised debates? Our 2-hr tour covers the women that you might not have heard of, but should absolutely know. Send this to a friend who won’t stop singing “keep marching”. — Comment BADASS for upcoming dates.

Unique things to do in NYCr: a feminist history walking tour that finally gives the women their flowers. For example Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, who led 10,000 suffragists up Fifth Avenue on horseback at 16 and was excluded from the 19th Amendment because of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The 2-hr tour runs Saturdays & Sundays from 42nd Street to Central Park. Send this to the friend who won’t stop talking about that finale. — Comment BADASS for upcoming dates.

Things to do in NYC that will make you genuinely furious in the best way; a female history walking tour. Frances Perkins watched 146 garment workers die in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and spent her entire career 30 years making structural change for better working conditions. That included building Social Security, the 40-hour work week, and child labor laws. Our Badass Women of NYC tour runs from 42nd street to Central Park. Comment BADASS for the link.

Things to do in NYC this weekend: a women’s history walking tour for people who noticed the gap before we named it. On the 2 hour tour, you’ll meet 7 women who had huge impact on our city (& country) but have gotten zero statues… Like the women who almost got us universal healthcare, the first Black woman to run for president, and the woman who help get “homos3xual” removed from the APAs list of mental diseases. Send this to your friend who’s always questioning the mainstream narrative — Comment BADASS for upcoming tour dates.

A doctor who fought for her patients and community, Dr. Helen Rodríguez Trías (Pt II - because we just couldn’t fit this all into the first one!) By the 1960s Dr Helen was practicing medicine on the island, watching what was happening to her own patients. Sterilization was pushed as birth control. Women were told it was reversible when it was absolutely not. Dr. Helen drew a hard line. Birth control is a choice. What was happening to these women was forced population control. In 1974 she helped found the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse. Their work forced the federal government to require real informed consent before sterilization; written, in a language the patient understood, with a 30 day waiting period. Those rules are still law. She went on to become medical director of New York’s AIDS Institute. In the epidemic’s first years, the CDC’s official definition of AIDS was built almost entirely around how the disease showed up in gay men, specific cancers and infections. When women got HIV, it showed up differently, things like recurrent yeast infections or cervical dysplasia, conditions too common to trigger an AIDS diagnosis on their own. So women got sick and died of HIV related illness without ever being counted as AIDS cases. A peer reviewed study at the time found the CDC had prioritized specificity over sensitivity, precise to a fault, while women, people of color, and drug users went uncounted simply because HIV looked different in their bodies. Her work helped establish HIV standards of care, especially for the poor, the marginalized, and women. She went on to lead the New York Women in AIDS Task Force, which became a model for HIV care quality assurance nationally. Her mother was a school teacher in Puerto Rico who spent her career fighting the imposition of English in the island’s schools after the US military invaded in 1898. Seems like the fight ran in the family. — Want to learn the stories of more women you won’t believe you’ve never heard of? Join our Badass Women of NYC tour - running Saturdays and Sundays at 10 AM Comment BADASS for the link.

NYC walking tour for the person in the friend group who books the reservation, picks the time, and sends the calendar invite. Book your friend group and get a discount on Badass Women of NYC, running Saturdays and Sundays through July only. Comment GROUPTRIP for the link.

Things to do in NYC that don’t require you to do all the work for once. If you’re the friend who plans everything, we see you. Take a discount on us (& send this to the group chat) — Two hours of women who you’ve probably never heard of but really should know. It’s the stuff the history books left out. Comment GROUPTRIP for the link.

Unique things to do in NYC this summer for the person who ends up planning everything. If that’s you, save this reel. Group organizers get a discount on Badass Women of NYC, a 2-hour women’s history walking tour from 42nd street to Central Park. Comment GROUPTRIP for the link.

The annual @thetonyawards are named after this woman. Antoinette Perry grew up idolizing her aunt and uncle, both touring actors, and joined their company at fifteen doing everything from mending costumes to selling tickets. By eighteen, she was starring opposite David Warfield, one of the biggest stars on Broadway, (and one of the only actors of that era to become a millionaire from stage work alone.) In 1909, she married a wealthy Denver businessman and stepped back from acting. However she maintained connections to the world, quietly invested in a play by an up and coming producer named Brock Pemberton. It won the Pulitzer Prize. The next year, a stranger offered her his spare ticket at a concert, it turned out to be Pemberton and the two struck up a lifelong friendship and partnership. Not long after, her husband died, leaving her his fortune and she went on to become one of the only women directing on Broadway. This was at a time when it was rare to find a female director, let alone for a major show. You either found women on the stage or in the costume department. In 1944, she directed Harvey , and it beat The Glass Menagerie for the Pulitzer. People remember her generosity most. When the 1929 crash wiped out friends she’d promised to protect, she personally paid every one of their losses. During Red Cross week, the same cab driver escorted her every night while she collected donations. After she died, her daughters spent hours tracking him down so he could be at the funeral. During WW2, she ran the Stage Door Canteen, where Broadway stars worked as waiters and dishwashers for soldiers heading overseas. She died in 1946. The next year, Broadway created an award in her memory, shortening it to a nickname, the Tony’s.

Best things to do in NYC this weekend: a women’s history walking tour that fills in what the statues left out. Two hours, seven women, and zero names you learned in school. Send this to someone who’s visiting the city soon. — The 2-hour tour runs Saturdays and Sundays. Comment BADASS for dates

Unique things to do in NYC this summer: a women’s history walking tour featuring the “other half” of history. For example, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, who in 1854 sued a NYC transit company for throwing her off a streetcar and won. Her lawyer was 24 years old. He became President. Save this for your next NYC trivia night. — Our Badass Women of NYC runs Saturdays and Sundays from 42nd street to Central Park. Comment BADASS for the link.

This Japanese American ballerina who broke barriers on a New York stage while her own father was held under alien arrest. Sono Osato was born in 1919, in Omaha, Nebraska, to a Japanese father and an Irish French Canadian mother. At fourteen she became the youngest dancer, the first American, and the first dancer of Japanese descent to join the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (out of Monaco). She toured four continents for six years. Then came Pearl Harbor. More than 100,000 Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps. Her own father was arrested and held as an enemy alien. American Ballet Theatre pressured her to perform under her mother’s maiden name, Fitzpatrick. When her company toured Mexico and the American West, she couldn’t go. Japanese Americans were barred from parts of the country she’d been dancing in for years. In 1943 she made her Broadway debut in Touch of Venus and won the first Donaldson Award ever given for dance (the Tonys before the Tonys existed). A year later she took the lead in a new musical, On the Town, about sailors on shore leave in New York. Her character was a subway pinup girl. A sailor falls for her photo and spends the entire show trying to find her in the city. The musical was made famous again decades later by its film version (the one with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra singing “New York, New York.”, you know the song) Most people have no idea that while Sono played an all American girl on stage, Japanese Americans were no longer welcome in their own country. — Want to learn about more women you won’t believe you’ve never heard of? Only a few spots left on this summer’s tours. Comment BADASS for the dates.

This Japanese American ballerina who broke barriers on a New York stage while her own father was held under alien arrest. Sono Osato was born in 1919, in Omaha, Nebraska, to a Japanese father and an Irish French Canadian mother. At fourteen she became the youngest dancer, the first American, and the first dancer of Japanese descent to join the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (out of Monaco). She toured four continents for six years. Then came Pearl Harbor. More than 100,000 Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps. Her own father was arrested and held as an enemy alien. American Ballet Theatre pressured her to perform under her mother’s maiden name, Fitzpatrick. When her company toured Mexico and the American West, she couldn’t go. Japanese Americans were barred from parts of the country she’d been dancing in for years. In 1943 she made her Broadway debut in Touch of Venus and won the first Donaldson Award ever given for dance (the Tonys before the Tonys existed). A year later she took the lead in a new musical, On the Town, about sailors on shore leave in New York. Her character was a subway pinup girl. A sailor falls for her photo and spends the entire show trying to find her in the city. The musical was made famous again decades later by its film version (the one with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra singing “New York, New York.”, you know the song) Most people have no idea that while Sono played an all American girl on stage, Japanese Americans were no longer welcome in their own country. — Want to learn about more women you won’t believe you’ve never heard of? Only a few spots left on this summer’s tours. Comment BADASS for the dates.

Things to do in NYC this weekend: a women’s history walking tour that covers the stories of women who’ve done incredible things but have rarely been recognized. Like Victoria Woodhull who ran for president 48 years before women could legally vote. — This 2-hour walk from the NYPL to Central Park on Saturdays & Sundays for only 3 more weeks. Send this to a friend who thinks they know NYC history. Comment BADASS for the link.

Unique things to do in NYC this summer: a women’s history walking tour that covers the stories nobody taught you. Like this Chinese-American teenager who led 10,000 people up Fifth Avenue fighting for a right she’d never get to use. Badass Women of NYC runs Saturdays + Sundays for 6 weeks only. Send this to someone who thinks they know NYC history. — Comment BADASS for the link.

Best things to do in NYC this weekend: a women’s history walking tour with stories better than anything on your feed. Like Shirley Chisholm first Black woman elected to Congress and the first to run for a major party’s presidential nomination even though her own party tried to keep her off the debate stage. Send this to the group chat. __ Our Badass Women of NYC runs Saturdays and Sundays, 42nd Street to Central Park. 🚨Limited spots! Comment BADASS for the dates. — The 2-hr tour runs Saturdays and Sundays, from 42nd Street to Central Park. Send this to your book club group chat. Comment BADASS for the link.

Things to do in NYC this weekend: a women’s history walking tour that finally gives credit where it’s due. Like Elizabeth Jennings Graham who refused to leave a NYC streetcar in 1854, sued the transit company, and won. Send this to a friend who thinks they know NYC history. __ Our Badass Women of NYC runs Saturdays and Sundays from 42nd street to Central Park. Comment BADASS for the dates. 🎟️

This 31 year old, mother of 4 resident cut a hospital’s newborn death rate in half. Dr. Helen Rodríguez Trías was born in New York City in 1929 to Puerto Rican parents. Like a lot of Nuyoricans, she grew up moving between the island and the city. (Puerto Ricans are US citizens, for those who didn’t know.) At 31, she earned her MD. Highest honors in her class, while raising three kids. As a resident, she opened the island’s first newborn care center. Within three years, the infant death rate there dropped by half. In 1970, she came back to New York to run pediatrics at Lincoln Hospital. The Young Lords had just occupied the building, demanding better care for patients. Her own department was full of young doctors who were progressive and innovative, but out of touch with the Puerto Rican community they served. Helen backed the community’s demands and pushed her own staff to catch up. In 1993, she became the first Latina president of the American Public Health Association. They named an award after her. It still goes out every year to whoever is doing the work she started. Perhaps even more importantly (but way too nuanced to fit into a 60sec video…) she fought to end forced sterilization and helped found the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse and the Women’s Caucus of the APHA. She also ran New York’s AIDS Institute in the eighties, focused on women of color. She spent the nineties leading global health work for women. __ Want to learn the stories of more women that you won’t believe you’ve never heard of? Join our Badass Women of NYC tour, running Saturday & Sundays - limited spots available! Comment BADASS for dates.

Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx was known as the Butcher Shop. In 1970, Dr. Helen Rodríguez Trías became its director of pediatrics. She was born in New York City in 1929 to Puerto Rican parents. Like a lot of Nuyoricans, she grew up moving between the island and the city. (Puerto Ricans are US citizens, for those who didn’t know.) At 31, she earned her MD. Highest honors in her class, while raising three kids. As a resident, she opened the island’s first newborn care center. Within three years, the infant death rate there dropped by half. In 1970, she came back to New York to run pediatrics at Lincoln Hospital. The Young Lords had just occupied the building, demanding better care for patients. Her own department was full of young doctors who were progressive and innovative, but out of touch with the Puerto Rican community they served. Helen backed the community’s demands and pushed her own staff to catch up. In 1993, she became the first Latina president of the American Public Health Association. They named an award after her. It still goes out every year to whoever is doing the work she started. Perhaps even more importantly (but way too nuanced to fit into a 60sec video…) she fought to end forced sterilization and helped found the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse and the Women’s Caucus of the APHA. She also ran New York’s AIDS Institute in the eighties, focused on women of color. She spent the nineties leading global health work for women. __ Want to learn the stories of more women that you won’t believe you’ve never heard of? Join our Badass Women of NYC tour, running Saturday & Sundays - limited spots available! Comment BADASS for dates.

I was raised by a second-wave feminist who taught me to get mad about…most things. I’ve channeled that productively [mostly] throughout my career, most recently, to apparently no one’s surprise but my own, opening up a NYC women’s history walking tour with @maximumbeth. So it felt especially surreal last week, to be sitting in Gloria Steinem’s living room, in a circle of women who write about and shape the travel industry (including @samanthabrowntravels and @evierobbie, two titans who had probably influenced every single woman in that room - @travelbarefeet, you’re a titan too by the way) Some of my takeaways: - Who gets to tell their story? And what do we do when there isn’t a path for the original source to be the narrator? - What does it mean to tell the full story of a woman. Not “female founder” or “female writer”, but the multidimensional version. The artist & caretaker of aging parents, the executive who’s doing school pick-up (not only true of women, by the way, men get flattened as well) - “F*** the system” (Gloria, still iconic at 92) I reread “A Bunny’s Tale” every so often. I know Gloria felt it typecast her, for a while, as a “women’s journalist”. Maybe that’s why I resisted getting so blunt with my mission. But now I’m realizing that it isn’t the risk, it’s kind of the point. — A huge thank you to the entire team at @gloriasfoundation (@giamckenna for the photos, my mom with THRILLED) and @niknakvargas for always doing the work to create these spaces.

Things to do in NYC this summer that will make you genuinely furious in the best way. 🔥 Frances Perkins watched 146 garment workers die in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911 and spent the next three decades making sure it never happened again. The Frances Perkins Federal Building in Washington D.C. is named after her, but it took until 2021. She’s on our Badass Women of NYC walking tour, Saturdays and Sundays, 42nd Street to Central Park. Send this to someone who loves women’s history. — Comment BADASS for the link.

NYC walking tour for people who are done with the edited version of history. Fanny Fern outsold every male author in America in 1855. Frances Perkins built Social Security. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee led 10,000 people up Fifth Avenue at 16. None of them made the textbooks. — The 2-hr Badass Women of NYC runs Saturdays and Sundays from the NYPL to Central Park. Comment BADASS for the link.

Incredible NYC women you’ve never heard of? A woman who filed forty nine patents and never drew a single blueprint. Beulah Louise Henry just described what she saw in her head, clearly enough that an engineer could build it exactly right. The Patent Office credits her with over one hundred inventions total. She kept that pace for more than two decades, straight through the Great Depression, while other inventors were shutting their doors. One of her ideas was a detachable, snap on umbrella cover. She started her own company to sell it, Henry Umbrella and Parasol. Lord and Taylor carried it. It made her fifty thousand dollars, and she never touched a sewing machine. Newspapers called her “Lady Edison.” She told the Times in 1962 she didn’t think she deserved the title. Maybe she just wanted them to call her an inventor and leave it at that. She lived in a suite at the Seville Hotel on 29th Street with two turtles, a parakeet, a troupial, a pair of doves, several cockatiels, a cat named Chickadee, and a telescope pointed out the window. — Join our 2 hour women’s history walking tour of NYC to hear more stories of women the textbooks left out. Comment BADASS for the link.

NYC women’s history you didn’t learn in school includes a woman who filed forty nine patents and never drew a single blueprint. Beulah Louise Henry just described what she saw in her head, clearly enough that an engineer could build it exactly right. The Patent Office credits her with over one hundred inventions total. She kept that pace for more than two decades, straight through the Great Depression, while other inventors were shutting their doors. One of her ideas was a detachable, snap on umbrella cover. She started her own company to sell it, Henry Umbrella and Parasol. Lord and Taylor carried it. It made her fifty thousand dollars, and she never touched a sewing machine. Newspapers called her “Lady Edison.” She told the Times in 1962 she didn’t think she deserved the title. Maybe she just wanted them to call her an inventor and leave it at that. She lived in a suite at the Seville Hotel on 29th Street with two turtles, a parakeet, a troupial, a pair of doves, several cockatiels, a cat named Chickadee, and a telescope pointed out the window. — Join our 2 hour women’s history walking tour of NYC to hear more stories of women the textbooks left out. Comment BADASS for the link.

A feminist NYC walking tour for people who want their weekend to count. For example learning about Frances Perkins who only agreed to become FDR’s Secretary of Labor if he took on her list of priorities including the end of child labor, a 40-hour workweek, and universal healthcare.. Or Ellen Stewart who sold designs at Saks Fifth Avenue in the 1950s before giving up her successful career to found La MaMa, one of the most influential experimental theaters in New York. — The 2-hour walking tour takes place from the public library at 42nd street to Central Park. Running through the end of July. Comment BADASS for dates.

This NYC walking tour covers the stories your textbook skipped. For example Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, who led 10,000 suffragists up Fifth Avenue on horseback at 16. She was excluded from the 19th Amendment because of the Chinese Exclusion Act. — Want to learn more stories of women you’ve never heard of but should be household names? Join our 2-hour walking tour from the public library at 42nd street to Central Park. Comment BADASS for the link.

Things to do in NYC this weekend that change how you see this city…a feminist history walking tour of NYC. Antonia Pantoja won the court case that created bilingual education in America. Barbara Gittings got homosexuality removed from the APA’s list of mental illnesses. Audrey Munson (super model of the 1910s) has her likeness on monuments outside the NYPL, the Met, and Central Park… None of them made the history books. — Join our 2 hour women’s history walking tour of NYC to get the stories so that you can pass them on yourself. Comment BADASS for the link.

Chinese-American discrimination was so severe for this women that her family isolated completely. She grew up to change the public perception of the community. Dr. Betty Lee Sung grew up the daughter of Chinese immigrants in Washington, D.C. Discrimination ran so deep that her family stopped going out in public, skipping movies, pools, even the doctor. When Japan invaded China in 1938, she and her sister fled back to the United States and she landed in New York, where she started writing. Her book, Mountain of Gold, became the first account of Chinese American history told by a Chinese American. Students used it to demand City College finally teach the subject, and the school agreed, asking Betty to build the course herself. She spent the rest of her career fighting the model minority myth, the idea that Asian immigrants succeeded quietly and automatically. Her research told a different story, one with real dropout rates, real poverty, and families who’d fled real violence. In the 80s, she moved into a co-op in Chinatown and became one of its most active organizers, backing candidates and leading rallies. She kept cataloguing immigration records by hand well past retirement, twelve thousand of them in total. Betty died at 98, still proving the myth wrong. 📚 — Want to learn the story of more women who you’ve probably never heard of but probably should know? Join our 2-hour tour from the NYPL to Central Park running Saturdays & Sundays. Comment BADASS for the link.

NYC’s Chinatown history includes this woman who wrote one of the first first-hand accounts of what it was like to be Chinese-American. Dr Betty Lee Sung grew up the daughter of Chinese immigrants in Washington, D.C. Discrimination ran so deep that her family stopped going out in public, skipping movies, pools, even the doctor. When Japan invaded China in 1938, she and her sister fled back to the United States and she landed in New York, where she started writing. Her book, Mountain of Gold, became the first account of Chinese American history told by a Chinese American. Students used it to demand City College finally teach the subject, and the school agreed, asking Betty to build the course herself. She spent the rest of her career fighting the model minority myth, the idea that Asian immigrants succeeded quietly and automatically. Her research told a different story, one with real dropout rates, real poverty, and families who’d fled real violence. In the 80s, she moved into a co-op in Chinatown and became one of its most active organizers, backing candidates and leading rallies. She kept cataloguing immigration records by hand well past retirement, twelve thousand of them in total. Betty died at 98, still proving the myth wrong. 📚 — Want to learn the story of more women who you’ve probably never heard of but probably should know? Join our 2-hour tour from the NYPL to Central Park running Saturdays & Sundays. Comment BADASS for the link.

NYC Chinatown holds the story of a woman who was one of the first to combine direct experience + statistics when teaching the history of Chinese Americans. Dr. Betty Lee Sung grew up the daughter of Chinese immigrants in Washington, D.C. Discrimination ran so deep that her family stopped going out in public, skipping movies, pools, even the doctor. When Japan invaded China in 1938, she and her sister fled back to the United States and she landed in New York, where she started writing. Her book, Mountain of Gold, became the first account of Chinese American history told by a Chinese American. Students used it to demand City College finally teach the subject, and the school agreed, asking Betty to build the course herself. She spent the rest of her career fighting the model minority myth, the idea that Asian immigrants succeeded quietly and automatically. Her research told a different story, one with real dropout rates, real poverty, and families who’d fled real violence. In the 80s, she moved into a co-op in Chinatown and became one of its most active organizers, backing candidates and leading rallies. She kept cataloguing immigration records by hand well past retirement, twelve thousand of them in total. Betty died at 98, still proving the myth wrong. 📚 — Want to learn the story of more women who you’ve probably never heard of but probably should know? Join our 2-hour tour from the NYPL to Central Park running Saturdays & Sundays. Comment BADASS for the link.

This NYC female history walking tour focuses on the women you probably haven’t heard of but really should know. Join us every Saturday & Sunday through the end of July and help us spread this oral history. 📣 Comment BADASS for the link.

One of the most famous NYC astrologers fought her arrest by reading a chart in open court - the judge let her go. Evangeline Adams arrived in New York in 1899, checked into the Windsor Hotel on Fifth Avenue, and read the owner’s chart the night before it burned to the ground. She said she had warned him. From Carnegie Hall, she built the most famous astrology practice in America. Not the concert hall. An actual suite of offices inside the building. Six of them, on the tenth floor, at her peak. J.P. Morgan consulted her. So did King Edward VII of England and Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts. Aleister Crowley, the occultist infamous for s3x magic and heavy drug use, ghostwrote her books. Under New York law, fortune tellers were classified as disorderly persons, in the same category as pimps and street performers. She was arrested three times. The second time, in 1914, she was entrapped by an all-women undercover police unit. She decided to fight it. She read a chart in open court. The judge ruled she had successfully differentiated between fortune telling and the exact science of astrology. Charges dismissed. The third time, the New Yorker mocked the NYPD: arresting her was ridiculous, but the policewoman, as it was her first serious indiscretion, was let off with a light reprimand. In 1931, she predicted the US would be at war in 1942. We entered World War II in December 1941. Then she predicted her own death, canceled her lecture tour, and died in 1932, right on schedule. — Want to learn about more incredible women that not enough of us have heard of? Hop on our Badass Women of NYC tour, every Saturday and Sunday for the next 4 weeks. 👀 Comment BADASS for the link.

Did you know in NYC history fortune telling was illegal? One of the most famous astrologers fought her arrest by reading a chart in open court - the judge let her go. Evangeline Adams arrived in New York in 1899, checked into the Windsor Hotel on Fifth Avenue, and read the owner’s chart the night before it burned to the ground. She said she had warned him. From Carnegie Hall, she built the most famous astrology practice in America. Not the concert hall. An actual suite of offices inside the building. Six of them, on the tenth floor, at her peak. J.P. Morgan consulted her. So did King Edward VII of England and Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts. Aleister Crowley, the occultist infamous for s3x magic and heavy drug use, ghostwrote her books. Under New York law, fortune tellers were classified as disorderly persons, in the same category as pimps and street performers. She was arrested three times. The second time, in 1914, she was entrapped by an all-women undercover police unit. She decided to fight it. She read a chart in open court. The judge ruled she had successfully differentiated between fortune telling and the exact science of astrology. Charges dismissed. The third time, the New Yorker mocked the NYPD: arresting her was ridiculous, but the policewoman, as it was her first serious indiscretion, was let off with a light reprimand. In 1931, she predicted the US would be at war in 1942. We entered World War II in December 1941. Then she predicted her own death, canceled her lecture tour, and died in 1932, right on schedule. — Want to learn about more incredible women that not enough of us have heard of? Hop on our Badass Women of NYC tour, every Saturday and Sunday for the next 4 weeks. 👀 Comment BADASS for the link.

A women’s history walking tour in NYC that ends with a cocktail named after the first woman to ever hold the gavel. We teamed up with @thebenjaminhotel for an America 250 package: - two nights at the hotel - two tickets to our Badass Women of New York tour - signature She Shapes History tote - pre-tour coffee with a custom sleeve featuring a Badass women’s quote - brunch for two at The Parliament - two Madame Speaker cocktails Available weekends through September 30, 2026. Comment Benjamin for the link. 🛎️

A women’s history walking tour in NYC that ends with a cocktail named after the first woman to ever hold the gavel. We teamed up with @thebenjaminhotel for an America 250 package: - two nights at the hotel - two tickets to our Badass Women of New York tour - signature She Shapes History tote - pre-tour coffee with a custom sleeve featuring a Badass women’s quote - brunch for two at The Parliament - two Madame Speaker cocktails Available weekends through September 30, 2026. Comment Benjamin for the link. 🛎️

A women’s history walking tour in NYC that ends with a cocktail named after the first woman to ever hold the gavel. We teamed up with @thebenjaminhotel for an America 250 package: - two nights at the hotel - two tickets to our Badass Women of New York tour - signature She Shapes History tote - pre-tour coffee with a custom sleeve featuring a Badass women’s quote - brunch for two at The Parliament - two Madame Speaker cocktails Available weekends through September 30, 2026. Comment Benjamin for the link. 🛎️

A women’s history walking tour in NYC that ends with a cocktail named after the first woman to ever hold the gavel. We teamed up with @thebenjaminhotel for an America 250 package: - two nights at the hotel - two tickets to our Badass Women of New York tour - signature She Shapes History tote - pre-tour coffee with a custom sleeve featuring a Badass women’s quote - brunch for two at The Parliament - two Madame Speaker cocktails Available weekends through September 30, 2026. Comment Benjamin for the link. 🛎️

A women’s history walking tour in NYC that ends with a cocktail named after the first woman to ever hold the gavel. We teamed up with @thebenjaminhotel for an America 250 package: - two nights at the hotel - two tickets to our Badass Women of New York tour - signature She Shapes History tote - pre-tour coffee with a custom sleeve featuring a Badass women’s quote - brunch for two at The Parliament - two Madame Speaker cocktails Available weekends through September 30, 2026. Comment Benjamin for the link. 🛎️

How did this NYC women’s history tour start? Depends on who you ask but we all agree that when Beth called Nikki to ask about whether she thought a female history walking tour in NYC was a good idea, Nikki couldn’t help but raise her hand… And just like that, two women who hadn’t really ever hung out decided to start a business, booked flights to the other side of the world, left their kids at home, and came back the day before Thanksgiving. We talked about all of it recently on @souloftravelpodcast with Christine, including what really drove Nikki to say yes. It wasn’t just the tour. It was the climate we’re in right now. The feeling that being a woman in the U.S. means watching things happen to you. This felt like something active. Something where the effort you put in actually shows up as change. 🗽 — Want to learn about more incredible women that not enough of us have heard of? Hop on our Badass Women of NYC tour, every Saturday and Sunday for the next 4 weeks. 👀 Comment BADASS for the link.

Searching for a women’s history walking tour in NYC? Beth was too. She assumed they were everywhere across the US. Why not? Spoiler - there are about a handful (@beyondthebelltours in Philly, @atourofherown in DC, @goroam in San Francisco…) We talked about it on @souloftravelpodcast recently. The shock of realizing that women have shaped every movement, every law, every institution in this country, and there are almost no tours dedicated to telling those stories. That gap is exactly why the Badass Women of NYC tour exists. 🗽 — Want to learn about more incredible women that not enough of us have heard of? Hop on our Badass Women of NYC tour, every Saturday and Sunday for the next 4 weeks. 👀 Comment BADASS for the link.

Why a NYC female history walking tour? Because who gets to decide what counts as history? That question is at the center of what we’re doing with the tour and it came up in a conversation we had recently on @souloftravelpodcast with Christine. 🎙️ The answer, as Beth put it, is pretty uncomfortable. What you learned in school wasn’t wrong exactly. It was just one version, told by the people who had the power to tell it. There are so many other versions that never made it because the person didn’t have the resources or connections or access to build the statue. That’s what this tour is about, not just filling those gaps but helping people realize the gaps exist. — Want to learn about more incredible women that not enough of us have heard of? Hop on our Badass Women of NYC tour, every Saturday and Sunday for the next 4 weeks. 👀 Comment BADASS for the link.

Major Fannie Griffin McClendon was fresh out of high school in New York City when she took the Army entrance exam. She and a group of other Black women were told they had failed. One of them worked for Eleanor Roosevelt and reported back what happened. Turns out, they had all passed. She trained at a segregated Fort Des Moines, then shipped out with 855 women to Birmingham, England. The Army had privately expected them to fail. But working three shifts a day in unheated, blacked-out hangars, they cleared 17 million pieces of undelivered mail. The Army had given them six months. They were done in three. She came home to no ceremony. No parade. She re-enlisted in 1950, this time in the Air Force, and became the first woman to command an all-male squadron in the Strategic Air Command. She served until 1971. In 2025, a congressman brought her Congressional Gold Medal to her in person. She was 104. She said: “I just wish some of the other women were here to see it too.” — Want to learn about more incredible women that not enough of us have heard of? Hop on our Badass Women of NYC tour, every Saturday and Sunday for the next 6 weeks only. 👀 Comment BADASS for the link.

Major Fannie Griffin McClendon was fresh out of high school in New York City when she took the Army entrance exam. She and a group of other Black women were told they had failed. One of them worked for Eleanor Roosevelt and reported back what happened. Turns out, they had all passed. She trained at a segregated Fort Des Moines, then shipped out with 855 women to Birmingham, England. The Army had privately expected them to fail. But working three shifts a day in unheated, blacked-out hangars, they cleared 17 million pieces of undelivered mail. The Army had given them six months. They were done in three. She came home to no ceremony. No parade. She re-enlisted in 1950, this time in the Air Force, and became the first woman to command an all-male squadron in the Strategic Air Command. She served until 1971. In 2025, a congressman brought her Congressional Gold Medal to her in person. She was 104. She said: “I just wish some of the other women were here to see it too.” — Want to learn about more incredible women that not enough of us have heard of? Hop on our Badass Women of NYC tour, every Saturday and Sunday for the next 6 weeks only. 👀 Comment BADASS for the link.

Things to do in NYC this weekend that will change what you see when you walk around this city: a women’s history walking tour. Over 2-hours, from the NYPL to Central Park, you’ll learn about; the woman who built the labor movement, the teenager who marched for suffrage in 1912 under the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the forgotten supermodel whose face is on half the sculptures in Manhattan. — The tour runs Saturdays and Sundays. Comment BADASS for the link.

Best book club activity after that female-focused historical fiction: a Badass Women of NYC walking tour. This 2-hour walk from the NYPL to Central Park covers even more women we wish everyone had heard of. — Runs Saturdays + Sundays for 6 weeks only. Send this to your book club who loves NYC history. Comment BADASS for the link.

Best things to do in NYC with your book club - a women’s history walking tour that gives you two hours of stories you’ll be talking about for weeks. The woman who outsold every male author in America in 1855 (after her brother publicly call her vulgar), the teenager who led 10,000 suffragists up Fifth Avenue, the woman who built the New Deal and never got the statue. — Our Badass Women of NYC tour runs Saturdays and Sundays from 42nd street to Central Park. Send this to your group chat. Comment BADASS for the link.

Things to do in NYC if you want the history they cut from the textbooks. Victoria Woodhull ran for president 48 years before women could legally vote. On election day, she was arrested on obscenity charges (for calling out a famous Brooklyn pastor’s affair with a congressioner’s wife...) Our Badass Women of NYC tour tells the stories of women you might not have heard of, but should absolutely know. Send this to someone who thinks they know American history — Running Saturdays & Sundays for the next few weeks. Comment BADASS for the link.