Pink Pirates

History has been notorious over the centuries of overlooking women and their contributions to science and other fields even though some justice is being done in new biographies there are scores of other women whom history forgot to pay tribute to. Yesterday at the local bookshop I spied Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas which tells the story of a number of female pirates one of whom was the last person hanged in the state of Massachussetts for the crime of highway robbery....her name was Rachel Wall. It gives me hope for history becoming a bit more accurate in the future when publishers are willing to print books about the bitchy captain hooks of the seven seas that I don't ever recall reading about in history textbooks. :)

permalink Ω 19 February 2002, Helsinki