Fed up with fiction, I make a meme

[glaurung]

I stumbled across this meme and got rather annoyed with the use of movie images for delivering the message. Surely, I thought, there have been enough awesome real life troublemakers of history?

While I was at it, I decided the heroines of that meme were far too white for my tastes. Not being musically inclined, I did not realize it was a quote from a song, so I changed the wording from good girls to nice girls because all my chosen heroines were good, but none of them are nice.


In rough chronological order, and giving extremely short shrift to their accomplishments:


Harriet Tubman, liberator of stolen lives,


Mother Jones, Communist and Union Organizer,


Señorita Ma Gonzales Garcia, Mexican Revolutionary,


Emma Goldman, Anarchist,


Liudmyla Pavlychenko, Sniper in Russia's Great Patriotic War,


Dolores Huerta, Union Organizer,


Assata Shakur, Communist and Revolutionary,

And finally,


Angela Davis, Feminist and Revolutionary.

Feel free to steal high res versions from here