history | powerful women
Reblogging because after about my whole life in the Brazilian educational system, I had never heard about these women. Not once. But what did we learn about, you ask? We learned about the guy (a megalomaniacal Portuguese) who just said that Brazil was independent, and that was it. Up until now, I didn’t even know anyone had fought for independence against Portugal. All my teachers said that there was no real war of independence.
I had the same reaction when researching these women. I was shocked to find that a lot of the women I did this series with did incredible things, but their achievements were undermined and not written about, or shoved down to learn about some incredibly boring man, and I do think that’s what’s wrong with history a lot of the times
