Photo of the Day: HBD to Agatha Christie, Queen of Crime — and couture.

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Stand in solidarity with Standing Rock. Give now.

Julianne Hough serving some Penny Lane realness at the 4th Annual UNICEF Masquerade Ball.

Actress Shailene Woodley arrested during Dakota Access oil pipeline protest.

Actress Sonam Kapoor opens up about her struggle with body image issues in compelling Buzzfeed article.

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Lupita Nyong’o talks about embracing her skin color in October’s Vogue. Read it now!

Rihanna serving us some Aliyah realness at the Fenty Puma by Rihanna launch!

Beyonce was serving us some fierce Ice Queen realness at this year’s VMAs.

Shoutout to Olympian Simone Manuel, the first black woman to take a gold in swimming!

Shoutout to Ava DuVernay, the first woman of color to direct a $100 million blockbuster!

Put-upon Susan Sarandon at the DNC yesterday is us pretty much every day, everywhere.

Shout-out to Margaret Floy Washburn, a major figure in early American psychology and the first woman to earn a Ph.D in the field!

Really feeling Lana del Rey’s Jonestown cult, Kool-Aid-drinking vibe at this concert in Mykonos.

Shoutout to Elizabeth Key Grinstead, one of the first women of African ancestry to sue for freedom and win (today in 1665).

Shoutout to Nadia Comăneci, the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics this day in 1976.

Shout-out to Nettie Stevens, an American geneticist who discovered and described sex differences in chromosomes.

Happy birthday to artist and feminist Frida Kahlo. You were and continue to be magic – no maybes about it.

HBD to Anna Arnold Hedgeman, civil rights leader and first woman to serve on a NYC mayor’s cabinet!

Shoutout to the Van Buren sisters, who rode across the country on motorcycles by themselves 100 years ago.

HBD to Julia Clifford Lathrop, the first woman to ever head a U.S. federal bureau!

Happy birthday to Crystal Bird Fauset, the first African-American woman to become a state legislator.

Happy b-day to Pearl Witherington, leader of the British SOE during WWII, a network of elite spies and saboteurs.

Shoutout to Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman in space on June 16th, 1963.

In memory of those killed or injured in Saturday’s Orlando massacre targeting LGBT folk.

Gigi Hadid is looking sultry, sleek, and slick-backed for the summer.

Happy birthday Marilyn! Here’s to continuing to defy gravity!

Happy birthday to Rosario Castellanos, one of Mexico’s most prominent authors of the 20th century.

Thelma and Louise premiered 25 years ago today. Shout out to these original ride-or-die besties.

Shout-out to Jackie Cochran, who was the first woman to break the sound barrier, today in 1953.

Happy birthday, Katharine Hepburn! Thanks for the life lesson: “Never complain. Never explain.”

Princess Charlene of Monaco being a little on the nose with her choice of royal blue pantsuit.

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