Strong Female Characters - Forgotten Women of Genre: Tarpe Mills

Forgotten Women of Genre: Tarpe Mills

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03/30/19 • 13 min

Strong Female Characters

Tarpé Mills gave the world more than its first female superhero written and drawn by a woman — she gave girls and women a character who defied societal expectations and gender norms, who owned her sexuality and turned misogynistic tropes on their head.

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