1. Esther 4:16 (New American Standard Bible).
2. Eric A. Kimmel, The Story of Esther: A Purim Tale (New York: Holiday House, 2011), 4.
3. Rita Golden Gelman, Queen Esther Saves Her People (New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1998), 22.
4. Ibid., 31.
5. Ibid., 32.
6. “Purim How-To Guide,” Chabad.org, accessed September 6, 2016, http://www.chabad.org/holidays/purim/article_cdo/aid/1362/jewish/Purim-How-To-Guide.htm.
1. Susan Blackaby, Cleopatra: Egypt’s Last and Greatest Queen, Sterling Biography (New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2009), 2–5.
2. Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010), 15–16.
3. Blackaby, Cleopatra, 23.
4. Schiff, Cleopatra, 40–44.
5. Blackaby, Cleopatra, 40.
6. Ibid., 30.
7. Ibid., 42–43.
8. Ibid., 46.
9. Ibid., 58–59.
10. Ibid., 113–115.
1. Barbara Sjoholm, The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea (Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2004), 4.
2. Ibid., xxiii.
3. Emily Arnold McCully, The Pirate Queen (New York: Putnam Juvenile, 1995), 5–6.
4. Ibid., 25–26.
5. Sjoholm, Pirate Queen, 33.
6. McCully, Pirate Queen, 9.
1. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: July 28–November 1, 1805, vol. 5, ed. Gary E. Moulton (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1988), 221.
1. Martin Garrett, Mary Shelley, The British Library Writers’ Lives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 13.
2. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, Barnes & Nobles Classic Series (Nero York Barnes & Noble, 2005), 37.
3. Ibid., 25–26.
4. Jane Blumberg, Mary Shelley’s Early Novels (London: MacMillan Press, 1993), 94.
5. Garrett, 23–24.
6. John Lanzendorfer, “10 Monstrous Facts about Frankenstein,” Mental_Floss, October 5, 2015, http://mentalfloss.com/article/69171/10-monstrous-facts-about-frankenstein.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Robert McCrum, “The 100 Best Novels: No. 8—Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818),” The Guardian, November 11, 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/11/100-best-novels-frankenstein-mary-shelley.
10. Lanzendorfer, “10 Monstrous Facts.”
1. Laurie Wallmark, Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine (Berkeley, CA: Creston Books, 2015), 2.
2. Sydney Padua, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (New York: Pantheon Books, 2015), 14.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Wallmark, Ada Byron Lovelace, 29.
1. Stephanie Spinner, Who Was Annie Oakley? (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 2002), 8.
2. Glenda Riley, The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley, The Oklahoma Western Biographies (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), 6.
3. Shirl Kasper, Annie Oakley (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 5.
4. Riley, Life and Legacy, 134.
5. Sue Macy, Bulls-Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley (Des Moines, IA: National Geographic Children’s Books, 2001), 19.
6. Brenda Haugen, Annie Oakley: American Sharpshooter (Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books, 2007), 40.
7. Spinner, Who Was Annie Oakley?, 62.
8. Ibid., 74.
9. Ibid., 105.
1. Maria Popova, “What Girls Are Good For: 20-Year-Old Nellie Bly’s 1885 Response to a Patronizing Chauvinist,” Brain Pickings (blog), April 30, 2014, https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/30/nellie-bly-letter/.
2. Ibid.
3. Hannah Keyser, “The Story That Launched Nellie Bly’s Famed Journalism Career,” Mental_Floss.com, May 5, 2015, http://mentalfloss.com/article/63759/story-launched-nellie-blys-famed-journalism-career.
4. Bonnie Christensen, The Daring Nellie Bly: America’s Star Reporter (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), 9.
5. Deborah Noyes, Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original “Girl” Reporter, Nellie Bly (New York: Viking, 2016), 28.
6. Sylvia Branzei, Rebel in a Dress: Adventurers (Philadelphia: Running Press Kids, 2011), 69.
7. Christensen, Daring Nellie Bly, 17.
8. Noyes, Ten Days, 74.
9. Christensen, Daring Nellie Bly, 25.
10. Ibid., 26.
11. Noyes, Ten Days, 112.
12. Christensen, Daring Nellie Bly, 27.
13. Tekla Szymanski, “Women’s History Month Profile: Nellie Bly—Undercover, Out and About,” New York Women in Communications, March 25, 2010, http://www.nywici.org/features/blogs/aloud/womens-history-month-profile-nellie-bly---undercover-out-and-about.
1. Russell Freedman, Eleanor Roosevelt: Life of Discovery (New York: Clarion Books, 1993), 23.
2. Ibid., 34.
3. Ibid., 63.
4. US House of Representatives, Life and Ideals of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (Honolulu, HI: University Press of the Pacific, 2001), 30.
5. Allida Black et al., eds., “ ‘My Day’ Column (1935–1962),” Model Editions Partnership, 2006, https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/mep/displaydoc.cfm?docid=erpo-myday.
6. Rachel Toor, Eleanor Roosevelt: Diplomat and Humanitarian (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989), 65.
7. Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front in World War II (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 465.
8. Marc Peyser, Hissing Cousins: The Lifelong Rivalry of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth (New York: Anchor Books, 2015), 275.
1. Julie McCaffrey, “The Baby Suffragette,” Daily Mirror, last modified February 4, 2012, http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/the-baby-suffragette-628607.
2. Ibid.
3. Karen Krizanovih, “Suffragette Timeline: The Long March to Votes for Women,” Telegraph, 2015, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/suffragette/suffragette_timeline/.
4. “Woman Suffrage Timeline (1840–1920),” National Women’s History Museum, accessed January 27, 2017, https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/history/woman-suffrage-timeline.
5. Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story: The Autobiography of Emmeline Parkhurst, (London: Virago Limited, 1979), 38.
6. Ian Herbert, “Dora Thewlis: The Lost Suffragette,” Independent, May 7, 2006, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dora-thewlis-the-lost-suffragette-6101564.html.
7. McCaffrey, “Baby Suffragette.”
8. Ibid.
9. Herbert, “Dora Thewlis.”
10. McCaffrey, “Baby Suffragette.”
1. Peggy Caravantes, The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy, Women of Action (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2015), 4.
2. Patricia Hruby Powell, Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2014), 16.
3. Powell, Josephine, 29.
4. Caravantes, Many Faces, 9.
5. Powell, Josephine, 45.
6. Ibid., 58.
7. Ibid., 79.
8. Ibid., 68; Caravantes, Many Faces, 36.
9. Powell, Josephine, 96.
10. Caravantes, Many Faces, 80.
11. Jessica Goldstein, “March on Washington Had One Female Speaker: Josephine Baker,” Washington Post, August 23, 2011, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/march-on-washington-had-one-female-speaker-josephine-baker/2011/08/08/gIQAHqhBaJ_story.html.
1. Andi Diehn, Technology: Cool Women Who Code (New York: Scholastic Press, 1998), 29.
2. Ibid., 23.
3. Rachel Swaby, Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science—and the World (New York: Broadway Books, 2015), 203.
4. Ibid., 204.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Diehn, Technology, 45.
8. Kathleen Broome Williams, Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004), 175.
9. Swaby, Headstrong, 203.
10. Diehn, Technology, 46–47.
11. Mark Cantrell, “Amazing Grace: Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, USN, Was a Pioneer in Computer Science,” Military Officer 12, no. 3 (March 2014): 52–55, 106.
12. Diehn, Technology, 39.
1. Linda Dahl, Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999), 38.
2. Ibid., 17.
3. Ibid., 18.
4. Ibid., 23.
5. Ibid., 9.
6. Ibid., 26.
7. Ibid., 29.
8. Ibid., 44.
9. Max Jones, Jazz Talking: Profiles, Interviews, and Other Riffs on Jazz Musicians (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2000), 201.
10. Dahl, Morning Glory, 32.
11. Ibid., 379.
1. Beverly Cleary, A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir (New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1988), 105.
2. Ibid., 23.
3. Ibid., 71.
4. Mark Mancini, “12 Charming Tidbits about Beverly Cleary,” Mental_Floss.com, April 12, 2016, http://mentalfloss.com/article/56708/12-charming-tidbits-about-beverly-cleary.
5. Cleary, Girl from Yamhill, 78.
6. Ibid., 76.
7. Melissa Jaeger-Miller, “Beverly Cleary Is Turning 100, but She Has Always Thought Like a Kid,” as heard on All Things Considered, NPR, April 11, 2016, http://www.npr.org/2016/04/11/473558659/beverly-cleary-is-turning-100-but-she-has-always-thought-like-a-kid.
8. Cleary, Girl from Yamhill, 93.
9. Nora Krug, “Beverly Cleary on Turning 100: Kids Today ‘Don’t Have the Freedom’ I Had,” Washington Post, April 3, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/beverly-cleary-on-turning-100-kids-today-dont-have-the-freedom-i-had/2016/04/02/7a63e92c-e6d4-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html.
10. Beverly Cleary, My Own Two Feet: A Memoir (New York: Avon Books, 1995), 320.
11. Ibid., 270.
12. Ibid., 321.
13. Ibid., 325.
14. Jaeger-Miller, “Beverly Cleary Is Turning.”
1. “A Conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Her Life as a Woman, a Jew, and a Judge,” by Larry Josephson, Only in America, MP3 audio file, 15:10, September 2, 2004, http://www.onlyinamerica.cc/ginsburg.shtml.
2. James Roland, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Iconic Supreme Court Justice (Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 2016), 10.
3. Emma Hahn, 16 Extraordinary American Women (Portland, ME: J. Weston Walch, 1996), 55.
4. Irin Carmon, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Marriage, Sexism and Pushups,” MSNBC, February 17, 2015, http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ruth-bader-ginsburg-marriage-sexism-and-pushups.
5. Michelle Ruiz, “15 Things I Learned about Ruth Bader Ginsburg from Notorious RBG,” Vogue, October 29, 2015, http://www.vogue.com/13366116/ruth-bader-ginsburg-notorious-rbg-book/.
6. Hahn, 16 Extraordinary, 56.
7. “Conversation with Justice Ruth,” 2:18.
8. Ibid., 4:07.
9. Roland, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 19.
10. Ibid., 23.
11. Ibid., 26.
12. Ibid., 27–28.
13. Ibid., 37.
1. Julie Andrews, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (New York: Hyperion, 2008), 80. I imagined this scene after reading Julie’s account of it in her excellent autobiography. It’s definitely worth a read.
2. Ibid., 80.
3. Telisa Carter, “10 Things You Didn’t Know about Julie Andrews,” Fame10, September 30, 2016, www.fame10.com/entertainment/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-julie-andrews/.
4. Richard Stirling, Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography (New York: St. Martins Press, 2009), 22.
5. Andrews, Home, 54.
6. Ibid., 85.
7. Irving Haberman, “The Theatre World Brings a New Musical and a Stage Success to Television This Week,” New York Times, March 31, 1957.
8. Andrews, Home, 85.
1. Wangari Maathai, Unbowed: A Memoir (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), 46.
2. Franck Prévot, Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees, trans. Dominique Clément (Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishing, 2015), 11.
3. Maathai, Unbowed, 39.
4. Ibid., 74.
5. Prévot, Wangari Maathai, 37.
6. Maathai, Unbowed, 125.
7. Prévot, Wangari Maathai, 42.
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1. Tony Scherman, “The Man with the Million-Dollar Voice: The Mighty but Divided Soul of C. L. Franklin,” Believer, July/August 2013, http://www.believermag.com/issues/201307/?read=article_scherman.
2. Silvia Anne Sheafer, Aretha Franklin: Motown Superstar, African-American Biographies (New York: Enslow Publishers, 1996), 21.
3. Gary Graff, “The Queen of Soul,” Orlando Sentinel, October 5, 1992, accessed October 6, 2016, http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-10-05/lifestyle/9210050403_1_queen-of-soul-aretha-soul-music.
4. David Ritz, Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014), 86.
5. Ibid., 48–63.
6. Joel Whitburn, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004 (Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, 2005), 215.
7. Ritz, Respect, 159.
8. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, ed. Joe Levy and editors at Rolling Stone (New York: Wenner, 2005), 83–178.
9. Gary Graff, “Aretha Franklin on Celebrating Six Decades as the Queen of Soul: ‘Our Generation—The Artists Were Stronger,’ ” Billboard, March 25, 2016, http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7285247/aretha-franklin-celebrating-six-decades-as-the-queen-of-soul.
10. “That’s Dr. Aretha Franklin to You,” Call and Post, November 2, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20130521170445/http://www.callandpost.com/index.php/entertainment/music/1329-thats-dr-aretha-franklin-to-you.
11. “100 Greatest Artists,” Rolling Stone, December 2, 2010, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/aretha-franklin-20110420; “100 Greatest Singers of All Time,” Rolling Stone, December 2, 2010, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-19691231?page=9.
1. Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Remarks at an Event Celebrating Amelia Earhart and the United States’ Ties to Our Pacific Neighbors,” (Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room, US Department of State, Washington, DC, March 20, 2012), https://votesmart.org/public-statement/677842/remarks-at-an-event-celebrating-amelia-earhart-and-the-united-states-ties-to-our-pacific-neighbors#.WPfNBRiZPLF.
2. Cynthia Levinson, Hillary Rodham Clinton: Do All the Good You Can (New York: HarperCollins, 2016), 10.
3. Dan Merica, “From Park Ridge to Washington: The Youth Minister who Mentored Hillary Clinton,” CNN, April 25, 2014, http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/25/politics/clinton-methodist-minister/.
4. Levinson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, 16.
5. Merica, “From Park Ridge.”
6. Carl Bernstein, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 2007), 30.
7. Gail Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice (New York: Random House, 1999), 26.
8. Hillary Clinton, “Hillary D. Rodham’s 1969 Student Commencement Speech” (Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, May 31, 1969), Wellesley College, http://www.wellesley.edu/events/commencement/archives/1969commencement/studentspeech.
9. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), 69.
10. Bernstein, Woman in Charge, 130.
11. Jonah Winter and Raul Colón, Hillary (New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2016), 16.
12. Abigail Cutler, “Candidate Hillary,” Atlantic, November 2006, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/11/candidate-hillary/305326/.
13. Joshua Green, “Take Two: Hillary’s Choice,” Atlantic, November 2006, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/11/take-two-hillarys-choice/305292/.
14. Winter and Colón, Hillary, 30.
15. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, “The Hillary Doctrine,” Newsweek, March 6, 2011, http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-doctrine-66105.
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1. “Ms. Sheila Sri Prakash-Architect and Urban Designer-Chennai-India - Speaker, IWC 2014,” YouTube video, 6:05, February 2014, held at the Art of Living International Center, Bangalore, India, posted by “artoflivingiwc,” March 13, 2014, https://youtu.be/WskgTcaty_Y. I expanded this scene from a description given by Prakash in this excellent speech she gave to the 2014 International Women’s Conference.
2. Ibid., 2:56.
3. Ibid., 3:56.
4. “Sheila Sri Prakash, Shilpa Architects, India,” 361° Design Conference, presented by Jasubhai Media Pvt. Ltd., accessed October 8, 2016, http://www.361degrees.net.in/sheila_sri_prakash_2015.html.
5. Devyani Jayakar, “Sheila Sri Prakash and Responsible Architecture,” Inside Outside Magazine (January 2014): 50–53.
1. Selucha, “Grupo Pancasán - Maria Rural,” Patria es humanidad (blog), March 8, 2012, http://selucha.tumblr.com/post/18972540794/panca-mariarural.
2. Carlos Agaton, “Arlen Siu Bermúdez,” Agaton (blog), February 8, 2014, http://carlosagaton.blogspot.com/2014/02/arlen-siu-bermudez.html.
3. “Nicaragua: The Somoza Era, 1936–74,” Country-Data.com, December 1993, http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-9212.html; “1972: Earthquake Wreaks Devastation in Nicaragua,” On This Day: 1950–2005, BBC News, accessed September 15, 2016, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/23/newsid_2540000/2540045.stm.
4. Hortensia Hernandez, “Arlen Siu Bermúdez,” Heroinas (blog), August 14, 2016, http://www.heroinas.net/2016/08/arlen-siu-bermudez.html.
5. Héctor Perla Jr., “Sandinistas,” Encyclopedia.com, accessed January 27, 2017, http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/latin-america-and-caribbean/nicaragua-history/sandinistas.
1. Ian Gittins, Björk: There’s More to Life Than This (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002), 11–13. This scene is inspired by the account in Ian Gittins’s fascinating Björk discography. It is both an in-depth biography and a fascinating description and history of each song she recorded.
2. Ibid., 6.
3. Ibid., 11.
4. Ibid., 10.
5. David Fricke, “The Sugarcubes: The Coolest Band in the World,” Rolling Stone, July 14, 1988, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-coolest-band-in-the-world-19880714.
6. Ibid.
7. Gittins, Björk, 35.
8. “Björk Bio,” Rolling Stone, accessed October 8, 2016, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/bjork/biography.
9. “Artists/Björk,” Billboard, accessed January 27, 2017, http://www.billboard.com/artist/286810/bj-rk/chart; David Robert, Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and Albums, 17th ed. (London: Guinness World Records, Ltd., 2004), 60.
10. Bernadette McNulty, “Björk at Manchester International Festival, Review,” Telegraph, July 1, 2011, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopreviews/8611370/Bjork-at-Manchester-International-Festival-review.html.
11. Linda Sharkey, “Björk’s Infamous Swan Dress Now Honoured at Moma Museum—Almost 15 Years Later,” Independent, March 16, 2015, http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/bjork-s-infamous-swan-dress-is-now-honoured-at-moma-museum-almost-15-years-later-10110915.html.
12. Thomas Bartlett, “All Hail the Ice Queen,” Salon, September 6, 2003, http://www.salon.com/2003/09/06/Bjork_2/.
1. Chris Perez, To Selena, With Love (New York: Penguin Group, 2012), 227–228.
2. Bill Hewitt, “Before Her Time,” People, April 17, 1995, http://people.com/archive/cover-story-before-her-time-vol-43-no-15/.
3. Ibid.
4. Jill C. Wheeler, Selena: The Queen of Tejano (Edina, MN: Abdo & Daughters, 1996), 4.
5. Ibid., 13.
6. Jessiac Lucia Roiz, “ ‘Selena Live!’ Celebrates 23 Years; Watch Throwback Speech of ‘Queen of Tejano’ Winning Grammy,” Latin Times, May 5, 2016, http://www.latintimes.com/selena-live-celebrates-23-years-watch-throwback-speech-queen-tejano-winning-grammy-383866.
7. “Past Tejano Music Awards Winners,” Tejano Music Awards, accessed November 15, 2016, http://www.tejanomusicawards.com/past-award-winners.
8. Roiz, “Selena Live!”
9. Katherine Seligman, “Latin Pop Singer’s Slaying Stuns Fans,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 1, 1995, http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Latin-pop-singer-s-slaying-stuns-fans-3148358.php.
10. María Celeste Arrarás, Selena’s Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 51.
11. Seligman, “Latin Pop Singer’s Slaying.”
12. Wheeler, Selena, 17.
1. Fawzia Koofi, The Favored Daughter: One Woman’s Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2012), 12–13. Although this isn’t a direct quote from Fawzia’s mother, I wrote the scene based on Fawzia’s description in her autobiography, as described to her by her mother.
2. Ibid., 43.
3. Ashley Fantz, “In Afghanistan, a Mother Bravely Campaigns for President,” CNN, June 19, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/world/fawzia-koofi-afghanistan-president/.
4. Koofi, The Favored Daughter, 51.
5. Ibid., 41.
6. Fantz, “In Afghanistan, a Mother.”
8. Koofi, The Favored Daughter, vi.
7. “Women and Girls in Afghanistan,” Razia’s Ray of Hope Foundation, accessed November 16, 2016, https://raziasrayofhope.org/women-and-girls-in-afghanistan.html.
9. “A Historical Timeline of Afghanistan,” PBS NewsHour, May 4, 2011, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/asia-jan-june11-timeline-afghanistan/.
1. Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me? (And Other Concerns) (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 38. This is another scene where Mindy didn’t give me the exact dialogue she and Mavis had during this encounter, except her mom’s. I had to imagine it based on the description in her excellent, hysterical memoir.
2. Ibid., 20.
3. Ibid., 31.
4. Ibid., 89.
5. Ibid., 87.
6. Lesley McKenzie, “What Mindy Kaling Wishes She’d Known as a Teenager,” Teen Vogue, February 10, 2014, http://www.teenvogue.com/story/mindy-kaling-advice-for-teen-girls.
7. Jada Yuan, “The New New Girl: Mindy Kaling Promotes Herself out of The Office and into The Mindy Project,” Vulture, September 9, 2012, http://www.vulture.com/2012/09/mindy-kaling-mindy-project.html.
1. Jhamak Ghimire, A Flower in the Midst of Thorns, ed. Govinda Raj Bhattarai, trans. Nagendra Sharma (Del Valle, TX: Hasta Gautam “Mridul,” 2012), 8.
2. Ibid., 3.
3. Ibid., 17.
4. Ibid., 22.
5. Ibid., 107.
6. Ibid., 110.
7. Ibid., 108.
8. Ibid., xxxvii.
1. Diane Bailey, Venus and Serena Williams: Tennis Champions, Sports Families (New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 2010), 7–9. Venus and Serena’s dad really did get beat up by the gangs, he really did pay them for protection while they played, and he really did yell “Duck!” whenever there was shooting. I found those details in many different accounts, including Diane Bailey’s book.
2. “ ‘We’d Skin You Alive’: Venus Williams Ends Fifteen-Yr Boycott of ‘Racist’ Indian Wells,” RT, March 3, 2016, www.rt.com/usa/334442-venus-williams-racism-boycott/.
3. Bailey, Venus and Serena Williams, 29.
4. Marcin Bryszak, “Sabine Lisicki Sets Record for Fastest Serve in Women’s Tennis—but Loses,” Guardian, July 30, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jul/30/sabine-lisicki-record-fastest-serve-women-tennis-stanford.
5. Bailey, Venus and Serena Williams, 21.
6. Kurt Badenhausen, “Serena Williams Tops Sharapova as the World’s Highest-Paid Female Athlete,” Forbes, June 6, 2016, http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2016/06/06/serena-tops-sharapova-as-the-worlds-highest-paid-female-athlete/#1b9055764f79.
7. “Most Tennis Grand Slam Titles Winners (Men and Women),” totalSPORTEK, July 9, 2016, http://www.totalsportek.com/tennis/grand-slam-titles-winners-mens-women/.
8. Harvey Araton, “Williams Sisters Leave an Impact That’s Unmatched,” New York Times, August 27, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/sports/tennis/venus-and-serena-williams-have-a-lasting-impact.html?_r=0.
9. Charlotte Hall, “Tennis Making Strides toward Promoting Diversity on Professional Tours,” Red & Black, April 24, 2014, www.redandblack.com/sports/column-tennis-making-strides-toward-promoting-diversity-on-professional-tours/article_6fb4816c-ea9a-11e4-8b91-f353e6b2d37a.html.
1. “Star Search - Girl’s Tyme with Beyonce,” YouTube video, 0:04, 1993, posted by “ntim8stranger,” January 1, 2010, https://youtu.be/gWXPl18psZA. Check out twelve-year-old Beyoncé belting it out in this amazing Star Search performance.
2. Mary Colson, Beyoncé: A Life in Music, Culture in Action (Chicago, IL: Raintree, 2011), 7; Rachel McRady, “Beyonce Shows Childhood Footage Losing Star Search in ‘Flawless’ Music Video,” US Weekly, December 18, 2013, http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/beyonce-childhood-footage-losing-star-search-flawless-music-video-20131812. I created this scene after reading several accounts of the contest, including Beyoncé’s own memory of it, and after watching the YouTube video cited above.
3. “Greatest Trios of All Time: Destiny’s Child,” Billboard, accessed October 27, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20080430084937/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/greatesttrios/2006/destinys_child.jsp.
4. Zack O’Malley Greenburg, “Beyonce’s Net Worth: $265 Million in 2016,” Forbes, June 1, 2016, www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2016/06/01/beyonces-net-worth-265-million-in-2016/#3c0fa199689d.
5. Suzanne Hodges and Lorraine Bracco, “New Again: Destiny’s Child,” Interview, January 30, 2013, http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/new-again-destinys-child/#_.
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1. Karen Sirvaitis, Danica Patrick: Racing’s Trailblazer, USA Today Lifeline Biographies (Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2010), 12.
2. M. B. Roberts, “Danica Patrick: From Go-Kart Racer to NASCAR Contender,” American Profile Weekly, February 8, 2014, http://americanprofile.com/articles/danica-patrick-nascar/.
3. Sirvaitis, Danica Patrick, 6.
4. Ibid., 5.
5. Ibid., 6–9.
6. Ibid., 10.
7. Sirvaitis, Danica Patrick, 90.
8. Roberts, “Danica Patrick.”
9. “Danica,” the Official Website of Danica Patrick, accessed October 9, 2016, http://www.danicapatrick.com/danica.
10. Ibid.
1. Misty Copeland, Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), 32–33. This whole scene, including the inner and outer dialogue, was inspired from the actual event Misty wrote about in this excellent autobiography.
2. Ibid., 20.
3. Ibid., 21.
4. “ ‘This Week’ Sunday Spotlight: Misty Copeland,” YouTube video, 1:10, posted by “ABC News,” April 6, 2014, https://youtu.be/KD1SWt8-GhA.
5. Allison Adato, “Solo in the City,” Los Angeles Times, December 5, 1999, http://articles.latimes.com/1999/dec/05/magazine/tm-40787/2.
6. “Misty Copeland—I WILL WHAT I WANT,” YouTube video, 0:02, posted by “Under Armour,” July 30, 2014, https://youtu.be/ZY0cdXr_1MA.
7. “Misty Under Armour Ad Goes Viral,” the Official Website of Misty Copeland, accessed October 4, 2016, http://mistycopeland.com/misty-under-armour-ad-goes-viral/.
8. “Native Icon: Misty Copeland,” YouTube video, 3:20, posted by “NewYorkNatives,” January 30, 2015, https://youtu.be/U5hwuC7z7Ys.
9. Ibid., 2:05.
1. Anubha Momin, “Meet the Couple Who Just Spent 120 Days Traveling through the Arctic on a Dogsled,” VICE, June 8, 2015, http://www.vice.com/read/meet-the-couple-who-just-spent-120-days-traveling-the-arctic-on-dogsled-981.
2. Correne Coetzer, “ExWeb Interview with Sarah McNair-Landry: It Was Odd to Have to Worry about Finding Water,” ExplorersWeb, July 17, 2009, http://www.explorersweb.com/polar/news.php?id=18498.
3. Correne Coetzer, “Sarah McNair-Landry and Erik Boomer to Circumnavigate Baffin Island: ExWeb Interview,” ExplorersWeb, January 29, 2015, http://www.explorersweb.com/polar/news.php?url=circumnavigate-baffin-island_1422533388.
4. “Interview: ‘Polar Adventurer Sarah McNair-Landry,’ ” Euronews, last modified January 7, 2014, http://www.euronews.com/2014/07/01/interview-polar-adventurer-sarah-mcnair-landry.
5. Coetzer, “ExWeb Interview with Sarah.”
6. “Interview: Polar Adventurer Sarah.”
7. Ibid.
1. Wayne Coffey, “After Escaping Afghanistan following Father’s Execution, Sky Blue FC Star Nadia Nadim Has Finally Found Life after Death,” NY Daily News, April 11, 2015, http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/soccer/sky-blue-fc-star-nadia-nadim-finally-finds-life-death-article-1.2181510.
2. Ibid.
3. Howard Megdal, “Years after Fleeing the Taliban, a Player Hopes to Lift a U.S. Women’s League,” New York Times, April 8, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/sports/soccer/womens-soccer-league-star-is-happy-to-be-an-ambassador.html?_r=0.
4. Ibid.
5. Coffey, “After Escaping Afghanistan.”
6. “Nadia Nadim,” Timbers, accessed January 30, 2017, http://www.timbers.com/players/nadia-nadim.
7. ThornsFC.com Staff, “Blood, Sweat, and Roses: Thorns All Access—Nadia Nadim,” Timbers, September 27, 2016, http://www.timbers.com/post/2016/09/27/blood-sweat-and-roses-thorns-all-access-nadia-nadim.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. “2016 NWSL Attendance,” Soccer Stadium Digest, accessed January 30, 2017, http://soccerstadiumdigest.com/2016-nwsl-attendance/.
1. Marc Shapiro, Adele: The Biography (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012), 19.
2. Biography.com Editors, “Adele Biography,” Biography.com, last modified February 13, 2017, http://www.biography.com/people/adele-20694679.
3. Shapiro, Adele, 23.
4. Ibid., 24.
5. Ibid., 31.
6. Ibid., 32.
7. Ibid., 38.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., 82.
10. Chuck Arnold and Tiffany McGee, “Picks and Pans Review: Adele,” People 69, no. 24 (June 23, 2008): 19, http://www.people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-adele-vol-69-no-24/.
11. Sarah-Louise James, Adele: A Celebration of an Icon and Her Music (New York: Sterling, 2012), 157.
12. Ibid., 153.
13. Guinness World Records News, “Adele Scoops Triple World Record Success in New Guinness World Records 2012 Edition,” Guinness World Records, September 14, 2011, http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2011/9/adele-scoops-triple-world-record-success-in-new-guinness-world-records.
14. Liz Jones, “Adele: ‘I Have All the Say; I Have Power over Everything I Do,’ ” Daily Mail, February 13, 2009, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1135182/Adele-I-say-I-power-I-do.html.
15. Pink, “Adele: Singer,” The World’s 100 Most Influential People: 2012, Time, April 18, 2012, http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2111950,00.html.
1. Christopher Rosen, “Let’s Remember the First Time Harry and Ron Met Hermione,” Entertainment Weekly, July 23, 2015, http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/23/emma-watson-hermione-harry-potter. This scene is based on Emma’s adorable first screen test with Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe! She has incredible poise for a nine-year-old. She is Hermione, entirely.
2. Dale-Marie Bryan, Emma Watson (Mankato, MN: The Child’s World, 2013), 20.
3. Ibid., 8.
4. Rosen, “Let’s Remember the First.”
5. “Harry Potter,” Box Office Mojo, accessed January 14, 2017, http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=harrypotter.htm; Melissa Unger, “Top 10 Highest Grossing Movie Franchises Worldwide,” Screen Rant, July 25, 2015, http://screenrant.com/top-10-highest-grossing-movie-franchises-worldwide/.
6. “Emma Watson: Reviews from Philosopher Stone Era,” Emma-Watson.net, accessed October 7, 2016, http://emma-watson.net/emma/review_ps.php.
7. Ella Alexander, “All About Emma,” Vogue, June 15, 2011, http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/emma-watson-on-style-fashion-and-james-franco.
8. Laura Woods, “Harry Potter Cast Showdown: Emma Watson Net Worth Vs. Daniel Radcliffe Net Worth and More,” GOBankingRates.com, March 31, 2016, https://www.gobankingrates.com/personal-finance/harry-potter-cast-showdown-emma-watson-net-worth-vs-daniel-radcliffe-net-worth/.
9. Joanna Robinson, “Emma Watson on How Being Threatened for Speaking about Feminism Enraged and Motivated Her,” Vanity Fair, March 8, 2015, http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/03/emma-watson-feminism-threats-raging-heforshe.
10. Nadia Higgins, Emma Watson: From Wizards to Wallflowers, Pop Culture Bios (Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 2014), 19.
11. Ibid., 27.
1. Peter Foster, “Hou Yifan—Talented Chess Champion Next Door,” Chess News Blog, January 30, 2011, http://www.chessblog.com/2011/01/hou-yifan-talented-chess-champion-next.html.
2. Chess24 Staff, “Hou Yifan Takes On the Financial Markets,” Chess24, August 22, 2016, https://chess24.com/en/read/news/hou-yifan-takes-on-the-financial-markets.
3. Foster, “Hou Yifan—Talented Chess Champion.”
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. “Meet Yifan Hou—the Glamorous Women’s World Chess Champion Who Is Changing the Face of the Notoriously Nerdy Game,” Daily Mail, April 15, 2014, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2605502/Meet-Yifan-Hou-glamorous-Womens-World-Chess-Champion-changing-face-notoriously-nerdy-game.html.
7. Ibid.
8. Foster, “Hou Yifan—Talented Chess Champion.”
1. “Fame for Actress with Asperger [sic] Syndrome,” BBC Shropshire, last updated November 19, 2009, http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2008/09/16/aspergers_actress_feature.shtml.
2. Ibid.
3. Dresden Shumaker, “11 Famous People with Autism,” Babble, accessed January 14, 2017, https://www.babble.com/entertainment/famous-people-with-autism-2/.
4. Amelia Hill, “Mentally Disabled Actors Are Victims of Modern ‘Blacking-Up,’ Says Campaigner,” Observer, November 14, 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/nov/15/disabled-actors-television-campaign.
5. “Fame for Actress with Asperger.”
6. Chris Curtis, “BBC1/ITV1 Boosted by Xmas Dramas,” Broadcast, December 22, 2008, http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/multi-platform/news/bbc1/itv1-boosted-by-xmas-dramas/1955939.article.
7. Bernadette McNulty, “Dustbin Baby,” Telegraph, December 19, 2008, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3851819/Dustbin-Baby.html.
8. Elizabeth Wagmeister, “Able-Bodied Actors Play 95% of Disabled Characters in Top 10 TV Shows, Says New Study,” Variety, July 13, 2016, http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/disabled-actors-television-study-1201813686/.
9. Hill, “Mentally Disabled Actors.”
10. Ibid.
1. Bethany Mota, “First Video :) Mac and Sephora Haul,” YouTube video, 0:00–0:03, posted by Bethany Mota, June 12, 2009, https://youtu.be/h0wCoXVkjGA.
2. Ibid., 0:26–0:40.
3. Ibid,. 0:00–5:14. To get a feeling for how Bethany felt during her first-ever video, I watched it. It’s amazing to see Bethany at the start of her career—to see how far she’s come—but how endearing she was from the very beginning.
4. Marie Morreale, Bethany Mota, Real Bios (New York: Scholastic, 2016), 8.
5. Ibid., 10.
6. Ibid., 8.
7. Ibid., 9.
8. Ibid.,12.
9. Ibid., 19–20.
10. Ibid., 35.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., 23.
13. “Bethany Mota Meets Ellen,” YouTube video, 3:00, posted by “TheEllenShow,” April 7, 2015, https://youtu.be/y38QOASwSpc.
14. Clare O’Connor, “2014’s Most Googled Fashion Designer: YouTube Teen Bethany Mota Beats Kate Spade, Valentino,” Forbes, December 16, 2014, http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/12/16/2014s-most-googled-fashion-designer-youtube-teen-bethany-mota-beats-kate-spade-valentino/#c0993b.
15. Morreale, Bethany Mota, 27.
1. Lizzie Widdicombe, “Tavi Says: Fashion Dictates from a Fourteen-Year-Old,” New Yorker, September 20, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/tavi-says.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Laura Barcella, Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World (San Francisco: Zest Books, 2016), 190.
5. Nicole Dieker, “18 Things You Didn’t Know about Tavi Gevinson,” SparkLife (blog), SparkNotes, January 28, 2015, http://community.sparknotes.com/2015/01/28/18-things-you-didnt-know-about-tavi-gevinson.
6. Tavi Gevinson, “One Zero Zero,” Style Rookie (blog), September 24, 2008, http://www.thestylerookie.com/2008/09/one-zero-zero.html.
7. Barcella, Fight Like a Girl, 189.
8. Dieker, “18 Things You Didn’t Know.”
9. Tavi Gevinson, “Dreams,” Style Rookie (blog), December 18, 2008, http://www.thestylerookie.com/2008/12/dreams.html.
1. Tom Leonard, “Awesome Triumph: How the 4ft 8in Smiling Girl Who’s Set the Olympics Alight Overcame an Appalling Childhood,” Daily Mail, August 12, 2016, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3738356/Awesome-triumph-4ft-8in-smiling-girl-s-set-Olympics-alight-overcame-appalling-childhood.html. There’s no written account of exactly what was said during Simone’s first field trip to the gymnastics class, but she and her parents have talked about how she copied the routine of the girls she saw practicing there. And the teacher did send home a note begging Simone’s mother to sign her up for gymnastics classes, which she did. You can read about the event in many news articles, including this one.
2. Ibid.
3. Sam Escobar, “13 Fun Facts That Will Make You Love Simone Biles Even More,” Good Housekeeping, August 11, 2016, http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/inspirational-stories/news/g3779/who-is-simone-biles/.
4. Ibid.
5. Leonard, “Awesome Triumph.”
6. Alice Park, “Simone Biles Is Taking Her Sport to New Heights,” Time, July 28, 2016, http://time.com/4428013/simone-biles-gymnastics-usa/.
7. Leonard, “Awesome Triumph.”
8. Janice Rodden, “Having ADHD and Taking Medicine for It Is Nothing to Be Ashamed Of,” ADHD News Feed (blog), ADDitude, accessed October 12, 2016, http://www.additudemag.com/adhdblogs/19/12149.html.
9. “CDC Growth Charts: United States,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, accessed January 14, 2017, https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set2/chart-08.pdf.
10. “Inspiring Quotes from Female Olympic Athletes,” Ellevate, accessed October 12, 2016, https://www.ellevatenetwork.com/articles/7590-inspiring-quotes-from-female-olympic-athletes.
1. Christina Ng, “Malala Yousafzai Describes Moment She Was Shot Point-Blank by Taliban,” ABC News, October 5, 2013, http://abcnews.go.com/International/malala-yousafzai-describes-moment-shot-point-blank-taliban/story?id=20459542. Malala has given many accounts of the shooting, but this one is quite gripping.
2. Heidi Dore, “Girl Who Was Shot by Taliban Says ‘Going to School Is Very Precious,’ ” Daily Express, October 7, 2013, http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/434859/Girl-who-was-shot-by-Taliban-says-going-to-school-is-very-precious.
3. Sonia van Gilder Cooke, “Pakistani Heroine: How Malala Yousafzai Emerged from Anonymity,” Time, October 23, 2012, http://world.time.com/2012/10/23/pakistani-heroine-how-malala-yousafzai-emerged-from-anonymity/.
4. Dinah Brown, Who Is Malala Yousafzai? Who Was . . . ? (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 2015), 65.
5. “Girls’ Education,” Malala Fund, accessed November 23, 2016, https://www.malala.org/girls-education; Ewan Watt, “10 Reasons Why Children Don’t Go to School,” Theirworld, November 26, 2014, http://www.theirworld.org/news/10-reasons-why-children-don-8217-t-go-to-school; Ash, “10 Nations that Don’t Allow Girls to Go School,” Tour de STFU (blog), accessed November 23, 2016, http://www.tourdestfu.com/2016/02/10-nations-that-dont-allow-girls-to-go.html.
6. “Malala Yousafzai’s Speech at the Youth Takeover of the United Nations,” Theirworld, accessed October 23, 2016, https://theirworld.org/explainers/malala-yousafzais-speech-at-the-youth-takeover-of-the-united-nations.
7. Alexandra Topping, “Malala Yousafzai Accepts Nobel Peace Prize with Attack on Arms Spending,” Guardian, December 10, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/10/malala-yousafzia-nobel-peace-prize-attack.
1. Steve Irwin, “Trapping Crocodiles,” The Crocodile Hunter, accessed September 29, 2016, http://www.crocodilehunter.com.au/crocodile_hunter/trapping.html.
2. Amy Breguet, Steve and Bindi Irwin, Conservation Heroes (New York: Chelsea House, 2011), 9.
3. Tammy Gagne, Bindi Sue Irwin, Randy’s Corner: Day by Day with . . . (Hockessin, DE: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2013), 13.
4. Dennis Passa, “Irwin Remembered for His ‘Zest for Life,’ ” Washington Post, September 19, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091900695.html.
5. Gagne, Bindi Sue Irwin, 20.
6. “Bindi Tops TV Poll,” Sydney Morning Herald, December 18, 2006, http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/bindi-tops-tv-poll/2006/12/18/1166290447686.html.
7. Breguet, Steve and Bindi Irwin, 75.
1. Jevon Phillips, “Hunger Games’ Star on Columbiana and Life on the Set,” Los Angeles Times blog, September 23, 2011, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/09/hunger-games-colombiana-amandla-stenberg-connection.html.
2. Todd Brown, “Columbiana Review,” ScreenAnarchy (blog), August 5, 2011, http://screenanarchy.com/2011/08/colombiana-review.html.
3. Karen Springen, “Hungry for More about the Hunger Games? A Q&A with Amandla Stenberg (aka Rue),” Publishers Weekly, January 19, 2012, http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/50236-hungry-for-more-about-the-hunger-games-a-q-a-with-amandla-stenberg-aka-rue.html.
4. “Biography,” Amandla Stenberg, accessed October 27, 2016, www.amandlastenberg.com/biography.html.
5. “The Hunger Games,” Box Office Mojo, last modified September 15, 2016, http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?view=main&id=hungergames.htm&p=.htm.
6. Solange Knowles, “How Our February Cover Star Amandla Stenberg Learned to Love Her Blackness,” Teen Vogue, January 7, 2016, http://www.teenvogue.com/story/amandla-stenberg-interview-teen-vogue-february-2016.
7. Ibid.
8. “Amandla Stenberg and Gloria Steinem Talk Feminism,” YouTube video, 4:23, August 10, 2016, posted by “Teen Vogue,” https://youtu.be/SnMfnKT8Rvg.
9. Lotte Jeffs, “Cover Star Amandla Stenberg Is Born to Rule,” Elle UK, August 10, 2016, http://www.elleuk.com/life-and-culture/culture/longform/a31407/coverstar-amandla-stenberg-speaks-out-on-race-gender-and-sexuality/.
10. Caroline Ryder, “Amandla Stenberg: The New Agenda,” Dazed, Autumn 2015, http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/25798/1/amandla-stenberg-the-new-agenda.
11. “The 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015,” Time, October 27, 2015, http://time.com/4081618/most-influential-teens-2015/; “The 30 Most Influential Teens of 2016,” Time magazine website, October 19, 2016, http://time.com/4532104/most-influential-teens-2016/.
12. Knowles, “How Our February.”
1. “Chloe Kim’s Historic Perfect Score - U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix 2016,” 0:59, February 6, 2016, posted by “USSANetwork,” https://youtu.be/BjJlFpwhERM.
2. Ibid., 1:00.
3. Ibid., 1:10.
4. Ibid., 1:23.
5. Audrey Cleo Yap, “16-Year-Old Snowboarding Champion Chloe Kim Is Just a Regular Teenager,” NBC News, May 23, 2016, http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/16-year-old-snowboarding-champion-chloe-kim-just-normal-teenager-n575411.
6. “Chloe Kim,” XGames, accessed August 30, 2016, http://xgames.espn.com/xgames/athletes/3088782/chloe-kim.
7. “Chloe Kim’s Back to Back 1080s: U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix 2016 Park City,” TransWorld SNOWboarding, February 8, 2016, http://snowboarding.transworld.net/videos/chloe-kims-back-to-back-1080s-u-s-snowboarding-grand-prix-2016-park-city/#z7R6h0hGO2OJCfTb.99.
8. “Snowboarding Athletes: Chloe Kim,” US Snowboarding, accessed August 30, 2016, http://ussnowboarding.com/athletes/chloe-kim.
9. Yap, “16-Year-Old Snowboarding.”
1. Jazz Jennings, Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen (New York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 2016), 24–25.
2. Ibid., 1.
3. Jamie Tabberer, “15 Things You Need to Know about Trans Teen Trailblazer Jazz Jennings,” GayStarNews, November 19, 2015, http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/15-things-you-need-to-know-about-trans-teen-trailblazer-jazz-jennings/#gs.L0Gz0o8.
4. James Poniewozik, “Review: An Extraordinary, Ordinary Girlhood in TLC’s I Am Jazz,” Time, July 15, 2015, http://time.com/3957689/review-i-am-jazz-tlc-transgender/.
5. Paul J. Weber, “What’s at Stake in the Latest Legal Battle over Bathroom Rights for Transgender Students,” Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2016, http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-transgender-issues-20160813-snap-story.html.
6. Jennings, Being Jazz, 6.
7. Ibid., 138.
8. Weber, “What’s at Stake.”
9. Jennings, Being Jazz, 138.
10. “Transgender Youth at Risk for Depression, Suicide,” Harvard School of Public Health, accessed November 23, 2016, https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/transgender-youth-at-risk-for-depression-suicide/.
11. Jennings, Being Jazz, 117–118.
12. Tabberer, “15 Things You Need to Know.”
13. Jennings, Being Jazz, 122.
14. Poniewozik, “Review: An Extraordinary.”
1. I had to imagine this scene of Ashima’s first climb, as there are no detailed accounts. But I started rock climbing when I was a young girl, like Ashima, so I drew on my own memories of early climbs and imagined what it might have been like to climb in Central Park!
2. Joanna Walters, “Reaching New Heights: Girl Ascends to Rock-Climbing Royalty—at Only 13,” Guardian, March 22, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/22/rock-climbing-ashima-shiraishi-breaking-record-spain.
3. Elizabeth Weil, “Ashima’s Most Daring Climb,” ESPN, November 11, 2015, http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/14098651/ashima-shiraishi-become-best-female-climber-world-just-14.
4. Megan Michelson, “A Conversation with Two of the Most Powerful Teens in Climbing,” Outside, March 15, 2016, http://www.outsideonline.com/2061271/conversation-two-most-powerful-teens-climbing.
5. Ibid.
6. Mandy Oaklander, “This 15-Year-Old Girl Could Be the Best Rock Climber Ever,” Time, June 3, 2016, http://time.com/4352618/ashima-shiraishi-next-generation-leaders/.
7. Andrew Bisharat, “14 Year Old Achieves Hardest Boulder Climb Ever Done by a Woman,” Beyond the Edge (blog), March 22, 2016, http://adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/22/14-year-old-ashima-shiraishi-climbs-hardest-boulder-problem-ever-done-by-a-woman/.
8. Ibid.