Last chance to help fund series on history's most defiant women

Rob Beschizza 12:27 pm Tue Apr 5, 2016

♫ Defiant Women in 30 Seconds: Ada Lovelace by Teddy Dief ♫

♫ Defiant Women in 30 Seconds: Ada Lovelace by Teddy Dief ♫ Watch this video on YouTube. With a couple of days left, Feminist Frequency is about to hit their…

With a couple of days left, Feminist Frequency is about to hit their funding goal for Ordinary Women, a lavishly animated series about women who dared defy their times–and who history hasn't given their dues. Below is the complete set of preview videos for Ida Wells, Ching Shih, Emma Goldman, Murasaki Shikibu and Ada Lovelace; go help push them over the line at Seed & Spark.

Ida B. Wells (by Sammus)

♫ Defiant Women in 30 Seconds: Ida B. Wells Keeping it Real by S▲MMUS ♫

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Ada Lovelace (by Teddy Dief)

♫ Defiant Women in 30 Seconds: Ada Lovelace by Teddy Dief ♫

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Ching Shih (by Jonathan Mann)

♫ Defiant Women in 30 Seconds: Ching Shih by Jonathan Mann ♫

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Emma Goldman (by The Doubleclicks)

♫ Defiant Women in 30 Seconds: Dangerous Emma by The Doubleclicks ♫

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Murasaki Shikibu (by Clara Bizne$$)

♫ Defiant Women in 30 Seconds: Murasaki Shikibu by Clara Bizna$$ ♫

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The creators of the series are Anita Sarkeesian (of Tropes vs. Women in Video Games fame), Laura Hudson (recently of Boing Boing and Offworld) and Elizabeth Aultman (producer of Yosemite)

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