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The Periodic Table of Brilliant Women and Girls features 101 amazing, inspiring women and girls with lots of surprising stories and hidden history.

Following our successful Kickstarter campaign the poster and booklet are available on our website.

09/12/2022

So many people dedicate their lives to justice, freedom, human rights and equity. We don’t often see them together but Lizzo spread the spotlight so we could get a glimpse of collective impact and shared endeavour.

09/10/2022

The is really fun and inspiring. It’s so good to be in a big space filled with femmepowering ideas, projects, activities and workshops.
And sharing some of stories from The Periodic Table of Brilliant Women & Girls with amazing girls!

08/10/2022

We are super excited to be taking part in the Festival of the Girl tomorrow!

We will be giving an inspirational talk and chat session at 11am and at 2pm, and sharing some of the stories of the 101 Brilliant Women and Girls in our Periodic Table.

Looking forward to meeting lots and lots of brilliant girls there!

08/03/2022

Wishing all you brilliant women and girls out there a wonderful International Womens Day.

We are very inspired in these multiple-troubled times by the wisdom and guidance of Professor Wangari Maathai.

Here is the story she told of the hummingbird - a medicine for when you are feeling hopeless - 'but what can I do, what can we do?'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHtFM1XEXas

Professor Wangari Maathai espoused the idea of the Power of One—that every one of us can make a difference and collectively, we are a force. “It doesn’t take a lot of people for real change to happen. At a time when so much seems to be going wrong, it is very easy to get overwhelmed. You don’t need an “army” of people. Each of us can be agents of change.”

Text and image From https://wangarimaathai.org

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20/12/2021

“Greta has achieved things that many of us who have been working on it for 20-odd years have failed to achieve, and that is she has aroused the world”. David Attenborough

Greta Thunberg (2003-) is a 17-year-old Swedish climate activist who rose to fame in 2018 after regularly skipping school to sit outside the Swedish Parliament Building in protest at the world’s lack of action in combating the threat of climate change.

Her actions inspired young students from around the world to do the same, peaking in September, 2019, when up to 4 million children from 125 countries took part in simultaneous school strikes.

She has since met with Prime Ministers and Presidents across the globe and in her speech at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit in New York, famously told them “This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!"

Greta has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and was voted Time Magazine's youngest ever Person of the Year in 2019.

You can find the stories of another 100 inspiring Women and Girls in the booklet that accompanies our Periodic Table poster - available now with free UK shipping, from https://brilliantwomen.world/

17/12/2021

“I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of many girls.”

Malala Yousufzai (1997-) is a 23-year-old Pakistani activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 while still at school - the youngest person ever to win a Nobel award. An advocate for the schooling of Pakistani women and children, who have often been denied an education in her country, Malala survived an attempt on her life in 2012 (she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman) to rise to prominence and inspire a generation of girls.

She went on to study at Oxford University, graduating in 2020 with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and helped set up a charity, The Malala Fund, which aims to get 130 million girls from around the world into education.

To date, the charity has invested £22m to this cause. She has written two books, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban and We Are Displaced: True Stories of Refugee Lives.

You can find the stories of another 100 inspiring Women and Girls in the booklet that accompanies our Periodic Table poster - available now with free UK shipping, from https://brilliantwomen.world/

15/12/2021

“The global south is not on the front page, but it is on the front line.”

Vanessa Nakate (1996-) is a young Ugandan climate activist who recently founded two climate action groups, Youth for Africa and The Rise Up Movement, after realising that Africa would be worst hit by climate change, despite it having the lowest carbon emissions of any continent on earth.

Vanessa has caused a big stir in a short amount of time, and she told world leaders at the 2020 International Peace Lecture to “wake up!” to the impending African crisis. “Leave your comfort zones and see the danger we are in and do something about it.” She said. “This is a matter of life and death.” She has also started up the Green Schools Project in her country, an initiative to transform Ugandan schools so that they may run entirely on solar energy.

You can find the stories of another 100 inspiring Women and Girls in the booklet that accompanies our Periodic Table poster - available now with free UK shipping, from https://brilliantwomen.world/

13/12/2021

“Then you come to a point where you say, I can’t be frustrated with an unjust system if I’m not contributing in any way.”

Heidy Quah (1994-) is a young Malaysian human-rights campaigner who, in 2012, aged just 18, set up Refuge For Refugees, a non-government organisation that provides education for refugee children. There are currently an estimated 180,000 refugees living in Malaysia, most of whom have escaped persecution from neighbouring Myanmar.

“Meeting them showed me how privileged I was in having a roof over my head, not worrying about my next meal or being able to walk out of my house safely,” she said. “I carried so much shame and guilt at my own privilege. But then I reframed that and thought, what am I doing with my privilege? Instead of stewing in guilt, how could I channel it positively?”

To date, her organisation has helped set up 35 schools and 2 halfway houses in her country. In 2017, she received a Queen’s Young Leader Award at Buckingham Palace.

You can find the stories of another 100 inspiring Women and Girls in the booklet that accompanies our Periodic Table poster - available now with free UK shipping, from https://brilliantwomen.world/

10/12/2021

"I was born in what doctors proclaim is a boy's body. I had no choice in the assignment of my s*x at birth.... My ge***al reconstructive surgery did not make me a girl. I was always a girl."

Janet Mock (1983-) is an American transgender rights activist whose autobiography, Defining Realness, made her an icon for the transgender movement and brought their struggles to a mainstream audience.

She was speaker at the 2017 Women’s March on Washington where millions of people came to show their support for women’s rights, and she has also written and directed several episodes of the US television series, Pose, which tells the story of New York’s LGBT community of the 1980s.

You can find the stories of another 100 inspiring Women and Girls in the booklet that accompanies our Periodic Table poster - available now with free UK shipping, from https://brilliantwomen.world/

08/12/2021

“For us, life is inseparable from nature.”

Sônia Guajajara (1974-) is an indigenous Brazilian activist who is currently the head of the Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, which represents and supports over 300 indigenous ethnic groups in her country.

In 2018 she became the first indigenous person to run for Brazilian federal office and, although she was unsuccessful, she has since stepped up her campaigning for environmental change, stating, “When you destroy nature and foreclose the indigenous peoples’ way of life, preventing them from exercising their culture, you are killing them. If we do not follow our culture, our tradition, we are no longer people.”

You can find the stories of another 100 inspiring Women and Girls in the booklet that accompanies our Periodic Table poster - available now with free UK shipping, from https://brilliantwomen.world/

06/12/2021

“When one person says, 'Yeah, me, too,' it gives permission for others to open up.”

Tarana Burke (1973-) is an African-American civil rights campaigner who, in 2006, started the 'Me Too' movement to encourage women and girls who have been abused by men to speak up about their ordeals. The movement gained widespread international support in 2017 following well-publicised Hollywood abuse scandals.

However, Tarana has actually been an activist for over 30 years and she is currently the director of Girls for Gender Equity, an organisation that empowers women and girls to live safe and successful lives.

You can find the stories of another 100 inspiring Women and Girls in the booklet that accompanies our Periodic Table poster - available now with free UK shipping, from https://brilliantwomen.world/

03/12/2021

“My to do list for today: Count my blessings. Practice kindness. Be productive yet calm. Let go of what I can't control. Just breathe. Tell my family how much I love them. Make a difference in someone’s life.”

Polly Higgins (1968-2019) was a British barrister and environmental campaigner who dedicated a major part of her life to trying to persuade the United Nations to make ecocide - unlawful human activity that violates the principles of environmental justice - an international crime.

“The earth is in need of a good lawyer,” she said in 2009, before taking on that very role. She wrote four books, including I Dare You To Be Great in 2014, but died in 2019 following a short illness. Other environmental campaigners have since taken on her crusade and hope remains that her law will eventually be passed.

You can find the stories of another 100 inspiring Women and Girls in the booklet that accompanies our Periodic Table poster - available now with free UK shipping, from https://brilliantwomen.world/

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