Bright young women
It’s the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. Yeah, a lot has happened in those 100 years — the right to vote, the right to stand for election, the right to choose, the right not to be treated like some Sterling Cooper secretary, but it’s not enough. If you haven’t seen the excellent Dame Judy Dench-Daniel Craig video, take a look:
But you don’t have to be James Bond to make a point about equal rights. Here are some of our girl heroes doing their thing and being awesome:
1. Watoto from the Nile — A trio of sisters who were sick of Lil Wayne having such disrespect for women. So they wrote a song asking Lil Wayne why he think it’s OK to say what he says.
10-year old Solveig is the new star of street art. She paints bright, playful graffiti murals in and around her native Brighton and has started an all-girl crew called, appropriately AGC (it’s made up of Solveig, her younger sister, two girls who live on her street and a new friend who just moved to the U.K. from China). 
