In November 2022, Mahsa Amani’s death sparked revolution by women in Iran (women life freedom in english + farsi).

Beyonce talks about her struggles giving birth to her first child, Blue Ivy Carter.

In 1978, Louise Brown is the first successful birth resulting from In vitro fertilization.

In 1945, Henrietta Lacks, a poor Black tobacco farmer, passed of cancer. Her cell tissues were harvested against her will. In the scientific community, she's known as the HeLa human cell line.

After graduating from Boston City Hospital in 1927, Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail works as a nurse at the Indian Hospital on the reservation. She raises objections to the abuse Crow patients receive from white doctors, including frequent sterilization of Crow women without their knowledge.

In 1892, after three of Ida B Well’s friends were lynched, she dedicated her life to exposing the truth about lynching. Using the Black community newspaper, The Free Speech, she investigated every lynching she heard about.

From 1845 to 1849, Dr. James Marion Sims named the "father of modern gynecology” purchased and used enslaved African women for gynecological research experiments.

Sakina (SA) was a young child at Karbala who witnessed unimaginable violence and the massacre of her father Imam Husayn (AS).

Bibi Zainab fought in the battle of Karbala alongside her brother Imam Hussein (AS). When she was captured by Yazid's army, she trusted her own moral agency. Guided by Allah (swt) she spoke out against their leaders and condemned the oppression and injustice they had inflicted upon the people.

A Christian monk prophesied that he would find the corpse of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) grandson. He saw Yazid's army with the head of Imam Hussein (AS) and offered his life savings in exchange for one night with the head, in order to clean it and offer prayers. The next day, he returned the head to the army along with the promised money. When the soldiers opened the bag of money, it had all turned to ash. This story teaches us about the sacred inviolability of the body.

Sumayyah bint Khayyat was a Black Ethiopian woman who was tortured and killed by Abu Jahl making her the first martyr for Islam. The first instance of gendered Islamophobia, a Muslim woman’s body being targeted with violence because of her faith.

Daughter of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.), born in 605 CE to Khadijah bint Khuwaylid.

A Coptic Egyptian woman who birthed a son by the Prophet (s.a.w.) who died 2 years later.

Her marriage marked the Prophet’s (PBUH) first visit to Makkah after Hijra.

She converted to Islam from Judaism and married the Prophet (PBUH).

A divorcee from Abyssinia, modern day Ethiopia.

The ex-wife of Prophet’s (PBUH) adopted son Zayd. Zayd (RA) and Zaynab (RA) divorced due to incompatibility.

She was raised Jewish and was held captive after war. The Prophet (PBUH) married her as a pathway out of captivity.

A widow who provided political consultations to the Prophet (PBUH)

She married the Prophet (PBUH) for political assurances to widows from war and beyond Quraysh tribe.