Across
- 3. Illinois senator; first woman with a disability to be elected to Congress
- 7. Survivor and gun control activist from the Parkland school shooting in 2018
- 9. “Pay It No Mind”
- 10. The world’s first novel, authored by a woman named Murasaki Shikibu
- 11. First Muslim woman to represent the US at the Olympics
- 16. First US President to declare a national women’s history event
- 18. Black lesbian blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance
- 19. First Latina Supreme Court Justice appointed by Obama in 2009
- 20. Transgender activist from Stonewall that advocated for Gay Liberation
- 21. “The master’s tools will not dismantle the master’s house.”
- 24. First woman US Vice President (and first woman of color)
- 25. Only woman to ever win two Nobel Prizes
- 26. First women in space (and also gay)
- 27. First openly transgender MMA athlete
- 28. First Black female (and queer) author to have a play performed on Broadway in 1959
Down
- 1. What month is WHM?
- 2. Black mathematician who successfully launched John Glenn into orbit in 1962
- 4. First state to grant women the right to vote
- 5. True or False: the 19th Amendment granted ALL women the right to vote
- 6. Only female pharaoh in recorded history
- 8. Queer Latina icon that changed the field of art through surrealist self-portraits
- 12. Incident that created the infamous “bra-burning feminists” rumor
- 13. First woman in professional baseball, who struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
- 14. Swedish youth and environmental activist that has challenged world leaders into taking action towards climate change
- 15. Hollywood’s first ever Asian American movies star
- 17. The Poetess
- 18. Performer-turned-spy that was vital to the Allies in WWII
- 20. Second woman to serve on the Supreme Court after Sandra Day O’Connor
- 22. Marxist Black Power queer revolutionary that made waves in feminist discourse
- 23. First women inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame