this was no chicken. this was evil manifest.

I cried "corn beef" in a demonic voice in front of people I'd just met. If that tells you anything about me...
Other than that, the name is Nabilah Johari who goes by her days embarrassing friends with her shameless antics.

hardcore, thanks for asking.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:54 PM

Did you know wikipedia has a section just for female wartime crossdressers?

There is, of course, Joan of Arc, the illiterate peasant girl in donated scraps of knight's armor who reversed the tide of the Hundred Years' War. She fought with ARROW WOUNDS IN HER NECK and "withstood a blow from a stone cannonball to her helmet as she climbed a scaling ladder." When captured, her escape attempts included JUMPING FROM A 70 FOOT TOWER. Eventually she was tried and burned at the stake at nineteen (nineteen!!), and was such a goddamn badass motherfucker that, just to be sure, they burned her ashes again.

(I figure even if she wasn't a battle Amazon (which I do like to believe -- you can't disprove it!) she was still an illiterate crossdressing peasant who made herself a place in history at the age when the most of us were passing notes in class. XD Have you read about her trial? FUCKING AMAZING. She was so sharp she totally stumped all her interrogators. I can't believe she accomplished so much by nineteen. Nineteen. I'M EIGHTEEN AND FIVE MONTHS. In my entire life I will never be as incredible as she was by this age.)

Carin du Rietz ran away from home three times and disguised herself as a man to join the royal guard. She was eventually hit on so much by women and men that she revealed herself to the king, who lol'ed and gave her a husband.

Elisa Bernerström was a maid who married a soldier, and joined his regiment under a male name "as she had decided to live and to die with her husband." She kept fighting even after he was killed in action, only stopping when they discovered her true identity and fired her -- and then she learned her husband wasn't killed at all, just captured. They reunited when he was released from prison. Awww!

Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar was one of six daughters left in poverty after her father died. Instead of marrying, she stole a horse and enlisted in the army. She eventually found love with a maid, Maria Lonnman, and though tried in court for her deeeeviant homosexuality, the judges gave her just eight days in prison because her love was "of the purest, most spiritual kind, a union of virtue." Yay historical femslash!

Deborah Sampson joined the Continental Army in 1782 and took two musket balls to the thigh during battle. She refused hospital treatment, fearing exposure, and removed them herself using a penknife and sewing needle. (Holy shit.) She was eventually discovered, but GEORGE WASHINGTON honorably discharged her from service, and post-war she had her good buddy PAUL REVERE petition on her behalf to get soldier's pension. He succeeded. She was the first woman to receive it.

Sri Suriyothai was a Thai queen who donned men's clothes and followed her husband into battle. ON A WAR ELEPHANT.

Kawashima Yoshiko was a crossdressing princess who became a Japanese spy, executed as a traitor and now living on in television adapations portrayed by Kuroki Meisa. Her adopted father is said to have been an espionage agent and mercenary adventurer. Aw, the family business.

Pauline Cushman was an American actress and spy for the Union Army who concealed battle plans in her shoes. XD I just-- I thought that was awesome.

Catalina de Erauso fled from a nunnery to dress in men's clothes and become a soldier. Her nickname was "The Nun Lieutenant" and she was granted special dispensation from the Pope to dress in drag. AWESOME.

Mollie Monroe is my favorite: she was a teenager in the Old West who disguised herself as a man and ran away from home to search for her boyfriend. When she discovered him murdered, she hunted for his killers. When she couldn't find them, she turned her attention to the needy: helping prostitutes, pistolwhipping through the pussies of the army, and tracking down deadbeat dads (She then led him out of the bar, tied him to her horse and dragged him all the way back to his house, staying overnight to make sure he wouldn't leave the house again.) Battling alcoholism and gambling addiction, she was thrown in an insane asylum. So she did what any woman would do: tried to burn the motherfucker down. She was sent to jail, then another asylum. Which she escaped. During all these crossdressing, hard-drinking bandit-thwarting vigilante hunts, she found time to get married and open a resort.

Best part? Mollie Monroe was despised by most of Prescott's high society women, for what they viewed as "manly manners" and, as a popular publication of the time said, "morals that are dissolute".

HA!

There's also Nadezhda Durova, who fought in Russian army since 1806 till 1816, made an outstanding career, got more or less accepted by public in this quality and published a pretty interesting memoirs about it. The woman so hardcore she frightened her own family, whose childhood toys were guns and sabers. Awesome.

Their badassery is crazy.

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