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Badass Women You Should Know- Monday- 2nd period

"Good morning, everybody," Brooke greeted the students once class had started. "My name's Brooke Davis, and this is Badass Women You Should Know. History is filled with women who did awesome things or created some of the stuff that makes up the way life is today, and we don't hear enough about them. We'll be focusing on history from around the world here, by the way. Like Earth, current day 2018. I'm kind of new to teaching and I'm going to be learning as I go with this, I don't know if I can find out about a ruler from another world on Wikipedia. But if there's someone from your neck of the woods who should be covered, talk to me and maybe we can work out an extra credit thing.

"So!" she went on. "We're starting easy today, with introductions before you're sick of them. I want your name and where you're from, and someone who inspires you, even if it's like your mom. And if you have a woman that you definitely want to see covered in this class, name her. Let's start with you."

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Like a strong female character.

Vette

Astrid Magnussen

Lana Beniko

Gratuity Tucci

Paris Geller

Jughead Jones

Uma

Brooke sorta knows what she's doing this time! Ish!

Oh, this class looked like it was going to be right up Vette's alley. She grinned as she listened to the lecture, and then got to wondering who she'd even use as a role model, here.

Astrid was pretty sure she was going to like a lot of the topics of this class, but she was trying not to feel too worried about the fact that the teacher straight up acknowledged the whole 'let's everyone pretend its apparently 2018' thing that she had pretty effectively been avoiding since she started noticing it on all the calendars.

Whatever. She could keep ignoring it and focus on the good stuff, and that was hopefully learning about some new and interesting people and their history.

Paris was all in on this class. She'd even brought books of women that she felt Brooke should know about, you know, just in case.

Jughead couldn't help eyeing the books. Okay, maybe side-eyeing them.

He wasn't really surprised, though.

"Would you like to borrow a few?" Paris asked.

"What are they, anyway?"

Jughead was kind of a nerd, sure, but even he wouldn't actually bring his own books to class.

"I've got Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, volumes 1 and 2, which is a good primer for biographies of interesting women," Paris said. "It's only a one-page story but it covers a lot of women from various time periods and parts of the world. I also have Women in Science, which has some overlap, but not entirely. I also have Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Katherine Graham's autobiographies and I am Malala, but really who doesn't, right?"

"Uh, right," said Jughead, who definitely didn't. "You don't think Ms. Davis probably has books of her own, though?"

Uma had been idly thinking about asking about the reign of Ursula the Sea-Witch, just because she wanted to know more about her own heritage. But then Brooke had mentioned mothers under the heading of 'people who inspired you' and - no. Just no.

Name, where you're from, and someone who inspires you. And anyone you want covered in class.

"I'm Vette," Vette said, looking and sounding maybe still a little bemused about this whole 'actually in a classroom' thing. "I've been hanging around Nar Shaddaa a lot these days, and as for someone who inspires me?"

She tilted her head, considering. Risha? Her mother?

"One of my friends back home, Taunt. She's unstoppable. Confident. Brave. Has no qualms about doing what needs to be done as she sees it. She's the kind of person I kind of wish I was."

"I kind of feel like that's the kind of person most of us wish we could be," Brooke admitted.

And Taunt was gorgeous, to boot. Vette was kind of jealous of her, all told, though she'd never say so out loud.

"Something to aim for, I guess," she said, a little wryly. "We should all be so lucky."

"Sure. But that there's ever a thing wrong with who you actually are," she added. Being inspiring!

So inspiring! Vette smiled a little at that.

"That's sweet," she decided. "But nothing wrong with setting some goals for self-improvement either, right?"

Ugh, the first week of classes was the worst. Something about introductions just reminded Astrid how much she hated talking about herself or really talking much in front of anyone. Sometimes, she forgot that she hated it, but introductions just brought it front page and center.

"My name's Astrid," she offered, once her turn came around, once she decided on who exactly to say as her inspiration, "and I'm from California. Los Angeles." For the, like, three people who might actually know what that is, which was still wild to her that it was practically a foreign land to most people around here. "I'd say one of my biggest inspirations is Caravaggio, he's an Italian master, and he basically revolutionized chiaroscuro, the way you use light and darkness in art."

She bit her lip slightly; what kind of fourteen year old just started spitting about Caravaggio and chiaroscuro like it was something out of a Seventeen magazine? But she wasn't going to let herself get awkward about it.

"I mean, but that's not a woman," Ms. Davis didn't say it had to be a woman, "but for inspirational artists who are women, I'd have to go with Frida Kahlo, she's brilliant and I love her, even if her style really isn't mine. There's so many stories in there, and Georgia O'Keeffe is amazing as well, especially if you want to get into the importance of the emergence of the feminine voice in American modernism."

Astrid. Stop.

Brooke's eyebrows kept going farther up until Astrid finished talking.

"You're smarter than me. Good for you," she said appreciatively.

Since Brooke herself didn't feel smart most of the time, it was cool when someone could just go with the stuff they did know like that.

...were teachers not supposed to tell the kids they were smarter?

"Not really," Astrid shrugged the comment off dismissively, though that Magnussen pompousness was definitely thinking that yes, yes she was. "I've just been to a lot of museums."

"I'm Gratuity Tucci," Tip said. "Aka Tip. I'm from Pennsylvania, which is on Earth, so that's handy, I guess? Um, as for people who inspire me . . . a lot of people I've met have been really dumb. But there was this one guy -- which doesn't really fit the class theme, but at least he wasn't a white guy, so it's not like we'd've learned about him in normal history classes either. Anyway, his name was Chief Shouting Bear. Or that's what the people in Roswell called him because he tended to communicate with racist white people only through shouting."

God, but the Chief had been bad ass. Tip was looking forward to being so old that she didn't need to give a shit about what anyone thought of her anymore.

"Like the internet?"

Brooke wasn't actually from 2018, exactly, but she definitely got the yelling at racists.

"Only without all the anonymity. He straight up just shouted in their faces." Tip grinned. "It was beautiful."

"Lana Beniko, from Dromund Kaas mostly but Korriban lately," Lana said, nodding to the class. "I don't know any of your local influential women." She pondered. "Or any powerful women I should like to say inspire me. Darth Nyriss was on the Council for decades, which is admirable, and her power is to be envied, but she did try to topple the Emperor, after all."

...Brooke was in over her head.

"I'm gonna admit, I don't know half of what that means in context," she said. "I guess we'll all learn from each other, right?"

What the hell was a Darth.

"Very likely," Lana agreed. "In context, I suppose...she was a very powerful and canny Sith, and accomplished quite a bit, but I hesitate to mention her as something to aspire to; she was a trifle overambitious."

"How overambitious is a trifle?"

Brooke was going to regret asking that, probably.

"She tried to do away with the Emperor," Lana pointed out. "He's ruled the Sith for over a thousand years and is far more powerful than any other."

"I'm Paris Geller, and I'm from Hartford, Connecticut," Paris said. "Like a normal person. And I'm inspired by a lot of people: Ruth Bader Ginsberg in the Supreme Court, and Hillary Clinton who was robbed from being President, for just a few in the field of law. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to be awarded an MD in the United States, so she's a heroine of mine, too. And Malala Yousafzai, who's our age and has already won a Nobel Prize, so clearly we're all slackers."

Paris...wouldn't strike anyone as a slacker. "I've written up brief reports about all four, if you'd be interested," she added.

And suddenly Brooke realized that she might've made a terrible mistake in teaching. At least when she didn't sign up on purpose no one really expected anything of her.

"A couple of those are on my list, so how about you keep them til we get to them and can turn them in then?"

Oh no, those would be bad class days.

"I can give them some more polishing," Paris agreed, nodding.

Jughead was... definitely the only guy taking this class, wasn't he? Okay then. He was okay with it.

(If he appeared awkward all the same, that was just how he was.)

"Uh, Jughead," he said. "Jones. I'm from Riverdale, which... no one here knows where it is, so, whatever." He hated introductions. "Stanley Kubrick inspires me --" Wait, should it have been a woman, too? "-- and for someone this class should cover, I don't know... Hedy Lamarr, maybe?"

"I'm Uma," she said shortly. "From the Isle of the Lost, a prison colony in Auradon."

Just to get that out of the way.

"As for someone I admire..." Uma had to think long and hard about this one. No one was really springing to mind. "Tinkerbell, I guess? She tried to drown Wendy but somehow managed to still get counted as one of the heroes. That's baller."

Ms. Davis if you're nasty.

Hoping I don't train today so I can do my actual work/not work and play instead.

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