I haven’t read a lot of these, but I recently read two that I thought were fantastic. Penelope Bagieu’s Brazen is a series of graphic vignettes of women both famous and obscure: a bearded lady, an Afghani hip-hop artist, the first openly trans woman in the US. There was diversity here and a recognition that heroism…

So much this. I make a point of reading books with strong female characters to my sons. It’s provided a lot of opportunities for them not only to see what women are capable of, but also to understand what barriers they face that men do not, how often women were told they can’t do something because of their gender,…