"Black women ain't never goin' to fly..." “Black women ain’t never goin’ to fly”, Bessie Coleman’s brother told her in 1919, whilst mocking her about her job in a nail salon in Chicago. Her brother John had served in the army during World War I in France, and often spoke of the fearless women he met there who were “so liberated, they could even fly planes.” In that moment, Bessie decided she would prove him wrong. She applied for pilot lessons across America, but no one was w

"I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions." Over the years I've done a huge amount of research on women explorers and explorers in general. Although things are changing, the world of adventure and exploration is still largely dominated by the same white male figures. We see them in books and on our TVs, and I stared this project to try in some small way to break that cycle. One