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...that Francesca Caccini's (pictured) La liberazione di Ruggiero, which premiered in 1625, was the first opera written by a woman?
...that Winnie Winkle by Martin Branner was, in 1920, the first American comic strip to have a working woman as the main character?
... that transwoman actor Judiel Nieva was once sought out as a healer and visionary?

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