Here's for some major female empowerment.
Women have done some rad stuff in history; much of which has been underreported or long forgotten. We've done our homework though and found many a local female badass in our city's backstory. Take a look at some of the coolest women to leave their mark on San Francisco history.
Juana Briones
Juana Briones y Tapia de Miranda, of Spanish and African descent, was born in Santa Cruz and raised in the Presidio. The healer, widwife, and entreprenuer was granted a separation (which was unheard of at the time) from an abusive husband, after asking a Bishop of the Catholic Church to do so. When California became a state in 1850, Juana also fought all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep her land. This made Briones one of the first female property owners in the state.
