🇬🇷Greece elects its first female president: A high court judge and ardent human rights advocate has been elected Greece’s first female president in a historic vote by parliament. Inaugurating a new era for one of Europe’s more traditional nations, MPs overwhelmingly endorsed the nomination of Katerina Sakellaropoulou as head of state. No woman has held the post in the nearly 200 years since Greece proclaimed independence. “Today a window to the future has opened,” said the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, after 261 deputies in the 300-seat House voted in favour of the French-educated jurist assuming the role. “Our country enters the third decade of the 21st century with more optimism.” Full Story

🌏Google honours two incredible women in the world from Egypt and China: Google honoured the two women with a Google doodle (and probably helped educate millions of people in the process on who these women actually were...including myself). The first was Egyptian lawyer Mufidah Abdul-Rahman. Abdul-Rahman was born in Cairo in 1914, and died on Sept. 3, 2002 when she was 88. She graduated from Cairo University’s Faculty of Law and became the premiere female attorney in the country. A strong supporter of gender equality in Egypt, she regularly strove to improve women’s rights and was the first female lawyer to take cases to the Court of Cassation in Egypt and present cases before a military court. While practicing law, she co-founded the National Feminist Party, an organisation that fights for universal suffrage in Egypt. The second woman honoured with a Google doodle was Anna May Wong. Considered to be the first Chinese American movie star, Wong was born in Los Angeles in 1905 and grew up saturated by the film industry, dreaming of appearing in films. In 1922, she starred in the American silent film The Toll of the Sea, a variation on the Madama Butterfly opera that took place in China instead of Japan. However, Hollywood’s penchant for racist discrimination meant that she was mostly offered only small or stereotypical roles, but rather than stoop to that level, Wong moved to Europe to launch her career there instead. The artist who depicted her for Google, Sophie Diao, said that she wished she knew of Wong when she was a child looking for Chinese American role models in Hollywood. 

🦋Internationally celebrated beauty YouTuber came out as a transgender woman in an emotional new video: Nikkie de Jager, a Dutch YouTuber in the Netherlands, shared her transition story for the first time with her more than 12 million YouTube subscribers. She thanked her mother for being her biggest supporter and said her makeup channel started as she was completing her transition. De Jager, who became well known online for her "power of makeup" videos, has worked with celebrities like Jessie J and Lady Gaga. She said that she had been blackmailed by people who wanted to leak her story to news outlets, adding that she was coming out because the opportunity to do so on her own terms had been taken away from her. De Jager said that she knew she was a girl ever since she was a child and that she had grown her hair out and started identifying as a girl by the age of 6, and started hormones by the time she was 14. She added that she fully transitioned by age 19, after she started making YouTube videos. "I am me. I am still Nikkie. Nothing changes about that," de Jager said. "The last thing I want in my life is for you to not trust me anymore, or to look at me with different eyes, or look at me in a different manner, or think that I have changed." She added: "This feels liberating and freeing, but I, at the end of the day, am still Nikkie." Full Story

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