Glorious, red-haired wrecking ball, Anne Bonny was born to break all the rules. Rejecting a society that treated women as weak, the Irish-born badass created her own, roaming and robbing the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy with her (lesbian) lovers, becoming the most famous female pirate of all time. Sure, there were other she-pirates, some braver and more notorious than her. But there is something about Anne's fiery spirit and the flair with which she defied sexual and legal rules that made her the archetype of female piracy. Say 'female pirate', and I see Anne Bonny in my mind's eye: shooting and slashing her way to the loot, a gun belt slung over a stolen officer's coat, a cocked tricorne hat barely covering her unruly red hair. The ultimate personification of 'savage' (sorry, Megan Thee Stallion). A woman on fire.
