Joan Bielski
Bielski was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and of the NSW Women in Education group (1973-1994), a feminist organisation, whose slogan was Educate to Liberate.
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Alice Locke Park
Park became a key member of the influential network of socialist-feminist women in California and fought for women’s emancipation.
Mitsuye Yamada
Acclaimed poet, feminist writer, and human rights activist. Much of Yamada’s work draws on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Trish Bostrom
American tennis player who fought for equal treatment of female athletes
Yolanda Alaniz
Chicana socialist working for women, LGBT, workers’ and immigrant rights
Karen Troianello
Lead plaintiff in a lawsuit for equal treatment for women athletes in the US
Julie Shayne
Whether she is at our nation’s capitol acting as a National Student Coordinator, speaking at the National Women’s Studies Association, publishing books that shed light on the injustices present within society or teaching classes under the major Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies that she helped create, Julie Shayne is always working to empower the marginalized.
Kathleen Hanna
American singer, musician and pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer
Emily Nokes
Emily Nokes is a musical artist, writer, feminist and advocate for abortion rights.
Lindy West
American activist, writer, and comedian.