Anna Deavere Smith
Through profound performances and plays that blend theater and journalism, she has informed our understanding of social issues and conveyed a range of disparate characters.
Through profound performances and plays that blend theater and journalism, she has informed our understanding of social issues and conveyed a range of disparate characters.
Referring to herself as a ‘crip’, Stella controversially challenged people in the way they perceived disability and what it means to live as a disabled person. She described ‘crip’ as a liberating word; a term that seemed to horrify people but that made her feel strong and powerful.
Fay Fuller was the first known woman to summit Mount Rainier.
Irish biographer
Irish arts administrator and journalist
Since 1979, when For Better or For Worse first appeared, Canadian artist Lynn Johnston (b. 1947) has been chronicling the lives of the Patterson family
Madeleine Riffaud was a French war correspondent and poet who worked with the French Resistance during WWII
Juana Belén Gutiérrez wrote radical feminist literature against Catholicism, political corruption, and social injustices during the Porfiriato.
Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
Associate editor of The Guardian, a newspaper dedicated to civil rights.