Agripina Samper Agudelo
1800s Colombian poet and literary figure
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Pancha Carrasco
Costa Rican freedom fighter
María Cano
María de los Ángeles Cano Márquez was a pioneering Colombian poet, writer, and the country’s first female political leader. Known as the “Labor Flower,” she championed civil rights and workers’ rights, leading strikes and co-founding the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
Alicia Moreau de Justo
Alicia Moreau de Justo was a prominent Argentine physician and politician known for her contributions to feminism and socialism.
Teresa Gisbert
Prominent Bolivian architect, art historian, and researcher, known for her significant contributions to the understanding and preservation of Bolivian cultural heritage and architecture.
Laura Aguilar
Using photography as a tool for the empowerment of her community, Laura Aguilar provided new possibilities for the depictions of subjects and bodies that had traditionally been excluded from art history.
Coco Fusco
Across all the varied mediums in which she works her art interrogates the systems of contemporary power that impact and restrict the lives of people ‘othered’ by the society they live in, whether because of their race or ethnicity, nationality, class position, gender, or the intersections between them.
Débora Arango
Débora Arango was one of Colombia’s most original and fearless 20th century artists.
Doris Salcedo
For decades, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has been at the forefront of artmaking that seeks to provide space for mourning, grieving, and memory.
Gloria E Anzaldúa
Groundbreaking Chicana scholar, feminist theorist, writer, and cultural activist.