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Edna Walling

One of Australia’s most highly regarded twentieth-century garden designers and writers.

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.

Mary P Burrill

Mary P. Burrill was a celebrated playwright whose works inspired many prominent writers of the New Negro Movement/Harlem Renaissance. She used her plays to confront many topics, including, but not limited to, lynching, the Black experience, and bodily autonomy for women.

Gloria E Anzaldúa

Groundbreaking Chicana scholar, feminist theorist, writer, and cultural activist.

Berenice Abbott

American photographer renowned for her black-and-white photography of New York City’s architecture and urban design.

Jackie “Moms” Mabley

African-American stand-up comic and actor who was active in stage, television and films from the 1910s to 1970s. She was also one of the 20th century’s first openly queer comedians, coming out as a lesbian in 1921.

Catalina de Erauso

Spanish-American military heroine

Harriet Elphinstone-Dick

On the 9 September 1875, in rough open water Harriet Elphinstone-Dick swam seven miles from Shoreham Harbour to Brighton’s West Pier. She completed the distance in a record making 2 hours and 45 minutes. It was regarded as one of the greatest swimming feats of the time.

Maude Adams

American early film actress

Amaza Lee Meredith

Despite being prevented from a career as a professional architect as an African-American woman in the early and mid-1900s, Amaza Lee Meredith left a legacy through her work.