Queer Archives - Page 10 of 20

Dr Kathleen Lynn

Irish medical practitioner and political activist

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.

Alice Bradley Sheldon

Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.

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.

Bíawacheeitchish

Two-spirited Gros Ventres leader of the 1800s

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

Ahebi Ugbabe

Igbo queen of Enugu-Ezike