Lucía Sánchez Saornil is known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organization with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. She was passionate about self-education and wrote poetry (under the male pen name Luciano de San Saor) about industrialism, religion, marriage, anarchism, and economic revolution. She also expressed lesbian desire in times when queerness was not only not accepted but risked arrest.
Irish writer
Helen had a burning passion for peace that led her to the gates of nuclear bases and into prison, to the offices of NATO commanders and round tables with army generals, into the white heat of the Vietnam War and the freezing chill of vigils, demonstrations and marches.
Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.
One of Australia’s most highly regarded twentieth-century garden designers and writers.
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 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.
Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.
Groundbreaking Chicana scholar, feminist theorist, writer, and cultural activist.