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Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is an American author, professor, and women's rights activist, focusing primarily on the field of women and gender studies. She is best known for her works of writing, which include the short -
Maria Brink
Maria Brink was born in 1977 and grew up in Schenectady, New York. While she is rather vague when she discusses her childhood with reporters, it is very clear that she dealt with traumatic events -
Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low (1860-1927) was the founder of the Girl Scouts of America, which still is in existance today and has over 2.6 million members. Daisy was a strong believer that all -
Combahee River Collective
The Combahee River Collective is an organization founded by African-American feminist lesbians that was active from 1974-1980. The Collective's main purpose was calling attention to how the second wave of feminists movement -
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is an American singer, songwriter, performer, and actress who is known for her powerful vocals, unconventionality and experimentation with new images, in addition to her smash hits like Pokerface, Bad Romance, and Born -
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Crenshaw introduced the intersectionality theory which basically studies how overlapping or intersecting social identities, minority identities in particular, relate to systems and structures or systems of oppression. Crenshaw's main focus on intersectionality is on -
Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (1944 - present) is an American educator, social and political activist, and writer. As a member of the Communist Party USA, the Black Panthers, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Davis was -
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a novelist and pioneer in modernist writings, most notably in her use of stream of consciousness. She become an integral subject of the feminist criticism movement in the 1970s -
Laura Jane Grace
Laura Jane Grace was born on November 8, 1980 to parents Thomas Gabel and Bonnie Gabel. She has one younger brother who was born six years after her. Grace's father was an army major -
Frida Kahlo
Early Life Frida Kahlo was born in Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico on July 6, 1907 to Guillermo Kahlo and Matilde Calderón y Gonzalez. Her full name, the one listed on her birth certificate, is Magdalena -
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was born on April 27, 1927 to Obadiah Scott and Bernice McMurry Scott in Heiberger Alabama. She was the third of fourth children. As a child, she experienced the segregation and racism -
Gloria Allred
Allred was born to a working class family in 1941. After leaving school after the eighth grade, her parents Stella and Morris Bloom worked hard to provide for their daughter. Morris worked six days a -
Alice Walker
Alice Walker (1944-Present) is an accomplished writer, poet and activist. She is most noted for penning the novel "The Color Purple" in 1982. Walker has also made a name for herself in the activist -
Rose Schneiderman
Rose Schneiderman (1882-1972) was a U.S. labor union leader who fought for equal rights and equal pay for women labor workers. Rachel Rose Schneiderman was born Jewish in Saven, Poland to Samuel and -
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Globe Johnson (1918-present) is an author and mathematician most known for her trajectory calculation for John Glenn’s mission into space. Katherine Coleman Globe Johnson was born on August 26, 1918 in White -
Queen Latifah
As an American rapper, songwriter, singer, actress, producer, and feminist, she keeps herself to be one of the busiest women in the world through so many different platforms and values. Born in Newark, New jersey -
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres was born on January 26th, 1958 in Metairie Louisiana. She is the daughter of Elliot Everette DeGeneres who was an insurance agent and mom, Elizabeth Jane who was a speech therapist. Ellen has -
Michael Kimmel
Born on February 26, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York. Kimmel is married to Amy Aronson, a Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Vassar -
Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English author whose novels reflect the gender and class struggles of 19th century England. Her works were very influential in the development of the contemporary novel, and her quiet -
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros (born in 1954), is a Chicana writer, poet, and activist. She is well known for her novel titled "The House on Mango Street", which is now a required reading in lots of schools -
Billie Jean King
Born on November 22, 1943, in Long Beach, California, Billie Jean King became the top-ranked women's tennis player by 1967. In 1973, she formed the Women's Tennis Association and famously defeated Bobby -
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry was one of the most influential African American playwrights and writers of the 20th century. She is most well known for her play A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born -
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey, ((born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was -
Sylvia Rivera
Sylvia Rivera (1951-2002) was a prominent activist and pioneer in the fight for queer and transgender rights. Sylvia Rivera was born on July 2nd, 1951 in the Bronx in New York City. She was -
Alison Bechdel
Best known for her comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, Alison Bechdel created an atmosphere within the LGBTQ and Feminist communities that made it acceptable to talk about issues in the public sphere. Alison
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