Aoua Keïta
Aoua Keïta was a Malian midwife, activist, and politician, recognized as a prominent figure in Mali’s struggle for independence, trade unionism, and feminism.
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Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner
Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner is a prominent poet and climate change activist.
Carmen Pereira
Pioneering Bissau-Guinean politician, physician, and women’s rights advocate
Toujan al-Faisal
Jordanian television journalist and human rights advocate. She became the first female member of the Jordanian Parliament.
Ruth Perry
Liberian politician Ruth Sando Perry was the first woman to be head of state in a modern African country, as chair of Liberia’s third transitional government in the 1990s.
Genet Sium
Eritrean figure writer, activist and nurse whose life and work have been shaped by her involvement in the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) during the war for Eritrean independence from Ethiopia.
Choua Lee Yang
Hmong refugee and educator
Andrée Blouin
A pivotal figure in the African independence movement of the 1960s.
Alina Pienkowska
Alina Pienkowska was a nurse who played a significant role in the Solidarność movement against the communist regime in Poland.
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
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.