Ana María Simo

Cofounded by Cuban activist and playwright Ana Maria Simo in 1992, the Lesbian Avengers used direct-action tactics (nonviolent demonstrations such as marches and kiss-ins) to increase lesbian visibility.

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Corra White Harris

Novelist Corra White Harris was one of the most celebrated women from Georgia (U.S.) for nearly three decades in the early twentieth century.

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Miriam Tlali

The first Black woman in South Africa to publish an English-language novel in 1975, most of her writing was banned by the South African apartheid regime.

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