Fatima Meer
South African activist and academic
South African activist and academic
Irish language scholar
Irish art historian
Irish academic and activist
American award-winning poet, scholar, and professor
Melissa Fay Greene’s award-winning books Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing chronicle dramatic episodes in the civil rights movement in Georgia (U.S.).
South African social researcher and activist
Ugandan medical anthropologist who has written about sexuality, HIV/AIDS and women’s health. She is also a political activist who campaigns for women and girls rights, as well as the rights of LGBTQIA+ people.
Irish archivist and historian
1700s Irish editor, scholar, and one of Jonathan Swift’s female literary circle