Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
American labor leader, activist, and feminist. Flynn played a key role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Forrest Ross
New Zealand teacher, mountaineer, journalist and writer
Alison Drummond
New Zealand farmer, writer, historian and editor
Sonia Sanchez
American poet, writer, and teacher who played a pivotal role in the Black Arts Movement and authored more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children’s books.
Stefanie Zweig
German Jewish author and journalist
Shulamith Firestone
Canadian-American radical feminist, central to shaping early radical feminism and the second-wave movement.
Katharine Coman
Influential American social activist and educator.
Susie King Taylor
The first Black nurse during the American Civil War. Beyond nursing the wounded of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment, she became the earliest African-American woman to self-publish her memoirs.
Teresa Wilms Montt
Chilean writer and poet known for her anarcha-feminist beliefs.
Tove Jansson
Finnish author, artist, and illustrator whose most famous works are the children’s novels in the Moomin series