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Toujan al-Faisal

Jordanian television journalist and human rights advocate. She became the first female member of the Jordanian Parliament.

Ida Ospelt-Amann

Ida Ospelt-Amann was a notable Liechtenstein dialect poet and recognized as one of the prominent contributors to Liechtenstein dialect poetry.

Eowudong

Versatile 15th-century Joseon Dynasty artist, excelling in dance, literature, art, and poetry.

Indradevi

Politically influential queen of the Khmer Empire from roughly 1181 to 1219

Although Cape Verdean writer and poet Yolanda Morazzo lived in Portugal and Angola for much of her life, she is associated with her home country’s Claridade movement, part of a larger push for cultural, social, and political freedoms.

Andrée Blouin

A pivotal figure in the African independence movement of the 1960s.

Agripina Samper Agudelo

1800s Colombian poet and literary figure

Anne-Marie Adiaffi

1980s Ivorian novelist

Fadumo Ahmed Dhimbiil

Djiboutian poet, singer, and songwriter.

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.