Laura Aguilar
Using photography as a tool for the empowerment of her community, Laura Aguilar provided new possibilities for the depictions of subjects and bodies that had traditionally been excluded from art history.
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Coco Fusco
Across all the varied mediums in which she works her art interrogates the systems of contemporary power that impact and restrict the lives of people ‘othered’ by the society they live in, whether because of their race or ethnicity, nationality, class position, gender, or the intersections between them.
Débora Arango
Débora Arango was one of Colombia’s most original and fearless 20th century artists.
Doris Salcedo
For decades, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has been at the forefront of artmaking that seeks to provide space for mourning, grieving, and memory.
Sophie Treadwell
American playwright and journalist best known for her groundbreaking 1928 play “Machinal.”
Gloria E Anzaldúa
Groundbreaking Chicana scholar, feminist theorist, writer, and cultural activist.
Neris Uriana
Neris Uriana was appointed the first female chief of the Wayuu tribe in La Guajira, Colombia, in 2005.
Tlapalizquixochtzin
Tlapalizquixochtzin was an Aztec queen regnant and empress in the sixteenth century before the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Yax Ahau Xoc
Queen consort of the Mayan city of Copán, in present-day Honduras
Yohl Ikʼnal
Yohl Ik’nal – meaning Lady Heart Wind Place – was the first recorded Mayan queen, ruling from late 583 until late 604.