Marielle Franco
Brazilian politician and activist for women’s rights, human rights and LGBT rights
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Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh
Indian-British suffragist who helped save refugees fleeing the Holocaust
Christine Jorgensen
American transgender trailblazer
Abby Stein
American Jewish trans rights activist
Amrita Sher-Gil
Amrita Sher-Gil was an Indian-Hungarian painter and is considered one of the most important painters of modern India
Sheila Lapinsky
South African anti-apartheid, women’s rights and queer rights activist
Ann Louise Gilligan
Irish theologian, LGBT rights activist and educator
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie
South African pop singer-songwriter and activist
Dolores del Río
Mexican actress Dolores del Río is considered the first Latin American woman to become a major film star, with a career that lasted from the 1920s Hollywood silent films into the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the ‘40s and ‘50s and later expanding into television and theater.
Anastasia Le
Anastasia Le is a Vietnamese Australian transgender woman whose work spans social justice and economic equity.