Queer Archives - Page 4 of 34

Brenda Nokuzola Fassie

South African pop singer-songwriter and activist

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.

Lillian Smith

Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white American southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow.

Harriet E Giles

Co-founder of Spelman College in Georgia

Sophia B Packard

Co-founder of Spelman College in Atlanta

Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin

Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating economic and racial oppression. She is best known for her autobiography, The Making of a Southerner (1947).

Elsie Inglis

Elsie Inglis was both the product of and an agent for advances for women in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Carson McCullers

With a collection of work including five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, more than two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children’s verse, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography, Carson McCullers is considered to be among the most significant American writers of the twentieth century.

Saint Walatta Petros

1600s Ethiopian saint Walatta Petros was a revered religious leader who was a driving force preventing the Catholic colonization of her country and her church.