Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
21st century American writer
21st century American writer
Annalee Newitz is a journalist and the author of several science fiction and nonfiction books, including the national bestseller “Four Lost Cities.”
African-American southern ecopoet. Her debut collection, Black Pastoral, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the 2024 Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and was a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Leonard Prize and the Library of Virginia Prize in Poetry.
American poet and essayist
Mary Renault (pseudonym of Eileen Mary Challans) was a British lesbian writer best known for her widely read historical-fiction novels set in ancient Greece that gained her a large following among straight and gay readers alike.
Pioneering climate scientist
Chicana lesbian feminist artist
Irish saint and 6th century abbess of Kildare
Brenda Appleton has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the trans and gender diverse communities in Victoria, Australia.
A tireless campaigner for the rights of diverse families and the LGBTIQ community in Australia.