Ruth Perry
Liberian politician Ruth Sando Perry was the first woman to be head of state in a modern African country, as chair of Liberia’s third transitional government in the 1990s.
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Martha Gruening
Jewish activist and journalist
Marie de Guise
Mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, who ruled and fought for her daughter’s throne
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
The world’s first woman Prime Minister, Sirimivo Bandaranaike, was elected in Sri Lanka in 1960s.
Alexandra Wejchert
Polish-Irish sculptor
Doris Lessing
Writer, ‘political agitator’ and Communist
Arsinoe III of Egypt
Queen of Egypt, a brave as well as prudent woman who accompanied her husband when he invaded Syria
Kathleen King
Irish botanist and bryologist
Carrie Mae Weems
Decades before the #BlackLivesMatter movement stamped itself into our collective psyche, Carrie Mae Weems was living its message by example through provocative artwork about racial representation.
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.