Sarah Baartman
Khoikhoi woman who was kidnapped, sold into slavery and exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus
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Ann Glover
The last person executed in Boston as a witch
Peggy Leeson
1700s Irish sex worker, brothel-keeper, and memoirist
Kasturba Gandhi
Indian activist
Charlene Smith
South African journalist and activist
Ella D Wilson
African American sex worker living in Skagway, Alaska during the gold rush
Blanche Morgan Losey
American painter and theater designer
Hana Assafiri
Hana Assafiri is a compassionate and unspoken hero within the Victorian community.
Stacey Thompson
US Marine Corps veteran who received an “Other Than Honorable” discharge after reporting a sexual assault by a senior officer. After years of litigation, she received a discharge upgrade from Department of Defense.
Tsuneno
Tsuneno survived famine and three marriages to reinvent herself in 1800s Edo