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Born: 1775 She centers female subjects in a very specific political, geographical and social location. She evidently remains relevant - the Mr Collins of the world still exist. Whether you identify with Fanny Price or Elizabeth Bennet, their voices are celebrated by this author.

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Nellie Bly (1864-1922) was the pseudonym of American journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane. She was an innovative reporter who became known for her trip around the world in 72 days and for a report where she feigned insanity to study the inside of a psychiatric hospital.

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a British writer. She was part of the Bloomsbury Group, a group of artists and writers who went against the conventions of their time. Woolf is well known for her use of 'stream of consciousness' in her novels and her feminist non-fiction work A Room of One's Own.

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Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican painter. In her art and in her personal life she explored questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class and race in (Mexican) society.

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Gisèle Halimi was a French-Tunisian lawyer born in 1927. Her trials paved the way for the decriminalization of abortion, the access to planned parenthood for minors as well as the change (and evolution) of the definition of rape in French law.

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Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) was a celebrated American writer, poet and civil rights activist. Angelou has published a seven-part autobiography, many essays, and several collections of poetry. Moreover, Maya Angelou was active within the Civil Rights Movement in the USA and was personally associated with civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

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Born in October 1932 in the United States, Plath took her own life at home in London in February of 1963. Kevin Christy, in an article published in the Atlantic, described her as "the shining prizewinner with a death obsession, the supercharged, comical/terrible talent whose memory is the lid of a sarcophagus".

- Elzbieta

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15-3-1933 - 18-9-2020

Ruth Bader Ginsberg, also known by her nickname ‘The Notorious R.B.G.’, paved the way for a feminist reform in the American legal system. She did not only defy stereotypical gender roles in her own life but became a pioneer of the feminist movement in America that developed in the twentieth century.

Nena Roosloot

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The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende was born in Peru in 1942 and since she was a kid, she witnessed her mother suffering due to her husband abandoning the family. During her 20s, Allende started working as a journalist at a feminist magazine translating her anger against her father into the power of the written word to raise awareness on the gender imbalances in Latin America. During her exile in Venezuela in 1973 she wrote her first novel “The House of the Spirits,” which reflects on her oppression from the patriarchal family and society. Moreover, she supports and empowers women through The Isabel Allende Foundation.
The protagonists of Allende’s novels are mainly women, inspired by the feminist and personal struggles of the women she met during her life, hence giving the possibility to every reader to identify with the characters, reflect on their personal experiences and ultimately find the strength to change an oppressive situation

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Angela Davis is born in 1944. She is an important political activist and closely involved with several communist parties. A lot of her work focused on the abolition of prisons and the prisons system being used as an extended version of opression against black people and people of color. She also teaches feminist studies in different universities and still writes a lot about feminist and racist issues.

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Angela Davis is a revolutionary activist born in 1944. She is a Marxist who fought and fights to end all oppression. This means that her feminism is fundamentally intersectional. Besides her being on the front-lines in her activism, she can also be found on the academic front-lines.

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bell hooks, born in 1952, is an academic professor, writer and activist who has come known for her feminist activism and who systematically applies an intersectional approach to her work. She has published many books and academic papers on intersecting social-political and identity matters regarding feminism, gender, race and class.

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born in 1959; American lawyer, civil rights advocate, philosopher and a leading scholar in critical race theory

known for her introduction of the term intersectionality in 1989, the theory of how overlapping social identities such as gender, race/ethnicity, class or sexuality relate to systems of oppression, discrimination or privilege.

essential for the development of intersectional feminism

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Bernardine Evaristo (1959-present). Evaristo is and Anglo-Nigerian author, activist and professor. 

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Evaristo is a crucial feminist figure as in her 2019 novel, Girl, Woman, Other, she portrays the experiences of marginalised women in Britain in a personal and emotional way. The accounts of these women can be taken with greater compassion and can accumulate a powerful potency within the feminist movement. Although fiction, this book retells the intricate story of Evaristo’s experience and second-hand experiences through her friends and family making it ever more realistic and personal. By discussing exclusion and oppression through an intersectional lens, Evaristo explains the implicit forms of marginalisation that groups cemented in the UK encounter.

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Taylor Swift (born in 1989) is an American musician. For years, she avoided discussing politics and/or religion, causing the public to think she secretly was a conservatist. In 2018, she spoke out against a Republican candidate in her home state Tennessee. Ever since, she has been openly supportive of progressive policies, the LGBTQ+ community and women's rights.

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The English actress Emma Watson was born on April 1990, in Paris. Raised in England, at a very young age she became famous for her role as Hermione in the seller Harry Potter. However, she is also renowned for her political engagement as an activist feminist in diverse campaigns and movements, which aims to achieve women’s empowerment. Indeed, she is the Goodwill Ambassador of the UN campaign HeForShe, which aims to achieve gender equality by inviting men into feminism and by tearing down stereotypes and mental disclosure that prevent women from achieving their goals. Moreover, as the ambassador of Camfed International, she travelled to Zambia and Bangladesh to promote equal access to education. Lastly, she has advocated against sexual harassment in workplaces.

Her perseverance and determination motivate me to raise my voice and expressing my idea as a courageous woman who must fight for social justice and human rights.

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Born in 1990; British actress, advocator for gender equality, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nation (since 2014). In her viral speech to launch the “HeForShe” campaign, she claims that feminism should be about all genders advocating for gender equality, not just women. In 2016, she has started her own feminist bookclub called Our Shared Self, and in 2019, she helped launch a helpline for victims of sexual harassment.

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Born in 1996. Dutch journalist

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DAMN, HONEY (2018) by Marie Lotte Hagen and Nydia van Voorthuizen is a feminist platform consisting of a podcast, an instagramaccount, multiple books, and a theatre show, about "alle shit waar je als vrouw* van deze tijd mee moet dealen" (all the shit you have to deal with as a woman* of this time).

https://www.damnhoney.nl

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Pussy Riot is a feminist punk-rock and performance group from Moscow, Russia. It has a changing membership with approximately eleven women. The Pussy Riots provocative ‘guerrilla’ performances can be seen as a reaction to the Kremlin's masculinity-based rebuilding scheme of Russia, that is more of a cover for homophobic misogyny. The ‘punk-band’ is a huge part of the informal feminism that is emerging in Russia.