Key Figures of Feminism by Elliot Miles

Dorothy Day

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Dorothy Day was an anarchist who dedicated her life to helping the poor. She founded Day's Catholic Worker Movement which served the poor in more than 200 communities. Eventual she developed a dichotomous political agenda by taking stands against racial segregation, nuclear warfare, the draft, armed conflict, while opposing abortion, birth control. and the welfare state.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/dorothy-days-radical-faith

Toni Morrison

681431 — 2024-04-05 21:54:15 UTC

Toni Morrison grew up in a semi-integrated area, but was discriminated for a big part of her life. When she was two, her apartment was burnt down by their landlord because they couldn't pay rent. She grew up as an avid reader and later became a major author. She was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/toni-morrison

Janet Reno

681431 — 2024-04-08 17:00:18 UTC

Janet Reno was a lawyer from Miami, Florida who earned her law degree at Harvard as one of 16 women in a class of 500. She became the first woman to be the head of a county's prosecution office. She was the first Florida prosecutor to assign lawyers to collect child-support payments from "deadbeat fathers". She also went on to be the first female Attorney General of the USA and kept the longest Attorney General term in the 20th century.

https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/janet-reno/

Soraya Chemaly

681431 — 2024-04-08 17:19:11 UTC

Soyaya Cemaly is an author and activist who has written many books inspiring women to speak out against violence. She was named one of the top 25 most inspirational women on social media and has worked to take down multiple pro-rapist groups on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

https://www.icrw.org/uplift-a-conversation-with-soraya-chemaly/