Carrie Fisher was an American actress and writer. She is best known for playing Princess Leia in Star Wars. She has written a semi-autobiographical novel Postcards from the Edge, as well as two autobiographical novels Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic which deal with her struggles with addiction and bipolar disorder. Fisher was outspoken in her views …
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an award-winning Nigerian novelist, nonfiction writer and short story writer. She is best known for her novels, Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah and her inspirational 2012 TEDx talk entitled “We should all be feminists” which was adapted into a book-length essay in 2014. Adichie was born in …
Kimberlé Crenshaw is an American scholar in the field of critical race theory, and a professor at UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School. She is a leading authority in the areas of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law and a co-founder and executive director of the African …
Featured Fem | Meet Julie Gough Here is an interview I did with @thefemlitmag at the beginning of this month in which I discuss what inspired me to create this blog, what I’ve learned so far, why art is a useful tool to teach people of all ages about feminism and important female historical figures …
Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist. She is best known for her books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. Her work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of feminist, queer and literary theory. Butler was born in 1956 …
Bessie “Queen Bess” Coleman was a pioneer in the field of aviation. She was the first black female pilot, the first black woman to earn an international pilot’s license and the first black woman to fly a plane in a public airshow in the U.S. Coleman was born in 1892 in Atlanta, Texas to sharecroppers …
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (also known as “Eliza” or “Betsey”.) has been called one of the ‘Founding Philanthropists’ for being the co-founder and deputy director of the first orphanage in New York City. She was the wife of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton was born in 1757 in Albany, New York to Philip Schuyler, an American …
Venus Williams is an American champion women’s tennis player. She is a four-time Olympic gold medalist and currently holds the record for fastest serve in three of the four Grand Slam tournaments. Williams was born in 1980 in Lynwood, California. At the age of 4, Williams’ family moved to Compton, California. The area had a …
Amandla Stenberg is an actress best known for Catelya in Colombiana and Rue in The Hunger Games. She is an activist and in addition to advocating for No Kid Hungry, she has spoken out about a range of issues including the Black Lives Matter movement and the appropriation of black culture into the mainstream. She …
Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in women’s singles tennis. She has won over 20 Grand Slam singles titles and was a gold-medalist at the 2000, 2008 and 2012 Olympics. Williams was born in 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan. At the age of 3, the Williams family moved …