For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is June Chan, an Asian-American lesbian activist and biologist. Chan’s activism stems from her childhood recollections of racist attitudes to people in Chinatown. In 1983, she met Katherine Hall and the two began collaborating on projects including creating a slide show of Asian …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Busi Kheswa, an oral historian and LGBT activist from South Africa. Kheswa is a member of a number of LGBT organisations including the Gay and Lesbian Archives, which records the struggles and histories of LGBT South Africans, and uses their stories for …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting a #womaninhistory every day. Today is Sofi Oksanen, a Finnish-Estonian writer and playwright. Oksanen has published five novels, of which Purge earned her the title of “literary phenomenon” and a number of awards. The novel has since been translated into more than 40 languages. Oksanen is actively involved in …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting a #womaninhistory every day. Today is Juno Dawson a screenwriter, journalist and best-selling novelist of young adult and non-fiction including This Book is Gay, Margot & Me, and The Gender Games. Dawson’s books frequently feature LGBTQ+ people and she has fiercely advocated for other authors to feature more …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting a #womaninhistory every day. Today is Radclyffe Hall, an English poet and author. She is best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature which was thought obscene at the time and subsequently banned in Britain and the U.S. Hall had omitted sections …
For #LGBTHistoryMonth I will be posting a #womaninhistory every day. Today is Anne Lister an English landowner, business woman, intrepid traveller, mountaineer and diarist from Halifax, West Yorkshire who is sometimes described as ‘the first modern lesbian’. Lister was renowned for only dressing in dark clothing and rebelling against the strict gender stereotypes of her …
Alix Kates Shulman is a feminist, political activist and writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays. Shulman was one of the early radical activists of second-wave feminism and In 1967 she joined the new Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM), becoming a member of the early groups New York Radical Women, Redstockings, WITCH, and New York Radical Feminists. …
Sheila Rowbotham is an English theorist and historian of feminism and radical social movements. In 1969 she published her influential pamphlet “Women’s Liberation and the New Politics” in which she set out her theory of socialist feminism, arguing that women’s liberation can only be achieved by working to end both the economic and cultural sources …
Ana Pauker was a Romanian Communist leader and Romania’s Foreign Minister from 1947 to 1952, the first woman in the modern world ever to hold so senior a ministerial postion. She used this power to facilitate the mass emigration of roughly 100,00 Romanian Jews to Israel in direct contradiction to Stalin’s anti-Zionist rulings.
Inessa Armand was a French-Russian communist politician, member of the Bolsheviks and feminist. She was an important figure in pre-Revolution Russian communist movement and was the Director of the Zhenotdel or “Women’s Department” which worked to improve the conditions of women’s lives in the Soviet Union, fighting illiteracy and educating women about the new marriage, …