For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Helen Zia, a Chinese-American journalist, award winning author and activist for Asian American and LGBTQ rights. Zia is a second generation Chinese American and has been outspoken on social justice issues ranging from human rights and peace to women’s rights and countering …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, a Sri Lankan LGBT rights activist and founder of Equal Ground, the only mixed organization advocating for LGBTI rights in Sri Lanka. Flamer-Caldera is a co-founder of the Sri Lankan LBT organization, Women’s Support Group, which was established in 1999 …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Jean Chong, a Singaporean LGBT rights activist who co-founded Sayoni, the LGBT rights organization. Chong “always wished there were lesbian role models” and this led her to became an LGBT activist. She volunteered with a gay Christian support network, Safehaven where she …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Miss Major, a trans woman activist and community leader for transgender rights, who focussed on the rights of women of color. Miss Major is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, former sex worker, and survivor of Attica State Prison. She is …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Barbara Gittings, a prominent American activist for LGBT equality who helped draw attention to the ban on employment of gay people by the United States government. Gittings organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis from 1958 to 1963, and …
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 …
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. …
This weeks Illustrated Woman in History was written by Aimee Miles and illustrated by Sophia Parsons Cope. It is featured in the Women’s History Month 2019 zine. Click here to buy Elaine Black Yoneda was born Elaine Rose Buchman in September 1906 to Russian Jewish immigrant who had escaped their lives as factory laborers in …