This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Nora Roe. Trukanini/Truganani (c.1812-1876) was a Tasmanian Aborigine. At sixteen years old, in an attempt to save her people from genocide inflicted by British colonisers, she worked as an interpreter for a man named Augustus Robinson to encourage native people to move to an island missionary. …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was written by Manu Escrita, and illustrated by Cecília Silveira. It will be featured in the Illustrated Women in History zine #5 which will be available in February. Tereza de Benguela, also known as Queen Tereza, is one of the most important figures in Afro-Brazilian history and the inspiration …
Today’s Illustrated Woman in History was written by Emily Ruth Taylor. Berta Cáceres was a Honduran activist who was both an environmental advocate and an indigenous leader. In 1993, while she was still a student, she co-founded the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH.) In 2015 She was awarded the Goldman Prize …
Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a Guatemalan Indigenous rights activist who became the first indigenous person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Menchú was born in 1959 in Laj Chimel, Quiché, Guatemala Her family were of K’iche descent, and lived in poverty as a result of their Mayan heritage, as, like many other countries …
Faith Bandler was an Australian civil rights activist who campaigned for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. She is known for her leadership in the 1967 referendum on the rights of Aboriginal Australians. Bandler was born Ida Lessing Faith Mussing in Tumbulgum, New South Wales. Her father, Wacvie Peter Mussing was a …