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Annie Besant

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Annie Besant was a trade unionist, socialist, theosophist, women’s rights activist and philanthropist. Besant was a leading socialist and successful public speaker, filling halls across Britain for the National Secular Society. She was a prominent member of the Fabian society and the Marxist Social Democratic Federation (SDF). In 1877, she was prosecuted for publishing a …

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Alexya Salvador

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For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Alexya Salvador who calls herself the “first transgender shepherd of Latin America” Salvador made history when she held Cuba’s first ever LGBTQ friendly mass in May 2017. She and other trans pastors preached about God’s love and acceptance of the very community …

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Chelsea Manning

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For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Chelsea Manning, a former US soldier, activist and whistleblower. In 2010, Manning began leaking documents to Wikileaks which became known as “the Iraq War logs”. Around the same time, she disclosed to her supervisor her wish to transition. Three years later, she …

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Penny Wong

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For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Penny Wong, an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 2002. She is the first female openly-LGBTI Australian federal parliamentarian and federal government cabinet minister. Wong was born in Malaysia but moved to Australia as a child. Before …

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Roberta Achtenberg

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For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Roberta Achtenberg, an American politician who serves as a commissioner of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She is the first openly gay presidential appointee confirmed by the Senate. Achtenberg was first elected to public office on the San Francisco Board of …

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Miss Major

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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 …

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Alix Kates Shulman

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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. …

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Ana Pauker

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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.

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Inessa Armand

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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, …

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