Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher and advocate of Women’s rights. Wollstonecraft was brought up by an abusive father whom she left at age 17 when her mother died. She set up a school in Newington Green with her sister, who had fled an abusive marriage. She used this experience to write the pamphlet …
Sylvia Rivera was an American drag queen (a term she later claimed to hate, rejecting all labels), gay liberation and transgender activist. Along with Marsha P Johnson she was one of the first to resist the police during the Stonewall Riots. Rivera reportedly shouted, “I’m not missing a minute of this, it’s the revolution!” as …
Emily Wilding Davison is most famous for her tragic death when running into the path of King George V’s horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913. Thousands of suffragettes accompanied the coffin and tens of thousands lined the streets on the day of her funeral. Davison was a militant activist who fought …