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Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award and three Golden Globe Awards. Films in which she has appeared have grossed over $6.9 billion worldwide. She has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times.
Susan Sontag
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
Marguerite Yourcenar
French novelist and essayist (1903-1987)
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
Chelsea Manning
American activist and whistleblower (born 1987)
Queen Latifah
American rapper, singer and actress
Sasha Grey
American actress, model, writer, DJ and musician; former pornographic actress (born 1988)
bell hooks
American author and activist (1952–2021)
Caitlyn Jenner
American media personality and retired decathlete
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American poet (1892–1950)
the Wachowskis
American film directors, screenwriters, and producers
Carson McCullers
American writer (1917–1967)
Kate Millett
American writer, educator, artist, and activist (1934–2017)
Djuna Barnes
American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892-1982)
Janeane Garofalo
American comedian and actress
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
American golfer and athlete
Camille Paglia
American feminist academic and critic (born 1947)
H.D.
Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the avant-garde Imagist group of poets with American expatriate poet and critic Ezra Pound. During this early period, her minimalist free verse poems depicting Classical motifs drew international attention. Eventually distancing herself from the Imagist movement, she experimented with a wider variety of forms, including fiction, memoir, and verse drama. Reflecti
Nina Hartley
American pornographic actress (born 1959)
Kathy Acker
American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (1947–1997)
Rebecca Walker
American writer
Christine Jorgensen
Christine Jorgensen was an American actress, singer, and transgender activist. A trans woman, she was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery.
Alla Nazimova
Russian-American actress, screenwriter and producer (1879–1945)
Mara Wilson
American actress
Kirsten Vangsness
American actress and screenwriter
Roxane Gay
American writer
Ayo Edebiri
American actress and comedian
L. J. Smith
American author
Carrie Brownstein
American musician and actress
Emily Temple-Wood
American Wikipedia editor and physician
Julia Serano
American writer and activist
Kate Siegel
American actress and writer (born 1982)
Deirdre McCloskey
American economist & academic
Harley Quinn Smith
American actress and musician
Hari Nef
American actress, model and author
Abbi Jacobson
American comedian and actress
Janet Mock
American writer, director, producer, TV host and transgender rights activist
Nicole Maines
American actress
Norma McCorvey
plaintiff in Roe v. Wade (1947–2017)
Lauren Groff
American writer
Lynn Shelton
American filmmaker (1965–2020)
Anchee Min
Chinese-American author
Zoë Akins
Playwright, poet, author (1886–1958)
Starhawk
Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American feminist and writer. She is known as a theorist of feminist neopaganism and ecofeminism. In 2013, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.
Jazz Jennings
American transgender Internet personality
Ione Skye
British-born American actress
Ann Bancroft
American explorer
Abby Stein
Israeli-American author, rabbi, activist (1991-)
Charlie Jane Anders
American author and commentator
Holly Woodlawn
Puerto Rican actress and former Warhol superstar (1946–2015)
Vivienne Medrano
American animator
Tristan Taormino
American author, columnist and adult film director
Seanan McGuire
American writer
Danica Roem
American journalist and politician
Heather Hunter
American pornographic actress
Jane Bowles
American novelist, playwright (1917–1973)
Calpernia Addams
LGBT rights activist from the United States
Andrea James
American writer, film producer, director, and activist
Muriel Rukeyser
poet and political activist (1913–1980)
Mackenzie Phillips
American actress and singer