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Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
Angela Davis
American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)
Audre Lorde
American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet (1911–1979)
Adrienne Rich
American poet, essayist and feminist (1929–2012)
Monique Wittig
French writer (1935-2003)
Mary Daly
American feminist philosopher and theologian (1928–2010)
Mary Oliver
American poet (1935–2019)
Carol Ann Duffy
Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955)
Karine Jean-Pierre
French-American political advisor and White House Press Secretary from 2022-2025
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory (1942-2004)
Cheryl Dunye
American actress and director (born 1966)
Rosi Braidotti
Italian-Australian feminist (1954-)
Susan Stryker
American professor, historian, author, and filmmaker
Nergis Mavalvala
Pakistani-American quantum astrophysicist
Maria Janion
Polish scholar, critic and theoretician (1926–2020)
Sheila Jeffreys
British feminist
Sarah Schulman
American writer (born 1958)
Charlotte Bunch
American author and activist
Cherríe Moraga
American writer and activist (born 1952)
Maria Lugones
philosopher, feminist and university professor
Marilyn Frye
feminist philosopher and professor
Janice Raymond
American writer and radical feminist
Irena Klepfisz
lesbian Polish-American author, activist
Ruth Bleier
American neurophysiologist and activist
Lillian Faderman
American writer
Joan Nestle
American writer
Ruth Vanita
Indian academic
Cheryl Clarke
American writer (born 1947)
Catherine Opie
American photographer (born 1961)
Olga Broumas
Greek poet (born 1949)
Christina Crosby
American scholar and writer
Cora DuBois
anthropologist, academic (1903–1991)
Izabela Filipiak
Polish writer
Lauren Esposito
US scientist and curator of arachnology
Lisa M. Diamond
American psychologist and feminist
Karla Jay
American feminist (born 1947)
Kate Starbird
American computer scientist and basketball player
Ximena Bedregal Sáez
Mexican-Bolivian feminist writer and architect
Ochy Curiel
Afro-Dominican lesbian, feminist academic, singer and social anthropologist
Ailbhe Smyth
Irish activist and feminist
Rebecca Brown
American writer
Alix Olson
American poet
Carter Heyward
American feminist theologian and priest (born 1945)
Beth Kelly
American academic
Angela Bowen
American academic, writer, and lesbian rights activist (1936–2018)
Esther Newton
American anthropologist
Leila J. Rupp
American historian
Evelyn Torton Beck
US psychologist
Sandra Kirby
Canadian rower
Bonnie Zimmerman
American literary critic and women’s studies scholar
Sarah Hoagland
Northeastern Illinois University faculty member; educator and lesbian-feminist, author and philosopher
Agnes E. Wells
American educator and women's rights activist
Maaike Meijer
Dutch literary scholar of Dutch (born 1949)
Gisela Kozak Rovero
Venezuelan writer