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Donna Ferrato (United States of America)

    Originally published on Donna Ferrato’s Personal Website Photo by Donna Ferrato Donna Ferrato is an internationally acclaimed photojournalist known for her groundbreaking documentation of the hidden world of domestic violence. Her seminal book Living With the Enemy (Aperture, 1991) went into four printings and, alongside exhibitions and lectures across the globe, sparked a […]

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Esther Lape (United States of America)

  Written by Rich Wilson Originally published on Out Hisotry Esther Everett Lape and her life-partner Elizabeth Fisher Read devoted their lives to women’s rights and social and international justice. In her autobiography, their close friend, Franklin Roosevelt’s wife, credited “their standards of work and their interests [with playing] a great part in what might […]


Jane Addams (United States of America)

  Written by Rich Wilson Originally published on Out History Jane Addams was a powerful, central figure in what is known as America’s Progressive Era. She, and the activists she inspired, fought for social justice for children, immigrants, workers, and women. In 1889, she and her companion, Ellen Gates Starr, co-founded Chicago’s world-renowned Hull House, […]


Susan B. Anthony (United States of America)

  Written by Rich Wilson Originally published on OutHistory Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer in the fight for women’s rights. In 1860 she stated, “Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.”[1] True to her words, she voted in the 1872 presidential election even […]


Carol J. Pierce Colfer (United States of America)

    Carol J. Pierce Colfer is an anthropologist holding a Ph.D. degree in anthropology from the University of Washington in Seattle (1973) and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Hawaii (1979) specialized in international health.   From age 9-16 she lived in Ankara, Turkey, where she developed a heart-felt concern for the world’s people and experienced viscerally the inequities of the world. Her life’s trajectory was deeply influenced by what […]

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Fariba Ishrar (Canada)

Student Honors 1,017 Indigenous Women And Girls Murdered In Canada To Bring Awareness To National Crisis Written by Women You Should Know Originally published on Women You Should Know Photo by Women You Should Know After moving from Toronto to Winnipeg last September, 16-year-old Fariba found herself at a new school with a whole new […]


Leslie Spillett (Canada)

    Originally published on The University of Winnipeg Leslie was born in Northern Manitoba in 1951 and raised by a family with deep roots to the land. Her material ancestry is Cree from Cumberland House and Opaskwayak Cree Nation and Red River Metis and her paternal ancestry is Irish and Scottish. Leslie attended boarding school […]

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Ima Thokchom Ramani Devi (India)

Text from SPARROW: Ima Thokchom Ramani Devi is seventy-five years old. She is currently the General Secretary of All Manipur Women’s Reformation and Development Samaj. The Samaj was registered in 1978. There was no office as such. It kept shifting from one place to another. The last office the Samaj occupied was demolished and currently the […]


Mangai (India)

  Text from SPARROW: Mangai is the pseudonym of Padma who is a theatre director and a Professor of English Literature in Stella Mary’s College, Chennai. As a member of All India Democratic Women’s Association and Chennai Kalai Kuzhu Mangai actively took up several issues relating to women and presented them in the form of street […]


Shahjehan Aapa (India)

Shahjehan Aapa comes from a working class background. Until the death of her daughter Noorjehan, who died due to dowry harassment, Shahjehan Aapa had not thought about working for issues concerning women. Her daughter’s death gave her the reason and the courage to venture out of her house seeking justice for her daughter and for […]