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Anna Atkins (1799-1871). English botanist and photographer. With Photographs of British Algae, Atkins produced the first ever photographically illustrated book.

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Naming The Money - Drummers & Dancers. Lubaina Himid.

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Stormé DeLarverie (1920–2014). Along with Marsha P. Johnson, Stonewall was sparked by DeLarverie, a lesbian butch, who was resisting arrest. 

“Nobody knows who threw the first punch, but it’s rumored that she did, and she said she did,” said Ms. Cannistraci, an owner of the Village lesbian bar Henrietta Hudson. “She told me she did.”

“She literally walked the streets of downtown Manhattan like a gay superhero,” Ms. Cannistraci said. “She was not to be messed with by any stretch of the imagination.”

https://twitter.com/shonfaye/status/857166495566180353

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/nyregion/storme-delarverie-early-leader-in-the-gay-rights-movement-dies-at-93.html

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Sumiko Iwamuro aka DJ Sumirock. 82-year-old dumpling-maker by day, DJ by night.

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Alicia Cawiya. Indigenous activist and Vice-President of the Huaorani Nation of Ecuador. Cawiya made a speech to the regional Assembly which was broadcast live on TV, speaking against the oil companies who had been granted access to extract oil in the Yasuní national park. Since making the speech Cawiya has received death threats from her President.

“Seven companies have been working in Huaorani territory and we have become poorer… How have we benefited? Not at all... The animals are now in danger of extinction. Who is to blame? Not us… We have been conservationists. We want our territory to be respected. Let us live the way we want to live.”

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Amrita Sher-Gil  (1913-1941). Often referred to as ‘India’s Frida Khalo’, Sher-Gil is an important figure in modern painting. She lived and worked in Europe and India but it was in India that her work reached its pinnacle: empathetic portraits of villagers and women in bold post-impressionist style. Sher-Gil was openly bisexual and encouraged a spirit of defiance against social norms. 

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In the course of the conversation I had with her, the Queen told me that she had no objection to permitting her subjects to trade with other countries. 'But,' she continued, 'no trade was possible with countries where the women were kept in the zenanas and so unable to come and trade with us. Men, we find, are rather of lower morals and so we do not like dealing with them. We do not covet other people's land, we do not fight for a piece of diamond though it may be a thousand-fold brighter than the Koh-i-Noor, nor do we grudge a ruler his Peacock Throne. We dive deep into the ocean of knowledge and try to find out the precious gems, which nature has kept in store for us. We enjoy nature's gifts as much as we can.

Sultana’s Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain

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Photo from the original Million Woman March which took place in Philadelphia in 1997.

Why I Do Not Support The Women's March on Washington - Brittany Oliver

Why I'm Skipping The Women's March on Washington -  Jamilah Lemieux

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Extraordinary photos taken by working-class photographer Tish Murtha (1956–2013) almost 40 years ago show the startling effects of mass youth unemployment in some of the most deprived areas of Britain. As Thatcher’s new government policies began to take hold, the North of England was badly affected by the closure of many industrial factories, leaving young people with little alternative option but to end up on the dole.

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Harnaam Kaur. “Harnaam is a body positive activist, who is anti bullying and does this all looking fierce.”

Burnt Roti’s 2016 Person of the Year