Laura Antoniou (born 1963) is an American novelist. She is the author of The Marketplace series of BDSM-themed novels, which were originally published under the pen name of Sara Adamson.

Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 - 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author.

Folk singer, songwriter and activist. (Born 1941).

African American civil rights and human rights activis. (1903-1986).

Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International F...

French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. (1908-1986).

Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.

Grace Lee Boggs, founding member of the Johnson-Forest Tendency (where her party name was Ria Stone), has died at the age of 100 in Detroit. She was born on June 27, 1915 and passed away October 5, 20...

Gloria Glickstein Brame (born August 20, 1955) is a U.S. writer and sex therapist based in Athens, Georgia.

Canadian politician, prominent member of the New Democratic Party. (1930-2003).

American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings, especially 'Silent Spring', are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. (1907-1964).

Deborah Cunningham was an ADAPT activist and Executive Director of the Memphis Center for Independent Living (MCIL). When she died on May 7, the movement lost a tireless, creative, committed activist,...

American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic. (1897-1980).

About the weeklong celebration of the life of Grace Lee Boggs, radical activist, political theorist, and revolutionary.

Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).

EILEEN SUTTON GERSH, a revolutionary socialist since the 1930s, died in London on March 18, 1998. Like many of her generation, she became radicalized by the political and economic crisis of the 1930s,...

A documentary about author Elizabeth Smart, with Jackie Burroughts playing Elizabeth Smart.

ROSE LESNIK, LIFELONG socialist, activist and humanist, died of pancreatic cancer on August 1, 1998. Rose, born in 1924, grew up in a socialist household. Her father, Harry Gold, and her brother join...

Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).

American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).

Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.

Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian doctor of medicine, author and academic.

Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).

Hannah Arendt was an influential German Jewish political theorist.

Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 91, died at her home in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on May 26, 2016. An internationally renowned, respected and admired advocate for human and civil rights, Hedy was enc...

Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).

A peasant girl born in what is now eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War.

American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).

Joy Kogawa is a Canadian writer.

Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, 9 November 1914 – 19 January 2000) was an Austrian and American film actress and inventor. After an early and brief film career in Germany, which included a...

Canadian writer, social activist and feminist. (Born 1935).

Canadian journalist and author. (1909-2003).

Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).

Canadian politician and feminist. (1905-1991).

Canadian political and activist. (1890-1954).

JOYCE MAUPIN, A long-time revolutionary activist and writer and a founder of Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality), died last September 14. Joyce loved to recount the story about “women in li...

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dagmar Baur - March 1941 - April 2010.

Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1959).

Phyllis Omido is a Kenyan environmental activist.

Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles.

Canadian feminist, writer, and activist. (Born 1945).

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl; 22 August 1902 - 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famo...

Indian writer (in English) and activist. (Born 1961).

British author, feminist and socialist campaigner. (1894-1986).

Assata Olugbala Shakur (born July 16, 1947 as JoAnne Deborah Byron, married name Chesimard) is an African-American activist and escaped convict who was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and Bl...

Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist.

Grace Lee Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States in the last 75 years, including: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice.

Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her liter...

German author.

Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none

25 September, 2015 marked four years since the passing of Kenyan environmentalist and feminist icon, Wangari Maathai. In Kenya, the celebrations were notably muted as her standing in the country has b...

Winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1950).