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Jane Addams
Activist
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Susan B. Anthony
American Suffragist
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Virginia Apuzzo
Pioneering Activist
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Natalie Barney
Author
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Joan Biren
Documentarian
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Ivy Bottini
Women’s and LGBT Activist
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Charlotte Bunch
Scholar and Activist
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Patrick Califia
Author
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Margaret Cho
Entertainer
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Meg Christian
Feminist Singer-Songwriter
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Midge Costanza
Presidential Adviser
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Nancy Cárdenas
Mexican Writer & Activist
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Jeanne Córdova
Activist and Author
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Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
19th Century Orator
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Ani DiFranco
Grammy-Winning Singer
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Elana Dykewomon
Author & Activist
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Ernestine Eckstein
Gay Pioneer
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Laïla El-Métoui
LGBTQ+ Educator
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Lillian Faderman
LGBT Historian
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Roxane Gay
Best-Selling Author
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Jewelle Gomez
Novelist
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Lesley Gore
Singer & Composer
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Bell Hooks
Author & Feminist
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Brenda Howard
Activist
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June Jordan
Poet
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Frances Kellor
Social Activist
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Kay Lahusen
Gay Pioneer          
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Steve Letsike
South African Activist
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Anne Lister
Pioneering Feminist
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Irshad Manji
Muslim Reformist
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Pauli Murray
Attorney and Civil Rights Activist
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Holly Near
Singer/Songwriter  
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Ann Northrop
Pioneering AIDS Activist & Journalist
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Jean O’Leary
Pioneering Activist
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Elliot Page
Actor and Director
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Pat Parker
Poet & Activist
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Johnnie Phelps
Decorated WWII Veteran
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Sally Ride
National Hero
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Ethel Smyth
Composer & Suffragette
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poet/Performer
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Lillian Wald
Community Nursing Founder
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Mary Edwards Walker
Surgeon
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Alice Walker
Author and Feminist
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Edith Wharton
Pulitzer-Winning Novelist
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