Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011) was the first woman from Oriental Africa that got a PhD. She studied at the Benedictine College in Kansas thanks to the initiative of John F. Kennedy to make African people study in the U.S. and …
Omas gegen Rechts is a citizens initiative in Germany and Austria founded in 2017. The movement began when the conservative People’s Party had just formed a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party in Austria. The group protest extreme right-wing political …
French writer and existential philosopher who wrote The Second Sex—a book on the role of role of women and ‘otherness’ in history and society Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer and feminist who was born in a bourgeois and Christian …
Bulgarian actress, feminist and revolutionary Todora Bakardzhieva (1850—1934) was a Bulgarian feminist and revolutionary who had a very important role in Bulgaria’s freedom from the Ottomans. She was a wealthy woman whose clothes were showy and expensive (she is also …
NY anonymous feminist and anti-racist artistic collective The Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous feminist and anti-racist artistic collective. It was created in New York in the year 1985 and they are denominated this way due to their communication tactics. Their …
British actress and activist in the fields of gender equality and ecologism, engaged with the UN HeForShe campaign Emma Watson is a British actress and model that is known worldwide for her character in the Harry Potter Saga as Hermione …
The choice to be a writer in ‘men’s times’ Author: Sylvia Borissova Translator: Donika Boneva Louisa May Alcott’s very name is hardly as unmistakably recognizable as her novel Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), which has become …
This is an adult animated film which follows the story of a young girl, Marjane, as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian/Islamic Revolution. When Islamic Fundamentalists “win” the elections with 99.99% of the vote and start …
Josey Aimes’s return to her native Minnesota after her failed marriage transforms her whole life. The single mother of two urgently needs a job, which she finds in the iron mines that have sustained the life in her hometown for …
