September’s Feminist to know is Yayori Matsui!

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Feminist to Know: Wilma Mankiller

August’s Feminist to Know is Wilma Mankiller!

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Feminist to Know: Shani Dhanda

Shani Dhanda is a multi-award-winning disability advocate… and our July Feminist to Know!

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Feminist to Know: Barbara Smith

“We were black feminists because we believed we had to work to make change in the actual world, as opposed to just embracing a set of ideas.”

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Feminist to Know: Haneen Maikey

Haneen Maikey is a Palestinian activist working against Israeli apartheid by engaging queer and feminist politics…. and she is our May 2021 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Feminist to Know: Sir Lady Java

April 2020’s Feminist to Know is icon Sir Lady Java

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Feminist to Know: Terisa Siagatonu

March’s Feminist to Know is poet Terisa Siagatonu!

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Feminist to Know: Augusta Savage

Augusta Savage was an influential sculptor, advocate, and teacher, who was shaped by––and helped to shape––the Harlem Renaissance… she is also our February 2021 Feminist to Know on The Provocateur.

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Feminist to Know: Claudette Colvin

A short bio on one of the lesser-known figures of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Feminist to Know: Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta is a feminist, labor activist, and civil rights leader… and our December 2020 Feminist to Know on The Provocateur.

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Feminist to Know: Haunani-Kay Trask

Haunani-Kay Trask is a Kanaka Maoli feminist scholar and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa… and our November 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Feminist to Know: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a U.S. Representative, serving parts of Queens and The Bronx in Congress… and our October 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Feminist to Know: Cherríe Moraga

Cherríe Moraga is a lesbian, xicana feminist poet, activist, essayist, and playwright… and our September 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Feminist to Know: Hetty Reckless

Hetty Reckless escaped slavery with her daughter and made it to Philadelphia, where she would become a leading abolitionist and suffragette. She is also our August 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Feminist to Know: Nikkita “KO” Oliver

Nikkita Oliver is a “self-empowered Black queer woman,” and an important activist voice in Seattle as a poet, organizer, attorney, educator, and abolitionist… and our July 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Feminist to Know: Mia Mingus

Mia Mingus is an educator, organizer, and writer, focusing on disability justice and transformative justice… and our June 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Feminist to Know: Minneapolis Protesters

The people protesting in Minneapolis are engaging in the deeply feminist act of struggling against systems of domination. So, we are highlighting their activism in our May 2020 Feminist to Know corner of The Provocateur.

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Feminist to Know: Tourmaline

Tourmaline is a filmmaker, artist, trans studies scholar, educator, and organizer… and our April 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Feminist to Know: Rebecca Gomperts

Rebecca Gomperts is a doctor and artist whose career is centered around providing abortion services and reproductive healthcare education to those with limited or no access… and our March 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Feminist to Know: Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman is one of the most influential Black scholars alive today, who has made pivotal interventions in the historicization of U.S. enslavement… and our February 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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