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Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022)
journalist, historian, essayist, peace activist, politician, immunologist, opinion journalist, political activist, feminist
- Reed College, The Rockefeller University
Tristan Taormino (born 1971)
actor, film director, sex educator, pornographic actor, film actor, women's rights activist, film producer, podcaster
- Wesleyan University
Manuel Puig (1932-1990)
playwright, activist
- University of Buenos Aires
Cornel West (born 1953)
theologian, philosopher, actor, critic, executive producer, podcaster, political activist
- Harvard University, Princeton University
Marge Piercy (born 1936)
poet, women's rights activist, activist, climate activist
- University of Michigan, Northwestern University
Maria Janion (1926-2020)
literary historian, literary critic, activist, translator, literary theorist
- University of Warsaw
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
politician, barrister, journalist, philosopher, autobiographer, essayist, newspaper editor, civil rights advocate, memoirist, humanitarian, peace activist, revolutionary, jurist, freedom fighter
- Mahatma Gandhi Museum, Inner Temple
Susan Faludi (born 1959)
women's rights activist, journalist, feminist
- Harvard University