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Tristan Taormino (born 1971)
actor, film director, sex educator, pornographic actor, film actor, women's rights activist, film producer, podcaster
Kumari Jayawardena (born 1931)
academic, activist, women's rights activist
Rosalynn Carter (1927-2023)
politician, women's rights activist, autobiographer
Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960)
anti-imperialist, journalist, women's rights activist, editor, oil painter, suffragist, artist, feminist
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
physician, essayist, women's rights activist, human rights activist
Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952)
revolutionary, diplomat, women's rights activist, political theorist, People's Commissar, sociologist
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
journalist, philosopher, women's rights activist, autobiographer, social reformer, social critic, suffragette, peace activist, human rights activist, political theorist, sociologist
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956)
economist, politician, constitutionalist, barrister, jurist, sociologist, anthropologist, pedagogue, philosopher, social reformer, journalist, revolutionary, professor, political scientist, scholar, orator, freedom fighter, historian, newspaper editor, civil rights advocate, humanitarian, human rights activist, educational theorist, spiritual leader, peace activist, autobiographer, theologian, painter, women's rights activist, bibliographer, essayist, scholar
