I'm a feminist writer and academic. My research focuses on feminist activism, especially mainstream (white) feminist movements against sexual violence, such as #MeToo. I'm interested in who is centred…
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and leftism; and criticism of corporate globalization, fasc…
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Mar…
Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing pro…
bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins) was an African-American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produc…
Sara Ahmed is a British-Australian scholar whose area of study includes the intersection of feminist theory, lesbian feminism, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism.
Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) was a leader of the so-called “Frankfurt School,” a group of philosophers and social scientists associated with the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute of Social Researc…
Jean Giono, the only son of a cobbler and a laundress, was one of France’s greatest writers. His prodigious literary output included stories, essays, poetry, plays, film scripts, translations and over…
Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. Her nonfiction titles include the National Book Critics Circle Award winn…
Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and pu…
Hélène Cixous is a Jewish-French, Algerian-born feminist well-known as one of the founders of poststructuralist feminist theory along with Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. She is now a professor of E…
Strömquist was born in Lund and grew up in Ravlunda in the Österlen region of south Sweden. Today she lives in Malmö. Already as a five-year old she made her own comics, but stopped, until she took up…
Anna Kontula (b. 1977) is a sociologist, author and Left Allience parliament member living in Valkeakoski, Finland. She is known as a debater challenging mainstream thinking.
Books by Anja Kauranen have been published with the name Anja Snellman since 1997. Vuodesta 1997 Anja Kaurasen teokset on julkaistu nimellä Anja Snellman.
Helmi Kekkonen (s. 1982) on valmistunut filosofian maisteriksi pääaineenaan yleinen kirjallisuustiede. Hän on opiskellut kirjoittamista Turun yliopiston luovan kirjoittamisen opinto-ohjelmassa ja Krii…
Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had clo…
Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 100,000 testimonies of gender inequality, with branches in 25 countries worldwide. She works closely wi…
FM Pajtim Statovci (s. 1990) on Suomen kansainvälisesti menestyneimpiä kirjailijoita. Kriitikoiden ja lukijoiden rakastamat romaanit, Kissani Jugoslavia…
Silvia Hosseini on suomalais-iranilainen esseisti, kriitikko ja äidinkielen ja kirjallisuuden opettaja. Hän on koulutukseltaan filosofian maisteri, ja tekee väitöskirjaa Leonard Cohenin laululyriikast…
Dizz Tate is a writer currently living in London, after growing up in Florida. She was long-listed for Young Poet Laureate for London in 2014. She has been previously published in The Wrong Quarterly,…
Raisa Omaheimo on helsinkiläinen taiteilija, joka on käsitellyt yksityisen ja yleisen rajapintoja näytelmäkäsikirjoituksissaan Läski ja Häiriö. Koulutukseltaan hän on teatteri-ilmaisun ohjaaja ja tait…
Legacy Russell is an American curator and writer. She is associate curator of exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Previous to this role Russell worked as an independent curator alongside her w…
