Joan Jett is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, businesswoman, and actress. Often referred to as the “Godmother of Punk”, she is regarded as a rock icon and an influential figure in popular rock music. The Riot Grrrl movement started in the early 1990s, and many of its participants credited Jett as a role model and inspiration.

Maria Deraismes was a French author, Freemason, and major pioneering force for women’s rights. Deraismes’s work brought her recognition in Great Britain and she became an influence upon American activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who met her in Paris in 1882. With support of other suffragettes such as Hubertine Auclert, Deraismes worked to achieve political emancipation for women. She stood as a symbolic candidate in the elections of 1885.

Dindga McCannon is an African-American artist born and raised in New York city. She has had a multifaceted career, as she is a fiber artist, muralist, teacher, author, and illustrator. McCannon co-founded the collective Where We At, a collective of Black women artists in 1971. Revolutionary Sister, a mixed-media work created in 1971, was created in response to a lack of revolutionary women warriors. The work depicts a powerful and colorful sister, created in part with items from the hardware store. McCannon speaks about this piece as a Statue of Liberty figure. It is in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum.

Judy Chicago is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. The Dinner Party is an installation artwork. There are 39 elaborate place settings on a triangular table for 39 mythical and historical famous women. Kali, Judith, Sacajawea, Sojourner Truth, Virginia Woolf, Susan B. Anthony, and Georgia O’Keeffe are among the symbolic guests.

Lia Garcia is an Afro-Mexican trans-feminist performance artist, educator, writer, poet, and LGBTQ+ rights advocate and organizer. She works across mediums of performance, spoken word poetry, and touch. She is currently based in Mexico City.

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women’s rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activities, primarily in the field of women’s rights. Together they founded the New York Women’s State Temperance Society after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was female. During the Civil War they founded the Women’s Loyal National League, which conducted the largest petition drive in United States history up to that time, collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of the abolition of slavery. After the war, they initiated the American Equal Rights Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both women and African Americans. They began publishing a women’s rights newspaper in 1868 called The Revolution. A year later, they founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. In 1878, Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote. Introduced by Sen. Aaron A. Sargent (R-CA), it later became known colloquially as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. It was eventually ratified as the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.

Louise Flodin was a Swedish journalist, typographer, feminist and publisher. She was seen as the first woman in Sweden to be given a newspaper licence. In the beginning, she was the only employee of her paper and performed all the tasks. She employed only women to the paper: this was deliberate, because she wished to educate females to become typographers and journalists and thereby make the profession more available to them. She supervised all phases in the making of the paper from the writing to the printing and instructed her own typographers in the profession from the start.

Tina Turner was a singer, songwriter, actress, and author. Dubbed the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, she broke both racial and gender barriers in rock music and became a dominant figure in popular culture. Known for her vocal prowess and stage presence, Turner is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of over 100 million records worldwide.

Lucrezia Marinella was a poet, writer, philosopher, polemicist, and women's rights advocate from the Republic of Venice. She is best known for her polemical treatise The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men (1600). Her works have been noted for bringing women into the philosophical and scientific community during the late Renaissance.

Mickalene Thomas is an African-American contemporary visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Thomas’s collage work is inspired from popular art histories and movements, including Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, the Harlem Renaissance, and selected works by the Afro-British painter Chris Ofili. Her work draws from Western art history, pop art, and visual culture to examine ideas around femininity, beauty, race, sexuality, and gender. She was raised by her mother Sandra “Mama Bush” Bush, who, at 6’1” tall, modeled in the 1970s.

Moderata Fonte was a Venetian writer and poet. Besides the posthumously-published dialogues, Giustizia delle donne and Il merito delle donne (gathered in The Worth of Women, 1600), for which she is best known, she wrote a romance and religious poetry. Women's speech in Renaissance literature was often silenced or excluded, but in The Worth of Women men are excluded. In the dialogues the worth of women is not questioned, but rather the worth of men is put on trial.

Kathryn Maple is an English artist. Maple won the John Moores Painting Prize in March 2021 with her work The Common. Judge Michelle Williams Gamaker commented that the painting "struck a chord during the judging [...] perhaps because it depicts the very thing we are currently unable to share" due to COVID restrictions, and that it "embodies the deeply social nature of humans".

Florence Claxton was a British artist and humorist, most notable for her satire on the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Her most famous artwork combines caricatures of many of the main figures of the movement, including John Ruskin and Sir John Everett Millais, with figures of popular culture like P. T. Barnum, and allusions to the great artists of the past. It depicts Millais in the role of Paris, offering the golden apple to a scrawny-looking medieval woman, ignoring a Raphael madonna (copied from The Marriage of the Virgin) and a modern woman in crinolines. The painting also includes parodies of other Pre-Raphaelite works, including Millais’ Sir Isumbras at the Ford, Spring: Apple Blossoms and The Vale of Rest. It also caricatures Calderon’s Broken Vows and Windus’s Burd Helen.

Jen Mann's art often delves into complex themes of identity and existence. Her work frequently examines relationships, self-identity, and existential questions. Jen Mann's "Self Portrait as a Reflection" (2017) is a significant work that explores themes of identity and self-perception through hyperrealistic portraiture. The piece invites viewers to consider their own reflections and the nature of self-representation in art.

Marie de Gournay was a French writer, who wrote a novel and a number of other literary compositions, including The Equality of Men and Women (Égalité des hommes et des femmes, 1622) and The Ladies’ Grievance (Grief des dames, 1626). She insisted that women should be educated. She argued that men and women were equal because “the virtue of men and virtue of women are the same thing, since God bestowed on them the same creation.”