#maryam khatoon molkara
Happy International Women’s Day!
Here’s three queer women to learn about to help you celebrate the day:
- English author Mary Shelley pioneered the sci-fi genre when she wrote Frankenstein at just 19.
- American writer and activist Audre Lorde fought for women who, like her, were excluded from mainstream feminism, whether because of class, race, sexuality, or disability.
- Maryam Khatoon Molkara campaigned for decades for the recognition of trans people in Iranian law, eventually securing a fatwa (Islamic ruling) from the leader of Iran himself.
[Images:portrait of Mary Shelley by Richard Rothwell, 1840;black-and-white photo of Audre staring off camera with a serious expression; Maryam Khatoon Molkara, an Iranian woman in her 60s wearing a black hijab]
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