Born in Poland to a Jewish family, Ernestine Louise Rose (1810 -1892) was a feminist, abolitionist, freethinker, and atheist.
Read MorePatricia Romney is a psychologist based in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Read MoreBorn in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Ivelisse Rodriguez grew up in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Read MoreLynn Roberts is currently assistant professor in the department of Community Health and Social Sciences at City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. She is an emeritus founding Board member of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective.
Read MoreCristy C. Road is a musician, author, and illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY.
Read MoreRahna Reiko Rizzuto is the author of the highly acclaimed novel, Why She Left Us.
Read MoreRiverbend is the pseudonym of a woman who in 2003 began writing a blog relating her first hand experiences of the US invasion and then occupation of her native Iraq and the resulting rise of religious fundamentalism.
Read MoreThe Rise-Home Stories Project is an innovative collaboration between multimedia storytellers and social justice advocates from several grassroots organizations.
Read MoreFrances Riddle is a writer and translator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Read MoreAmy Richards is most popularly known as the author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future.
Read MoreSian Reynolds has translated many books on French history, and is professor emeritus of French at the University of Stirling, Scotland.
Read MoreRebecca Hourwich Reyher (1897-1987) began a career as a writer in the 1920s, focusing her work on South African women.
Read MoreClaire Reed, writer and lifelong activist in community and world affairs, was a staff member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s civil rights struggle. Claire Reed continues to write fiction, poetry, and memoir today.
Read MoreChristine Redfern is an artist and writer living in Montreal.
Read MoreAudacia Ray is the founder and executive director of the Red Umbrella Project (RedUP). At RedUP, she has published the literary journal Prose & Lore: Memoir Stories About Sex Work. She has worked on countless anthologies and books, and was an executive editor for $pread.
Read MoreRochelle Ratner (1949–2008) was the author of the novels Bobby's Girl and The Lion's Share, as well as several volumes of poetry.and was also the executive editor of the American Book Review.
Read MoreIrene Rathbone (1892-1980) is an author.
Read MoreNobantu Rasebotsa is senior lecturer at the University of Botswana. Her research includes work on gender issues and HIV/AIDS in African literature.
Read MoreRuth Rosen is a historian of gender and society.
Read MoreMamphela Ramphele is a South African politician, a former activist against apartheid, a medical doctor, an academic and businesswoman. She is a former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cape Town and a one-time Managing Director at the World Bank.
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