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Bethany Collins is an American artist. Her work primarily engages the relationship between race and language, as her main medium include dictionaries, journals, encyclopedias, newspapers, etc. In her thesis, Collins explains how growing up biracial in the south sparked her initial desire to work with definitions and old texts, in order to discover their underlying meanings. She recounts people always assuming that she and her family were unrelated, and how that lead to the pressure to define her own racial identity, because others couldn't easily fit her into the racial binary. She describes her work as "yet another attempt to navigate the black/white paradigm of race in the American South".

Liz Climo is an American cartoonist, animator, children's book author, and illustrator. She is best known for her webcomics, which she posts regularly to her website, The Little World of Liz, and her Rory the Dinosaur children's book series. She has also been animating on the television series The Simpsonssince 2003.

Genevieve Chua is a painter who works primarily through abstraction. grrrraaanularrrrrrr brings together experiments with materials, language and space undertaken during the artist’s residency with STPI Creative Workshop and Gallery in Singapore. The exhibition consolidates several bodies of work produced since 2021 that draw on painting, printmaking, sculpture and concrete poetry, playfully blurring the boundaries between them by using abstraction—or ‘near-abstraction’—as a tactic to ‘veer away from the obvious’.

Talia Chetrit's "Untitled (Muses)" (2021) is a work in contemporary photography. This piece showcases Chetrit's exploration of themes related to the hidden aspects of photography and identity. Chetrit, a New York-based artist, often delves into the mechanisms of photography, using techniques that obscure and abstract her subjects, making them less immediately recognizable. Chetrit's work frequently examines the interplay between visibility and obscurity, challenging viewers to reconsider their perceptions of the subjects depicted. “Untitled (Muses)" fits within her broader body of work that often reflects personal and intimate themes.

**Caitlin Cherry's "Euphraxia" (2020) is a significant work that explores themes of digital abstraction and representation. “**Euphraxia" was part of Cherry's broader exploration of black femininity and digital culture. The work reflects her interest in how technology influences the perception of identity and body image. Cherry employs vibrant colors and complex patterns, often inspired by digital media and contemporary culture. The pieces challenge traditional representations of black female bodies, merging painting with digital aesthetics

Jordan Casteel's "Lourdes and Katrina" is a notable work that reflects her focus on community and identity.
Casteel, an American figurative painter, is known for her vibrant portraits that often depict friends, family, and community members, particularly in Harlem and New York City. In her works, she captures intimate moments and the essence of her subjects, inviting viewers to engage with their stories and backgrounds.

Jacynthe Carrier is a contemporary Quebec artist born in 1982. She is known for her work in performance, video, and photography, exploring the relationship between the body and the environment. Carrier holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in visual and media arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal and a Master of Fine Arts in photography from Concordia University.

Genevieve Belleveau is an American performance artist and singer based in New York City and Los Angeles. Belleveau is best known for her relational artpieces which involve the audience in the art. She confronts within her work issues of human connection, technology and religious ritual. She was also a driver of a Mister Softee ice cream truck and has managed operations for the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck.

Roxana Halls is a figurative painter known for her images of wayward women who refuse to conform to society’s expectations. She has been widely praised for her draughtsmanship, wry humour and what art critic Brian Sewell called “the eerie narratives behind the portraiture.” One of Halls’s most renowned series - ‘Laughing While’ (2012 onwards) – depicts women engaged in more transgressive acts that interrogate encultured norms around femininity. These women are always active subjects — often breaking propriety just by eating messily.

Deena Mohamed is a graphic designer, graphic novelist, and illustrator, who was born and raised in Egypt. She made her debut at the age of 18 with her webcomic Qahera, which combines both Islamic and feminist values. The eponymous protagonist, a hijab-clad superheroine, is an Egyptian superhero. The series, which began as a joke amongst friends but soon became a viral phenomenon, deals with issues such as sexual harassment, misogyny, Islamophobia, and Islamist cultural attitudes, all often within the context of the 2012–13 Egyptian protests.

Olivia Locher is an American photographer. She gained notoriety for her photography series breaking an eccentric law from each of the 50 States of the Union, entitled I Fought the Law. A monograph of this project was released by Chronicle Books in September 2017. Locher is known for her sarcastic approach to studio photography with a heavy focus on color and concept.

Mimi Smith is an American visual artist. She is a pioneer in early feminist and conceptual art focusing on clothing sculpture and drawing installation. Smith’s early works were prescient of feminist and clothing art and predicted the feminist artists fascination with clothing as an extension of the body. Using the autobiographical as a point of departure, her work often parallels everyday moments. Smith’s piece Maternity Dress is prescient in its acknowledgment that fashion is part of what helps to construct women’s individual and social identities.

Mary Agnes Chase was an American botanist who specialized in agrostology, the study of grasses. Although lacking formal education past elementary school, Chase was able to rise through the ranks as a botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture, beginning as an illustrator under the tutelage of Albert Spear Hitchcock, and eventually becoming a senior botanist, overseeing the USDA’s Systematic Agrostology department. Chase conducted fieldwork abroad in Europe and South America and published several books, including the First Book of Grasses: The Structure of Grasses Explained for Beginners, which was later translated into Spanish and Portuguese. Additionally, Chase was recognized for her work as an agrostologist with numerous awards, including a Certificate of Merit issued by the Botanical Society of America in 1956. Chase was also an active suffragist and took part in demonstrations organized by the Silent Sentinels, a group established by members of the National Woman’s Party. Although Chase’s participation in this movement was not always well received by her peers in the scientific community, she nevertheless remained committed to the cause of women’s suffrage.

Janis Joplin was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and her “electric” stage presence.

Emily Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V’s horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race.

Carrie Chapman Catt was an American women’s suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920. She founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904, which was later named International Alliance of Women. She “led an army of voteless women in 1919 to pressure Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to vote and convinced state legislatures to ratify it in 1920”. She “was one of the best-known women in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century and was on all lists of famous American women.”

Dusty Springfield was an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano voice, she was a popular singer of blue-eyed soul, pop, and dramatic ballads, with French chanson, country, and jazz also in her repertoire. During her 1960s peak, she ranked among the most successful British performers on both sides of the Atlantic. Her image – marked by a peroxide blonde bouffant/beehive hairstyle, heavy makeup (thick black eyeliner and eye shadow) and evening gowns, as well as stylised, gestural performances – made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties.

La India is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter of salsa, house music and Latin pop. La India has been nominated for both Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, winning the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album for the Intensamente La India Con Canciones De Juan Gabriel album.

Billie Eilish is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her unique musical sound and haunting vocals, Eilish is a prominent figure in 2020s pop culture. Eilish has spoken on multiple occasions about women’s rights. She wrote and produced the 2020 short film Not My Responsibility as a response to body shaming toward her and the double standards placed upon women’s appearances. A supporter of body positivity for women, in a 2023 Variety interview Eilish denied that men suffer from body shaming, too. “Your Power”, one of her 2021 singles, criticizes the sexual exploitation of young women, primarily by men who hold power over them. Eilish associates herself with the US abortion rights movement; she expressed rage when Texas implemented its anti-abortion laws in 2021. During the 2022 Glastonbury festival, she performed “Your Power” to condemn the overturning of Roe v. Wade. She spoke of the decision: “Today is a really, really dark day for women in the U.S. I’m just going to say that as I cannot bear to think about it any longer in this moment.” She included a reference to Roe v. Wade’s overturning in her 2022 track “TV”, much of which she wrote after a draft of the court decision was leaked online in May.

Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840. In 1848, she was invited by Jane Hunt to a meeting that led to the first public gathering about women’s rights, the Seneca Falls Convention, during which the Declaration of Sentiments was written.