A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.

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Black Activism

Confirmed

The long tradition of Black organising for civil rights, freedom and dignity, from abolition through Stonewall to Black Lives Matter.

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Asian Voices

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Writers, artists and organisers across Asia and its diasporas, on identity, belonging and being seen on your own terms.

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Black Literature

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A body of writing that reshaped what English-language fiction could carry: memory, migration, family, resistance.

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Disability Rights

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The social model of disability, in which the disabling factor is a world built to shut people out, and the movement that has been rewriting that world.

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Indigenous Voices

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First Nations writers and leaders on sovereignty, land, language and the long work of survival.

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Latinx Voices

Confirmed

Writers, organisers and artists across Latin America and the Latinx diaspora, from farmworkers' rights to magical realism.

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LGBTQ+ Voices

Confirmed

Writers, artists and organisers whose work insisted on being seen, and on the room, in every field, being made bigger.

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Trans Rights

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A movement led largely by trans women of colour, still fighting for the most basic protections in most of the world.

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Women in Politics

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From the first women to hold high office to those still opening the way, on power, representation and how change gets made.

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Women in Science

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Scientists and thinkers whose work reshaped their fields, often with less recognition than their male peers received for the same discoveries.

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Women in Sport

Confirmed

The struggle for equal pay, recognition and access: on the court, on the track, and off it.

Recommended reading and viewing
  • All In, Billie Jean King (2021)
  • Documentary: Battle of the Sexes (2017)
  • Wilma: An Autobiography, Wilma Rudolph (1977)
  • Documentary: LFG, on the US Women's National Team (2021)