A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.
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Trans Rights
ConfirmedA movement led largely by trans women of colour, still fighting for the most basic protections in most of the world.
- Redefining Realness, Janet Mock (2014)
- Whipping Girl, Julia Serano (2007)
- Documentary: Disclosure (Netflix, 2020)
- Documentary: The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
Asian Voices
ConfirmedWriters, artists and organisers across Asia and its diasporas, on identity, belonging and being seen on your own terms.
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
- The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston (1976)
- Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong (2020)
- Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu (2020)
Black Activism
ConfirmedThe long tradition of Black organising for civil rights, freedom and dignity, from abolition through Stonewall to Black Lives Matter.
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with Alex Haley (1965)
- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin (1963)
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
- How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis (2016)
Black Literature
ConfirmedA body of writing that reshaped what English-language fiction could carry: memory, migration, family, resistance.
- Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
- Sula, Toni Morrison (1973)
- Kindred, Octavia Butler (1979)
- The Colour Purple, Alice Walker (1982)
Disability Rights
ConfirmedThe 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.
- Being Heumann, Judith Heumann (2020)
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong (2020)
- Documentary: Crip Camp (Netflix, 2020)
- The Country of the Blind, Andrew Leland (2023)
Indigenous Voices
ConfirmedFirst Nations writers and leaders on sovereignty, land, language and the long work of survival.
- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014)
- Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, Wilma Mankiller (1993)
- All the Real Indians Died Off, Dunbar-Ortiz and Gilio-Whitaker (2016)
Latinx Voices
ConfirmedWriters, organisers and artists across Latin America and the Latinx diaspora, from farmworkers' rights to magical realism.
- My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayor (2013)
- The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
- I, Rigoberta Menchú, as told to Elisabeth Burgos-Debray (1983)
- The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende (1982)
LGBTQ+ Voices
ConfirmedWriters, artists and organisers whose work insisted on being seen, and on the room, in every field, being made bigger.
- Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin (1956)
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde (1982)
- Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg (1993)
- Documentary: Paris Is Burning (1990)
- Nanette, Hannah Gadsby (Netflix, 2018)
Women in Politics
ConfirmedFrom the first women to hold high office to those still opening the way, on power, representation and how change gets made.
- Becoming, Michelle Obama (2018)
- My Own Words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016)
- The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris (2019)
- Unbowed: A Memoir, Wangari Maathai (2006)
- Documentary: Knock Down the House (2019)
Women in Science
ConfirmedScientists and thinkers whose work reshaped their fields, often with less recognition than their male peers received for the same discoveries.
- Silent Spring, Rachel Carson (1962)
- In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall (1971)
- Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly (2016)
- Thinking in Pictures, Temple Grandin (1995)
- Lab Girl, Hope Jahren (2016)
Women in Sport
ConfirmedThe struggle for equal pay, recognition and access: on the court, on the track, and off it.
- 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)