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May 19, 2024 · Elsa Ávila is famous for being the first Latin American woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. She did this on May 5, 1999. This accomplishment has etched her name in the annals of mountaineering history.
3 days ago · By the early 1990s, not only had she become a recognized figure in art history, but she was also regarded as an icon for Chicanos, the feminism movement, and the LGBTQ+ community. Kahlo's work has been celebrated internationally as emblematic of Mexican national and Indigenous traditions and by feminists for what is seen as its uncompromising ...
2 days ago · Idar is credited for forming the first feminist part in Mexican history–G.O.A.T! Her organization exposed issues regarding civil rights, bilingual education, the lynchings of Mexicans, labor organizing and women’s rights. She was an advocate for Mexicans as a whole but she held the wellbeing of women and children near to her heart.
2 days ago · Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that confront such themes as identity, the human body, and death. Some of her notable paintings included Frieda and Diego Rivera (1931) and The Two Fridas (1939). Read more about Kahlo’s life and career.
May 11, 2024 · Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American administrator and former astronaut who was the first Hispanic woman to travel into space (1993). She later served as director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center (2013–18).
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May 8, 2024 · Luisa Moreno (born August 30, 1906, Guatemala City, Guatemala—died November 3, 1992, Guatemala) was a Guatemalan-born labour organizer and civil rights activist who, over the course of a 20-year career in public life, became one of the most prominent Latina women in the international workers’ rights movement.
May 23, 2024 · Frida Kahlo’s extraordinary explorations in self-portraiture are testament to the fact that, in real life and on canvas, Kahlo considered her image on precisely her own terms, celebrating her features – her Mexican identity, upper lip hair and that striking unibrow. “I am my own muse. The subject I know best.
