Georgia O'Keeffe
Patron of hiding the sacred in plain sight.
The Saints
The Church of the Holy's Revered Ancestors
Painters
Frida Kahlo
Patron of embodied feminine pain and power.
Judy Chicago
Patron of making it undeniably literal.
Artemisia Gentileschi
Patron of refusing to be silenced by the men who wronged her.
Poets
Sappho
The Original. The island. The fragments that survived the burning anyway.
Emily Dickinson
Patron of refusing patriarchal timelines.
Sylvia Plath
Patron of the unspeakable spoken plainly.
Audre Lorde
Patron of the erotic as power, self-defined.
Protectors
Harriet Tubman
Patron of protecting everything, at all costs, repeatedly.
Gloria Steinem
Patron of bodily autonomy and refusing silence.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Patron of legal protection, dissent as doctrine.
Marsha P. Johnson
Patron of those who protect others before themselves.
Pioneers
Amelia Earhart
Went where no one had gone. Disappeared doing it. Undimmed.
Marie Curie
Discovered radioactivity. Died from it. Patron of giving everything to the work.
Hedy Lamarr
Invented frequency-hopping communication while being dismissed as just an actress.
Valentina Tereshkova
First woman in space. Soviet. Often forgotten. We remember her.
Sally Ride
First American woman in space. Kept her own secrets with dignity.
Professors
Hannah Arendt
Fled the Nazis. Wrote the definitive text on totalitarianism. Patron of thinking clearly under threat.
Simone de Beauvoir
Patron of naming what everyone else called natural.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Said it first. 1792. They weren't ready.
Hypatia
Patron of knowledge as threat to empire, killed for it.