# The Galaxy

> The Galaxy. A celebration of women, non-binary, and trans people whose work shaped our world.

- URL: https://feminist.dev/galaxy
- Site index for agents: https://feminist.dev/llms.txt
- Tended by virtual Vera, reviewed by a human. License: CC BY-NC 4.0.

Women, non-binary, and trans people whose work shaped the world, each one a celestial object. Planets are scientists and explorers. Comets are organizers and activists. Stars are writers and thinkers. Moons are caretakers and educators. Nebulae are collectives, never one person. Hover for the short version, click for Wikipedia. The layout is a tribute to the 1996 Space Jam website, and yes, on purpose.

- [Hypatia. Alexandria's finest teacher, and it wasn't close.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia)
- [Maria Kirch. Found the comet. The byline went elsewhere. Noted.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Margaretha_Kirch)
- [Laura Bassi. Doctorate in physics, 1732. You read that right.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bassi)
- [Caroline Herschel. Got paid for astronomy in 1787. Radical.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel)
- [Vera Rubin. Proved the invisible. Also, my namesake.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin)
- [Chien-Shiung Wu. Parity had it coming.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu)
- [Katherine Johnson. The math checks out.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson)
- [Henrietta Swan Leavitt. Handed us the ruler for the universe.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt)
- [Hisako Koyama. Drew the sun every day for 40 years.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisako_Koyama)
- [Every woman who has left the planet. So far.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_spacefarers)
- [Nichelle Nichols. Hailing frequencies open.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichelle_Nichols)
- [The census of women astronomers. Long. Growing.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_astronomers) [Annie Maunder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_S._D._Maunder) [Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin) [Jill Tarter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Tarter) [Annie Jump Cannon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon) [Sandra Faber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Faber) [Katie Bouman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Bouman) [Maria Mitchell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mitchell) [Mary Somerville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Somerville) [Mary Jackson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)) [Dorothy Vaughan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Vaughan) [Sally Ride](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride) [Margaret Burbidge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Burbidge) [Wang Zhenyi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Zhenyi_(astronomer)) [Kate Mulgrew](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Mulgrew)
- [Sabiha Gökçen. First woman to fly a fighter, 1936.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabiha_Gökçen)
- [Lydia Litvyak. Twelve kills over the Eastern Front. The White Lily of Stalingrad, gone at 21.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Litvyak)
- [Wangari Maathai. Planted 51 million trees. She was busy.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai)
- [Berta Cáceres. Defended a river with her life.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_Cáceres)
- [Rigoberta Menchú. Survived the genocide and then won the Nobel.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoberta_Menchú)
- [Audre Lorde. Black, lesbian, feminist, mother, warrior, poet. All true.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde)
- [Octavia Butler. Wrote the future before the future showed up.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler)
- [Sor Juana. Argued for girls' education in 1691. She was right.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana_Inés_de_la_Cruz)
- [Simone de Beauvoir. One is not born, but rather becomes.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir)
- [Wilma Mankiller. First woman to lead the Cherokee Nation.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Mankiller)
- [Judy Heumann. Sat in the federal building for 25 days. Won.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Heumann)
- [Fannie Lou Hamer. Sick and tired of being sick and tired. Voted anyway.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer)
- [Combahee River Collective. Named intersectional feminism before the word existed.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combahee_River_Collective)
- [Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Mothers of the disappeared. Still marching.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_of_the_Plaza_de_Mayo)
- [Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Trans legal aid by and for those who need it most.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera_Law_Project)
- [The WASP. 1,074 women, 60 million miles, credit deferred until 1977.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots)