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Tania Leon

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1945 – 1996

Tania Leon Gon Buurman
Opening Flamboyant Marian Bakker IAV 100026915

South African activist and feminist Tania Leon was a instrumental in founding several Dutch organizations dedicated to the equality and emancipation of women in general and Black lesbian women in particular.

Photo credits

“Portrait of Tania Leon donning a baret”
Year: 1985
Collection: IHLIA LGBTI Heritage
Photographer: Gon Buurman

“Three women at the opening of the Women’s information and documentation center for Black and migrant women Flamboyant. On the far right co-founder Tania Leon, José Maas in the middle and Marlene Babel on the right.”
Year: 1989
Collection: IHLIA LGBTI Heritage
Photographer: Marian Bakker

“Sister Outsider, genoemd naar een essaybundel van Audre Lorde, een zwarte lesbische groep 1984”
Jaartal: 1984
Collectie: Atria
Fotograaf: Robertine Romeny

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