Who Are We?

Sybilla Claus with Jordana (left) in the library, holding the Dutch version and a book about hidden girls in Kabul, Afghanistan. Jordana talks about her dreams and struggles in the first interview with a girl (with pictures) in the book. She is in secondary school now, studying hard. She continues to learn Dutch, English, French, German, next to her mother tongue Brazilian Portuguese 😵‍💫 Ay,ay, so much, but let's not forget she is studying maths, physics, chemistry, biology, geography, history and art as well. You can do it, Jojo!

Sybilla is an author who has published six non-fiction books, an anthropologist, and a research journalist. She worked over 30 years as a journalist with the biggest Dutch national daily newspapers. She loves working with and learning from young and old women from different cultures.

Marianne Driessen (left), next to author Helen Joyce from Sex Matters, is a fierce fighter for women's and lesbian rights. She inspired us to start the book, and now devotes her time to Athena Forum, an organisation started by the fabulous Faika El-Nagashi to check on what the European Union is doing to undermine women's sex based rights.

Binia Lachnitt found us exactly at the right time. She lives in The Netherlands but speaks English and German fluently, because she was born in Germany and grew up in South-Africa. She helped us enormously by translating many articles, and even did an interview herself with Afghan young women and girls for the English version. Read it and then let us know if Binia the Ninja should write more stories…

Vivian Kuo is from LGB Taiwan and joined us last year. She does magnificent research on everything that has to do with women in China, Taiwan, Japan and South-Korea. Vivian needs to protect her privacy, because coming out in Taiwan is not an easy feat. But she loves connecting with Western feminists, lesbians and bisexual women and is very pleasant company. Don't miss her when you visit Taiwan.

Ms Cassie Dour (pseudonym) is a teacher from Belgium, who helps on our website with English translations. She wrote a book for young people about the trans issue, not to change their minds, but hoping to make them think for themselves a bit more. You can read it or download it on Vrouwenarchief.nl (Dutch Women's Archive), where we plan to archive all our gender critical essays and artciles in the Dutch language. Miss Cassie Dours work is an exception. 😉😉

Nicole Lucas (6-5-1959 – 27-5-2025 ✝)

The people we love will never leave.

They walk beside us daily. Unseen unheard, but always close.

You just read the text her husband and son had engraved on her tombstone. Our Nicole was part of the Gender Rebel think tank from the start. During her life she had to help us anonymously, but now her family agreed with her coming out as a Gender Rebel. Nicole lost an unfair battle against cancer, when she was way too young. This is what we wrote about her at the end of the introduction in the book, to say thank you one last time: Fastest reader and writer on this planet, war correspondent, colleague, rebel and friend until the end.