Nicole Lucas
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.
In the media
Bi Visibility Day: LGB International calls for greater visibility for bisexual people. Read the ten life stories in the free e-book BI.
(July 11, 2026). First WDI's Jo Brew interviews editor Sybilla Claus. Lorraine Nowlin from WDI USA and the Black Women's Caucus, discusses the adultification of black girls (at 0.48 minutes). Listen to Vivian Kuo on misogyny in Confucian-shaped societies (0.18). Marianne Driessen talks about her chapters on Jamie Reed, whistleblower from a gender clinic, and Riittakerttu Kaltiala, the Finnish psychiatrist known for her advocacy of careful, evidence-based care for gender dysphoria (at 0.35 minutes). Our photographer Iratxe Álvarez also shares her experiences working with girls and young women (at 1.00 hour).
Watch our Spinifex Press book launch with Bev Jackson, co-founder of LGB Alliance, and Australian anti-porn specialist Melinda Tankard Reist. They both wrote an excellent chapter in the book 'Rebel Girls'.
The rest of the team
Author, anthropologist and research journalist who worked over 30 years for the biggest Dutch national newspapers.
A smart and fierce fighter for women's and lesbian rights, and the person whose idea it was to start this book.
Spanish photographer living in Belgium who joined the project to make the attack on women's rights visible.
Born in Germany, raised in South Africa: translator, editor and interviewer for the English edition.
From LGB Taiwan, doing magnificent research on women in China, Taiwan, Japan and South-Korea.
Teacher from Belgium who helps with English translations and wrote a book for young people about the trans issue.