Caroline Cossey, Rituparno Ghosh, Marina Tsvetaeva

Born: Caroline Cossey (1954), Rituparno Ghosh (1963)
Died: Marina Tsvetaeva (1941)

Born on this day

31AugBorn 195472nd birthday

Caroline Cossey

Caroline Cossey answered a tabloid's exposure of her trans history with books, interviews and a legal challenge. Her career links the possibilities of public visibility with the right to choose when personal information becomes public.

31AugBorn 196363rd birthday

Rituparno Ghosh

Rituparno Ghosh reshaped Bengali cinema through intimate family stories and an increasingly public exploration of queer and gender-nonconforming lives.

Died on this day

31AugDied 194185th anniversary of death

Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvetaeva made love, separation and displacement the subjects of an uncompromising poetic voice, sustaining her work through revolution, exile and the destruction of her family.