UTNE Reader released a list of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World and VivirLatino is proud that some dear amigas of ours are included.

brownfemipower, whom I consider an hermana on the blogosphere:

brownfemipower, whose inimitable blog is the anchor of the pulsing women-of-color blogosphere, began posting three years ago. She writes emotionally and radiantly about gender violence, immigration raids, public housing demolition in New Orleans, sexuality (a recent post on this topic included a video of Aerosmith’s “Crying”), and other “out of bounds” issues, morphing feminism back into a force for social change—for everyone—rather than an “exclusive networking club.”

“Feminists can’t seem to figure out why their movement isn’t growing,” she wrote in June. “Could the fact that feminism uses universities as its major site of recruitment rather than jails, halfway houses, day care centers, churches, restaurants, the streets, mommy blog communities . . . have something to do with it?”

Felicidades mujer!

Other amigas and people who should be amigas after the jump…

Jessica Hoffman, a founding force behind Make/shift magazine, one of the, if not the best collection of mujeres voices out there.

“What is your feminism for, and why does it matter?” At a time when feminism carries more connotation than meaning, few are willing to engage in this dialogue. It’s a question Jessica Hoffmann put forth in “An Open Letter to White Feminists,” published in the third issue of Make/shift, a magazine that she cofounded last year. The “feminisms” espoused in Make/shift are radical and varied, eagerly taking up the critiques of capitalism, environmental racism, health care, and war that are considered out of bounds for mainstream feminism.

I have to give a shout out to the organizers of the Allied Media Conference, who are also among the 50. I was honored to attend the AMC this past summer and it was an amazing experience.

The UTNE list is full of Latinos and other people of color who rarely get attention for their critical work. So check out the list, you’ll likely be inspired.