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On this day, 3 October 1993, Katerina Gogou (Κατερίνα Γώγου), Greek anarchist poet, author and actor died by suicide aged just 53. Under the military dictatorship, Gogou could only make a living as an actor portraying sexist stereotypes of women, like “housewife” or “love interest” in comedies which reinforced the ideology of the dictatorship. So Gogou expressed her feminist and revolutionary ideas in her poetry. For example, this was one poem discovered after her death: “Don’t you stop me. I am dreaming./We lived centuries of injustice bent over./Centuries of loneliness./Now don’t. Don’t you stop me./Now and here, for ever and everywhere./I am dreaming freedom.” After the fall of the dictatorship, she was a key figure in the early anarchist scene in Exarcheia, Athens, and was a vigourous proponent of trans and gay rights. You can learn more about her life and works here: https://libcom.org/history/katerina-gogou-athens-anarchist-poetess-1940-1993 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1225734560945025/?type=3