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Luisa Capetillo

Liberation

1879–1922

Labor organizer, feminist, and anarchist — first woman in Puerto Rico to wear trousers publicly, champion of workers' rights

Luisa Capetillo was a Puerto Rican labor organizer, anarcha-feminist, writer, and journalist. She authored "Mi opinión sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer" (1911), considered the first feminist treatise published in Puerto Rico. She was famously arrested in Cuba in 1915 for wearing trousers in public.

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