Claim: Astrid Roemer was a writer who moved to the Netherlands in 1975 after being fired from her teaching job, she published a variety of books, including novels, dramas, and poetry; her novel Over de gekte van een vrouw ("On the Madness of a Woman") established her as a feminist writer and made her a role model for lesbians.
Evidence: Astrid Heligonda Roemer (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑstrɪt ɦeːliˈɣɔndaː ˈrumər; born 24 April 1947) is a writer and teacher from Suriname living in the Netherlands. She took up residence permanently in the Netherlands in 1975, after being fired from her teaching job for refusing to celebrate the Sinterklaas celebrations, which include a blackface character named Zwarte Piet. From the 1970s on, she was a prolific writer, publishing novels, drama, and poetry; her breakthrough in the Netherlands was the fragmentary novel Over de gekte van een vrouw ("On the madness of a woman"), a work investigating identity and the oppression of women, which established her as a feminist writer and made her a role model for lesbians.