Digital Archive

Friedman Feminist Press Collection, Colorado State University

Entity type: Repository

The most extensive collection of books in the Rocky Mountain West published by feminist presses, the FFPC includes books and periodicals published by the Women's Press Collective, Shameless Hussy Press, Diana Press, Daughters, Inc., Naiad Press, and Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Spinsters Ink, The Feminist Press, Seal Press, and Firebrand Press.  Providing unique sources in feminist/lesbian literature and second-wave feminism, the collection archives multi-genre works of fiction, poetry, memoirs, and essays by feminist publishers of the 1960s through the 1980s that brought women and women's words out into the world. The feminist press movement not only pushed the edge of mainstream publishing to reflect feminist and lesbian lives in print but also formed an essential arm of the growing women's liberation movement, furthering activism committed to the larger political and social changes that advanced women's lives

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Entity type: Repository

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.  

Beatrice Conover

Entity type: Individual

Hudson Valley artist Beatrice Conover was awarded a WSW residency to produce her artist’s book Visions of a One Eyed Horse, which includes cyanotype images, offset text, and silkscreen.

Kinshasha Holman Conwill

Entity type: Individual

Kinshasha Holman Conwill is an American museum director, arts and management consultant, author, and serves as a board member for numerous organizations within the US-American cultural sector. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Paula Cooper

Entity type: Individual

Wanda Corn

Entity type: Individual

Wanda M. Corn is an American art and cultural historian. Corn is a scholar of art and photography from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. She is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor emerita of art history at Stanford University. She held the professorship for eight years before retiring from the university in March 2017. Over her career as an art professor at Stanford she brought John D. Rockefeller's personal collection to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which included a "a body of 110 paintings described as the museums’ “single most important gift of art." She served as acting director of the Stanford Art Museum now known as the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. Prior to her position at Stanford she held the Samuel H. Kress Professorship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, at the National Gallery of Art from 2006 to 2007. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Dena Crane

Entity type: Individual

Crazy Nanny's

Entity type: Organization

Crazy Nanny’s was a lesbian bar in New York City that ran from 1991-2004. Located on 21 7th Ave, the bar spanned two floors allowing for large events. Crazy Nanny's drew a racially diverse crowd and was a space for the larger LGBT community to gather together.

Cubbyhole Bar

Entity type: Organization

The bar now known as Cubbyhole dates back to 1987 when it was owned and operated by Tanya Saunders and Debbie Fierro as a refuge for all comers under the name DT's Fat Cat. It has remained both a lesbian and queer friendly location throughout its history as bar patronage shifted throughout New York City's LGBTQ+ community. In 1994 Saunders bought the name Cubbyhole from the owner of an already-closed lesbian bar, and the bar has operated under that name since.It is owned and operated by Lisa Menichino who had been a bar-tender under Saunders' ownership. Cubbyhole is at 281 W. 12th Street, the same location where Saunders operated DT's Fat Cat. The former Cubby Hole was located in what is now Henrietta Hudson. While there was some concern in early 2022 when the bar closed for renovation, it reopened in spring.

Catherine Cullen

Entity type: Individual

Catherine Cullen imagines humans on a continuum with the natural world -- its wonders and terrors always near. THE WORLD WHICH IS MADE OF OUR LOVE, an exhibition featuring Giantess Awakening, a Janus-faced carved limestone and Reindeer Mother, a welded steel sculpture hovering at the point of transformation between animal and cosmic worlds, will be on display through November 19th, 2023. She lives on a bird migration flyway in Staten Island, NY.

Sara Cushing

Entity type: Individual

Sara Cushing was a Washington, DC-based artist who exhibited work across the US and abroad. A lifelong learner, Sara studied art at the Atlanta School of Art, Parsons, and the Corcoran School, developing a practice that included handmade paper, artists’ books, photographs, and animated films. In 1983, Sara was awarded a residency at WSW to produce her artist’s book Interlude, and in 1993, she returned to print Talismans. As an educator, Sara taught art at Mount Vernon College, the Corcoran School of Art, Marymount College, and Georgetown University.

Lisa Davis

Entity type: Individual

Lisa Davis is an author, educator, activist and living archive of queer and lesbian history in the Village. Lisa grew up in the South where she studied literature and Spanish before moving to New York City to teach.

Mary T. Decker

Entity type: Individual

Mary Teresa Slaney is a retired American middle-distance runner. During her career, she won gold medals in the 1500 meters and 3000 meters at the 1983 World Championships, and was the world record holder in the mile, 5000 meters and 10,000 meters. In total, she set 17 official and unofficial world records, including being the first woman in history to break 4:20 for the mile. She also set 36 US national records at distances ranging from 800 meters to 10,000 meters, and has held the US record in the mile, 2000 meters and 3000 meters since the early 1980s, while her 1500 meters record stood for 32 years. In 2003, she was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Ruby Dee

Entity type: Individual

Stormé DeLarverie

Entity type: Individual

Stormé DeLarverie (December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was an American woman known as the butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was, according to Stormé and many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action. She was born in New Orleans, to an African American mother and a white father. She is remembered as a gay civil rights icon and entertainer, who performed and hosted at the Apollo Theater and Radio City Music Hall. She worked for much of her life as an MC, singer, bouncer, bodyguard, and volunteer street patrol worker, the "guardian of lesbians in the Village."

Dorothy DeLay

Entity type: Individual

Dorothy DeLay was an American violin instructor, primarily at the Juilliard School, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Cincinnati. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Agnes Denes

Entity type: Individual

Alice Denney

Entity type: Individual

Alice Denney was an American art curator and arts administrator. Denney has been considered to be an important figure of the Washington, D.C. avant-garde arts and had been the mentor to a number of Washington, D.C.'s artists. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Vishakha Desai

Entity type: Individual

Vishakha N. Desai is an Asia scholar with a focus on art, culture, policy, and women's rights. She currently serves as senior advisor to Columbia Global Columbia University, senior research scholar in Global Studies at its School of International and Public Affairs and Senior Fellow in Global Thought at the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. She was president emerita of the Asia Society (2004–2012). In recognition of her leadership in the museum field, President Barack Obama appointed her to serve on the National Commission on Museums and Libraries in 2012. Desai has been recognized as one of the "Most Powerful Women in New York" by Crains Magazine, and for her Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts by ArtTable. She is a recipient of five honorary degrees from Centre College, Pace University, the College of Staten Island, Susquehanna University, and Williams College. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Nancy Dickerson

Entity type: Individual

Sari Dienes

Entity type: Individual

Daria Dorosh

Entity type: Individual

Ariel Dougherty

Entity type: Individual

Ariel Maria Dougherty is an American independent film maker, feminist media advocate and activist. She is best known as the co-founder of non-profit media arts organization Women Make Movies. In recent years she has written extensively about the intersections of women's rights and media justice and the need for increased support for both. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Downtown Community School

Entity type: Organization

The Downtown Community School was an American experimental, cooperative, racially integrated school located at 235 East 11th Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York. The school was founded in 1944 and waa closed in 1971.[1] Its mission was described as being to train children to “live and work together in understanding.”[2] This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.