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Women in the Arts Foundation

Entity type: Organization

Founded in 1971 by artists, writers and other art world professionals meeting in lower Manhattan during a time of great unrest and creative ferment, Women in the Arts quickly grew into a national organization. It incorporated in 1973 as Women in the Arts Foundation, Inc. (WIA). Throughout its history, WIA has proved to be adaptable and creative in its ongoing work to change outdated concepts and attitudes about women as professional artists.

Cynthia Bickley-Green

Entity type: Individual

Cynthia Bickley-Green is an American painter associated with the Washington Color school. She was associated with A.I.R in the 1970s and part of the 1972 National Conference of Women in the Visual Arts at Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Judy Blume

Entity type: Individual

Judy Blume is an American writer of children's, young adult, and adult fiction. Blume began writing in 1959 and has published more than 25 novels. Among her best-known works are Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972), Deenie (1973), and Blubber (1974). Blume's books have significantly contributed to children's and young adult literature. Blume was one of the first young adult authors to write some of her novels focused on teenagers about the controversial topics of masturbation, menstruation, teen sex, birth control, and death. Her novels have sold over 82 million copies and have been translated into 32 languages. She has won many awards for her writing, including American Library Association (ALA)'s Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1996 for her contributions to young adult literature. She was recognized as a Library of Congress Living Legend and awarded the 2004 National Book Foundation medal for distinguished contribution to American letters. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License

Edit D'Ak

Entity type: Individual

Edik D'Ak was born in Hungary and later became an American art critic and writer. D'ak founded Printed Matter and co-founded the journal Art-Rite.

Heresies Collective

Entity type: Organization

The Heresies Collective was founded in 1976 in New York City, by a group of feminist political artists. The group sought to, among other goals, examine art from a feminist and political perspective. In addition to a variety of actions and cultural output, the collective was responsible for the overseeing the publication of the journal Heresies: A feminist publican on art and politics, which was published from 1977 until 1993.

Sonia Johnson

Entity type: Individual

Sonia Ann Johnson is an American feminist activist and writer. She was an outspoken supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and in the late 1970s was publicly critical of the position of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), of which she was a member, against the proposed amendment. She was eventually excommunicated from the church for her activities. She went on to publish several radical feminist books, ran for president in 1984, and become a popular feminist speaker. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Lisa Menichino

Entity type: Individual

Lisa Menichino is the owner of Cubbyhole, a queer and lesbian bar in New York City.

David Plakke

Entity type: Individual

Cicely Tyson

Entity type: Individual

Cicely Louise Tyson was an American actress. In a career which spanned more than seven decades in film, television and theatre, she became known for her portrayal of strong African-American women. Tyson received various awards including three Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Tony Award, an Honorary Academy Award, and a Peabody Award. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

"Where We At" Black Women Artists, Inc. (WWA)

Entity type: Organization

"Where We At" Black Women Artists, Inc. (WWA) was a collective of Black women artists affiliated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It included artists such as Dindga McCannon, Kay Brown, Faith Ringgold, Carol Blank, Jerri Crooks, Charlotte Kâ (Richardson), and Gylbert Coker. Where We At was formed in the spring of 1971, in the wake of an exhibition of the same name organized by 14 Black women artists at the Acts of Art Gallery in Greenwich Village. Themes such as the unity of the Black family, Black female independence and embodiment, Black male-female relationships, contemporary social conditions, and African traditions were central to the work of the WWA artists. The group was intended to serve as a source of empowerment for African-American women, providing a means for them to control their self-representation and to explore issues of Black women's sensibility and aesthetics. Like AfriCobra, a Chicago-based Black Arts group, the WWA was active in fostering art within the African-American community and using it as a tool of awareness and liberation. The group organized workshops in schools, jails and prisons, hospitals, and cultural centers, as well as art classes for youth in their communities.   This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Bella Abzug

Entity type: Individual

Bella Savitzky Abzug, nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, politician, social activist, and a leader in the women's movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus. She was a leading figure in what came to be known as eco-feminism. In 1970, Abzug's first campaign slogan was, "This woman's place is in the House—the House of Representatives." She was later appointed to co-chair the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year created by President Gerald Ford's executive order, presided over the 1977 National Women's Conference, and led President Jimmy Carter's National Advisory Commission for Women. Abzug was a founder of the Commission for Women’s Equality of the American Jewish Congress. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Samuel Ace

Entity type: Individual

Samuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist. Ace has received both a Lambda Literary Aware and Firecracker Alternative Book Award and is a recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer's Fund Award in Poetry. He currently teaches poetry and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College where he resides in addition to Tuscon, Arizona. 

Wanda Acosta

Entity type: Individual

Wanda Acosta is a stalwart icon in lesbian nightlife in downtown New York. The creator and co-host of Sundays at Cafe Tabac, she has been creating and producing events in NYC for over 15 years. She was an owner of WonderBar, Starlight, and Clubhouse in Manhattan’s East Village. She also hosted and curated, events at Bar d’O, The Box, Angels and Kings, BLVD, Liquids, NYC, Clit Club and others. She has worked with a diverse range of clients and media, including The New Festival (New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival), Mix NYC (New York Gay & Lesbian Experimental Film/Video Festival), The L-Word/Showtime Networks, Miramax Films, Tribeca Film Festival, Twist/Columbia Records, fashion/art magazine Visionaire, and non-profit organizations such as GLAAD, Empire State Pride Agenda, Astraea Foundation, Hetrick-Martin Institute and the LGBT Center. In collaboration with Electric Sheep Co. and L-Word/Showtime, Wanda developed a queer dance event, an experimental simulcast on secondlife.com, an online virtual world. She also published Tulip, a free quarterly pocket-zine for women. For the past five years, she has been the music director and dj for CUBA!, a rotating dance/live music weekly event in NYC. Her events have been featured and tweeted in New York Magazine, New Yorker Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out, New York Post, New York Observer, Out Magazine, The Advocate, ourscenetv.com, l-word.com, and throughout the blogosphere. 

Addresses Project

Entity type: Organization

ADDRESSES PROJECT investigates lesbian and queer space and memory in New York City from the early 1900s to the present day through map-making, oral history interviews, ephemera and portraiture. The purpose of this project is to explore the history of the Gay Rights Movement (and it’s intersections with Civil Rights and Women’s Rights), shifts in identity building (and shedding) and the sociopolitical conditions of New York City from a lesbian and queer perspective. The mission of the ADDRESSES PROJECT is to offer lesbian and queer-identified individuals a multi-disciplinary platform through which to access a place-based heritage as well as intergenerational community building. The map component of the ADDRESSES PROJECT consists of lesbian and queer gathering locations. Each map entry includes a photograph of the site as it appears now, it’s address or approximate location and as much historical information as can be gathered about it while it served its lesbian and queer clientele. The map has been formed primarily through memory and community legend. Gwen Shockey created the Addresses Project in 2016. She recorded all of the oral histories and digitized the ephemera. Riya Lerner, Addresses Project collaborator, is the artist of the photographs. 

Mahnaz Afkhami

Entity type: Individual

Jane Alexander

Entity type: Individual

Samina Ali

Entity type: Individual

Samina Ali is an American author and activist born in India. She was the curator of Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art and Voices, a digital exhibition for the International Museum of Women (IMOW). Her debut novel, Madras on Rainy Days, won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger award from France and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction. She is the co-founder of American Muslim feminist organization Daughters of Hajar.

Blair Imani Ali

Entity type: Individual

Blair Imani Ali is the creator of the viral web series Smarter In Seconds and the Los Angeles Times bestselling author of Read This to Get Smarter. She is also the author of Making Our Way Home (2020) and Modern HERstory (2018). She co-founded FEMINIST, a women-led and women-founded non-profit media company, and previously served as the organization's Head of Education.

Lawrence Alloway

Entity type: Individual

Lawrence Reginald Alloway was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961. In the 1950s, he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US. He first used the term "mass popular art" in the mid-1950s and used the term "Pop Art" in the 1960s to indicate that art has a basis in the popular culture of its day and takes from it a faith in the power of images. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Robbin Ami Silverberge

Entity type: Individual

Robbin Ami Silverberg is an artist and founding director of Dobbin Mill, a hand-papermaking studio, and Dobbin Books, a collaborative artist book studio. Robbin Ami Silverberg's artwork is divided between artist books and installations. The work conceptually focuses on themes of interlinearity, mapping, and memory, with an emphasis on process and paper as activated substrate.

Maya Angelou

Entity type: Individual

Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License

Marilyn Arsem

Entity type: Individual

Marilyn Arsem is an American contemporary artist. She creates live events, performances, makes installations, site-specific, interactive art. Her works were presented throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America, and in the Middle East. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Dotty Attie

Entity type: Individual

David Attie

Entity type: Individual

Dorothy Atwood DeBoit

Entity type: Individual

Dorothy Atwood DeBoit founded AASK (Adopt A Special Kid) foundation. AASK was the first adoption agency to focus on helping children with different needs find adoptive families. The organization currently focuses on supporting families within the foster care system.

Nancy Azara

Entity type: Individual

Susan Baker

Entity type: Individual

Susan Baker came to WSW to silkscreen her artist’s book, Don’t Bug the Waitress. Susan graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1968. Currently she maintains the (pre-mortem) Susan Baker Memorial Museum on Cape Cod.

Eudine Barriteau

Entity type: Individual

Jennifer Bartlett

Entity type: Individual

Rachel bas-Cohain

Entity type: Individual

J. Catherine Bebout

Entity type: Individual

Catherine Bebout received an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in Printmaking and Sculpture. She is a Professor of Art and the Director of Printmaking at Montclair State University since 1996. Bebout has exhibited her work nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions in Shanghai, China, Quebec, Canada, and Auckland, New Zealand. As a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar to India, her work was in a traveling exhibition that opened at the Ruchika Art Gallery in Goa and travel to the Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai, India.

Margarita Beccera Cano

Entity type: Individual

Contributor

Margarita Becerra Cano came to WSW from Colombia via SUNY-Stony Brook. She received an MFA from Syracuse University for Art Video Production, and did additional graduate work at Tulane. At WSW, Margarita’s artist’s book, Satanic Loves combined letterpress, photography, handmade paper and mixed media. Satanic Loves explores the historical manipulation of women’s sexuality by the Catholic Church.

Aisha Becker-Burrowes

Entity type: Individual

Aisha Becker-Burrowes (She/Her) is a social impact strategist, consultant, and communications professional working at the intersections of media, communications, and social change, with a particular emphasis on racial equity and gender justice.  She co-founded and leads brand strategy and impact at FEMINIST (@feminist), the largest women-owned social-first digital platform dedicated to women, girls, and gender-expansive people.

Lynda Benglis

Entity type: Individual

Polly Bergen

Entity type: Individual

Polly Bergen was an American actress, singer, television host, writer and entrepreneur. She won an Emmy Award in 1958 for her performance as Helen Morgan in The Helen Morgan Story. For her stage work, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Carlotta Campion in Follies in 2001. Her film work included Cape Fear (1962) and The Caretakers (1963), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She hosted her own weekly variety show for one season (The Polly Bergen Show), was a regular panelist on the TV game show To Tell the Truth, and later in life had roles in The Sopranos and Desperate Housewives. She wrote three books on beauty, fashion, and charm. She is also the inspiration behind Mother Goose in The Land of Stories. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Brenda Berkman

Entity type: Individual

Firefighter, Attorney, Artist, Educator, Historian. Founder and former president of the United Women Firefighters. Trustee of the Women in Fire Service. Taught at the FDNY fire academy. Vice-President and Board Member of Monumental Women. Education: B.A., St. Olaf College, Minnesota; M.A., Indiana University; J.D., New York University Law School, M.S. in fire protection management from City University of New York.

Terry Berkowitz

Entity type: Individual

Terry Berkowitz creates installations, videos, photography, audio, and objects dealing with social and political critique, social consciousness and the human condition. Beginning in the early seventies, she has shown in museums, biennials and other institutions internationally including PS1 (Long Island City), the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), The Alternative Museum (NY), Boca Raton Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston) and Metrònom (Barcelona), Museo do Pobo Galego (Santiago de Compostela). This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Stephanie Bernheim

Entity type: Individual

Judith Bernstein

Entity type: Individual

Íngrid Betancourt

Entity type: Individual

Íngrid Betancourt is a Colombian politician, former senator, and anti-corruption activist, especially opposing political corruption.

Betty Cook

Entity type: Individual

Betty Cook was an Honors Graduate from MIT and a world champion offshore powerboat racer and was inducted in to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1996. She grew up as Betty Young in Glens Falls, New York, earned a degree in political science from Boston University and then attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she met her future husband, Paul Cook. They moved to California, where they became involved in powerboat racing. She won 17 races, two world championships (1977 and 1979), and was a three-time American Power Boat Association US champion (1978, 1979, 1981). She was the first woman to win the powerboat world championship (1977) in what had been traditionally a male-only sport.  This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

BETTY

Entity type: Organization

Camille Billops

Entity type: Individual

Camille Josephine Billops was an African-American sculptor, filmmaker, archivist, printmaker, and educator. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Donna Binder

Entity type: Individual

Donna Binder is a photojournalist and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in creating, distributing, and fundraising for social justice and cultural projects. As a founding member and co-director of Impact Visuals, the cooperative photo agency, from 1986 – 1999, she managed 130 photographers worldwide and secured assignments, projects, and funds for social documentary photography.

Caroline Bird

Entity type: Individual

Marlene Bloomer

Entity type: Individual

Taylor Bluestine

Entity type: Individual

Wendy Boglioli

Entity type: Individual

Blythe Bohnen

Entity type: Individual

Maude Boltz

Entity type: Individual

Louise Bourgeois

Entity type: Individual

Louise Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes throughout her long career, including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood that she considered a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists, and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License

Barbara Boxer

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Sharon Brant

Entity type: Individual

Gwendolyn Brooks

Entity type: Individual

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. Throughout her prolific writing career, Brooks received many more honors. A lifelong resident of Chicago, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968, a position she held until her death 32 years later. She was also named the U.S. Poet Laureate for the 1985–86 term. In 1976, she became the first African American woman inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License

Pen + Brush

Entity type: Organization

Pen + Brush is a 129-year-old publicly supported not-for-profit fighting for gender equity in the arts. P+B provides a platform to showcase the work of women, non-binary and female-identified transgender artists and writers to a broader audience with the ultimate goal of effecting real change within the marketplace. Source

Ellen Burstyn

Entity type: Individual

Ellen Burstyn is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complicated women in dramas, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making her one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting". Born in Detroit, Michigan, Burstyn left school and worked as a dancer and model. At age 24, she made her acting debut on Broadway in 1957 and soon started to make appearances in television shows. Stardom followed several years later with her acclaimed role in The Last Picture Show (1971), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her next appearance in The Exorcist (1973), earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film has remained popular and several publications have regarded it as one of the greatest horror films of all time. She followed this with Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), winning the Academy Award for Best Actress in the title role. In 1975 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in Same Time, Next Year. Her performance in the 1978 film adaptation won her a Golden Globe Award. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Donna Byars

Entity type: Individual

Plan C

Entity type: Organization

Nancy Callahan

Entity type: Individual

Nancy Callahan is a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums. She is known for her screen prints, drawings and installations as well as her work in the field of artist's books. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has taught well over a hundred workshops on innovative book structures. Her work is housed in many permanent collections throughout the United States and Europe.

Debbie Gary Callier

Entity type: Individual

Lisa Cannistraci

Entity type: Individual

Lisa Cannistraci is the owner of Henrietta Hudson, a queer and lesbian bar in New York City.

Ann Carr

Entity type: Individual

Cathy Carr

Entity type: Individual

Jeanne Carstensen

Entity type: Individual

Rosie Casals

Entity type: Individual

Kolleen Casey

Entity type: Individual

Kolleen Casey Shields was a gymnast who competed for the United States in the 1976 Montreal Olympics. She finished 23rd in the vault, an event won by Nadia Comăneci. She was the 1975 U.S. national champion in vault. Shields competed for Southwest Missouri State University from 1977 to 1979, where she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's top female gymnast in 1979. She transferred to the University of Minnesota, graduating with a degree in Physical Therapy. Shields became a physical therapist at the University of Iowa. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Jackie Cassello

Entity type: Individual

Suzy Chaffee

Entity type: Individual

Artists Meeting for Cultural Change

Entity type: Individual

Tracy Chapman

Entity type: Individual

Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, widely known for her hit singles "Fast Car" (1988) and "Give Me One Reason" (1995). She was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987. The following year she released her debut album, Tracy Chapman, which became a commercial success. The album received six Grammy Award nominations, including one for Album of the Year, three of which she won: Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single "Fast Car", and Best Contemporary Folk Album. Chapman has since continued to release award-winning music. Chapman is politically and socially active. In a 2009 interview with National Public Radio, she said, "I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests and I basically try to do what I can. And I have certain interests of my own, generally an interest in human rights." This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Judy Chicago

Entity type: Individual

Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture.

Ruth Chickering Clusen

Entity type: Individual

Ruth Chickering Clusen was an American conservationist, politician, civil rights activist, and government official. She is remembered for serving as the president of the League of Women Voters, for hosting the debates between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, and for serving as the Assistant Secretary of Energy under President Jimmy Carter. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Laura Lee Ching

Entity type: Individual

Shirley Chisholm

Entity type: Individual

Kristen Clevenson

Entity type: Individual

Lindy Cochran

Entity type: Individual

Barbara Ann Cochran

Entity type: Individual

Francine Coeytaux

Entity type: Individual

Francine Coeytaux is a women’s health advocate and public health specialist with extensive experience in the development and evaluation of reproductive health programs. She is a Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor of Plan C and is best known for her work on new reproductive technologies, including emergency contraception, medical abortifacients, and microbicides. 

Hunter College

Entity type: Organization

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.

Paula Cooper

Entity type: Individual

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

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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.

Loretta Dunkelman

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Natalie Dunn

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Anne Dushanko-Dobek

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Anne Dushanko Dobek is an artist /activist whose multidisciplinary installations reference issues of social justice and /or the environment. Often working in alternative venues: oceans, forests, and fields her work invites social engagement as well as conversations on the status of women and refugees in an increasingly dangerous world. Her research has been has been supported by grants from the Puffin Foundation, the Geraldine R Dodge Foundation, Chashama and New Jersey State Council for the Arts Fellowships in 1982, 1985 and 2012. In 2015 she received the Erena Rae Award for Art and Social Justice. She is a frequent lecturer on topics congruent with her art production: “Shadows and Secrets”, “Art as Social Commentary” and “Artist in the Rainforest”. The latter reflects a lifelong passion for entomology and her volunteer work with scientists in Costa Rican rainforests. These efforts have been supported by fellowships from both Earthwatch and the Geraldine R Dodge Foundation. Additional fellowships to art colonies: i-Park, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Visual Art, Moulin au Nef and Long Beach Island Foundation facilitated the creation of her most ambitious outdoor installations some of which included light and sound.  Parallel Migrations a decades-long series, sited in oceans evolved into Perilous Journeys and Promises, Promises.  Most significantly the complexity of “Memory Vault” Dushanko Dobek’s earliest major work which alluded to the holocaust and set a precedent for multireferential works which invite reflection.  Memory Vault was exhibited and globally reviewed when it was shown in the Lausanne Biennal at the Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts in Switzerland and the Gulbenkian Foundation in Brussels. The artist continues to   exhibit extensively both nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Art and Design in New York, High Museum, Newark Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and other venues. Her solo exhibitions include The Bauhaus Pavilion in Berlin Germany, Chashama, Montclair Art Museum, Monmouth Museum, Pen and Brush and Windows on White.   The Montclair Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Art and Design, National Museum of American Art, Noyes Museum, Library of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC and the Victoria and Albert Museum are among the museums that have her work in their collections. She currently serves on the board of directors for Pen and Brush NYC notable for it’s century-long commitment to the efforts of women artists and writers.  

Doriot Anthony Dwyer

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Maria Echaveste

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Mary Beth Edelson

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Sandra Eisenstein

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Roxana Fabius

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Frances Tarth Farenthold

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Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold was an American politician, attorney, activist, and educator. She was best known for her two campaigns for governor of Texas in 1972 and 1974, and for being placed in nomination for vice president of the United States, finishing second at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. She was elected as the first chair of the National Women's Political Caucus in 1973 This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Rasia Fastman

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Dianne Feinstein

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FEMINIST

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FEMINIST is a women-led social-first digital platform and collective that exists to actualize the intersectional feminist movement through the amplification of a diverse network of change-makers and creators. Their mission is to create a more just and equitable future for all. FEMINIST seeks to amplify, educate, inform and inspire. FEMINIST was co-founded by Blair Imani, Aisha Becker-Burrowes and Ky Polanco. 

Iris Films

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Iris Films was founded in 1975 by a group of feminist filmmakers to produce and distribute films that creatively address social and cultural issues. Iris has created the award-winning films, In the Best Interests of the Children, We All Have Our Reasons, Skin Deep, the widely acclaimed documentary about race relations on college campuses in the United States, Long Night’s Journey Into Day, the Sundance award winning, Academy® nominated film about South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and most recently, One Vote, a short video about women and voting in the United States. Iris Films productions have been used by activists, diversity and multi-cultural trainers, teachers, students and community groups to facilitate discussions about reconciliation, tolerance, transitional justice, racism, affirmative action, human rights, and civil rights.

Abbi Fisher

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Abigail E. "Abbi" Fisher-Gould is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. Born in South Conway, New Hampshire, she had one World Cup victory and three podiums. She suffered a knee injury in March 1979, at the pre-Olympic downhill at Lake Placid. Fisher competed in the Winter Olympics in 1976 and 1980. She was unable to start in the slalom at the World Championships in 1978 due to an ankle injury and was also named to the U.S. team in 1982. Fisher married Frank Gould; they have two children and reside in the Sun Valley area in central Idaho. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Nancy Folbre

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Jean Foos

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Jean Foos is a visual artist whose practice centers on richly painted and patterned surfaces. She gives new life to objects made from discarded packing materials and ceramics. For her installations she favors ad hoc urban settings, such as long-abandoned industrial buildings, military housing, and community gardens. Born in Rochester, New York, in 1953, Foos moved to NYC to attend Cooper Union and lived in the East Village for over 20 years. She first had a studio at 32 Union Square East, and later moved many times to work in Soho, the Bronx and the garment district. At each of her locations she was active in the community of artists and held open studios and exhibitions. Because her studio is currently located at an arts center (Culture Lab LIC) she has become more engaged than ever with the local populace.

Aminatta Forna

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Barbara Frank

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Barbara Frank is an accomplished artist and important figure in the feminist artists' movement during the 1970s-1980s.

Lucinda Franks

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Betty Friedan

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Betty Friedan was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. In 1966, Friedan co-founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), which aimed to bring women "into the mainstream of American society now [in] fully equal partnership with men". In 1970, after stepping down as NOW's first president, Friedan organized the nationwide Women's Strike for Equality on August 26, the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote. The national strike was successful beyond expectations in broadening the feminist movement; the march led by Friedan in New York City alone attracted over 50,000 people. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

A.I.R. Gallery

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A.I.R. Gallery (Artists in Residence) is the first all-female artists cooperative gallery in the United States. It was founded in 1972 with the objective of providing a professional and permanent exhibition space for women artists during a time in which the works shown at commercial galleries in New York City were almost exclusively by male artists. A.I.R. is a not-for-profit, self-underwritten arts organization with a board of directors made up of its New York-based artists. The gallery was initially located in SoHo at 97 Wooster Street and on 111 Front Street in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn until 2015. In May 2015, A.I.R. Gallery moved to its current location at 155 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

Joan Ganz Cooney

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Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television writer and producer. She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop or CTW), the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street, which was also co-created by her. Cooney grew up in Phoenix and earned a Bachelor of Arts in education from the University of Arizona in 1951. After working for the State Department in Washington, D.C., and as a journalist in Phoenix, she worked as a publicist for television and production companies in New York City. In 1961, she became interested in working for educational television, and became a documentary producer for New York's first educational TV station WNET (Channel 13). Many of the programs she produced won local Emmys. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License

Gay Community News

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Gay Community News was an American weekly newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1973 to 1999. Designed as a resource for the LGBT community, the newspaper reported a wide variety of gay and lesbian-related news. Founded as a collectively-run, local newsletter, early in the struggle for gay liberation, it was soon expanded into a major newspaper with an international readership. The publication saw itself as part an important vehicle for debating gay rights, feminism, antiracism, multiculturalism, class struggle, prisoners' rights, AIDS, and other causes. The newspaper's influence was such that it enjoyed a "national reach that was considered the movement's 'paper of record' throughout the '70s, and whose alumni at one point occupied so many leadership roles around the country that they were called the 'GCN mafia'". This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Bob Gervais

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Girls in the Nose

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Girls in the Nose started in Austin, Texas in 1985. In 1981 I [Kay Turner] met a young performer named Gretchen Phillips and she and I started hanging out and listening to records together and we were just music nerds and she played guitar and then my friend Betsy Peterson, a folklorist who moved to Austin, joined.

Global Fund for Women

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Lenore Goldberg

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Jewelle Gomez

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Miki Gorman

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Lois Gould

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Katharine Graham

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Martha Graham

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Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide. Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the US: the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, in the 1994 documentary The Dancer Revealed: "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable." Founded in 1926 (the same year as Graham's professional dance company), the Martha Graham School is the oldest school of dance in the United States. First located in a small studio within Carnegie Hall, the school currently has two different studios in New York City. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Regina Granne

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Cassandra Grant

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Cassandra Grant is an educator, activist and a founding member of Salsa Soul Sisters, the oldest black lesbian organization in the United States. Cassandra has dedicated her life’s work to uplifting and empowering young people and community through her teaching in education reform. From her passionate and committed involvement with Salsa Soul to protesting systematic racism and racist practices of lesbians, Cassandra has fought to create and hold space for lesbian and queer women of color for decades. Her emphasis on community and respect above all else is a true inspiration and has led to younger generations of activist organizations stemming from Salsa including AALUSC [African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change].

Great Goddess Collective

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The Great Goddess Collective was made up of: Mary Albanese, Martha Alsup, Tracy Boyd, Janet Culbetson, Rosemary Dudley, Mary Beth Edelson, Gail Feinstein, Deborah Freedman, Gina Foglia, Donna Henes, Anne Healy, Buffie Johnson, Diane Levin, Grace Shinell, Merlin Stone, Carolee Thea, Susan Turner, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. The collective explored ideas surrounding the Goddess and produced creative works. 

Michela Griffo

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Michela Griffo is an artist and activist and came of age on the piers and streets of New York City in the 1950s and ‘60s. She was as an early member of the Redstockings and a founding member of Radicalesbians, Lavender Menace and the Gay Liberation Front. She was active in the Civil Rights, Women’s Rights and Gay Rights Movements, working closely with activists such as Yoruba Guzman and radical organizations such as The Young Lords. Michela risked her life with other queer and lesbian activists on the front lines of the Gay Rights Movement paving the way for younger generations to come out and live safe and productive lives. In her visual art practice Michela explores themes such as the queer and lesbian woman’s voice and desire as well as childhood trauma and addiction.

Mary Grigoriadis

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Suzanne Grossberg

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Janet Guthrie

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Dolores Hajosy

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Virginia Hamilton

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Patricia Hamilton

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Patricia Hamilton is the founder of the Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art in New York City, which supported mid-career women artists. She is currently an art dealer and writer based in Los Angeles.

Harmony Hammond

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Julie Harris

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Masuma Hasan

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Zarina Hashmi

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Helen Hayes

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Anne Healy

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Mary Henderson

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Henrietta Hudson

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On a rainy night in 1985, Lisa Cannistraci took refuge in a small bar in the west village. While chatting with the bartenders, she mentioned she was job hunting and was hired on the spot. After 5 years of working the bar, the original Cubby Hole closed and Lisa, along with Minnie Rivera, opened Henrietta Hudson. The bar was literally built by lesbians with donated boom boxes and labor and materials.  Since 1991, Hen’s has stood as a pillar in the community, activist space, and safe haven. While it is the longest running lesbian bar in the country, we are a Queer Human Bar. We embrace our entire community and seek to uplift everyone.

Janet Henry

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Janet Henry is a visual artist based in New York City. Henry was raised in East Harlem and then in Jamaica, Queens, where she currently lives. Henry attended the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She was a participant in the Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited program (HARYOU) where she met instructor Betty Blayton Taylor. In 1974, Henry was a recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship in Museum Education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Janet Henry's artistic work spans multiple mediums: collage and text-based work, jewelry, and sculpture/installations using multimedia materials. Her work often comments on American culture, including white male patriarchy, by making use of toys, dolls, and miniatures in her art installations This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Carla Anderson Hills

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Ann Hobson Pilot

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Ann Hobson Pilot is an American musician and the former principal harpist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and as a soloist with many orchestras in the United States. She was one of four African American musicians who were the first to play in United States symphony orchestras during the 1960s. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Ariel Hollinshead

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Ariel Cahill Hollinshead was an American cancer researcher and professor who spent her career at George Washington University. She was a pioneer in discovering tumor antigens and developing them as cancer vaccines. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Lena Horne

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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American dancer, actress, singer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years, appearing in film, television, and theatre. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood. Horne advocated for human rights and took part in the March on Washington in August 1963. Later she returned to her roots as a nightclub performer and continued to work on television while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than 300 performances on Broadway. She then toured the country in the show, earning numerous awards and accolades. Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, retreating from the public eye in 2000. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Dolores Huerta

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Shirley M. Hufstedler

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Hazel Hunkins Hallinan

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Hazel Hunkins Hallinan was an American women's rights activist, journalist, and suffragist. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License

Identity House

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Identity House is an all-volunteer community that provides counseling services to support and encourage LGBTQ+ adults who are struggling with issues of sexuality, gender identity, alienation, relationships, and family. We’ve proudly served the New York metropolitan area since 1971.

Michi Itami

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Jessica Jackley

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Laurace James

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Billie Jean King

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Billie Jean King is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. King won 39 major titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. King was a member of the victorious United States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups. For three years, she was the U.S. captain in the Federation Cup. King is an advocate of gender equality and has long been a pioneer for equality and social justice. In 1973, at age 29, she won the "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match against the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs. King was also the founder of the Women's Tennis Association and the Women's Sports Foundation. She was instrumental in persuading cigarette brand Virginia Slims to sponsor women's tennis in the 1970s and went on to serve on the board of their parent company Philip Morris in the 2000s. Regarded by many as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, King was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987. The Fed Cup Award of Excellence was bestowed on her in 2010. In 1972, she was the joint winner, with John Wooden, of the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year award and was one of the Time Persons of the Year in 1975. She has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year lifetime achievement award. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1990, and in 2006, the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City was renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. In 2018, she won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, the Federation Cup was renamed the Billie Jean King Cup in her honor. In 2022, she was awarded the French Legion of Honour. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Kathy Johnson

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Buffie Johnson

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Buffie Johnson was born in New York City in 1912. Her work is associated with abstract imagists. She collaborated with Mary Beth Edelson on the Goddesses issue of Heresies and was featured in her iconic 1972 Some Living American Women Artists poster.

Poppy Johnson

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Poppy Johnson is an American performance artist.

Malalai Joya

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Naila Kabeer

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Ann Kalmbach

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Ann Kalmbach is an American artist and co-founder of the Women's Studio Workshop. She studied at the State University of New York at New Paltz and the Rochester Institute of Technology.  In 1974 she co-founded the Women's Studio Workshop (WSW) in Rosendale, New York along with fellow artists Barbara Leoff Burge, Tatana Kellner, and Anita Wetzel. She frequently collaborates with her life partner Tatana Kellner as Kakeart. In 2017 their collaborative book The Golden Rule, was a Special Merit Honoree at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts MCBA Prize. Her work is in the collection of the Bridwell Art Library at the University of Louisville, the MassArt Library,[8] the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Library, the Walker Art Center, and the Library of National Museum of Women in the Arts. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Tatana Kellner

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Tatana "Tana" Kellner is an American artist known for her artist's book works and as a founder of Women's Studio Workshop. Kellner is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. She was born in Czechoslovakia and immigrated to Toledo, Ohio with her family in 1969.  Kellner received a BA from the University of Toledo in 1972 and a MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1982. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Anne Marie Kennedy

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Ann Marie Kennedy is an artist and papermaker based in Raleigh, NC. In her installations and works on paper, she uses natural materials to create narratives about human connections and experiences. She is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Wake Tech Community College and a former resident artist at Penland School of Craft (2001-4). She has also been an artist in residence at Headlands (CA), Morgan Conservatory (OH), and Women’s Studio Workshop (NY). She teaches workshops in hand papermaking and participates in many exhibits both locally and nationally. Ann Marie's installations, prints, and works of paper have been exhibited both nationally and regionally in venues including: the Cameron Art Museum (NC), Gregg Museum (NC), Asheville Art Museum (NC), Cantor Art Gallery (MA), Women’s Studio (NY), Light Art and Design (NC), Waterworks Visual Art Center (NC) and Horace Williams House (NC), and online on Flatfile. Her artists’ books and editions are in many permanent collections, including; Yale University, Bucknell University, University of Iowa, Library of Congress.

Donna Rae Kessinger

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Multi-media Artist Donna Rae Kessinger's focus is on projects that foster collaboration between artists and local communities, creating a marriage of art and commerce through intervention, public art project, or gallery exhibition. Kessinger participated in REPOhistory’s, Entering Buttermilk Bottom sign project in 1996. Donna has recorded turn of the century feminist oral herstories including Mary Beth Edelson, Nancy Spero, Janet Henry, Carolee Schneemann and Kate Millett. In 1999 she produced an interview with Kate Millett for DykeTV which screened on MNN. She was part of the Project Involve for Documentary cohort, Independent Feature Project, IFP in 2003. Her video work has been screened at the Jersey City Museum, RedSaw Gallery (Newark NJ), Benjamin J. Dineen III and Dennis C. Hull Gallery, Gardenship Drive-in, Wavelength Pandemic Projects, and venues internationally as part of ARTFEM.TV. Kessinger’s video project Les Biens, is archived at the Rhizome Artbase at the New Museum, and her REPOhistory sign design is part of the NYU Fales Library and Special Collections Archive.

Catherine King

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Nancy Kitchel

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Gloria Klein

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Gloria Klein was an American painter based in New York City. Klein was a member of the Criss-Cross art cooperative. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Allison Knowles

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Alison Knowles is an American visual artist known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications. Knowles was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, an international network of artists who aspired to merge different artistic media and disciplines. Criteria that have come to distinguish her work as an artist are the arena of performance, the indeterminacy of her event scores resulting in the deauthorization of the work, and the element of tactile participation. She graduated from Pratt Institute in New York with an honors degree in fine art. In May 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Pratt. In the 1960s, she was an active participant in New York City's downtown art scene, collaborating with influential artists such as John Cage and Marcel Duchamp. During this time she began producing event scores, or performances that rework the everyday into art. Knowles's inclusion of visual, aural, and tactile elements sets her art apart from the work of other Fluxus artists. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Joyce Kozloff

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Joyce Kozloff is an American artist whose politically engaged work has been based on cartography since the early 1990s.

Dahilia Kozlowsky

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Louise Kramer

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Louise Krasniewicz

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Louise Krasniewicz is a Phildelphia-based anthropologist who was awarded a WSW production grant for her photographic book Take a Rosary to the Movies: Lessons for Catholic Girls. Louise earned a PhD in Anthropology from the University at Albany, State University of New York. and an MA in Instructional Media and Technology from the University of Connecticut. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

Jill Krementz

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Jill Krementz is an American photographer and author. She has published 31 books, mostly of photography and children's books. She was married to Kurt Vonnegut for almost 30 years.  This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Ann Kresge

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Ann Kresge is a printmaker and bookartist. Her original prints and artists’ books are in museum, university and gallery collections around the world. Museums include Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Center, Victoria and Albert Museum, Chicago Art Institute, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Yale University and the US Library of Congress. She has been an Arts Instructor at Bard College, SUNY New Paltz and a Visiting Artist at Sarah Lawrence University, SUNY Oswego, and The University of Connecticut. Artist In Residencies include McDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Djerassi, Atelier 17 (Paris), Women’s Studio Workshop and Foundacion ‘ace (Buenos Aires). She teaches at the Bend Art Center, Salem Art Association and Sitka Center for the Arts. Her interart collaborations with musicians and dancers have toured in Mexico, China, Europe and the US. Ann has a BA in Studio Art from Smith College and an MFA in Printmaking from Pratt Institute, NYC.

Phyllis Krim

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Phyllis Krim was an artist active in the bohemian circles of New York’s storied downtown scene of the 1960s and 70s. Born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania in 1930, Phyllis earned a joint bachelor of applied arts from the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Museum College of Art. She was best known for her paintings of classic cars, which she interpreted as allegorical symbols of power, beauty and strength. 

Maxine Kumin

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Lady-Unique-Inclination-of-the-Night

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Subject

Lady-Unique-Inclination-of-the-Night was an American feminist periodical from 1976 until 1983. Founded and edited by Kay Turner, the journal primarily wrote on feminist art, history and performance with a particular focus on women's spirituality.[1]

Pat Lasch

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Linda Lauro

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Linda Lauro-Lazin is a New York based artist. She has been at the forefront of developing a vernacular of digital mark making and abstraction that bridges the gap to analog painting. Her studio practice fluidly blends fine art and technology. Her work has been exhibited in the US, Europe and Asia. Recognized as an expert in the field of digital art, Lauro-Lazin is a Fulbright Scholar, a professor of art and the Assistant Chair of the Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute. She has organized and participated in many guest lectures and panel discussions. Recently, she was invited to teach advanced classes in art at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, PRC and the University of Maribor in Slovenia. Linda has a great passion for building community and sharing her ideas about art.  ​She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute, an MA in Computer Graphics from New York Institute of Technology and a BFA in Painting from SUNY New Paltz.

Lavender Menace

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The Lavender Menace or revolution was an informal group of lesbian radical feminists formed to protest the exclusion of lesbians and their issues from the feminist movement at the Second Congress to Unite Women in New York City on May 1, 1970. Members included Karla Jay, Martha Shelley, Rita Mae Brown, Lois Hart, Barbara Love, Ellen Shumsky, Artemis March, Cynthia Funk, Linda Rhodes, Arlene Kushner, Ellen Broidy, and Michela Griffo, and were mostly members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the National Organization for Women (NOW). The term "Lavender Menace" originated as a negative term for the association of lesbianism with the feminist movement, but it was later reclaimed as a positive term by lesbian feminists. The phrase "Lavender Menace" was reportedly first used in 1969 by Betty Friedan, president of The National Organization for Women (NOW), to describe the threat that she believed associations with lesbianism posed to NOW and the emerging women's movement.

Simone Leigh

Entity type: Individual

Simone Leigh is an American artist from Chicago who works in New York City in the United States. She works in various media including sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice. Leigh has described her work as auto-ethnographic, and her interests include African art and vernacular objects, performance, and feminism. Her work is concerned with the marginalization of women of color and reframes their experience as central to society. Leigh has often said that her work is focused on “Black female subjectivity,” with an interest in complex interplays between various strands of history. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Barbara Leoff Burge

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Barbara Leoff Burge is an American book artist. In 1974 she co-founded the Women's Studio Workshop (WSW) in Rosendale, New York along with fellow artists Ann Kalmbach, Tatana Kellner, and Anita Wetzel. Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the MassArt Library. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Riya Lerner

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Riya Lerner is a photographer and ceramic artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She takes the portraits in featured in Addresses Project. 

Shari Lewis

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Liesbeth Brandt Corstius

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Liesbeth Brandt Corstius was a Dutch art historian, feminist and museum director.

Lucy Lippard

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Meizhu Lui

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Interviewee

Lisa Mackie

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Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American actress and author. With a career spanning over 70 years, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Volpi Cups, and two Silver Bears. She has been honored with the Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute in 1995, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1998, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014. MacLaine is one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Ms. Magazine

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Sarah Ladipo Manyika

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Sonia Manzano

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Carolyn Martin

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Cathy Rigby Mason

Entity type: Individual

Rosemary Mayer

Entity type: Individual

Valerie Maynard

Entity type: Individual

Valerie Jean Maynard was an American sculptor, teacher, printmaker, and designer. Maynard's work frequently addressed themes of social inequality and the civil rights movement. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Sweden  and Lagos, Nigeria. She had been selected for residencies in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and New York City and received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in printmaking. Maynard resided in Baltimore, Maryland. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Louise McCagg

Entity type: Individual

Dindga McCannon

Entity type: Individual

Dindga McCannon is a visual and fiber artist, muralist, teacher, author, and illustrator.  McCannon was born and raised in Harlem, New York City. She retells the stories and histories of Black women through her mixed-media fiber practice. In the early 1960s, she participated in several activist groups, leading her to join the preeminent Weusi Artist Collective, a group that supported and gave voice to Black artists, allowing them to express and exhibit their ideas freely. Together with Faith Ringgold and Kay Brown, McCannon later formed "Where We At" Black Women Artists, Inc., pioneering a new form of community-based arts education.  

Margaret Mead

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Ana Mendieta

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Subject

Beatriz Merino

Entity type: Individual

Amy Merrill

Entity type: Individual

Amy Merrill is the Digital Director and Co-Founder of Plan C, an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. She is an artist and activist working at the intersection of creative communications, technology, and social change. Her design studio, Eyes Open, leads digital communications, strategy, and design for purpose-driven individuals and organizations.

Helen Stevenson Meyner

Entity type: Individual

Barbara A. Mikulski

Entity type: Individual

Jean Miles Westwood

Entity type: Individual

Jean Miles Westwood was a political figure born in Price, Utah. Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern appointed Westwood as the first female chair of the Democratic National Committee on July 14, 1972. Between 1976 and 1988, Westwood worked for the presidential campaigns of Terry Sanford, Edward Kennedy, Gary Hart, and Bruce Babbitt. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License

Geetanjali Misra

Entity type: Individual

Kazuko Miyamoto

Entity type: Individual

Masum Momaya

Entity type: Individual

Meredith Monk

Entity type: Individual

Linda Montano

Entity type: Individual

Linda Mary Montano is an American performance artist. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Grace Moon

Entity type: Individual

Grace Moon is an artist, activist and the founder of Velvetpark: Dyke Culture in Bloom. Grace created Velvetpark at a time when lesbian and queer women were just beginning to gain visibility and truly come out in a big way in New York City. Her magazine featured queer and lesbian activists, celebrities and community leaders such as Rachel Maddow and Margaret Cho. Grace’s studio art practice spans portrait painting, drawing, design and writing. Her work in journalism and the arts investigates queer lives and communities in a sensitive, honest and vibrant manner.

Rita Moreno

Entity type: Individual

Rita Moreno is a Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer. She is noted for her work on stage and screen in career spanning over seven decades. Among her numerous accolades, she is one of a few performers to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (EGOT) and the Triple Crown of Acting, with individual competitive Academy, Emmy and Tony awards. She has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004, the National Medal of Arts in 2009, and Kennedy Center Honor in 2015. Moreno's work includes supporting roles in the classic musical films Singin' in the Rain (1952), and The King and I (1956), before her breakout role as Anita in 1961 film West Side Story, which earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She made history becoming the first Hispanic woman to win an Academy Award.[5] She later portrayed Valentina in the 2021 remake directed by Steven Spielberg. Her other notable films include Popi (1969), Carnal Knowledge (1971), The Four Seasons (1981), I Like It Like That (1994) and the cult film Slums of Beverly Hills (1998). This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Robin Morgan

Entity type: Individual

Laura Moriarty

Entity type: Individual

A native of New York’s Hudson River Valley, Laura Moriarty makes process-driven works with pigmented beeswax whose forms, colors, textures and patterns result from processes similar to those that shape and reshape the earth. ​She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute, an MA in Computer Graphics from New York Institute of Technology and a BFA in Painting from SUNY New Paltz.

Elizabeth Murray

Entity type: Individual

Sharee Nash

Entity type: Individual

Sharee Nash is a writer, deejay, and co-founder of iconic parties for queer women and lesbians including Sundays at Café Tabac and Mondays at Bar d’O in the 1990s and early 2000s with fellow nightlife icon Wanda Acosta. Sharee’s extensive knowledge of and passion for music has led her around the globe in search of sounds unheard of in New York City. Her work in nightlife with Wanda ushered in a massive shift in lesbian culture out from the hidden, mafia-owned dive bars into visible and glamorous spaces. Parties such as Sundays at Café Tabac enabled queer women to see one another and to see themselves with respect and adoration.

National LGBTQ Task Force

Entity type: Organization

The National LGBTQ Task Force is an American social justice advocacy non-profit organizing the grassroots power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community. Also known as The Task Force, the organization supports action and activism on behalf of LGBTQ people and advances a progressive vision of liberation. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Entity type: Organization

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. It is the largest feminist organization in the United States with around 500,000 members. NOW is regarded as one of the main liberal feminist organizations in the US, and primarily lobbies for gender equality within the existing political system. NOW campaigns for constitutional equality, economic justice, reproductive rights, LGBTQIA+ rights and racial justice, and against violence against women.

Irene Natividad

Entity type: Individual

Patricia Neal

Entity type: Individual

Patricia Neal was an American actress of stage and screen. A major star of the 1950s and 1960s, she was the recipient of an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and two British Academy Film Awards, and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards. Her most popular film roles were: World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), radio journalist Marcia Jeffries in A Face in the Crowd (1957), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and the worn-out housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She featured as the matriarch in the television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971); her role as Olivia Walton was re-cast for the series it inspired, The Waltons. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Jessie Nebraska Gifford

Entity type: Individual

Cindy Nelson

Entity type: Individual

Julie Nelson

Entity type: Individual

Sylvia Netzer

Entity type: Individual

Patsy Norvell

Entity type: Individual

Mary Rose Oakar

Entity type: Individual

off our backs

Entity type: Organization

Off Our Backs (stylized in all lowercase; oob) was an American radical feminist periodical that ran from 1970 to 2008, making it one of the longest-running feminist periodicals in the United States. Marilyn Salzman-Webb and Marlene Wicks were among Off Our Backs original founders, creating the periodical in Washington, D.C. as a response to what many felt was an underrepresentation of the women’s liberation movement in mainstream media. It was a self-sustaining periodical edited and published by a collective of women consisting mainly of volunteers who practiced consensus decision-making. Reporting on feminism-related topics, the periodical transitioned from a monthly to a bi-monthly newspaper, and ultimately to a quarterly magazine before financial difficulties led to its termination in 2008. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Ann Pachner

Entity type: Individual

Rosa Parks

Entity type: Individual

Jane Pauley

Entity type: Individual

Elly Peterson

Entity type: Individual

Esther Peterson

Entity type: Individual

Esther Eggertsen Peterson was an American consumer and women's advocate. In 1938, Peterson became a paid organizer for the American Federation of Teachers and traveled around New England. In 1944, Peterson became the first lobbyist for the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. In 1948, the State Department offered Peterson's husband a position as a diplomat in Sweden. The family returned to Washington, D.C., in 1957 and Peterson joined the Industrial Union Department of the AFL–CIO, becoming its first woman lobbyist. She was Assistant Secretary of Labor and Director of the United States Women's Bureau under fellow Bostonian President John F. Kennedy. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson named Peterson to the newly created post of Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs. She would later serve as President Jimmy Carter's Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Jane Cahill Pfeiffer

Entity type: Individual

Howardena Pindell

Entity type: Individual

Howardena Pindell is an American artist, curator, and educator. She is known as a painter and mixed media artist. Her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing the intersecting issues of racism, feminism, violence, slavery, and exploitation. She is known for the wide variety of techniques and materials used in her artwork; she has created abstract paintings, collages, "video drawings," and "process art.

Sue Pirtle

Entity type: Individual

Sue Pirtle was an American cowgirl who won eleven World titles. She was known as the "most versatile cowgirl in the history of the GRA."

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Entity type: Individual

Ky Polanco

Entity type: Individual

Ky Polanco is an independent digital creative and photographer based between New York and Los Angeles. She founded the organization behind Feminist, the largest women-led social-first digital platform and collective for women, girls, and gender-expansive people, that exists to actualize the intersectional feminist movement through community and content. 

Michele Pred

Entity type: Individual

Michele Pred (born 1966) is a Swedish-American conceptual artist whose practice includes sculpture, assemblage, and performance. Her work uncovers the cultural and political meaning behind everyday objects with a particular focus on themes like equal pay, reproductive rights, and personal security. Her projects also contain social components that drive the conversation into public spaces. Examples include her exploration of the intersection of personal space and security using airport confiscated items after 9/11, the cultural background of the fight for reproductive rights using thousands of expired birth control pills, and the continuing economic and political struggle for women's rights represented by her modified vintage handbag editions. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License

Sally J. Priesand

Entity type: Individual

Barbara Gardner Proctor

Entity type: Individual

Okoe Pyatt

Entity type: Individual

Okoe Pyatt was a visual artist and founding member of Weusi Artist Collective.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Entity type: Individual

Imani Rashid

Entity type: Individual

Imani Rashid is an “entrepreneur, teacher, visionary, event planner, Godmother to many, leader, Yoruba Priestess, mentor, friend and sister to others” [In her words] and a founding member of Salsa Soul Sisters (the oldest black lesbian organization in the United States). Imani has dedicated her life to enriching and expanding the education of young children using the principles Kwanza and creative practices such as drumming and aviation.

Arlene Raven

Entity type: Individual

Arlene Raven was a feminist art historian, author, critic, educator, and curator. Raven was a co-founder of numerous feminist art organizations in Los Angeles in the 1970s.

Helen Reddy

Entity type: Individual

Elaine Reichek

Entity type: Individual

Maura Reilly

Entity type: Individual

Marcia Resnick

Entity type: Individual

Marcia Resnick is an American photographer whose body of work is largely filled with photographs of counter-culture musicians.

Malvina Reynolds

Entity type: Individual

Red Robinson

Entity type: Individual

Red Robinson is a kink personality, BDSM consultant and founder of Throb and SPAM parties as well as Submit (Brooklyn’s BDSM and sex party for women and trans Folks). Over the last twenty years, Red has taught BDSM and sex education classes both privately and professionally at Smith College, Black Rose, TES Fest, Lesbian Sex Mafia, IMSL, F.I.S.T. and Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival among others. For the past eight years she has been a coordinator for the International Ms. Leather conference, the world’s largest organization for leather women and their allies. Red is a pioneering activist, community leader and mentor. She has created and held space for safe sex and kink practices against many-an-obstacle.

Margret Roleke

Entity type: Individual

Margaret Roleke was born in New York in 1961. She creates sculptures, installations and prints that deal with current issues; gun control , womens rights and war are often explored in her practice. Her work has been exhibited widely including at the Aldrich Museum and Pen +Brush in New York.

Carol Ross

Entity type: Individual

Barbara Roux

Entity type: Individual

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Entity type: Individual

Salsa Soul Sisters

Entity type: Organization

The Salsa Soul Sisters, Third World Wimmin Inc Collective was a group for lesbians who are also womanists and women of color, in New York City. The group is the oldest black lesbian organization in the United States. Arguments within the Salsa Soul Sisters resulted in the disbanding of the Salsa Soul Sisters into two groups, Las Buenas Amigas (Good Friends) made for Latinas, and African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change made for African-diaspora lesbians.[3] The Salsa Soul Sisters grew out of the Black Lesbian Caucus of the New York City Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), which in turn split in 1971 from the original Gay Liberation Front. They originally called themselves the Third World Gay Women's Association, with the informal moniker "Salsa-Soul Sisters".[4] In 1974 the Black Lesbian Caucus reformulated itself as Salsa Soul Sisters, Third World Wimmin Inc, an autonomous group of black and Latina lesbians offering its members a social and political alternative to the lesbian and gay bars, which had "historically exploited and discriminated against lesbians of color".[5][6] The Sisters started by "searching out each other, because of the strong needs we have in common" but also to "grow to understand the ways in which we differ."[4]

Lynn D. Salvage

Entity type: Individual

Kristine Samuelson

Entity type: Individual

Kristine Samuelson is a documentary filmmaker and the Edward Clark Crossett Emerita Professor of Humanistic Studies at Stanford University. Her film, Life Overtakes Me (2020), made with John Haptas, was nominated for an Oscar for best short-subject documentary, for the 92nd Academy Awards—having premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It also received Audience Awards at the Full Frame and Chicago Critics Film Festivals. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Marlene Sanders

Entity type: Individual

Marlene Sanders was an American television news correspondent, anchor, producer and executive who worked for ABC News in the 1960s and 1970s and moved to CBS News in 1978. She was the first woman to achieve several milestones in the then male-dominated field of television news. Shortly after joining ABC News as a correspondent in 1964, Sanders became the first woman to anchor an evening news broadcast for a major network when she substituted for the regular anchor, Ron Cochran, who had become ill. She was also the first woman to report on the Vietnam War from the field. In 1976, ABC promoted her to vice president and director of documentaries, making her one of the first women to reach upper management in the field. She also won three Emmy Awards for documentaries she produced for CBS. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Enid Sanford

Entity type: Individual

Enid Sanford was a painter.

Tanya Saunders

Entity type: Individual

Tanya Saunders (1936-2018) was the owner of Cubbyhole, the infamous West Village lesbian bar. She was born in Germany in 1935. She and her mother fled and immigrated to New York in 1939 following the Nazi invasion. Cubbyhole was originally DT's Fat Cat from 1987-1993. Saunders created one of the most well-known and long-standing lesbian bars in the U.S.

Ruth Schaeffer

Entity type: Individual

Miriam Schapiro

Entity type: Individual

Miriam Schapiro (also known as Mimi) was a Canadian-born artist based in the United States. She was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and a pioneer of feminist art. She was also considered a leader of the Pattern and Decoration art movement. Schapiro's artwork blurs the line between fine art and craft. She incorporated craft elements into her paintings due to their association with women and femininity. Schapiro's work touches on the issue of feminism and art: especially in the aspect of feminism in relation to abstract art. Schapiro honed in her domesticated craft work and was able to create work that stood amongst the rest of the high art. These works represent Schapiro's identity as an artist working in the center of contemporary abstraction and simultaneously as a feminist being challenged to represent women's "consciousness" through imagery. She often used icons that are associated with women, such as hearts, floral decorations, geometric patterns, and the color pink. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Schlesinger Library

Entity type: Organization

Carolee Schneemann

Entity type: Individual

Pat Schroeder

Entity type: Individual

Rhonda Schwandt

Entity type: Individual

Denise Scott Brown

Entity type: Individual

Denise Scott Brown is an American architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia. Scott Brown and her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, are regarded as among the most influential architects of the twentieth century, both through their architecture and planning, and theoretical writing and teaching. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Ntozake Shange

Entity type: Individual

Cindy Sherman

Entity type: Individual

Tiffany Shlain

Entity type: Individual

Tiffany Shlain is an American filmmaker, artist, and author. Described by the public radio program On Being as "an internet pioneer," Shlain is the co-founder of the Webby Awards and the founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. In 2013, Shlain co-founded the nonprofit Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License

Gwen Shockey

Entity type: Individual

Gwen Shockey is a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist, activist and educator. She teaches drawing and painting and directs the Anne Reid ‘72 Gallery at Princeton Day School in New Jersey. She is also the founder of The Addresses Project.

Lowery Stokes Sims

Entity type: Individual

Sisterfire

Entity type: Organization

Sisterfire was a women's music festival that celebrated women and lesbian musicians, started by Amy Horowtiz in 1982. The festival was designed to be accessible to a wide-range of guests, including wheelchair ramps, sign-lanuage interpreters, and free childcare. The festival ended in the early 1990s due to internal conflict. 

Sylvia Sleigh

Entity type: Individual

Wies Smals

Entity type: Individual

Wies Smals was a gallery director who founded De Appel in Amsterdam in 1975 to provide a platform for contemporary arts. Smals hosted the 1978 Feminist Show to highlight feminist artists of the time.

Eleanor Cutri Smeal

Entity type: Individual

Margaret Chase Smith

Entity type: Individual

Mary Louise Smith

Entity type: Individual

Melanie Smith

Entity type: Individual

Agatha Sohn

Entity type: Individual

Agatha Sohn is Creative Design Director at Saatchi & Saatchi New York. She is an advisory board member of The Feminist Institute.

Susan Sollins

Entity type: Individual

Susan Sollins was the founder of Art21, an contemporary art organization. Sollins was known for her innovation in museum education and public programming, as well as curating.

Elke Solomon

Entity type: Individual

Gladys Noon Spellman

Entity type: Individual

Nancy Spero

Entity type: Individual

Creator

Nancy Spero was an American visual artist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived in New York City for much of her life. She married and collaborated with artist Leon Golub. As both artist and activist, Nancy Spero had a career that spanned fifty years. She is known for her continuous engagement with contemporary political, social, and cultural concerns. Spero chronicled wars and apocalyptic violence and articulated visions of ecstatic rebirth and the celebratory cycles of life. Her complex network of collective and individual voices was a catalyst for the creation of her figurative lexicon representing women from prehistory to the present in such epic-scale paintings and collages on paper as Torture of Women (1976), Notes in Time on Women (1979) and The First Language (1981). In 2010, Notes in Time was posthumously reanimated as a digital scroll in the online magazine Triple Canopy. Spero has had several retrospective exhibitions at major museums. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Gloria Steinem

Entity type: Individual

Mary Stewart

Entity type: Individual

Mary Stewart is a printmaker & book artist.

Nancy Storrow

Entity type: Individual

Betty Stove

Entity type: Individual

Betty Flippina Stöve is a Dutch former professional tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final, the ladies' doubles final and the mixed doubles final during the same year at Wimbledon in 1977. She also won ten Grand Slam titles in women's doubles and mixed doubles. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Chick Strand

Entity type: Individual

Mildred "Chick" Strand (December 3, 1931 – July 11, 2009) was an American experimental filmmaker, "a pioneer in blending avant-garde techniques with documentary". Chick Strand contributed to the movement of women's experimental cinema in the early 1960s–1970's. Strand's filmmaking and directing approach incorporate personal elements from her own life experiences and societal forces and realities. The film Elasticity (1976) is an example of Strand's attempts at autobiographical work that also incorporates Strand's specific standpoint on certain social issues. Feminist issues and anthropological inquiries about the human condition are frequent themes in Strand's films. However, because Strand's films and work were often deeply personal and subjective, they were often rejected from male-dominated academic circles of anthropologists and critiqued for being non-academic works This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Michelle Stuart

Entity type: Individual

Subject

Michelle Stuart is an American artist. She studied in Mexico, France, and in New York at The New School for Social Research. Since the 1960s, Stuart has created a multifaceted body of work including large-scale earth works, complex multi-media installations, earth drawings, encaustic paintings, sculptural objects, drawings and prints. 

Let it Ripple Studio

Entity type: Organization

Women's Studio Workshop

Entity type: Organization

Women's Studio Workshop (WSW) is a nonprofit visual arts studio and private press offering residencies and educational workshops, located in Rosendale, New York. The workshop was founded in 1974 by Ann Kalmbach, Tatana Kellner, Anita Wetzel, and Barbara Leoff Burge as an alternative space for female artists to create new work, gain artistic experience, and develop new skills. The studio has since expanded its services to include artists who identify as women, trans, intersex, nonbinary, and genderfluid. WSW operates throughout the year with artist residencies, gallery exhibitions, artist lectures, and diverse educational programs for children and adults.The studio supports projects in a wide range of media types, with a focus on book arts, papermaking, and printmaking methods: screen printing, letterpress, etching, intaglio. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Leonor K. Sullivan

Entity type: Individual

supersisters™

Entity type: Organization

Kathrine Switzer

Entity type: Individual

Patsy Takemoto Mink

Entity type: Individual

Patsy Matsu Mink was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii. She served in the United States House of Representatives for 24 years as a member of the Democratic Party, initially from 1965 to 1977, and again from 1990 until her death in 2002. She was the first woman of color and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress, and is known for her work on legislation advancing women's rights and education. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

The Oral Traditions

Entity type: Organization

The Oral Traditions, Kay Turner's band, started in 1972 after Turner graduated from Douglas College. In Turner's words, The Oral Tradition was, "super wack, feminist performance. It was all about lesbian eroticism that was really not available in those other songs that were much more about partnering! They were about having a girlfriend and they were romantic but we were not of that ilk."

Helen Thomas

Entity type: Individual

Marlo Thomas

Entity type: Individual

Shelley Thorstensen

Entity type: Individual

Shelley Thorstensen lives and works in Pennsylvania. As her printmaking is a duet between in tangible and tactile, her artwork is a physical representation of consciousness: a duality of body and mind, physical and mental, heart and soul. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Royal Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA. She is an ongoing NEA Research Artist at Kansas State University in Electrolytic Chemical Etching and recently exhibited in Portraits of the Brain: Visualizing Behavior: Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem PA. She is the Director of Printmakers Open Forum.

Bonnie Tiburzi

Entity type: Individual

Lily Tomlin

Entity type: Individual

Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. She started her career as a stand-up comedian as well as performing off-Broadway during the 1960s. Her breakout role was on the variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1969 until 1973. She starred as Frankie Bergstein on the Netflix series Grace and Frankie, which debuted in 2015 and earned her nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. In 1975, Tomlin made her film debut with Robert Altman's Nashville, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1977, her performance as Margo Sperling in The Late Show won her the Silver Bear for Best Actress and nominations for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actress. Her other notable films include 9 to 5 (1980), All of Me (1984), Big Business (1988), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Tea with Mussolini (1999), I Heart Huckabees (2004), and Grandma (2015). Her signature role was written by her then-partner (now wife), Jane Wagner, in a show titled The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe which opened on Broadway in 1985 and won Tomlin the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play. She is also known as the voice of Ms. Frizzle on the children's series The Magic School Bus. She won her first Emmy Awards in 1974 for writing and producing her own television special, Lily. Tomlin won a Grammy Award for her 1972 comedy album This Is a Recording. In 2014, she was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor and in 2017 she received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Jane Trahey

Entity type: Individual

Marcia Tucker

Entity type: Individual

Wendy Turnbull

Entity type: Individual

Kay Turner

Entity type: Individual

Kay Turner is a performer, writer, musician and folklorist. She is the author of many books and publications, the lead singer in her rock punk band “Girls in the Nose” and a Professor of Performance Studies at NYU. From her groundbreaking work bringing goddesses and women’s altars out of the margins of history to her queering of religious and pop icons, Kay has centered her life around creating space for feminist communion.

Leslie Uggams

Entity type: Individual

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Entity type: Organization

Clover Vail

Entity type: Individual

Erica Van Horn

Entity type: Individual

Erica Van Horn came to WSW to produce the artist’s book Seven Lady Saintes, a contemporary illustrated manuscript describing the lives of seven female saints. Erica received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and since 1989 has worked in partnership with artist and editor Simon Cutts. Together they run Coracle Press, a small press in Ireland producing written and visual works, critical texts, exhibitions, and projects by other artists. Erica Van Horn came to WSW to produce the artist’s book Seven Lady Saintes, a contemporary illustrated manuscript describing the lives of seven female saints.

Velvetpark Media

Entity type: Organization

Velvetpark Media is a 501(c)3, registered in the state of New York. Our Mission is to serve as a platform for artists, writers, and activists in the LGBTQI community through multi-platform publishing and an artist residency program.  Velvetpark Magazine was founded New York City by Grace Moon. The magazine was focused on the culture and arts of lesbian, dyke, butch, femme, and women identified queer and transpeople. It began as a 48 page glossy print magazine published tri-yearly. Our first print issue was released in July 2002 with a print run of 5,000 magazines. 

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga

Entity type: Individual

Alice Walker

Entity type: Individual

Alida Walsh

Entity type: Individual

Tenesh Webber

Entity type: Individual

Sarah Weddington

Entity type: Individual

Claudia Weill

Entity type: Individual

Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film Girlfriends (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently and sold to Warner Brothers after multiple awards at Cannes, Filmex and Sundance. Girlfriends would be one of 82 films made by a female director to compete at Cannes. In 2019, Girlfriends was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Madeline Weinrib

Entity type: Individual

Elisa Wells

Entity type: Individual

Elisa Wells is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of Plan C, an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. She is a public health specialist with 30 years of experience in evaluation, training, strategic program development, and program management of family planning and reproductive health programs, both in the United States and abroad.

Kathleen Wentrack

Entity type: Individual

Anita Wetzel

Entity type: Individual

Anita Wetzel began her artistic practice in 1972 after completing a BFA in painting at SUNY New Paltz. She pursued further studies with Barbara Leoff Burge, focusing on mixed media collage work which she has now been practicing for over 40 years.   With Leoff Burge, Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner, Anita co-founded the Women’s Studio Workshop (WSW) in 1974 in Rosendale, NY. WSW’s studios initially focused on printmaking, offering artists equipment to which they might otherwise not have access. The founding artists then further enhanced WSW’s offerings by developing a hand papermaking program and, by the early 1980s, offering residency grants for artists to create artists’ books. Anita incorporated book making practices and adapted a range of monoprint methodologies to incorporate in to her mixed media collage work. She has also authored several limited edition artists’ books.

Weusi Artist Collective

Entity type: Organization

Weusi Artist Collective is an organization of African-American artists, established in 1965, based in the Harlem section of New York City. Inspired by the Black Arts Movement, the members of the Weusi Artist Collective create art invoking African themes and symbols. The organization was a major driving force behind the development, production and dissemination of black art in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1965, several ex-members of Twentieth Century Creators regrouped to form an artists collective, naming it the Weusi Artist Collective (in Swahili, weusi means "blackness."). Among the founding members were Ben Jones, Otto Neals, Taiwo DuVall, Ademola Olugebefola, Okoe Pyatt, Emmett Wigglesworth, Gaylord Hassan, Abdullah Aziz, Dindga McCannon, and Kay Brown. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Lili White

Entity type: Individual

Since 1978, LILI WHITE has been exploring collective memory, history, origins of energy, and the primacy of dream states, through her paintings, sculpture, and installations and over 100 moving image works begun in “automatic-techniques.” White is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art four-year studio study in painting; and holds a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania. As an activist, she founded ANOTHER eXperiment by WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL (aka AXW) for 10 years, receiving an LMCC Grant; http://axwonline.com maintains streaming shows.

Hannah Wilke

Entity type: Individual

Hannah Wilke (1940-1993), the pioneering feminist conceptual artist, worked in sculpture, drawing, assemblage, photography, performance and installation. Innovative and controversial throughout her life, Wilke is considered the first feminist artist to use vaginal imagery in her work, and her place in 20th century art continues to be established since her death.

Susan Williams

Entity type: Individual

Linda Winikow

Entity type: Individual

Jackie Winsor

Entity type: Individual

Clare Winterton

Entity type: Individual

Clare Winterton was the Executive Director of the International Museum of Women from 2009 to its merger with Global Fund for Women in 2014. She steered the organization through the creation of many of its most innovative online exhibitions, tackling issues from the global economy to maternal health, technology, and feminist futures. The rich multi-media projects were anchored in diverse global art, activism, and story-telling and curated by talented “artivists” and change-makers. During her tenure, the organization launched digital exhibitions – including Economica, MAMA, IGNITE, and Muslima –reaching more than 2 million online visitors and initiated events and installations in 14 countries on five continents. In partnership with then Global Fund for Women CEO Musimbi Kanyoro, Clare designed the merger of IMOW and Global Fund for Women to create a powerful combined global force for action, grantmaking, and advocacy on global gender equality, becoming VP of Programs and then COO of the merged organization. Since then, Clare has worked as a Senior Advisor to the United Nations’ Generation Equality initiative and is currently the Chief Programs and Operating Officer of the Solutions Project, an organization leading movement-centered climate justice grant-making and narrative change.

Josephine Withers

Entity type: Individual

Josephine Withers is a feminist art historian.

International Museum of Women

Entity type: Organization

Creator

Women's Action Coalition

Entity type: Organization

The Women's Action Coalition (WAC) was a feminist organization founded in 1992 to fight for women’s rights through direct action. The group was inspired by other activist groups, such as ACT UP and Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM).

Jane C. Wright

Entity type: Individual

Jane Cooke Wright was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon noted for her contributions to chemotherapy. In particular, Wright is credited with developing the technique of using human tissue culture rather than laboratory mice to test the effects of potential drugs on cancer cells. She also pioneered the use of the drug methotrexate to treat breast cancer and skin cancer (mycosis fungoids). This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Janise Yntema

Entity type: Individual

Hiltgunt Zassenhaus

Entity type: Individual

Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold was an American politician, attorney, activist, and educator. She was best known for her two campaigns for governor of Texas in 1972 and 1974, and for being placed in nomination for vice president of the United States, finishing second at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. She was elected as the first chair of the National Women's Political Caucus in 1973 This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Lee Zevy

Entity type: Individual

Lee Zevy is a therapist and activist. She co-founded Identity House in 1971 with a group of gay and lesbian activists and mental health workers during a time when homosexuality was still listed as a mental illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. From her activism in Civil Rights, Women's Rights and the Gay Rights Movements to her pioneering research on LGBTQ sex and identity, Lee has centered her life around opening up space for those who have lacked it most.

Barbara Zucker

Entity type: Individual