THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Anne Forer Pyne
1945 – 2018
“The women’s liberation movement was never about a handful of women whose names got remembered. It was sustained and shaped by a sea of women who floated in and out of meetings, or even were just around at the time.”
Educator, writer, activist. New York Radical Women.
Photo 1. Anne Forer Pyne, drawing by (Haiku) Helen Kritzler, 1981. Photo 2. Anne Forer at 20th Anniversary of the 1969 Redstockings Abortion Speakout, 1989 (Photo: Jonathan Kaufman, Redstockings Archives)
More About Anne:
- New York Times Obituary
- Women’s Liberation Pioneer Anne Forer Pyne, 1945-2018 by Carol Hanisch, March 25, 2018
- Books on Amazon by Anne Wilensky, Anne Forer Pyne’s pen name
- Topsy Turvy: My life in the year 2013, A novel, 2014
- Not what you’d expect: How the women’s liberation movement started: My personal experience, June 2011
- Girl Blog From Tucson: a novel of sorts, Dec 29, 2009
- 20th Anniversary Abortion Speakout, Washington Square Methodist Church, March 3, 1989, New York City
- Redstockings Abortion Speakout, March 21, 1969, New York City by Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book, Feminists Who Changed America, page 153