THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Barbara Deming
July 23, 1917 – August 2, 1984
“Think first about the action that is right to take and think later about coping with one’s fears.”
Lesbian poet, author, film critic, political activist. Advocate of nonviolent social change. Founded The Money for Women Fund to support the work of feminist artists, 1975, renamed The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.
More About Barbara:
- Obituary, The Miami Herald
- The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund website
- Barbara Deming, by Mab Segrest, March 1, 1985
- Barbara Deming: An Activist Life, an essay by Donna McCabe, 1995
- An Interview with Barbara Deming, by Ruthann Robson, 1983, Florida State College at Jacksonville
- Papers of Barbara Deming, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
- FBI file on Barbara Deming
- Wikipedia page
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 115
