THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Carol Anne Douglas

“It’s very reassuring to me to know that feminism really is worldwide. It’s really not just a Western phenomenon. It’s worldwide.”

Author, Editor, Journalist, Educator, Activist. Staff member of The Second Wave: A Magazine for the New Feminism, produced by Boston-based Female Liberation, 1972. Member of the D.C. area Feminist Alliance, 1979. Member of the No-Name Group, a lesbian feminist organization in Washington that met for monthly discussions, 1979–1981. Member of off our backs. Author of Love and Politics: Radical Feminist and Lesbian Theory, 1990. Contributed to the anthology Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, 1996. Playwrights’ Collaborative. Founding member of the Washington Metropolitan Area chapter of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC). 

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, August 2023