THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Charlotte Bunch

“I think it’s so important for women facing the backlashes of today, to know that they are part of a long line of women, not only in the US, but around the world, who have done this fight, who are still doing this fight, and that their backlash is a sign of success. And so, yes, you have to fight back. If you didn’t have backlash, you wouldn’t have changed anything.”

Lesbian feminist trailblazer. Activist, Author, Educator, Organizer. National Women’s Hall of Fame inductee. Founding Director and Senior Scholar of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University, Co-Chair. Elected first president of the University Christian Movement (UCM), Southern Methodist University. A founder of Quest: A Feminist Quarterly, a feminist journal published in Washington, D.C. from 1974 until 1982. Honorary board member of Veteran Feminists of America.

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, October 2024

Photo. With Gloria Steinem, 1979.