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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: DANA DENSMOREveteranfeminists2022-10-19T14:53:28-04:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Dana Densmore

“We Were Female Liberation.”

Scholar, teacher, theorist and publisher. Worked at MIT as a computer scientist designing the onboard computer for Apollo in the 1960’s. Co-founded with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, the journal No More Fun and Games, 1971. Co-founder of Ja Shin Do, a school of feminist martial arts, 1974. Organized the first continental conference for teachers of women’s martial arts and self-defense, 1975. Editor and publisher of the magazine Black Belt Woman: The Magazine for Women in the Martial Arts and Self Defense, 1975 – 1976. Officer of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press in 1972. Founded the Green Lion Press. 

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, May 2022

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More About Dana:

  • The Green Lion official website
  • Archives
    • “Females and Liberation: A Collection of Articles,” by Dana Densmore, 1970, Part of the Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections Repository
  • Anne M Valk, “Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore,” Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 2, September 2020, Pages 545–546
  • “A Year of Living Dangerously,” by Dana Densmore: 1968
  • Independence from the Sexual Revolution, by Dana Densmore, 1973
  • No More Fun and Games
  • History of Ja Shin Do
  • Cell 16 on wikipedia
  • Cited in Paul D. Buchanan’s, Radical Feminists, A Guide to an American Subculture pages 114 – 116
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 116

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