THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

E. Kitch Childs, Ph.D.

April 11, 1937 – January 10, 1993

“I am a feminist first. A feminist interprets things for herself and/or with other women. I am a woman, and I am a psychologist. I am not defined by the single variable of whom I sleep with.” – Interview in Lavender Woman, November 1973

Clinical psychologist and lesbian activist advocating for minority women, prostitutes, gays and lesbians. A founding member of the University of Chicago’s Gay Liberation and the first African-American woman to earn her doctorate degree in Human Development at the University of Chicago. Founding member of the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) with Phyllis Chesler and Dorothy Riddle.