THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Evan Morley
1934 – October 1, 2022
“A cocktail party is a valid form of alternate lifestyle.”
Book editor. Joined the Consciousness Raising (CR) group that founded the Stanton-Anthony Brigade of New York Radical Feminists (NYRF), 1969. NYRF held speakouts on prostitution, marriage, motherhood, illegitimacy, rape and abortion between 1970 and 1975. Treasurer of NYRF and editor of its newsletter. Involved in all NYRF events until the group wound down in 1977. Deep connection to the Women’s Coffee House, a gathering place for feminists from October 1973 to July 1978.
Photo. A New York Radical Feminists reunion at Susan Brownmiller’s West Village apartment in the early 1980s. Evan Morley is second from the left at the bottom. Bottom row, from left, Judith Mahoney Pasternak, Evan Morley, Florence Rush, Susan Brownmiller, Deborah Glick; seated in center, from left, Helene Silverstein, Joan Goldman, Mary Ann Bollen, Lynne D. Shapiro; standing, from left, Ann Tynberg, Jean Grove, Laura Collins, Dolores Alexander, Chelsea Dreher, Roz Pulitzer. Photo credit Judith Mahoney Pasternak
More About Evan:
- Evan Morley, 88, radical feminist whose Perry Street home was part salon, part women’s center, by Judith Mahoney Pasternak, November 10, 2022
- Old feminists never die, they gather for killer poker, by Lynda Richardson. February 2000.
- The Politics of Art, Evan Morley, NYRF Newsletter, September 1975
- Women’s Coffee House, NYC LLGBT Historic Sites Project
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 324
