THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Joan Casamo
“My Activism is Very Personal.”
A feminist singer/songwriter and book editor. Founding member of the board of the Poughkeepsie Women’s Center (1971 – 1973). Member of Kate Millett’s writers and artists colony at Millett’s farm in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Interviewed by Rebecca Lubetkin, Legacy, August 2021
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Photo 1. Joan Casamo and Kate Millett. Photo 2. Joan and Linda Clarke.
More About Joan:
- Veteran Feminists of America
- Kate Millett Memorial Service, November 9, 2017
- Kate Millett Festival, June 24, 2012
- Gloria Steinem introduces Linda Clarke and Joan Casamo at the Celebrating Kate Millet event, November 7, 1998
- Our Last Days with Dolores Alexander, Linda Clarke and Joan Casamo, 2008
- As referenced in Joan’s interview, Finding A Woman’s Place: The Story of a 1970s Feminist Collective in the Adirondacks by Veteran Feminists of America, Lorraine Duvall
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, page 76