THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Judy Norsigian
“My own consciousness has been raised in the last couple of years about the key role that residential segregation has played.”
Lifelong women’s health advocate and leader in social justice. Author. Co-founder of Our Bodies Ourselves. Founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Collective. Distinguished Leader of Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research (PRIM&R), an organization dedicated to advancing the highest ethical standards in the conduct of research.
Interviewed by Judith Waxman, April 2021
Photo 1. Women and Their Bodies, 1970 – what would become Our Bodies Ourselves in 1971. Photo 2. Founding Members of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, 1976. Back (l-r) Ruth Bell, Judy Norsigian, Vilunya (“Wilma”) Diskin, Jane Pincus; middle (l-r) Pamela Berger, Esther Rome, Joan Ditzion, Norma Swenson, Paula Doress; front (l-r) Wendy Sanford, Nancy Hawley. Courtesy of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University. Photo 3. Judy Norsigian, speaking at “Northwest Women Now” event, 1985.
More About Judy:
- Our Bodies Ourselves website
- Select interviews
- Live with Joan Lunden, March 2021
- In conversation with Judy Norsigian, American University of Armenia November 13, 2019
- Judy Norsigian: Women’s Health in the 21st Century, Chicago Humanities Festival, 2010
- A conversation with Wilma Diskin and Judy Norsigian, 1973 American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC
- Our Bodies, Ourselves Collective highlighted in She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, a film by Mary Dore
- Women’s Media Center
- Women Living Better website
- Judy Norsigian on C-SPAN
- Archives
- Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) website
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America