THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Lucinda “Cindy” Cisler
“Without the FULL capacity to limit her own reproduction, a woman’s ‘freedoms’ are tantalizing mockeries that cannot be executed.”
Architect, activist and author. Created the equality pin for the First Congress to Unite Women in New York City, November 1969, an equal sign inside a female symbol, chosen because it required no artistic ability to scribble on walls or other convenient surfaces. Co-chair of the National Organization for Women’s Task Force on Abortion. Secretary of the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws. At founding conference of NARAL, helped frame its statement of purpose, 1969. President for New Yorkers for Abortion Law Repeal. Founding member of the Majority Report newspaper group, 1971; the Alliance of Women in Architecture, 1972; and the Association of Libertarian Feminists, 1975. Member of the New York-based radical feminist group the Redstockings.

Photo. Cindy Cisler, 1975.

More About Cindy:
- “Lucinda Cisler Feminist Icon,” by Bill Handleman, December 2007
- “The Liberated Woman,” by Mary Reinholz, February 1975
- Archives
- Cindy Cisler in Meredith Tax papers, Duke University Libraries
- National Organization for Women, New York City: mailings, notes about meetings, chapter history, New Yorkers for Abortion Law Repeal, Daughters of Bilitis, Cynthia Epstein, Lucinda Cisler, James Clapp, Sidney Abbott, Jacqueline Ceballos, Ivy Bottini, and Muriel Fox, 1969-1970, n.d. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Papers of Maren Lockwood Carden, 1969-1979.
- Abortion law repeal (sort of): a warning to women by Lucina Cisler, 1970.
- Abortion Ruling: Some Good News…and Some Bad News, by Lucinda Cisler and James Clapp, 1973
- The first radio series on abortion, moderated by Lucinda Cisler and James Clapp, both of whom were members of the New York chapter of the Abortion Committee of the National Organization for Women and of the Public Education Committee of Parents’ Aid Society.
- Wikipedia
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 85