THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Mary Vasiliades
“I believe the women’s movement is the most important revolution in modern history and it is not over.”
Novelist, playwright, reporter, editor, speechwriter. Board of NY NOW. Established chapter’s first rape prevention committee. Member of the organizing committee for the August 26, 1970 Women’s Strike for Equality march on Fifth Ave. in NYC. She also worked on the 1970 demonstration and takeover of the Statue of Liberty. In 1972 joined the Majority Report collective, for which she wrote political news and the “Inquiring Feminist” column. New York Radical Feminists. Formed Women’s Interprises, a mail order catalog of women’s products with Pat Korbet.
Photo 1. Mary. Photo 2. Mary Vasiliades and VFA president Eleanor Pam, 2013.
More About Mary:
- Veteran Feminists of America
- Mary Vasiliades recalls life as a feminist, Asbury Park Press, May 26, 2007
- Sappho Rising by Mary Vasililades on Amazon, March 18, 2001
- The Hartford Courant, March 21, 1976
- Guide to the National Organization for Women, New York City Chapter (NOW-NYC) Records TAM.106, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, page 471
