THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Syd Beiner

October 31, 1933 – April 8, 2025

“I gave myself the middle name of Ophelia. That’s what happens when you study literature too long.”

Educator of English literature and film history. Reporter, book and film critic for the early feminist newspaper, Majority Report, 1971 –1974. Member of the Radical Feminists, 1969–1972. Member of NY NOW, 1971-1980.  Editor of the NY NOW newsletter, 1972 –1975. Chair of NY NOW’s board, 1975. Member of the NOW-East End chapter and the East End Gay Organization. 

Photo. Eleanor Pam, Marilyn Fitterman, Syd Beiner, Sandy Rapp singing Remember Rose: A Song For Choice at the event On the Front Lines of Feminism, sponsored by: The Pride Center, Women with Pride, Women in Network (WIN), Palm Beach County National Organization for Women (NOW), BLAST Women of WPB, Broward County National Organization for Women (NOW), Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, Veteran Feminists of America and the Boca Rap Group, February 27, 2013.