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Newly Released Documentary: “My Name Is Pauli Murray”
This 2021 Amazon Original Documentary film has just been released, and portrays Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray - non-binary Black lawyer, activist and poet who influenced both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall - as "One of the [...]
Frances ‘Sissy’ Farenthold, Lodestar for Texas Liberals, Dies at 94
Frances “Sissy” Farenthold in 1997. (Courtesy of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, and the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin) By Joe Holley Washington Post In [...]
In Honor of Kate Millett’s 87th Birthday
September 16th would have been Kate’s 87th Birthday and while we mourn the loss of Kate’s remarkable presence on this planet, we celebrate with love and admiration, Kate’s brilliance and bravery; her profound dedication [...]
VFA Founder Jacqui Ceballos is 96 on Sept. 8!
VFA founder Jacqui Ceballos will be celebrating her 96th birthday on September 8! If you’d like to wish Jacqui a happy birthday, please send an email to her care of VFA at vfa@veteranfeministsofamerica.org. We will [...]
Paula Joan Caplan, Pioneering Psychologist Passes
Paula Caplan, a pioneering psychologist who exposed how her profession had pathologized a wide range of female traits and social responsibilities, including motherhood, mens-truation and even shopping, died on July 21 at her home [...]
Sheila Tobias, VFA Board Member, Author and Educator
April 26, 1935 - July 6, 2021 As she worked her way through the ranks of academia during the 1960s and '70s, Sheila Tobias kept noticing something: Female students seemed to avoid studying math [...]
Alix Dobkin, Whose Music was by Women for Women, Dies at 80
Released in 1973, Lavender Jane Loves Women by Alix Dobkin and her band, was the first album recorded and distributed by women for women. It was, says Dobkin, "the very first album by, for [...]
Barbara Love’s New Book, There At The Dawning: Memories of a Lesbian Feminist
Barbara Love has already done more than her share of work in documenting the history of Second Wave Feminism with the publication of Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975. Now, with the publication of her [...]
Online Event: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution
Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings That Inspired A Revolution And Still Can Thursday, March 18, 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST This event is co-presented by the Center for American Studies at Columbia University and the Center [...]
Betty Friedan Webinar Video is Online
Go to our Events page to view the recording of the Feb. 4 webinar. Betty Friedan, creator of the modern women’s movement, was honored in a “star-studded” webinar titled “Betty Friedan’s 100 Birthday: Moving the [...]