Digital Archive

Iris Films

Entity type: Organization

Iris Films was founded in 1975 by a group of feminist filmmakers to produce and distribute films that creatively address social and cultural issues. Iris has created the award-winning films, In the Best Interests of the Children, We All Have Our Reasons, Skin Deep, the widely acclaimed documentary about race relations on college campuses in the United States, Long Night’s Journey Into Day, the Sundance award winning, Academy® nominated film about South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and most recently, One Vote, a short video about women and voting in the United States. Iris Films productions have been used by activists, diversity and multi-cultural trainers, teachers, students and community groups to facilitate discussions about reconciliation, tolerance, transitional justice, racism, affirmative action, human rights, and civil rights.

Abbi Fisher

Entity type: Individual

Abigail E. "Abbi" Fisher-Gould is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. Born in South Conway, New Hampshire, she had one World Cup victory and three podiums. She suffered a knee injury in March 1979, at the pre-Olympic downhill at Lake Placid. Fisher competed in the Winter Olympics in 1976 and 1980. She was unable to start in the slalom at the World Championships in 1978 due to an ankle injury and was also named to the U.S. team in 1982. Fisher married Frank Gould; they have two children and reside in the Sun Valley area in central Idaho. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Nancy Folbre

Entity type: Individual

Jean Foos

Entity type: Individual

Jean Foos is a visual artist whose practice centers on richly painted and patterned surfaces. She gives new life to objects made from discarded packing materials and ceramics. For her installations she favors ad hoc urban settings, such as long-abandoned industrial buildings, military housing, and community gardens. Born in Rochester, New York, in 1953, Foos moved to NYC to attend Cooper Union and lived in the East Village for over 20 years. She first had a studio at 32 Union Square East, and later moved many times to work in Soho, the Bronx and the garment district. At each of her locations she was active in the community of artists and held open studios and exhibitions. Because her studio is currently located at an arts center (Culture Lab LIC) she has become more engaged than ever with the local populace.

Aminatta Forna

Entity type: Individual

Muriel Fox

Entity type: Individual

Barbara Frank

Entity type: Individual

Barbara Frank is an accomplished artist and important figure in the feminist artists' movement during the 1970s-1980s.

Lucinda Franks

Entity type: Individual

Betty Friedan

Entity type: Individual

Betty Friedan was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. In 1966, Friedan co-founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), which aimed to bring women "into the mainstream of American society now [in] fully equal partnership with men". In 1970, after stepping down as NOW's first president, Friedan organized the nationwide Women's Strike for Equality on August 26, the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote. The national strike was successful beyond expectations in broadening the feminist movement; the march led by Friedan in New York City alone attracted over 50,000 people. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

A.I.R. Gallery

Entity type: Organization

Creator, Partner

A.I.R. Gallery (Artists in Residence) is the first all-female artists cooperative gallery in the United States. It was founded in 1972 with the objective of providing a professional and permanent exhibition space for women artists during a time in which the works shown at commercial galleries in New York City were almost exclusively by male artists. A.I.R. is a not-for-profit, self-underwritten arts organization with a board of directors made up of its New York-based artists. The gallery was initially located in SoHo at 97 Wooster Street and on 111 Front Street in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn until 2015. In May 2015, A.I.R. Gallery moved to its current location at 155 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

Joan Ganz Cooney

Entity type: Individual

Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television writer and producer. She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop or CTW), the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street, which was also co-created by her. Cooney grew up in Phoenix and earned a Bachelor of Arts in education from the University of Arizona in 1951. After working for the State Department in Washington, D.C., and as a journalist in Phoenix, she worked as a publicist for television and production companies in New York City. In 1961, she became interested in working for educational television, and became a documentary producer for New York's first educational TV station WNET (Channel 13). Many of the programs she produced won local Emmys. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License

Gay Community News

Entity type: Organization

Gay Community News was an American weekly newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1973 to 1999. Designed as a resource for the LGBT community, the newspaper reported a wide variety of gay and lesbian-related news. Founded as a collectively-run, local newsletter, early in the struggle for gay liberation, it was soon expanded into a major newspaper with an international readership. The publication saw itself as part an important vehicle for debating gay rights, feminism, antiracism, multiculturalism, class struggle, prisoners' rights, AIDS, and other causes. The newspaper's influence was such that it enjoyed a "national reach that was considered the movement's 'paper of record' throughout the '70s, and whose alumni at one point occupied so many leadership roles around the country that they were called the 'GCN mafia'". This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Bob Gervais

Entity type: Individual

Girls in the Nose

Entity type: Organization

Girls in the Nose started in Austin, Texas in 1985. In 1981 I [Kay Turner] met a young performer named Gretchen Phillips and she and I started hanging out and listening to records together and we were just music nerds and she played guitar and then my friend Betsy Peterson, a folklorist who moved to Austin, joined.

Global Fund for Women

Entity type: Organization

Lenore Goldberg

Entity type: Individual

Jewelle Gomez

Entity type: Individual

Miki Gorman

Entity type: Individual

Lois Gould

Entity type: Individual

Katharine Graham

Entity type: Individual

Martha Graham

Entity type: Individual

Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide. Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the US: the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, in the 1994 documentary The Dancer Revealed: "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable." Founded in 1926 (the same year as Graham's professional dance company), the Martha Graham School is the oldest school of dance in the United States. First located in a small studio within Carnegie Hall, the school currently has two different studios in New York City. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Regina Granne

Entity type: Individual

Cassandra Grant

Entity type: Individual

Cassandra Grant is an educator, activist and a founding member of Salsa Soul Sisters, the oldest black lesbian organization in the United States. Cassandra has dedicated her life’s work to uplifting and empowering young people and community through her teaching in education reform. From her passionate and committed involvement with Salsa Soul to protesting systematic racism and racist practices of lesbians, Cassandra has fought to create and hold space for lesbian and queer women of color for decades. Her emphasis on community and respect above all else is a true inspiration and has led to younger generations of activist organizations stemming from Salsa including AALUSC [African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change].

Great Goddess Collective

Entity type: Organization

The Great Goddess Collective was made up of: Mary Albanese, Martha Alsup, Tracy Boyd, Janet Culbetson, Rosemary Dudley, Mary Beth Edelson, Gail Feinstein, Deborah Freedman, Gina Foglia, Donna Henes, Anne Healy, Buffie Johnson, Diane Levin, Grace Shinell, Merlin Stone, Carolee Thea, Susan Turner, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. The collective explored ideas surrounding the Goddess and produced creative works.