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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 6h

“Women’s history is fragile. It needs to be preserved and published.” – Joan Arbeiter, artist, author, educator; College Art Association; Women’s Caucus for Art; New York Feminist Art Institute; ArtTable; and Ceres Gallery. Find out more: veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-...

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nan Aron – attorney, author, activist – was trial attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commiss.; staff attorney for the ACLU National Prison Project; founder and former president of the progressive advocacy organization Alliance for Justice; active member of the Women’s Legal Defense Fund.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anne Levy Wexler – political consultant, public policy advisor and lobbyist – served as Undersecr., Dept. of Commerce; spec. assist. to President Carter, public outreach; established first female run lobbying firm, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Assoc.; key lobbyist, strategist for passage of NAFTA.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lawyer, author, educator Holly Maguigan was an expert on the defense of domestic-violence victims charged with assaulting or killing their abusers. “The battered women cases were quite consuming because people didn’t know how to try these cases. The judges expected you to plead insanity or guilty.”

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Janet Benshoof was the founder of the Global Justice Center; founder of the Center for Reproductive Rights; and established domestic and international legal precedents on women’s reproductive rights, equality rights, and women’s rights to non-discrimination under international humanitarian law.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Penny Stoil Thompson, Co-founder of Projects Plus, Inc., a charitable events planning firm, raised more than $800 million over 40 years for the Guggenheim, American Cancer Society, Boys' & Girls' Clubs of America, Marine Corps Scholarship Fund and NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and more.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Joanne Gates Fiore - psychotherapist, poet, writer, activist - was Counselor at first feminist abortion clinic, which opened in New York City on July 1, 1970 - the day abortion became legal. She pioneered sex educ. for teenagers and was counselor at The Door – a multi-service center for teens.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Women are still asked what they will do about child care. The question is rather: 'If we as a human community want children, how does society propose to provide for them?' - Jean Baker Miller, M.D., psychiatrist, author, professor; director, Stone Center for Devel. Serv. and Stud., Wellesley College

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“That evening, on the [TV] news of the [1970 Women’s Strike for Equality], I saw the media distortion of the women’s rights movement: tight shots of bra-less women in T-shirts with angry signs. I had seen a cross-section of women at the march, but none of these women were represented.”- Midge Kovacs

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today is Women’s Equality Day! On August 26, 1920 - 106 years ago - women finally won the right to vote in the U.S. 50 years later - on August 26, 1970 - thousands of women across the country marched and rallied. The Second Wave women’s movement was official!

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Love what you do, love justice, love the rising of the women and work like hell for it. You feel incredible joy - there's no better life than that.” - Rhonda Copelon, fnd. brd. mbr., Nat'l Econ. & Soc. Init.; advis. brd. mbr., Human Rights Watch; Legal Advis. & fnd., Wmn's Caucus for Gndr. Justice.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Judith Adler Hennessee - freelance writer, biographer, vice president and FCC coordinator of the New York chapter of NOW – focused on an FCC license challenge to WABC-TV, alleging sexism against women in their programs and employment practices. It resulted in significant changes by the station.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A woman of conviction, Darlene Kaltz- longtime member of the National Organization for Women; treasurer, Michigan NOW; board of Green Michigan; and Advisor for nonpartisan Congressional Student Summit - worked tirelessly to bring positive change and plant seeds for the future.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Marjorie Bell Chambers (1923-2006) became nat'l spokesperson for adoption of the ERA. She served as adviser to 4 presidents and 10 governors of New Mexico in appointed positions and commissions; chaired Nat'l Advis. Counc. on Wmn's Educ. Progs.; and Comm. for Women. More at vfa.org

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Beverly Wildung Harrison, author, educator, feminist theologian: “There's an objective gain in the quality of women’s lives for those who have access to procreative choice. We must struggle against poverty, racism, and cultural oppression that prevent choice from being a reality for every woman.”

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Artist, writer, activist Sabra Moore was a Peace Corp volunteer, member of feminist group W.A.R., abortion clinic worker in New York before it was legalized, and lived through the intense and crazy early times of the women’s movement. . She is still organizing shows and displaying her own work.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Barbara “Dusty” Roads, labor activist and American Airlines flight attendant, fought against mandatory retirement age fo 32. She lobbied members of Congress on flights to Wash. DC; challenged reporters to id the 32 year-olds in a lineup; co-founded Assoc. of Professional Flight Attendants, 1977.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Marianne Ferber - Prof. of Economics, Head of Women’s Studies, Univ. of IL Urbana Champaign; Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession; International Association for Feminist Economics. In 2002, she received the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award for her service to the women’s movement.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Linda King Newell--historian, author, feminist scholar in Mormon history; co-author, “Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith,” 1984; bio. of first wife of Joseph Smith, founder, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Book explains beginnings of church and woman's perspective on practice of polygamy.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Gertrude Ezorsky (1926 – 2019) - author of “Crime and Justice in America,” prof. emerita, philosophy depts, Brooklyn Coll. and CUNY Grad. Ctr – wrote, “...what is the likelihood that any of us could have been so lucky, morally speaking, as to escape the mark of social prejudice?”

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“The consciousness at Yale Divinity School in ’72 is not anti-men, but pro-women. And it’s getting stronger.” – Rev. Joan Bates Forsberg, reprod. rights activist; advoc. for women’s presence in ministry; ordained Christian minister; one of first female faculty members at Yale Divinity School.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In 1969, Anita Ladewig, Chapter President, San Francisco NOW, said: “When we talk action, we mean a different kind of action than other feminist groups. NOW's primary objective is to bring women to full participation in the mainstream of American society…a fully equal partnership of the sexes.”

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“Every time there’s a new upsurge of feminism, we rediscover that it’s all been thought of and pursued in the past, but the next generation of women failed to stick with the facts. They are unprepared when the backlash rolls in to take it all away again.” – Suzy McKee Charnas

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“I never knew there was anyone else who felt as I did. This isolation of dissatisfied women.” – Ruth Herschberger, poet, playwright, author of “Adam’s Rib,” a book of feminist essays published. in 1948, which analyzed anti-feminine sex-role stereotypes, both implicit and explicit.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Susan Nussbaum, disabled writer, actress and social justice activist, spent a lifetime of fearless truth-telling on behalf of people with disabilities. She was the Founder of Access Living. Founder of the Empowered Fe Fes and an early member of Chicago Women's Liberation. More at vfa.org.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Priscilla Ransohoff was a military educ. specialist; advoc. for women in science and fed. employ.; educ. ofcr in U.S. Army's Electronics Command; a founder of Fed. Employ. Women. (Photo: Ransohoff receives Army’s Equality Employment Opp. Award from Secretary of the Army Howard Callaway in 1975)

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Joe Levin, was co-founder Southern Poverty Law Center, member of Carter Presidential Transition Team and Chief Counsel, Nat'l Highway Traffic Safety Admin. His cases include the sex discrimination case of Frontiero v. Richardson and private segregated school case of Gilmore v. City of Montgomery.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

After debating Phyllis Schafly on the ERA in 1980, Peg Stair Anderson said, “We lost the election, but we won a large following of newly sensitized women!” Anderson worked to bring women into government, education and religious bodies; headed Iowa campaign to pass the ERA in 1979.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Feminist historian, sociologist and author Leonore Davidoff helped create the Feminist Library in London in 1975 and was founding editor of the academic journal “Gender & History.” She played a central role in establishing the International Federation for Research in Women’s History.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“Every once in a while, I stop to wonder how differently our country would look now without a war...universal health care ...housing our homeless...financing all our children for the education they want...our wealth being distributed more equally?” – Dorothy Eppstein, pilot WWII, NOW, Kalamazoo.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Leah Napolin made her playwriting debut on Broadway in 1975 with “Yentl.” She taught music at a private school in Venezuela; Comparative Lit. at Ohio State University; creative writing for the inmates of Ohio Reformatory for Women; and was Assoc. Editor at Choice Magazine Listening.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Lois Ablin Kriesberg helped establish the Central New York chapter of NOW, '60s; founding member, first VP, Women’s Bar Assn of Central NY. “I think her own experiences convinced her there was an inequality between women and men. She didn’t just want to talk about it. She wanted to change things.”

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Beatrice “Bede” Urich, artist; a founder of Milwaukee, WI NOW, 1968 and a founder of Santa Monica, CA NOW, early 1970’s. She worked on the first pass for the chronology of Feminist Chronicles, when volunteers at National NOW Times were assembling a draft covering feminist activity, 1966-1979.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Gerald “Jerry” Fox, pioneering feminist attorney, member of the Board of Editors of Yale Law School, was elected vice president of the New York Chapter of NOW. He handled NOW’s case against New York City newspapers that ran separate help-wanted ads for men and women. veteranfeministsofamerica.org

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Irene Dankelman, envir. act., prof., ecol., author from Haarlem, Netherlands, supported marginlizd grps arnd world. VP, Brd Trust., WECE (Wmn Engage for Comm. Fut.); Chair, Brd, WEDO; educ. bks: “Wmn Key to Saving Earth”; “Wmn and Environ. in Third World”; “Gender and Climate Change.” More: vfa.org.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

“When it comes to global warming, extreme weather, overpopulation, and the diminishment of planet earth, eco political artist Janet Culbertson has had her eye on the storm for over forty years.” – Janet Goleas, Islip Museum. Find out more at veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-...

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"Educating women about credit rights and what they could do with those rights was an amazing thing." – Kay Walker Cole, past president of the Women’s Southwest Federal Credit Union, Women’s Issues Network, Women’s Center of Dallas, Texas Abortion Rights Action Leagues, North Dallas NOW.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“Mickey Flacks [was] a longtime active member and chair of the Santa Barbara County Housing Authority, a member of the Democratic Party central committee, a past chair of the ACLU, and a pioneer in working for affirmative action policies in local government.“ veteranfeministsofamerica.org

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

According to Nicole Hollander - creator of the syndicated cartoon strip “Sylvia” and graphic artist for feminist publication “The Spokeswoman,” – “It was feminism and humor that made me a cartoonist.” Find out more at veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-...

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“I was trained to be an artist by men, but I learned how to express myself from women.” – Miriam Schapiro, artist, educator, collector, founding member of Heresies Collective, and New York Feminist Art Institute, brought Feminist Art Program to the California Institute of the Arts.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“I want to be an advocate for women, especially young women. I want them to be able to determine their own lives.” - Joyce Barolak, activist, lobbyist, feminist, ob/gyn nurse and Ohio NOW President. veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-...

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Activist, academic, feminist, science fiction writer Sally Miller Gearhart was first out lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position at San Francisco State University, 1973. Helped establish one of the country's first women and gender study programs. veteranfeministsofamerica.org

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“In the early ’60s there was this incredible energy in the art community. It was a place where young artists came to meet older artists almost on equal ground. There was a real feeling of community and continuity.” – Selina Trieff, educator at the Art Association School, Provincetown , 1983.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Jan Monk was a feminist geographer, author, professor who wrote about the history of women in geography, comparative international perspectives and geographic education. She was instrumental in the success of Southwest Institute for Research on Wmn and its Women in Science and Engineering program.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Susan Davis Moora published The Spokeswoman for a number of years, which led to eight of the top women in Chicago doing the first women's venture capital deal to launch a national women's news magazine. At that time, venture capital firms did not finance women. veteranfeministsofamerica.org

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Alida Walsh, a visual artist of sculpture, film, multi-media; member, Women Artists in Revolution. Best-known sculptures: “Earth, Mother, Goddess,” “Walking Nude Mirror.” Exhibited in first all-women art exhibit, NYC, 1969; co-founded Women Artist Filmmakers and Women/Artist/Filmmakers, Inc.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ann McGuiness was a specialist in fundraising and political advocacy; a reproductive and sexual health rights advocate. She was Director of Development, NARAL Pro-Choice America; Senior Philanthropy Advisor, Planned Parenthood; Founder, Contraceptive Access Initiative and more.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Genie Gatens-Robinson - biologist, educator, author and expert in the feminist philosophy of science – co-founded Women’s Studies Department at Southern Illinois University, where she taught Philosophy of Science, Feminist Theory, Philosophy and Ecology and American Women in Philosophy.

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Shepard Aronson, MD: “I have been kidded and encouraged for my work in NOW. Men who tease me usually just don't understand what women's liberation is. Their understanding dawns when you ask them if they'd like to see their wives or daughters paid lower wages simply because they're women.”

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Veteran Feminists of America @veteranfeminists.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Literary agent, political strategist Esther Newberg worked for Abe Ribikoff, Robert Kennedy, Bella Abzug, the Democratic Party. “I worked with some of the great figures of politics, and now I get to read a book first before anyone else sees any part of it, and to sell it.”

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