Celebrate Women's Activism

Help build NYC's permanent catalog listing women activists from across the globe. Share a story that inspires you.

Collecting 20000 stories of inspiring women.

Gladys Bentley

LGBTQ PRIDE 2021

Gladys Bentley loved women, wore men's clothing, and sang bawdy songs that would make sailors blush...and did it openly in the 1920s and 1930s....

Marsha P. Johnson

LGBTQ PRIDE 2021

“I was no one, nobody, from Nowheresville until I became a drag queen. That’s what made me in New York, that’s what made me in New Jersey, that’s what made me in the world.” Marsha P. Johnson...

Jeanne Manford

LGBTQ PRIDE 2021

Jeanne Manford: A Mother First, Gay Rights Activist Second...

Ivy Bottini

LGBTQ PRIDE 2021

She was the founder of the 1st chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) formed in 1966 as well as designing their national logo. ...

Celebrate Women's Activism

Gladys Bentley

LGBTQ PRIDE 2021

Marsha P. Johnson

LGBTQ PRIDE 2021

Jeanne Manford

LGBTQ PRIDE 2021

Ivy Bottini

LGBTQ PRIDE 2021

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Mary Ludwig Hays

Sarah Moore Grimké

Penelope Barker

Mary Musgrove

Ruth Hanna Mccormick

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Andrea Bernstein

Vivian Beaumont Allen

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