Digital Archive

Tracy Chapman

Entity type: Individual

Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, widely known for her hit singles "Fast Car" (1988) and "Give Me One Reason" (1995). She was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987. The following year she released her debut album, Tracy Chapman, which became a commercial success. The album received six Grammy Award nominations, including one for Album of the Year, three of which she won: Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single "Fast Car", and Best Contemporary Folk Album. Chapman has since continued to release award-winning music. Chapman is politically and socially active. In a 2009 interview with National Public Radio, she said, "I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests and I basically try to do what I can. And I have certain interests of my own, generally an interest in human rights." This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Judy Chicago

Entity type: Individual

Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture.

Ruth Chickering Clusen

Entity type: Individual

Ruth Chickering Clusen was an American conservationist, politician, civil rights activist, and government official. She is remembered for serving as the president of the League of Women Voters, for hosting the debates between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, and for serving as the Assistant Secretary of Energy under President Jimmy Carter. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Laura Lee Ching

Entity type: Individual

Shirley Chisholm

Entity type: Individual

Cheryl Clarke

Entity type: Individual

Cheryl Lynn Clarke is an American lesbian poet, essayist, educator, and Black feminist community activist. Her scholarship focuses on African-American women's literature, black lesbian feminism, and the Black Arts Movement in the United States. For more than 40 years, Clarke was founding Director of Diverse Community Affairs and Lesbian/Gay Concerns, later the Office of Social Justice Education and LBT Communities, at Rutgers University. She maintains a teaching affiliation with the Graduate Faculty of the Department of Women and Gender Studies, though retired. In addition, Clarke serves on the board of the Newark Pride Alliance. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Kristen Clevenson

Entity type: Individual

Lindy Cochran

Entity type: Individual

Barbara Ann Cochran

Entity type: Individual

Francine Coeytaux

Entity type: Individual

Francine Coeytaux is a women’s health advocate and public health specialist with extensive experience in the development and evaluation of reproductive health programs. She is a Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor of Plan C and is best known for her work on new reproductive technologies, including emergency contraception, medical abortifacients, and microbicides. 

Kathleen Cohen

Entity type: Individual

Elizabeth Coleman

Entity type: Individual

Elizabeth Coleman was the ninth president of Bennington College from 1987 to 2013. Coleman also served as the founding Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The New School for Social Research.  This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Hunter College

Entity type: Organization

Spelman College Archives

Entity type: Repository

As one of two remaining historically, Black colleges founded to specifically educate women of the African Diaspora, Spelman College has a rich archival legacy going back to its founding. The Spelman College community has had an ongoing and strong interest in documenting the history of the College. This interest has manifested itself in a continuing commitment to the preservation of its administrative records as well as collecting letters, photographs, audio, documents, personal papers, monographs, and other material created by Spelman College graduates, faculty, staff and affiliates. The campus remains an integral part of Atlanta’s educational landscape, and the archives document the crucial history of one of the nation’s foremost educational institutions. The Spelman college archives and special collections serve as a microcosm of activities in Atlanta’s Black communities and facilitate a deeper understanding of the activities and issues affecting Black communities and internationally.

Friedman Feminist Press Collection, Colorado State University

Entity type: Repository

The most extensive collection of books in the Rocky Mountain West published by feminist presses, the FFPC includes books and periodicals published by the Women's Press Collective, Shameless Hussy Press, Diana Press, Daughters, Inc., Naiad Press, and Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Spinsters Ink, The Feminist Press, Seal Press, and Firebrand Press.  Providing unique sources in feminist/lesbian literature and second-wave feminism, the collection archives multi-genre works of fiction, poetry, memoirs, and essays by feminist publishers of the 1960s through the 1980s that brought women and women's words out into the world. The feminist press movement not only pushed the edge of mainstream publishing to reflect feminist and lesbian lives in print but also formed an essential arm of the growing women's liberation movement, furthering activism committed to the larger political and social changes that advanced women's lives

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Entity type: Repository

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.  

Beatrice Conover

Entity type: Individual

Hudson Valley artist Beatrice Conover was awarded a WSW residency to produce her artist’s book Visions of a One Eyed Horse, which includes cyanotype images, offset text, and silkscreen.

Kinshasha Holman Conwill

Entity type: Individual

Kinshasha Holman Conwill is an American museum director, arts and management consultant, author, and serves as a board member for numerous organizations within the US-American cultural sector. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Paula Cooper

Entity type: Individual

Wanda Corn

Entity type: Individual

Wanda M. Corn is an American art and cultural historian. Corn is a scholar of art and photography from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. She is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor emerita of art history at Stanford University. She held the professorship for eight years before retiring from the university in March 2017. Over her career as an art professor at Stanford she brought John D. Rockefeller's personal collection to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which included a "a body of 110 paintings described as the museums’ “single most important gift of art." She served as acting director of the Stanford Art Museum now known as the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. Prior to her position at Stanford she held the Samuel H. Kress Professorship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, at the National Gallery of Art from 2006 to 2007. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Dena Crane

Entity type: Individual

Crazy Nanny's

Entity type: Organization

Crazy Nanny’s was a lesbian bar in New York City that ran from 1991-2004. Located on 21 7th Ave, the bar spanned two floors allowing for large events. Crazy Nanny's drew a racially diverse crowd and was a space for the larger LGBT community to gather together.

Patricia Cruz

Entity type: Individual

Patricia Cruz is a veteran arts administrator whose career has been centered in New York City’s cultural landscape. Trained in theater and early in her career active as a performer and collaborator, she transitioned into arts leadership roles at major institutions including the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she directed programs and helped shape exhibitions and public initiatives, and later Harlem Stage, where she served as executive director. Across her work, Cruz has focused on expanding platforms for artists—particularly artists of color—through commissioning new work, supporting performance and interdisciplinary programming, and building institutional capacity for presenting contemporary art. At Harlem Stage, she oversaw major capital projects and programming expansions that strengthened the organization’s role as a key venue for experimental performance and visual culture in Harlem.

Cubbyhole Bar

Entity type: Organization

The bar now known as Cubbyhole dates back to 1987 when it was owned and operated by Tanya Saunders and Debbie Fierro as a refuge for all comers under the name DT's Fat Cat. It has remained both a lesbian and queer friendly location throughout its history as bar patronage shifted throughout New York City's LGBTQ+ community. In 1994 Saunders bought the name Cubbyhole from the owner of an already-closed lesbian bar, and the bar has operated under that name since.It is owned and operated by Lisa Menichino who had been a bar-tender under Saunders' ownership. Cubbyhole is at 281 W. 12th Street, the same location where Saunders operated DT's Fat Cat. The former Cubby Hole was located in what is now Henrietta Hudson. While there was some concern in early 2022 when the bar closed for renovation, it reopened in spring.