The Android Sisters, left to right: Murry Stevens, Frances Pici, and Mickey Alberts. Courtesy of Frances Pici.

​Frances Pici, Mickey Alberts and three others started Red Dyke Theatre in Atlanta in 1974 with a New Year’s Eve show at their home, Tacky Towers.

Blanche Jackson at Womonwrites: the Southeastern Lesbian Writers Conference in autumn 2011. Her T-shirt says, “Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society.” Photo by Lorraine Fontana, used with permission.

From a rooftop garden in New York City to Maat Dompim Womyn of Color Land Project in Virginia and beyond, Blanche has offered support and empowerment to women of color throughout the country.

SONG cofounders, left to right, Mandy Carter, Suzanne Pharr, Joan Garner, Pat Hussain, Mab Segrest, and Pam McMichael. Few pictures of the whole group together exist, and this picture, taken in 2013 by Edie Daly, is no exception. Mab Segrest has been added (with her permission).

Southerners on New Ground (SONG) is an organization formed in 1992 to establish coalitions for social change. Interviews with all six founders are online.

Mary Dean Carter, Beth Marschak, and Terrie Pendleton, left to right, members of Richmond Lesbian Feminists.

My feminism began in college. I started a women’s lib group, organized the first Earth Day in Richmond, and got in jail for antiwar and civil rights actions.