Ti-Grace Atkinson | |
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Born | Grace Atkinson November 9, 1938 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. |
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Years active | 1968–1974 |
Organization | The Feminists (1968–1971) |
Movement | Radical feminism |
Spouse |
Charles Leeds Sharpless
(m. 1956; div. 1962) |
Grace Atkinson (born November 9, 1938), better known as Ti-Grace Atkinson, is an American radical feminist activist, writer and philosopher.[2][page needed] She was an early member of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and presided over the New York chapter in 1967–68, though she quickly grew disillusioned with the group. She left to form The Feminists, which she left a few years later due to internal disputes. Atkinson was a member of the Daughters of Bilitis and an advocate for political lesbianism. Atkinson has been largely inactive since the 1970s, but resurfaced in 2013 to co-author an open statement expressing radical feminists' concerns about what they perceived as the silencing of discussion around "the currently fashionable concept of gender."