Announcing a Memorial Service for Kate Millett
Former Feminist original, author, artist and visionary and Bowery neighbor.
November 9, 2-4pm Fourth Universalist Society Universalist Universal Church 160 Central Park West (at 76th Street).
Gloria Steinem said that Ms. Millett and “Sexual Politics” had sounded a call.
NYTimes: “Kate was brilliant, deep, and uncompromising,” she said in an email. “She wrote about the politics of male dominance, of owning women’s bodies as the means of reproduction, and made readers see this as basic to hierarchies of race and class. She was not just talking about unequal pay, but about woman-hatred in the highest places and among the most admired intellectuals. As Andrea Dworkin said, ‘The world was asleep, but Kate Millett woke it up.’ ”