"Harvard had a men-only library until 1967, barring women because they 'distracted from serious scholarship.' Harvard did not wake up one sunny morning and decide to open the library to female students. A feminist changed Harvard’s mind. Her name was Naomi Weisstein. She and a handful of friends dressed in skin-tight leotards, they danced and blew trumpets in front of the library windows shouting, 'Distraction? We’ll show you a distraction.' Naomi died in 2015 at age 76. She was never famous, just one of many unsung feminists who stuck her hand down the drain and cleared the sludge for the rest of us."
~ A. Basil
https://medium.com/s/story/gen-x-remember-when-men-preferred-hanes-and-you-were-an-uptight-bitch-6ba6db0feb80
Maybe a little famous...
http://www.feministvoices.com/naomi-weisstein/
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