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Ti-Grace Atkinson (Grace Atkinson) was born on 9 November, 1938 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., is an American radical feminist activist (born 1938). Discover Ti-Grace Atkinson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

Popular As Grace Atkinson
Occupation Activist · writer · philosopher
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 9 November 1938
Birthday 9 November
Birthplace Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1938

Grace Atkinson (born November 9, 1938), better known as Ti-Grace Atkinson, is an American radical feminist activist, writer and philosopher.

Atkinson was born on November 9, 1938 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, into a prominent Cajun Republican family.

Her father, Francis Decker Atkinson, was a chemical engineer for Standard Oil, and her mother, Thelma Atkinson, was a homemaker.

Named after her grandmother, Grace, the "Ti" is Cajun French for petite, meaning "little".

She traveled extensively in her childhood, and attended multiple schools in Europe and the United States.

1961

Atkinson married her high school boyfriend, Air Force captain Charles Leeds Sharpless, whom she divorced around 1961 or 1962.

1964

Atkinson earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1964.

While still in Philadelphia, she helped found the Institute of Contemporary Art, acting as its first director.

Atkinson was also a sculpture critic for the periodical ARTnews, as well as a painter, and associated with artists such as Elaine de Kooning.

1967

Atkinson became an early member of the National Organization for Women, which Friedan had co-founded, serving on the national board, and becoming the New York chapter president in 1967.

Her time with the organization was tumultuous, including a row with the national leadership over her attempts to defend and promote Valerie Solanas and her SCUM Manifesto in the wake of the Andy Warhol shooting.

1968

In 1968, she became critical of the organization's inability to confront issues like abortion and marriage inequalities; she also felt it replicated patriarchal power structures, and resigned from her presidency after her proposal to abolish NOW's executive offices was defeated in a vote.

1969

In 1969, a photograph of Atkinson was published in a series by Diane Arbus in the London Sunday Times. She later moved to New York City where, in 1967, she entered the PhD program in philosophy at Columbia University, where she studied with the philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto.

1970

Atkinson was involved with Sagaris, an experimental feminist summer school in Lyndonville, Vermont, in the 1970s, but left the organization with several other faculty members after the school accepted a grant from Ms. Magazine.

1971

In 1971, Patricia Buckley Bozell, a Catholic and conservative activist, slapped or attempted to slap (unclear if physical contact was actually made) Atkinson after the latter made what Bozell described as "an illiterate harangue against the mystical body of Christ".

The incident occurred on the platform of Catholic University of America's auditorium while Atkinson was discussing the virginity of the Virgin Mary.

"Sisterhood", Atkinson famously said in her 1971 resignation from the Feminists, "is powerful. It kills. Mostly sisters."

1973

She founded the October 17th Movement, named for the date of her resignation, which would later became The Feminists, a radical feminist group active until 1973; however, she left the group in 1971 when the group barred its members from speaking to the press.

By then, she had written several pamphlets on feminism, was a member of the Daughters of Bilitis and was advocating specifically political lesbianism.

Atkinson led and participated in protests against Richard Nixon, the Manhattan Marriage Bureau, and gender-segregated classified ads in the New York Times. She advocated for more violent means of activism, and publicly admired the Italian-American Unity League and the Weathermen.

1974

Her book Amazon Odyssey was published in 1974.

1990

She received her Master's degree in 1990, but did not complete her dissertation.

Atkinson later moved on to study the work of Gottlob Frege with philosopher Charles Parsons.

She taught at several colleges and universities over the years, including the Pratt Institute, Case Western Reserve University and Tufts University.

As an undergraduate, Atkinson read Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, and struck up a correspondence with Beauvoir, who suggested that she contact Betty Friedan.

2013

In 2013, Atkinson, along with Carol Hanisch, Kathy Scarbrough, and Kathie Sarachild, initiated "Forbidden Discourse: The Silencing of Feminist Criticism of 'Gender'", which they described as an "open statement from 48 radical feminists from seven countries".

2014

In August 2014, Michelle Goldberg in The New Yorker described it as expressing their "alarm" at "threats and attacks, some of them physical, on individuals and organizations daring to challenge the currently fashionable concept of gender."