About

The Feminist Institute (TFI) documents and celebrates feminist contributions to culture by preserving and digitizing archival materials for public access. TFI promotes information activism and gender equity by infilling the cultural record to reflect fuller truths.

Through our partnership program, our staff works closely with institutions, feminist creators, and organizations on archival projects with both physical and digital records. We then provide access to digitized materials from these partnerships through the TFI Digital Archive. Our partnerships fuel our programs, including our digital exhibitions, events, Alive in the Archive video series, and blog.

We envision a future where gender-marginalized individuals and organizations’ equal contributions to culture are known and recognized, and their rights are protected.

Riya Lerner, Cassandra Grant at Home, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, NY, 2019.
Copyright held by Riya Lerner and ingested into the TFI Digital Archive through a partnership between The Feminist Institute and Addresses Project, 2022.
Courtesy of Riya Lerner and Gwen Shockey. See record

supersisters, Printing proof of supersisters trading cards, 1979.
Digitized through a partnership between supersisters and The Feminist Institute, 2022.
Courtesy of Melissa and Lois Rich. See record

Alison Knowles and Carolee Schneemann at Alison Knowles’s loft, October 16th, 2018.
Photo: Jessica Higgins

A.I.R. Gallery, Flyer for the panel discussion “Who Cares About Feminism? Art and Politics in the Nineties”, 1991.
Digitized through a partnership between The Feminist Institute and A.I.R. Gallery, 2022.
Courtesy of A.I.R. Gallery and New York University. See record

Dinner in honor of Louise Bourgeois and Ana Mendieta held by Mary Beth Edelson, 1979.
Copyright held by the Estate of Mary Beth Edelson; preserved through a partnership with The Feminist Institute, 2018.
Courtesy of the Estate of Mary Beth Edelson, David Lewis Gallery, and New York University See record

Mary Beth Edelson, Contact sheet from MoMA and Guggenheim Ad Hoc Protest Committee protests, 1976.
Copyright held by the Estate of Mary Beth Edelson; preserved through a partnership with The Feminist Institute, 2018.
Courtesy of the Estate of Mary Beth Edelson, David Lewis Gallery, and New York University See record

Patrons and Stormé DeLarverie at Henrietta Hudson.
Ingested into the TFI Digital Archive through a partnership between The Feminist Institute and Addresses Project, 2022.
Courtesy of Lisa Cannistraci See record