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'''Nikki Craft''' (born 1949) is an American ] activist and writer.<ref>{{Cite book|editor1-last=Brunskell-Evans|editor1-first=Heather|editor2-last=Moore|editor2-first=Michele|date=2018|title=Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OPlVDwAAQBAJ&q=nikki+craft+political+activist|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|page=|isbn=978-1-5275-1036-4}}</ref>
'''Nikki Craft''' (born 1949) is an ] political ], ] and ] who is known for her provocative and controversial approaches to societal problems and political situations. She is also known for radical feminist grassroots organizing, though she has said, "My politics are much broader than ]." Craft has been both a participant in ] and an investigator of ]s within the ]. She has worked against oppressive politics and culture since the early 1970s, and has been arrested 50 times for acts of ]. She has been recognized for this by numerous academics considered experts on civil disobedience including Marge Frantz. {{fact}}


==Activism== ==Activism==
===1970s===
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In 1975, Craft presented the Rockwell International board of directors with <nowiki>"...naked doll splashed with blood-colored paint"</nowiki> to protest their ] called "The Lancer".<ref>{{cite web| url = http://nostatusquo.com/ACLU/Nikki/rockwell.html|title = Rockwell's B-1 Craft Proves to Be Bomb at Annual Meeting| access-date = March 21, 2009| author = ''Wall Street Journal'' Staff Reporter | date= February 7, 1975}} Site article "War Stories: My Demo at Rockwell International" includes image/photocopy of original '']'' article. Exact date of the WSJ article is uncertain but either February 7 or 9, 1975.</ref>
Craft became a feminist and activist in the late 1960s, and was one of the first people to publicly protest against ]. In the summer of 1975 Craft organized her first anti-pageant action in ] at the ] Beauty Pageant, where the protestors threw raw steak onto the stage during the ] contest. In 1976 she altered a billboard by changing it from "Miss America" to "Myth America," an action covered in the ''Dallas Morning News'' and ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nostatusquo.com/ACLU/Nikki/mythamer.html|title=Myth America Billboard Enhancement |work=nostatusquo.com|accessdate=2006-03-01}}</ref>.
The same year, Craft founded Women Armed for Self Protection (WASP), which advocated armed self-defense for women in the effort to keep violent men from assaulting them: "Women must perceive themselves as being worth defending. In a life threatening situation there must be no hesitation to pull the trigger", an activist group she was part of articulated.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Drifting from the Mainstream|url=http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/Porn/WASP1.html|access-date=2021-02-17|website=www.nostatusquo.com}}</ref> She also recorded "The Rape Song" about ] and ].<ref></ref>
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In 1976, Craft co-founded the ] Women's Project (KGWP) when she and another activist posed as sociology students under the pretense of doing a "statistical study on violent crimes" and obtained the names of every indicted ] in ] from 1959 to 1975. This was before such records were kept on computer; the activists worked for nine months writing all the names down on index cards. A year later, 25,000 copies of the KGWP newspaper were published. The paper listed all 2,100 sex offender indictments, 1,700 of which were multiple offenders, and was distributed throughout Dallas. On March 8, ], the group read the names over local ] KCHU for 13 hours.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/Porn/KGWP1.html|title=Exposing the Rapist Next Door|access-date=February 23, 2006}} originally published in Seven Days Magazine, April 25, 1977 archived at .</ref>
In 1975, she presented the Rockwell International Board of Directors with "bloodied" dolls to protest their ] called "The Peacemaker"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nostatusquo.com/ACLU/Nikki/rockwell.html|title=War Stories: My Demo at Rockwell International|work=nostatusquo.com|accessdate=2006-02-23}}</ref>.
The same year, Craft founded Women Armed for Self Protection (WASP), which advocated armed self-defense for women and retaliation against ] by their victims; she wrote and recorded about ] and ].


In 1979, Craft helped organize the first Myth California Anti-Pageant in ]. In 1980 Craft joined other pageant protesters and over the next nine years conducted other actions, including throwing raw meat on the stage and pouring the blood of raped women across a pageant entryway. One year three men locked arms on stage, yelling "Men Resist Sexism! Men Resist Sexism!" preventing the crowning until they were dragged away. There were many arrests, and each year the crowds grew larger at the anti-pageant protests which later resulted in the Miss California pageant leaving Santa Cruz. The protests continued in ] and in 1988, after the pageant left Santa Cruz and moved to San Diego, the winner of a local pageant unveiled a banner from her bra at the state finals that read "Pageants Hurt All Women." A documentary called ''Miss... or Myth?'' examines these protests.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Canby | first = Vincent | title = Movie Review&nbsp;– Miss... or Myth&nbsp;– Film: 'Gap-Toothed Women,' 'Miss . . . or Myth?' - NYTimes.com | access-date = March 23, 2009 | date = September 16, 1987 | url = https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B0DE3D91531F935A2575AC0A961948260 | work=The New York Times}}</ref>
In 1976, Craft co-founded the ] Women's Project (KGWP) when she and and another activist posed as ] students under the pretense of doing a "statistical study on violent crimes" and obtained the names of every indicted sex offender in ] from 1959 to 1975. This was before such records were kept on computer and the activists worked for 9 months transferring all the names on index cards. A year later 25,000 copies of the KGWP newspaper was published. It listed all 2,100 sex offender indictments, 1,700 of which were multiple offenders, and was distributed throughout Dallas. On ], ], the group read the names over local ] KCHU for 13 hours<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/Porn/KGWP1.html|title=Exposing the Rapist Next Door|work=nostatusquo.com|accessdate=2006-02-23}}</ref>.

In 1979, Craft helped organize the first Myth California Anti-Pageant in Santa Cruz, California. In 1980 Craft joined together with others, and over the next nine years committed various acts of protest, including throwing raw meat on the stage and pouring the blood of raped women across the entry way. One year three men locked arms on stage and yelled "Men Resist ]! Men Resist Sexism!" preventing the crowning until they were dragged away. There were many arrests, and each year the crowds grew larger at the anti-pageant protests which later resulted in the Miss California pageant leaving ]. The protests continued in ] and in 1988, after the pageant left Santa Cruz and moved to San Diego, an anti-pageant infiltrator won the local pageant and advanced to the state finals where she unveiled a banner from her bra that read "Pageants Hurt All Women." An award-winning documentary called ''Miss or Myth'' examines these protests and Craft's role in starting them.


===1980s=== ===1980s===
In August 1984, Craft was arrested on Herring Cove Beach at Cape Cod National Seashore while protesting the park's public nudity regulations by sunbathing topless, refusing to put on a shirt when contacted by park rangers.<ref>{{Citation | newspaper = ] | title = Topless Bather Arrested in Cape Cod Protest | last = Late City Final Edition | page = 23 | date = August 26, 1984 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/26/us/topless-bather-arrested-in-cape-cod-protest.html }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | newspaper = Provincetown (Mass.) Advocate | title = Nude Activist Strips For Action | page = 1 | date = August 26, 1984}}</ref> After the U.S. Attorney's office declined to prosecute the case several months later, she returned to Cape Cod the following July and repeated the challenge, this time in the parking lot of the ranger station.<ref>{{Citation | newspaper = Provincetown (Mass.) Advocate | title = Topless Activist Reveals Intentions | page = 1 | date = January 10, 1985}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | newspaper = Provincetown (Mass.) Advocate | title = Activist Aims to Topple Topless Law | page = 1 | date = July 18, 1985}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | newspaper = ] | title = Northeast Journal; Cape Cod Faces Nudity Question | last = Late City Final Edition | page = 50 | date = September 22, 1985 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/22/us/northeast-journal-cape-cod-faces-nudity-question.html }}</ref> She later organized a ] funded by ] against the federal government, which manages the Seashore.
In the early 1980s Craft became a ] <ref>{{cite web|url=http://nikkicraft.com/pottery/Webpages/gallery-01.html|title=Nikki Craft's Pottery Pages|work=nikkicraft.com|accessdate=2006-03-02}}</ref> at ]. One year she made 500 handthrown pieces and signed them all "Stop Violence Against Women."
Later in the proceedings, she and others withdrew from the case because the Society's attorney had made concessions to the respondents related to clothing requirements for Seashore visitors that included gender distinctions, specifically, the covering of women's breasts.


In 1986, Craft was arrested in ] with six other women who were topless or "shirtfree" in public. The case was dismissed on appeal six years later, thus weakening the New York "exposure of a person" state law when pertaining to woman's breasts.<ref> 1992</ref><ref>''Bodies of Law'' by Alan Hyde, 1997, {{ISBN|0-691-01228-8}}, p. 141. </ref><ref> 1992</ref>
In 1980, Craft started the ] Women's Brigade. Preying Mantis organized actions to remove '']'' from local liquor stores in retaliation for publishing violent ]. Over the next year they succeeded in getting ''Hustler'' removed from 28 stores in the Santa Cruz area. These actions were documented weekly in ''City on a Hill Press'' at ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/Porn/HustlerAction1981LA.pdf|format=PDF|title=Striking Flynt/Actions against Hustler|work=nostatusquo.com|accessdate=2006-03-06}}</ref>.

On ], ], Craft entered the UCSC Special Collections library and destroyed ''The Incredible Case of the Stack o' Wheats Murder'' print reproductions a ] colection of ] of ] by the ] ], by pouring chocolate syrup on their torn pieces. At that time she released ''In Defense of Disobedience''. Months later she donated another set of prints, exactly the same as the one she destroyed. She was arrested for felony ] and malicious mischief, but charges were later dismissed<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/Porn/stackowheatsfemicide1992.pdf|format=PDF|title=The Incredible Case of the Stack O' Wheats Prints|work=nostatusquo.com|accessdate=2006-02-27}}</ref>. She was later nominated for a chancellor's award for "significant contribution to campus understanding of ethical principles" by her arresting officer, the provost of her college and the then mayor of Santa Cruz. The action received widespread press coverage, was reviewed in art journals, and was documented in Diana Russell's book ''Femicide''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nikkicraft.com/articles/russellcraftprotests.pdf|format=PDF|title=Nikki Craft: Inspiring Protest|work=nikkicraft.com|accessdate=2006-03-06}}</ref>.

In 1981, Craft formed the Cross Your Heart Support network and organized numerous ] rights demonstrations. Over a period of several years, members, including Craft, were arrested on state beaches in numerous demonstrations. During one of these demonstrations, they marched to the Santa Cruz police station. ] reproduced one of their photographs of this latter event in his ''World Guide to Nude Beaches''.<ref>
{{cite book | last = Baxandall | first = Lee | authorlink = Lee Baxandall | title = World Guide to Nude Beaches and Recreation | edition = 1st edition | year = 1983 | publisher = Harmony Books | location = New York | id = ISBN 0517549832 | pages = 23}}</ref>

In 1981, Craft was arrested, along with others, for pouring her own blood ("the blood of raped women") across the entry way of the San Jose Miss Nude Pageant.

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In 1981, and again in 1988, Craft was arrested at the ] while protesting against the proliferating use of ] in the USA. During the 1983 "Weight Slavery" Myth California protest, Craft vomited during a ] performance, in order to bring about public awareness about ]s.

In 1983 Craft founded Citizens for Media Responsiblity. During the next year and a half, Craft and Dr. ] organized the National Rampage Against Penthouse which resulted in hundreds of arrests of women and men across the country to protest '']'' magazines publication of what they called "violent ]n pornography." That same year she founded Meredith Stockholders Against Penthouse to protest Meredith printing the magazine. The following year, ] stopped printing ''Penthouse''. Craft was arrested 16 times in eight different states over the next year and a half<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/Porn/rampage1femicide1991.pdf|format=PDF|title=The rampage against Penthouse|work=nostatusquo.com|accessdate=2006-03-06}}</ref>.

She was arrested in August 1984 while sunbathing at the ] for refusing to put on her shirt. She later organized a class action suit funded by ] against the Federal government, which manages the Seashore. Later in the proceedings, she and others withdrew from the case because the Society's attorney had made concessions to the respondents related to clothing requirements for Seashore visitors that included gender distinctions, specifically, the covering of women's breasts.

In March 1986 Craft and eight other women were arrested in ] after chaining themselves in front of the ] demanding that ] "get naked" and pose in his own publication.


===1990s and onward=== ===1990s and onward===
In 1990, Craft opened the ] Online Library. In 1992, ] dedicated her book ''Femicide'' to Craft. In 1997 Dworkin dedicated her book ''Life and Death'' to Craft. In 2000, Craft and ] organized "''Feminists for Nader''"<ref>{{cite news |last1= Craft |first1= Nikki | last2 =Clarke | first2 = D.A. |author-link2 = D.A. Clarke |title= Home page | url = http://www.nostatusquo.com/Nader | work = Feminists for Nader | publisher = No Status Quo | access-date = November 4, 2015 }}</ref> and campaigned for the ].
In the early 1990s Craft published a newsletter called ''The Iconoclast'', which reported on ]s and naturists who had been accused or convicted of ] or ], and her assertion that the nudist/naturist leadership was not taking the problem seriously.


In 1995, the feminist journal ''On the Issues'' published Craft's article entitled "Busting Mister Short-Eyes" about a naturist ] sentenced to 30 years in prison, partly as a result of Craft's advocacy.<ref>{{cite journal|last= Craft |first= Nikki |title= Busting Mr. Short-Eyes | journal = ] | pages = 16–20 |url=http://www.nudisthallofshame.info/bustingmistershorteyes.pdf |publisher= ] | date = Winter 1995 }} Archived at </ref>
In May 1990, Craft spent 23 days in jail for tearing up four copies of '']'' magazine on a ] mall bookstore, to protest its cover story, "Your Wife: An Owner's Manual," which included articles the magazine claimed were "humorous" about ] and ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nikkicraft.com/articles/bellinghamdmn1990.pdf|format=PDF|title=Feminist relishes stir she caused over Esquire protest|work=nikkicraft.com|accessdate=2006-03-09}}</ref>.


In 2001, she protested the ] and called upon other feminists to do the same.<ref>{{cite book| last = Craft | first = Nikki | chapter = A call on feminists to protest the war against Afghanistan | title =September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives | pages = 151–155 | publisher = Spinifex Press |year=2002 | url = http://nostatusquo.com/ACLU/terrorism/terrorism1.html}}</ref> In 2005, she created the "''Hustling the Left''" website,<ref>{{cite web | title = Home page | url = http://HustlingTheLeft.com | website = HustlingTheLeft.com | publisher = Hustling the Left | access-date = November 4, 2015 }}</ref> criticizing leaders in ] and ] movements who published articles, interviews and expressed public cooperation with ] and his magazine, '']''. The website took its name from a June 2005 article by feminist activist ],<ref>{{cite news | last = Bogado | first = Aura | author-link = Aura Bogado | title = Hustling the left | url = https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/hustling-the-left-by-aura-bogado/ | work = ] | publisher = ] | date = June 5, 2005 | access-date = November 4, 2015 }}</ref> who protested the promotion of Flynt's support by the ] group ]. Craft also runs the "''No Status Quo''" website.<ref>{{cite web | title = Home page | url = http://www.nostatusquo.com/ | website = nostatusquo.com | publisher = No Status Quo | access-date = November 4, 2015 }}</ref>
In 1990 Craft opened the ] Online Library. In ], ] dedicated her book ''Femicide'' to Craft. In 1997 Dworkin dedicated her book ''Life and Death'' to Craft. In 2000, Craft and ] organized "Feminists for ]" and campaigned for Nader's presidential bid.


==Further reading==
In 1995, the feminist journal ''On the Issues'' published Craft's article entitled "Busting Mister Short Eyes" about a naturist ] sentenced to 30 years in prison, partly as a result of Craft's advocacy. <ref>{{cite news|first=Nikki|last=Craft|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3327/is_199512/ai_n8033743|title=Busting Mr. Short Eyes|publisher=On the Issues|date=Dec. 1995}}</ref>
* {{Citation | last = Craft | first = Nikki | contribution = Nikki Craft: Inspiring protest: The incredible case of the Stack o' Wheat prints | editor1-last = Russell | editor1-first = Diana E.H. | editor2-last = Radford | editor2-first = Jill | editor-link1 = Diana E. H. Russell | title = Femicide: the politics of woman killing | pages = 327–331 | publisher = Twayne Publishers | location = New York Toronto | date = 1992 | isbn = 9780805790283 | postscript = .}}

::See also:
In 2001 she took a stand against the war in ] and called upon her feminist colleagues to do the same<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nostatusquo.com/ACLU/terrorism/terrorism1.html|title=Rape and Violence Against Women Have Always Been Terrorism: Are We So Keen To Go to War for All Women?|work=nostatusquo.com}}</ref>. In 2005, she created the "Hustling the Left" website<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.HustlingTheLeft.com|title=Hustling the Left}}</ref>, criticizing leaders in ] and ] movements who published articles, interviews and expressed public cooperation with ] and his magazine, '']''. The website took its name from a June 2005 article by feminist ], who protested the promotion of Flynt's support by the anti-war group ].
::: to chapter by ] pp. 325-327.

::: by ] pp. 331-336.
==Criticism of nudist/naturist movement==
::: by ] pp. 339-345.

One of Craft's major projects involves researching and publishing reports of alleged ] and ] within the ] and leadership. The first reports were published in ''The Iconoclast'', and they now appear on her website, The Nudist/Naturist Hall of Shame. <ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.nudisthallofshame.info/ | title = The Nudist/Naturist Hall of Shame}}</ref> She contends that the naturist organizations ] (AANR) and ] (TNS) fail to address this issue by not doing enough to investigate and remove offenders, report them to ], or modify club procedures for dealing with ]. She notes that the nudist figurehead ]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://nudisthallofshame.info/Peckenpaugh.html | title = William D. Peckenpaugh | work = Nudist/Naturist Hall of Shame}}</ref>, author of ''Familial and Societal Attitudes Toward Nudity, and the Effects on Children's Development'' is a child sex offender. For 15 years Craft has been insisting that children are not safe in naturist and nudist environments. The Virginia legislature, apparently agreeing, recently outlawed children's summer camps at nudist and naturist camps.

Her critics contend that many private nudist clubs do check the criminal histories of visitors to make sure they do not have documented histories of criminal activity that would be of concern in a family-oriented community. They also point out that ] are everywhere in society and all must be equally vigilant to making sure that both individuals and organizations take initiative in establishing protections against abuse and exploitation. {{fact}}

==Quotes==
* ''No nation on earth has ever gone to war for women's rights. We are not likely to be the first.'' "A Call On Feminists To Protest The War Against Afghanistan", ] ]

* ''But I wanna be part of the problem.''


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Nikki Craft
Born1949 (age 75–76)
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
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  • activist
Websitenikkicraft.com

Nikki Craft (born 1949) is an American feminist activist and writer.

Activism

1970s

In 1975, Craft presented the Rockwell International board of directors with "...naked doll splashed with blood-colored paint" to protest their B-1 bomber called "The Lancer". The same year, Craft founded Women Armed for Self Protection (WASP), which advocated armed self-defense for women in the effort to keep violent men from assaulting them: "Women must perceive themselves as being worth defending. In a life threatening situation there must be no hesitation to pull the trigger", an activist group she was part of articulated. She also recorded "The Rape Song" about Inez Garcia and Joan Little.

In 1976, Craft co-founded the Kitty Genovese Women's Project (KGWP) when she and another activist posed as sociology students under the pretense of doing a "statistical study on violent crimes" and obtained the names of every indicted sex offender in Dallas County from 1959 to 1975. This was before such records were kept on computer; the activists worked for nine months writing all the names down on index cards. A year later, 25,000 copies of the KGWP newspaper were published. The paper listed all 2,100 sex offender indictments, 1,700 of which were multiple offenders, and was distributed throughout Dallas. On March 8, International Women's Day, the group read the names over local community radio KCHU for 13 hours.

In 1979, Craft helped organize the first Myth California Anti-Pageant in Santa Cruz, California. In 1980 Craft joined other pageant protesters and over the next nine years conducted other actions, including throwing raw meat on the stage and pouring the blood of raped women across a pageant entryway. One year three men locked arms on stage, yelling "Men Resist Sexism! Men Resist Sexism!" preventing the crowning until they were dragged away. There were many arrests, and each year the crowds grew larger at the anti-pageant protests which later resulted in the Miss California pageant leaving Santa Cruz. The protests continued in San Diego and in 1988, after the pageant left Santa Cruz and moved to San Diego, the winner of a local pageant unveiled a banner from her bra at the state finals that read "Pageants Hurt All Women." A documentary called Miss... or Myth? examines these protests.

1980s

In August 1984, Craft was arrested on Herring Cove Beach at Cape Cod National Seashore while protesting the park's public nudity regulations by sunbathing topless, refusing to put on a shirt when contacted by park rangers. After the U.S. Attorney's office declined to prosecute the case several months later, she returned to Cape Cod the following July and repeated the challenge, this time in the parking lot of the ranger station. She later organized a class action suit funded by the Naturist Society against the federal government, which manages the Seashore. Later in the proceedings, she and others withdrew from the case because the Society's attorney had made concessions to the respondents related to clothing requirements for Seashore visitors that included gender distinctions, specifically, the covering of women's breasts.

In 1986, Craft was arrested in Rochester, New York with six other women who were topless or "shirtfree" in public. The case was dismissed on appeal six years later, thus weakening the New York "exposure of a person" state law when pertaining to woman's breasts.

1990s and onward

In 1990, Craft opened the Andrea Dworkin Online Library. In 1992, Diana E. H. Russell dedicated her book Femicide to Craft. In 1997 Dworkin dedicated her book Life and Death to Craft. In 2000, Craft and D.A. Clarke organized "Feminists for Nader" and campaigned for the Ralph Nader presidential campaign, 2000.

In 1995, the feminist journal On the Issues published Craft's article entitled "Busting Mister Short-Eyes" about a naturist child rapist sentenced to 30 years in prison, partly as a result of Craft's advocacy.

In 2001, she protested the War in Afghanistan and called upon other feminists to do the same. In 2005, she created the "Hustling the Left" website, criticizing leaders in leftist and progressive movements who published articles, interviews and expressed public cooperation with Larry Flynt and his magazine, Hustler. The website took its name from a June 2005 article by feminist activist Aura Bogado, who protested the promotion of Flynt's support by the anti-war group Not in Our Name. Craft also runs the "No Status Quo" website.

Further reading

  • Craft, Nikki (1992), "Nikki Craft: Inspiring protest: The incredible case of the Stack o' Wheat prints", in Russell, Diana E.H.; Radford, Jill (eds.), Femicide: the politics of woman killing, New York Toronto: Twayne Publishers, pp. 327–331, ISBN 9780805790283. Pdf.
See also:
"Introduction" to chapter by Diana E. H. Russell pp. 325-327.
"The evidence of pain" by D. A. Clarke pp. 331-336.
"The rampage against Penthouse" by Melissa Farley pp. 339-345.

References

  1. Brunskell-Evans, Heather; Moore, Michele, eds. (2018). Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-5275-1036-4.
  2. Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter (February 7, 1975). "Rockwell's B-1 Craft Proves to Be Bomb at Annual Meeting". Retrieved March 21, 2009. Site article "War Stories: My Demo at Rockwell International" includes image/photocopy of original Wall Street Journal article. Exact date of the WSJ article is uncertain but either February 7 or 9, 1975.
  3. "Drifting from the Mainstream". www.nostatusquo.com. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
  4. the Rape Song
  5. "Exposing the Rapist Next Door". Retrieved February 23, 2006. originally published in Seven Days Magazine, April 25, 1977 archived at No Status Quo.
  6. Canby, Vincent (September 16, 1987). "Movie Review – Miss... or Myth – Film: 'Gap-Toothed Women,' 'Miss . . . or Myth?' - NYTimes.com". The New York Times. Retrieved March 23, 2009.
  7. Late City Final Edition (August 26, 1984), "Topless Bather Arrested in Cape Cod Protest", New York Times, p. 23
  8. "Nude Activist Strips For Action", Provincetown (Mass.) Advocate, p. 1, August 26, 1984
  9. "Topless Activist Reveals Intentions", Provincetown (Mass.) Advocate, p. 1, January 10, 1985
  10. "Activist Aims to Topple Topless Law", Provincetown (Mass.) Advocate, p. 1, July 18, 1985
  11. Late City Final Edition (September 22, 1985), "Northeast Journal; Cape Cod Faces Nudity Question", New York Times, p. 50
  12. Rochester Topfree Seven 1992
  13. Bodies of Law by Alan Hyde, 1997, ISBN 0-691-01228-8, p. 141. Google books link
  14. People v. Santorelli et al. 1992
  15. Craft, Nikki; Clarke, D.A. "Home page". Feminists for Nader. No Status Quo. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  16. Craft, Nikki (Winter 1995). "Busting Mr. Short-Eyes" (PDF). On The Issues Magazine. Merle Hoffman: 16–20. Archived at The Nudist Naturist Hall of Shame.
  17. Craft, Nikki (2002). "A call on feminists to protest the war against Afghanistan". September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives. Spinifex Press. pp. 151–155.
  18. "Home page". HustlingTheLeft.com. Hustling the Left. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  19. Bogado, Aura (June 5, 2005). "Hustling the left". Z Net. Z Communications. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  20. "Home page". nostatusquo.com. No Status Quo. Retrieved November 4, 2015.

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