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Annie Laurie Gaylor (born November 2, 1955) is a co-founder of – and, with her husband University of Wisconsin–Madison's School of Journalism in 1980 and describes herself as a feminist and liberal.
In 2010, Gaylor received the Humanitarian Heroine award from the American Humanist Association.[2] Gaylor has been an invited speaker at conferences including the 2012 Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne, Australia,[3] and the regional conference of the Minnesota Atheists.[4] She is on the speakers bureau of the Secular Student Alliance.[5]
Gaylor met Barker when both were guests on AM Chicago, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, in 1984. They began dating six months later and married in 1987. They have a daughter, Sabrina Delata.[6]
Gaylor is on the Board of Directors of the Women's Medical Fund, Inc.,[7] a group that helps women pay for abortion services.[8]
In 1977, Gaylor along with her mother (Anne Nicol Gaylor) and feminist groups, led the protest that led to the recall of Judge Archie Simonson after he had made a statement blaming a young girl for her rape.[9] She has been involved in other protests including: protesting abortion restrictions in South Dakota,[10] protesting perceived judicial misconduct in Wisconsin,[11] and speaking out against gun violence.[12]
Gaylor and her mother, [13]
Gaylor has appeared in numerous print, radio and television media discussing the work of the FFRF, such as an advertising campaign being censored in Las Vegas[14] and the case against the National Day of Prayer.[15]
Gaylor contributes writings to print media across the United States on women's issues: how politics affects women's access to reproductive health care in the state of Wisconsin,[16] the arrest of a Tunisian woman for posting a nude photo of herself,[17] the 50-year anniversary of the publication of The Feminine Mystique,[18] and the state of women's rights around the world since the Seneca Convention.[19][20]
Gaylor, along with her husband Dan Barker, host a weekly one-hour radio program Freethought Radio. It is broadcast weekly, on Progressive Talk The Mic 92.1, out of Madison, Wisconsin. It is carried on several other stations throughout the Midwest and is available through podcast.[21]
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Second-wave feminism, Women's suffrage, Feminist theory, Women's rights, Third-wave feminism
Richard Dawkins, Religion, Christopher Hitchens, Atheism, David Hume
Buddhism, Irreligion, Epistemology, Hinduism, Criticism of religion
Gender studies, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Women's studies, Patriarchy
Nontheism, Religion, Criticism of religion, Secular humanism, Antireligion
Andrea Dworkin, Joreen, Emma Goldman, Alice Walker, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Andrea Dworkin, Joreen, Dora Montefiore, Alice Walker, Emma Goldman
Atheism, Criticism of religion, Richard Dawkins, Freethought, Irreligion
Nontheism, Criticism of religion, Atheism, Madison, Wisconsin, Christopher Hitchens
Atheism, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Mexico