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This is the audio from the U.S. memorial for the mother of radical feminism - Simone de Beauvoir - held two weeks after her death. It took place at Soho 20 Gallery in New York City, organized by Redstockings.  

Many feminists gave testimonies and messages:

- Celestine Ware
- Collete Price (reading from Beauvoir's 1972 book "All Said and Done," and reads from the 1949 Introduction to "The Second Sex")
- Kathie Sarachild
- Ti-Grace Atkinson (She went to Paris for Beauvoir’s funeral, and reads a message from French radical feminists, including Christine Delphy)
- Rosalyn Baxandall
- Marisa Figueiredo
- Message from Shulamith Firestone, read by Marisa Figueiredo
- Patricia Mainardi
- Marilyn Webb
- Message from Judith B. Brown, read by Kathie Sarachild
- Marilyn Lowen
- Faye Levine (Along with her own remarks, she delivers messages from Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez and Laura X, both from San Fransisco)
- Victoria Schultz
- Message from Brooke, read by Laura Cunningham
- Corrine Coleman (reading a passage from a 1979 interview of Beauvoir)
- Irene Peslikis (reading a quote from Beauvoir’s "The Second Sex," a chapter on The Independent Woman)
- Message from Carol de Saram, read by Kathie Sarachild
- Message from Carol Giardina, also read by Kathie Sarachild
- Catherine Henry

Read about Simone de Beauvoir, and find much more on radical feminism, consciousness-raising, speakouts, and Women's Liberation organizing in the Redstockings online library.

Speakers Celestine Ware (center) and Ti-Grace Atkinson (right).