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Myrna Bain

Myrna Bain was a political activist, professor and organizer from New York City. Born in Miami, Florida in 1939, she was an influential teacher and mentor in the City University of New York system. (She was a Professor in Hunter College's Black and Puerto Rican Studies Department and later an adjunct faculty member at New York City Technical College and John Jay College.) A scholarship was set up in her name at John Jay College.

Myrna Bain was co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press with Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga and Hattie Gossett. Initially a political conservative, Bain later became a radical progressive whose intellectual focus, public advocacy and pedagogy focused on the intersectionality of Queer identities, feminism and people of color with an emphasis on women of color. Bain has been cited as an influence on several noted feminist writers of color.

Myrna Bain died due to complications from breast cancer in 2007.