Historic feminists have become lightning rods for heated contemporary debates around questions of gender-identity, intersectionality, and consent. Figures from the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) of the 1960s and 1970s are particularly divisive, treated alternately as cautionary tales or inspirational examples, condemned or celebrated by contemporary feminists with divergent aims and beliefs. Evaluating and bringing nuance to this form of binary opposition, “Feminist Provocateurs” will show how and why WLM “leaders,” such as Audre Lorde (1934-1992), Germaine Greer (1939-), and Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005), hold a prominent place in feminist cultural production today. Working in close collaboration with contemporary activists and actors in the cultural sphere, this project aims 1) to assess patterns and characteristics across changing depictions of WLM leaders in feminist culture over time, and 2) to understand the impact of the remembrance of an earlier generation of feminists on struggles against intersecting forms of oppression today. “Feminist Provocateurs” takes an interdisciplinary approach, making a distinctive contribution to cultural memory, gender, and social movement studies, as well as critiquing and enriching the broader political and cultural debates in which these figures are remembered.