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Nikki Craft (born 1949) is an American feminist activist and writer.^[1]

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.^{[citation needed]}

In 1979, Craft helped organize the first Myth California Anti-Pageant in Santa Cruz, California.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} 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."^{[citation needed]} A documentary called Miss... or Myth? examines these protests.^[2]

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.^[3] 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.^[4] She later organized a class action suit funded by the Naturist Society against the federal government, which manages the Seashore.^{[citation needed]}

In 1986, Craft was arrested in Rochester, New York with six other women who were topless or "shirtfree" in public.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[5][6]

In 1990, Craft opened the Andrea Dworkin Online Library. In 1992, Diana E. H. Russell dedicated her book Femicide to Craft.^{[citation needed]} In 1997 Dworkin dedicated her book Life and Death to Craft.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[7]

In 2001, she protested the War in Afghanistan and called upon other feminists to do the same.^[8] In 2005, she created the "Hustling the Left" website,^[9] criticizing leaders in leftist and progressive movements who published articles, interviews and expressed public cooperation with Larry Flynt and his magazine, Hustler.^{[citation needed]}

• 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.

• The Nikki Wiki: All About Nikki Craft – her personal web site