# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:55:57.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-smith"
name: "Barbara Smith"
slug: "barbara-smith"
description: "Barbara Smith is an American lesbian feminist and socialist who has played a significant role in Black feminism in the United States. Since the early 1970s, she has been active as a scholar, activist, critic, lecturer, author, and publisher of Black feminist thought. She has also taught at numerous colleges and universities for 25 years. Smith's essays, reviews, articles, short stories and literary criticism have appeared in a range of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The Black Scholar, Ms., Gay Community News, The Guardian, The Village Voice, Conditions and The Nation. She has a twin sister, Beverly Smith, who is also a lesbian feminist activist and writer."
tagline: "American activist and academic (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Smith_at_NWSA_2017_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-12-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5298013245033113
  historical:           16.73905733333334
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump