[1][2] She considered pursuing a masters but the selection committee advised her not to continue her studies as she was unlikely to be hired by a university.
[1] Brady Syfers was a full time housewife while her husband was working at San Francisco State University, when the couple became involved in a strike to support the push to create a department for ethnic studies.
The strike lasted five months and after it ended, the university's Black Student Union organized a meeting to thank their supporters, where her husband was specifically mentioned but Brady Syfers was left out.
[2] Brady Syfers wrote of her desire to have someone else provide a wage, child care, house-cleaning, meals and sex.
[6] The speech was first published in Tooth and Nail, an underground newspaper, and then re-purposed in Motherlode, the magazine where Brady Syfers worked.
[1][3] She was a regular public speaker and writer and she appeared in the 2011 film, Pink Ribbons, Inc.[1] She purchased a Victorian house in the Mission District with her two friends in the 1980s, where she became involved with the local community and the fight against gentrification.