Their primary goal was to make feminist and lesbian literature accessible for women who are blind or print disabled.
The project ran for many years and augmented the feminist movement of the 1980s by providing a network for visually impaired women.
[2] Schneider wanted to take a proactive and assertive approach in providing books for visually disabled women rather than wait for a government agency to fund one.
Mara Mills, an assistant professor from NYU Steinhardt studying the organization's archives, once reflected that these tapes were "labors of love".
Mills said that these materials were produced by dedicated "volunteers who put hours of work into reading each page aloud, and in the case of a graphic novel describing every image—and by Womyn's Braille Press coordinators who facilitated their own network of tape exchange."