Zoom 2023 Affiliates
Police Structure: No More Police book
Friday, December 22, 2023 4:00 pm ET
Session one of a three part series held on alternate months.
We will be looking at what we think the police are for and whether or not they are fulfilling this role.
Confronting Sexism: Fighting for Our Lives
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 3:00 to 4:30 pm ET
3rd Tuesday of each month…
Violence Against Women
Thursday, December 14, 2023 3:00 to 4:00 pm ET
Astrology: The Everchanging Sky
Once astrology was the province of wise women and village healers, and like everything else women did, it was discredited by the church. But now, in the computer age, it’s come full circle, and has become a tool that we can all use. What can astrology tell us about ourselves? What can it tell us about the age we live in? And what does 2024 look like?
Presenter: Jenny Yates (1951) computed her first natal chart in 1970, and has been a full-time astrologer since 1989, with an emphasis on the lesbian community. For 23 years, she lived overseas, and every summer, traveled back to the States to give workshops at a wide variety of women’s festivals. Her book is Your Horoscope: A Guide to Interpretation.
End White Dominance: Indigenous Peoples Month
Friday, November 24, 2023 4:00 – 5:30 pm Eastern Time
Beyond Big and Small Screen Westerns: What did you know about Indigenous People growing up?
End White Dominance
Friday, October 27, 2023 4:00 to 5:30 pm (ET)
Due to a schedule conflict, the session topic has been changed.
Please join us for a discussion on Anti-Racism that will be based on the following:
- Describe some of your early experiences of becoming aware of white racism.
- How have your early (or later) experiences of white racism influenced you?
Confronting Sexism: Fighting for Our Lives
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 3:00 to 4:30 pm (ET)
Sexual Assault of Incarcerated Women is epidemic in US prison systems presented by OLOC Affiliate Ruth Debra
Because of a Song: A Conversation with Holly Near, Melanie DeMore and Carolyn Brandy Tuesday, September 26, 2023 4:00 – 5:30 pm (ET)
Produced by Holly Near, Because of a Song is an archival website that documents the extraordinary feminist and lesbian music that burst forth from the heart of Oakland, CA. The website features over 30 hours of filmed conversation, 4 short films featuring Linda Tillery, Carolyn Brandy, Mary Watkins and Melanie DeMore, a curated resource room, a listening room of over 600 songs in 6 playlists, a captioned photo gallery of nearly 200 images, and much more. No story is the whole story. We simply leave a trail. The world has always been (and continues to be) changed Because of a Song.
End White Dominance
Friday, September 22, 2023 4:00 – 5:30 pm (ET)
Introduction to Interrupting Racism with OLOC Affiliate Shari Pergricht
We are often faced with “opportunities” to interrupt racist language and behavior. We want to speak up but do not always know what to say or how to say it. Here is a chance to learn and practice some new strategies in a supportive environment using real-life scenarios.
Confronting Sexism: Fighting for Our Lives
Tuesday, September 19, 3:00 – 4:30 pm (ET)
An Anatomy of Institutions and their Impact on Girls and Women: The Cultural Power of Language Participants will share how they have experienced the power of language/words. Please join us in using our experiences to understand the systemic sexism that envelops our lives.
End White Dominance: Changing the Culture of OLOC
Friday, August 25, 4:00 – 5:30 pm (ET)
Focus on the Hallmarks of White Middle Class Culture: Addressing one of the statements that was made by a participant in the four planning sessions that were held.
Confronting Sexism: Fighting for Our Lives
Tuesday, August 15, 3:00 – 4:30 pm (ET)
An Anatomy of Institutions and their Impact on Girls and Women
Session 7 continues looking at institutionalized sexism and the topic for this session is Law.
We will discuss how these institutions are organized and how their value systems impact women.
Participants will share how they have experienced this powerful institution.
Please join us in using our experiences to understand the systemic sexism that envelops our lives.
End White Dominance
Friday, July 28, 4:00 – 5:30 pm (ET)
Topic: Continuing the Work to Change the Culture of OLOC: Developing a Cohesive Direction to Reach Our Goals
Confronting Sexism
Tuesday, July 18, 3:00 – 4:30 pm (ET)
3rd Tuesday of each month…
Topic: An Anatomy of Institutions and their Impact on Girls and Women
Session 6 continues to look at institutionalized sexism: Science
We will discussion how these institutions are organized and how their value systems impact women. Participants will share how they have experienced this powerful institution. Please join us in using our experiences to understand the systemic sexism that envelops our lives.
eLevate the “L”: Lesbian Legacies during Pride
Monday. June 26, 4:00pm – 5:30 pm ET
Well, it’s PRIDE month once again so let’s eLevate the invisible (silenced) Lesbian. Lesbians of our generations (ages 55-105) have been activists in a variety of ways over the years. Let’s raise up those legacies. This Open House will be an opportunity for you to tell your tales of the various ways you have contributed to making Lesbian culture and activism both then (since 1970s) through to now.
Photo Display: Do you have photos of your proudest moments? Send ONE or TWO (only) photos of marches, demonstrations, bookstores, festivals, or other activities showing the emphasis on raising Lesbian visibility.
Your photos will be added to the PowerPoint display to be shown during the open house.
Facilitator: Mev Miller, 1955
End White Dominance
Friday, June 23, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (ET)
4th Friday of each month…
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Topic: Continuing the Work to Change the Culture of OLOC: Build a Plan with Brainstorming Goals and Actions
Confronting Sexism
Tuesday, June 20, 3:00 – 4:30 pm (ET)
3rd Tuesday of each month…
Topic: An Anatomy of Institutions and their Impact on Girls and Women #2
Session 5 continues looking at institutionalized sexism: Religious Institutions
End White Dominance — Working Together to Change the Culture of OLOC
Friday, May 26
You are invited to join us for a discussion on where we want the OLOC End White Dominance series to go. How do we want to affect the actual culture of OLOC and to think about a cohesive direction concerning the current culture of OLOC as well as how we might impact it for change.
Confronting Sexism
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 3:00 pm ETAn Anatomy of Institutions and their Impact on Girls and WomenSession 4 continues the anatomy of institutionalized sexism with the following institutions: Families and Childhood.
Karla Jay & the Lavender Menace
Thursday, May 11
Karla Jay, long-time lesbian activist and author of Tales of the Lavendar Menace, will describe the contributions of lesbians to the post-Stonewall movement, in particular, the development of alternative social venues like dances at the risk of their lives and the famous Lavender Menace action.
This action, initiated by Radicalesbians at the Second Congress to Unite Women, was a pivotal moment in women’s herstory. The Lavender Menace women demanded, in front of hundreds of women that the National Organization for Women (NOW) accept lesbianism as an integral part of the women’s liberation movement. Karla, an organizer of the event, will describe what happened and what followed.
At this point in her life, she is active in promoting intergenerational connections and will share how she has gotten involved in this work. She views this as an important arena for lesbian involvement.
A Q & A will follow the presentation.
We invite you to share with us this exciting period in our history and help to envision our future.
Karla Jay, PhD (1947) is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, Women’s & Gender Studies, and Queer Studies at Pace University in New York City. She has written, edited, and translated ten award-winning books, the most recent of which is Tales of the Lavender Menace: a Memoir of Liberation. The first woman chair of the Gay Liberation Front and a co-founder of Radicalesbians (the Lavender Menace action), she has been a Grand Marshal of New York’s Pride March twice. She has written for many national and local publications. Her series of 24 books from NYU Press was called “The Cutting Edge.” The first academic series to focus on lesbians, it included the American publication of two diaries of Anne Lister, who had been erased and forgotten up until that moment.
End White Dominance — Doing the Work with Lisa Albrecht
Friday, April 28
Guest speaker Lisa Albrecht has devoted much of her life work to the education of “her peeps,” white people who she believes need to educate ourselves on how to challenge white supremacy and be advocates for racial justice.
OLOC Confronting Sexism: Fighting for Our Lives Series
An Anatomy of Institutions and their Impact on Girls and Women
Tuesday, April 18
Session 3 begins an anatomy of institutionalized sexism starting with two institutions: Education and Healthcare. We will discuss how these institutions are organized and how their value systems impact women. And to understand the systemic sexism that envelops our lives.
Participants will share how they have experienced these two powerful institutions as workers within them and as recipients of their services.
We Have Something to Say: Elder Black Lesbian Writers
Thursday, April 20
Please join us for an exciting afternoon of readings by elder Black Lesbian Writers. These authors have had writings published for nearly 40 years. They represent many genres (poetry, performing art, mystery, fiction, essays, and more) across a broad range of topics. Each author will read something from her work followed by a discussion among the writers. Then, time permitting, we will then open for Q&A.
Presenting Authors include: Sharon Bridgforth (1958), Penny Mickelbury (1948), Shariananda Adamz (1946) – formerly known as SDiane Adamz-Bogus.
We also will have someone reading a selection by Ann Shockley (1927).
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Memorial Celebration Jan Griesinger 1942-2022
Thursday, April 13
A long-time Steering Committee (SC) member and Co-Director of OLOC, Jan Griesinger was a great asset to OLOC.
As a memorial — and to celebrate her life — OLOC is hosting a film. No Need to Repent: The Ballad of Rev. Jan Griesinger (1987) shows Jan’s activism and passions.
After the film, we invite those with memories of Jan to share those thoughts.
We’re Not Just Whistling Dixie: Southern Lesbian Feminists
Thursday, March 30
We just about choked on our grits recently when we overheard yet another woman say, “There was no lesbian feminist activism in the South, was there?” Well, yes there was, and a lot of it – activism initiated by lesbian feminists, activism that proliferated through networking across all the Southern states, benefiting ALL Southern women, but especially the lesbians.
We dykes who are involved with the Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist (SLFA) Herstory Project have created a performance to enhance your knowledge about the rich lesbian feminist activist culture in the South from the 1960s through the 1990s, as well as to toot our own horns. We hope you will enjoy our Zoom presentation and be
motivated to learn more by visiting our website (slfaherstoryproject.org) and checking out our six special issues of Sinister Wisdom (sinisterwisdom.org/oralherstorians).
Facilitated by Rose Norman, 1949, and Merril Mushroom, 1941.
End White Dominance — Women’s Herstory Month: Celebrating Women of Color
Friday, March 24
In recognition of Women’s Herstory Month and International Women’s Day (Wednesday, March 8), volunteer OLOC affiliates will give presentations on a woman of color of their choice to celebrate. We invite you to attend to learn about women of color who are a big part of our herstory!
Confronting Sexism — Male Supremacy: Facts and Fictions
Tuesday, March 21
It’s a story that has dominated humanity for 6000 years. How have you “heard” it? How has the story affected you and our society at-large? How is this narrative both true and false? Can we change the story? What would we change, and how?
End White Dominance — Honoring and CelebratingBlack Lesbian Elders
Friday, February 24
For this End White Dominance session, we ask those who attend to tell their own stories about being a Black Lesbian Elder, and any of the other attendees to choose and share a Black Lesbian Elder that you would like to honor and celebrate, either living or who have passed.
NEW SERIES:
Confronting Sexism: Fighting for Our Lives
3rd Tuesday of each month…
Begins: Tuesday, February 21
TOPIC: What Is Sexism?
How has sexism affected your life through the years?
End White Dominance — Overview and How to Take Action
Friday, January 27
What is OLOC End White Dominance? Is education enough; are we changing our personal lives; are we using what we have learned individually and/or out in our communities.
We want to hear from the lesbians who have attended the End White Dominance sessions and to introduce and invite possible new attendees to the sessions. If would like to let us know your thoughts on OLOC’s End White Dominance Series, please contact Patty O’Donnell at pattytothepines@gmail.com.
Old Lesbians’ Home Movies
Thursday, January 26, 2023
With the help of many Old Lesbians, Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) has collected, preserved, and documented Lesbian home movies and amateur films & tapes for almost 15 years. Now the largest archive of its kind, LHMP holds many films and tapes contributed by OLOC members including Corky Culver, Emily Greene, Merril Mushroom, Susan Wiseheart, and Terry Grant.
In this zoom, LHMP shares clips — Lesbian variety shows! dances! cronings! weddings! gay games! raising walls! planting! pride marching! — while several of the wonderful women who shot & preserved the footage talk about the clips and what still needs finding.
Facilitated by Sharon Thompson (1942) and Rose Norman (1949).
Download the Old Lesbians’ Home Movies Report