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Confronting Sexism
3rd Tuesday of each month..
Backlash to Second Wave Feminism
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
4:00 P.M. ET / 3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
Sixty years of incremental backlash against second wave feminism has eroded hard-won abortion rights, dampened women’s economic and political gains, carried an upsurge of violence and misogyny, turned movement- building women’s studies programs into reactionary and divisive gender ideology outposts, and marginalized and distorted the second wave’s extraordinary achievements.
Download the Backlash to Second Wave Feminism In Sisterhood transcript HERE.
Reflexology
Monday, May 12, 2025
4:00 pm ET / 3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
This is an opportunity to learn the basics of hand reflexology. Stets will open by discussing the common issues that many older people experience. Once those are covered, you can request information on your specific issue (difficulty). This is a time to learn and have fun helping yourself.
Presenter – Janet Stetserity, and Inclusion Committee
End White Dominance—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Backlash
4th Friday of each month…
Friday, April 25, 4:00 pm ET
OLOC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
Download the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Backlash presentation
Confronting Sexism: Fighting for Our Lives—Internalized Patriarchy
3rd Tuesday of each month…
Tuesday, April 15, 4:00 pm ET
Identifying and processing our internalized patriarchy: the deep work of feminist transformation.
End White Dominance
Womyn’s Herstory Month: Violence Against Women of Color
Friday, March 28, 2025, 4:00–5:30 pm ET
gypsy will present three Aspects of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
End White Dominance
Detour Spotting for White Anti-Racists from cultural bridges to justice #4
Friday, February 28, 2025, 4:00–5:30 pm ET
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Attitudes or behaviors that indicate a detour or wrong turn into white guilt, denial or defensiveness.
Remembering Dorothy Allison and Nikki Giovanni
Monday, February 24, 2025, 4:00–5:30pm ET
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In the past few months, we have learned of the passings of several Lesbians who contributed important works to Lesbian culture. Join Mab Segrest and Jewelle Gomez in remembering the lives, friendships, and writings of Dorothy Allison and Nikki Giovanni. (Jewelle may also add some thoughts about the drawings of Mary Wings and photographs by Cathy Cade.) Mab and Jewelle will share their thoughts and we will read short selections from the works of Dorothy & Nikki. If you have a personal story or a favorite passage to read (no more than 100 words), please bring it along to share.
with Rose Norman (1949), Mab Segrest (1949), and Jewelle Gomez (1948)
Confronting Sexism
Feminist Values and Oppression
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 3:00–4:30 pm ET
What are the feminist values that guide our vision of transformation? Do our values spring from our oppression (sexism, class, race, heterosexism, etc.)? What are the emotional and intellectual roots of feminist values?
Losing Vision, Gaining Insight
Thursday, January 30, 2025, 4:00–5:30pm ET
Many of us begin to lose vision in our 60s from a variety of causes, including cataracts, macular degeneration, and retinal detachment. Our panelists will describe their experience with treatments, resources, and adaptation to significant and/or progressive loss of vision. There will be ample time for viewers to ask questions or share their own experiences.
Panelists: Beckie Lee Dale (1953), JR Raphael (1943), Karla Jay, PhD (1947)
• Download the Lugano Study for Adults with wAMD from this session.
• Download Resources for the Blind
Beckie Dale (1953) has a genetic, progressive eye disease (retinitis pigmentosa) that was diagnosed over 30 years ago.
JR Raphael (1943)has AMD (Age Related Macular Degeneration) in both eyes; one dry type the other wet type. She has recently started a two-year clinical trial, referred by her doctor.
Karla Jay, PhD (1947)is a disability activist and is currently on the boards of the Pilot Dog Alumni Association and of Guide Dog Users of New York.
End White Dominance
Detour Spotting for White Anti-Racists from cultural bridges to justice #3
Friday, January 24, 2025, 4:00–5:30 pm ET
Attitudes or behaviors that indicate a detour or wrong turn into white guilt, denial or defensiveness.
Confronting Sexism
Women & Politics
Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 3:00 pm ET
Men, the majority white and upper-class, dominate the US political institutions. Women, a majority white and upper class, are a minority. How does this structural inequality impact women and girls. Can women change the values and priorities of the US by getting into the system. Or must women work for change by organizing a social movement?