Please do not share information about upcoming OLOC Zoom events on social media. This includes mixed group email forums or listserv groups to which you belong. Thanks for helping to maintain our Zoom events as safer Lesbian-only space.
If you have questions about your list, please contact info@oloc.org
OR zoom@OLOC-Chapters.groups.io.
Zoom Schedule
Zoom events are only available to OLOC affiliates unless otherwise noted. Registration is required for all events. Registration links for OLOC Zooms are typically available three weeks before the event. Watch for the Zoom advertising emails! All events are closed captioned. Details are subject to change.
Past Zooms can be found in the Affiliates Portal.
You will receive the Affiliates password when you join OLOC. If you’ve lost the password email mev@oloc.org
NOTE: ALL dates and start times are tentative and listed in ET.
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Closed Captioning is AVAILABLE for ALL Zoom events.
Panels and Presentations
These programs are open to all Lesbians except where noted.
Lesbian Periodicals
Monday, March 24, 2026
4:00 – 5:30 pm ET
3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
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First in a quarterly series of programs about Lesbian periodicals. Our first conversation will be about Feminist Bookstore News (Carol Seajay, 1950) and Hot Wire (Toni Armstrong, Jr., 1954).
Facilitators: Mev Miller 1955, Rose Norman 1949, Merril Mushroom 1941
OLOC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
Tales Seldom Told
3:00–4:30 pm ET
2:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm MT / 12:00 pm PT
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A panel of Old Lesbians who did not grow up with Class privilege will try to clarify the reality of Class in the United States.
Sally Tatnall, Sandy Covahey, Naomi Winterfalcon, Patty O’Donnell
OLOC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
OLOC and Ageism
4:00–5:30 pm ET
3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
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The Power of Our Aging: Old/Elder Lesbians Confront Ageism
gypsy Tucker and Patti Kardia
On Going
3rd Tuesday of each month…
Confronting Sexism
Sexism and Militarism
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
3:00 pm ET
2:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm MT / 12:00 pm PT
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A timely discussion: patriarchy and endless wars, male values and the waste of resources on destruction.
Fourth Friday of each month…
End White Dominance
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack from Peggy McIntosh
Friday, March 27, 2026 4:00–5:30 pm ET
3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
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In her document, Peggy McIntosh describes her understanding of white privilege as unearned advantage based on race, which can be observed both systemically and individually, like all unearned privileges in society. She says that white privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, code books, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
Open Houses
Open Discussion for OLD/Elder Lesbians (participants can come and go at any time) unless otherwise noted.
Open houses are 90 minutes.
What I Don’t Do Any More Because I’m Old, and What I Do Instead
Thursday, March 5, 2026
4:00 – 5:30 ET
3:00 Central / 2:00 Mountain / 1:00 Pacific
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Many of us no longer do things we used to do when we were younger. We may not be able to, we may not feel safe, we may have lost interest, etc. Sometimes we figure out other ways to do what we used to do or do something else instead. Sometimes we just don’t. Let’s talk about this at our open house.
Facilitator: Merril Mushroom, 1941
Support and Discussion Groups
These groups are for affiliates of National OLOC.
Lesbians of Color Discussion Group
The group meets by Zoom every third Wednesday of the month at 2:30 P.M. PT/5:30 P.M. ET. If you are an Old/Elder Lesbian of Color and would like to participate in the discussions, please contact Alí Marrero Calderón at ali@oloc.org.
Caregivers Support Group
This group is open to OLOC affiliates who are currently caregiving.
Meets every Monday of each month at 1:00 P.M. ET.
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Co-Facilitators: Barb Ester, 1947, and Ruth Debra, 1944.This Zoom group offers opportunities to share experiences and ideas, difficulties and joys, so we can be the best at what we are doing. We understand that due to the nature of caregiving, there may be times you cannot make it or have to leave early. Enrollment is limited. Pre-registration is required.
Contact olocccZoom@gmail.com for information.
Widows Support Group
We have one active group. It is currently full.
If you would like to be placed on a waiting list, please contact olocccZoom@gmail.com.
Radical Lesbian Feminists Discussion Group
This group is currently full.
If you would like to be placed on a waiting list, please contact olocccZoom@gmail.com.
What Is Needed
To create new Support or Discussion Groups, we need two things:
1) Co-Facilitators willing to work together, manage contact with participants, and meet regularly with experience to manage conversations on Zoom.
2) Technical skills to manage Zoom events. This does not necessarily need to be the facilitators. However, the current Zoom crew does not have the capacity to tech additional groups — so those who would like to volunteer with Zoom tech skills for Support or Discussion Groups would be necessary.
Dialogue Etiquette
For OLOC, diversity is the practice of including or involving lesbians from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds, different ages, class structures, cultural backgrounds, geographies, physical abilities and disabilities, and religions. We are committed to an environment where all lesbians are nurtured and cared for and will not be intentionally harmed or disregarded.
For all OLOC communications and events, we are committed to relating within our differences while holding respect and regard for each lesbian’s humanity. We envision leadership as caring for the whole. And the whole must include all OLOC affiliates and guests.
Dialogue Etiquette Consequences
For all OLOC Affiliates, we agree:
- We each are supported and encouraged to speak up when we are feeling harm or disregard. Additionally, we have the expectation that any facilitator shall pause and address the harm or disregard.
- We each agree to interrupt, disrupt, ask to pause when we each see the possibility of a lesbian experiencing harm or disregard.
- The lesbian offering feedback (e.g., her lived experience) is offering the impact of what she experienced—not necessarily someone’s intention. Regardless of intention, we understand that this is her experience, and that impact is what will be addressed.
- We each agree to being interrupted, disrupted, asked to pause by a lesbian who is experiencing harm or disregard.
- We each agree to seek support when I have experienced harm or disregard.
- We each agree to seek support and education when I have caused harm or disregard.
(1/5/2025)
If you have any questions, please contact oloccczoom@gmail.com (National Zoom events only) or Susan@oloc.org (End White Dominance programs only).
If you missed a past Zoom or would like to see one again…they are available to OLOC affiliates.
You will receive the Affiliates password when you join OLOC.
Affiliates are Lesbians who have reached their 55th year.
If you want to check your affiliation, please contact: info@oloc.org
If you’re an affiliate who has lost the password email mev@oloc.org or info@oloc.org