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.
New Books by Old Lesbians…
We Can Live Like This: A Memoir of Culture
Monday, November 17, 2025
4:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M. ET
3:00 P.M. CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
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Lisa Vogel’s recently published book, We Can Live Like This…a Memoir of a Culture, illuminates the creation and community of the iconic Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. The producer of the Festival for all 40 years, her book is a hybrid of personal memoir, a moving political/cultural exploration of four decades of lesbian feminism, and a nuts and bolts sharing of what it took to create a city built by women. Join Lisa as she talks about the book and responds to your questions about the book.
Presenter: Lisa Vogel
Dyke the Halls – Winter greetings from the Wanderground Archives
Monday, December 22, 2025
4:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M. ET
3:00 P.M. CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
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Wanderground Lesbian Archive/Library is filled with Lesbian-made items and music celebrating December winter events and holidays. From a goddess cookie cutter, to songs of Kwanzaa or Hanukkah or Solstice, to Alison Bechdel & Diane DiMassa cards, to miscellaneous artwork & ornaments, and humorous remakes of Christmas carols, we will highlight an array of expressions (both reverent and not). Join us for a relaxing Lesbian-focused afternoon of art and music paying tribute to December.
On Going
Third Tuesday of each month…
End White Dominance
Expressing Gratitude and Awareness
Friday, November 28, 2025, 4:00 – 5:30 pm ET
3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
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• What experiences have you had that re-enforce the case for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice?
• What are ways that we ALL benefit from anti-racist policies and practices? Express your gratitude for successes.
• Consider ways to raise awareness in ourselves and others to promote DEI and anti-racism in all aspects of our lives.
Third Tuesday of each month…
Confronting Sexism
NO MEETING IN NOVEMBER.
Leaders are going away. They will be back in December to have us thank women who have inspired and strengthened us.
We’ll see you in December.
Third Tuesday of each month…
Confronting Sexism
Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 3:00 – 5:30 pm ET
2:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm MT / 12:00 pm PT
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Open Houses
Open Discussion for OLD/Elder Lesbians (participants can come and go at any time) unless otherwise noted.
Open houses are 90 minutes.
Let’s Talk SCAM Prevention!
Monday, November 10, 2025
4:00 – 5:30 ET / 3:00 Central / 2:00 Mountain / 1:00 Pacific
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Scam documentation material is so diverse and depends upon zip code and demographics. Let’s have an open discussion about our experiences. Nyla Dartt has a set of tricks she uses to detect if an email is a scam. What are yours? Any OLOC member who knows about scams or has been a victim of a scam is invited to share her experience.
Facilitator: Nyla Dartt (1943)
Single Belles: How are We Dancing This Holiday Season!
Monday, December 9, 2025
4:00 – 5:30 ET / 3:00 Central / 2:00 Mountain / 1:00 Pacific
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Let’s share and talk about ourselves as the Holiday season begins! As single older lesbians without partners, let’s share whatever relates – how we celebrate or don’t, holiday traditions, favorite holiday music and dancing, and how we find positive support and meaning in this too family-oriented holiday season!
With Janet Stetser and Sue Reamer
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