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.
Zoom Language Translation for OLOC Zoom Sessions Now Available
The OLOC Steering Committee has now made the Zoom Language Translation tool available for all of OLOC Zoom sessions. Where language may be a barrier, we can now have online events, sessions, and meetings with Affiliates who speak different languages.
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Zoom’s language translated captions enable anyone in a Zoom meeting or webinar to translate the speaker’s language into one of the languages that are provided in real time. An example is that if a participant speaks Spanish and another participant uses English, the Spanish words will appear in the closed captions then after a short pause, the words will appear in English below the Spanish and vice versa English to Spanish.
Written instructions that include pictorials of the Zoom screens have been created.
If you are interested in using this Zoom Language Translation tool at any OLOC Zoom, please contact Patty O’Donnell at pattyo@oloc.org to receive a copy which is available in English and Spanish. Also, if you would like training/practice just let me know and I can set that up.
Panels and Presentations
These programs are open to all Lesbians except where noted.
Lesbians Periodicals Part 2: Newspapers
Monday, July 27, 4:00–5:30 pm ET
3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
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This is the second in a quarterly series of programs about Lesbian periodicals. Our second conversation will focus on newspapers and feature Off Our Backs, Carol Anne Douglas (1946); Sojourner: The Women’s Forum, Shane Snowden (1956); and The Gazette, Rand Hall (1945).
Facilitators: Rose Norman, 1949, Mev Miller, 1955, Merril Mushroom 1941
On Going
Confronting Sexism: Fighting for Our Lives Series
Topic: Women Not Supporting Other Women
Tuesday, August 18, 3:00 P.M. ET, CT 2:00, 1:00 MT, 12:00 PT
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Phyllis Chesler (Women and Madness) quipped, “SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL – It can kill you!” How and why do women put down, fail to support,or ‘trash’ other women. Sociologists call this phenomenon ‘horizontal violence’ and it applies to other oppressed.
Working to understand the systemic sexism that envelops our lives.
End White Dominance
Topic: The Space Between Us
Friday, August 28, 4:00–6:00 P.M. ET, 3:00 CT, 2:00 MT, 1:00 PT
A video of a radical experiment in the power of bearing witness, inviting vulnerability, and sharing movement, in a time of social distancing and racial reckoning.
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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.
National Women’s Music Festival 50th Anniversary
Tuesday, July 14, 4:00 P.M. ET
3:00 CT, 2:00 MT, 1:00 PT
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Come Join us to share your experiences at the 50th annual National Women’s Music Festival. Did you attend workshops? Give a workshop? Who was your favorite performer? If you didn’t attend, come and hear about all the fun we had.
Facilitators: Michiko Bailey Thorne, 1953, Rose Norman, 1949
Techs: Mev, Janet
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 info@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