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.
Confronting Sexism
Women & Politics
Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 3:00 pm ET
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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?
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
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Attitudes or behaviors that indicate a detour or wrong turn into white guilt, denial or defensiveness.
Losing Vision, Gaining Insight
Thursday, January 30, 2025, 4:00–5:30pm ET
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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)
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.
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 Can I Do? Looking Ahead to 2025
Monday, January 13, 4:00 pm ET
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The inauguration is around the corner and many of us are filled with angst. Taking inspiration from Audre Lorde, let’s share ideas, actions, and encouragements to find what each of us can do..
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.
ASL Practice
This group has been suspended, indefinitely.
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