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.
Please use this Time Zone Converter for your area.
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.
The Struggles of Class and Classism in the Women’s Movement
Monday, May 4, 2:00–4:00 pm ET
1:00 pm CT / 12:00 pm MT / 11:00 am PT
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Open Discussion on the Struggles of Class and Classism in the Women’s Movement
How Did it Affect You? How Did it Make You Feel? Come Share
Lesbians in Media (TV & Film)
Thursday 28, 4:00–5:30 pm ET
NEW DATE
3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
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Roberta has created a PowerPoint slide show describing the herstory of lesbians in TV in the USA and Internationally. She has done considerable research into the herstory of Lesbians in television and film. Roberta has attended Clexacon, which is a conference centering on Lesbians in television and film, attended by film creators and enthusiasts. She has facilitated programs in International Lesbian cinema and herstory of Lesbians in cinema through the decades.
Roberta presented her research previously at an OLOC Gathering in Columbus, Ohio a few years ago.
Facilitator: Roberta Pato, 1946
On Going
3rd Tuesday of each month…
Confronting Sexism:
Topic: Remembering Your Childhood Toys
Tuesday, May 19, 3:00 P.M. ET
2:00 CT, 1:00 MT, 12:00 PT
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Kid’s toys reflect sex-role stereotyping. Our rebellion against these roles manifest in the toys we preferred. Let’s talk about that.
4th Friday of each month…
End White Dominance
We are asking White Women to say: I Am Racist
Explore and Share how it feels to acknowledge your Racism
Friday, May 22, 4:00 P.M. ET,
3:00 CT, 2:00 MT, 1:00 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.
May Day Celebration
Thursday, May 7, 4:00–5:30 pm ET
3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
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May Day (May 1) annually commemorates important festivities.
Traditionally, it’s the Gaelic Beltane (meaning bright fire), a celebration of nature, life, and fertility. Since the late 19th century, May Day also observes International Worker’s Day and honors the labor movement and advocates for worker’s rights.
To start the conversation, you will hear stories from Ruth Debra (1944) and Mev Miller (1955) recalling their fond memories of May Day celebrations in Minneapolis sponsored by Heart of the Beast.
We will then open the discussion to anyone who wants to share her memories or experiences (past or present) about May Day meanings or celebrations.
Facilitator: Mev Miller, 1955
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 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