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.
Film Presentation: Outliers and Outlaws: The Eugene Lesbian History Project
Monday, April 20, 4:00–5:30 pm ET
3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
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Outliers and Outlaws uncovers the history of a large and vibrant lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon. Lesbians who migrated to this small city in the 1960s-90s candidly share stories about the power of courageous and creative world-building. Intimate portraits – both then and now – model living in hard times with hope, humor, and commitment to social change. Narrated by musician Jody Bleyle (Team Dresch and Hazel), Outliers includes a rich archive of images documenting this groundbreaking community. Featured songs: “Song of the Soul” by Cris Williamson, “Ode to a Gym Teacher” by Meg Christian, and a little-known ode “Eugene, Oregon” by Dolly Parton accompany this previously untold story. (65 min)
Facilitator: Juanita Malouf, 1953
Terry Baum Live Performance
Monday, April 27, 4:00–5:30 pm ET
3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
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Terry Baum, slightly world-renowned lesbian playwright, will perform scenes from her most recent show, Lesbo Solo: My True Life Adventures in the Gay Liberation Movement — and describe how the monolog was developed. A talk-back will follow.
Facilitator: Terry Baum, 1946
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
On Going
3rd Tuesday of each month…
Confronting Sexism
Sexism and Pornography
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
3:00 pm ET
2:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm MT / 12:00 pm PT
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Let’s define ‘pornography’ and discuss how pornography serves Patriarchy. Free speech? Sexual liberation? Elemental misogyny?
Fourth Friday of each month…
End White Dominance
Earth Day/Month: Why Climate Change/Crisis is Inherently Racist
Friday, April 24, 2026
4:00 –5:30pm ET
3:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm PT
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Climate change divides along racial lines: The difference between those who caused the climate change/crisis and those who are bearing the brunt of it is a large-scale version of a recurring local environmental injustice.
Confronting Sexism: Fighting for Our Lives
Topic: Remembering Your Childhood Toys
Tuesday, May 19, 3:00–4:30 P.M. ET, 2:00 CT, 1:00 MT, 12:00 PT
End White Dominance
Topic: White Privilege: I Am Racist: How Does That Feel? SHARE
Friday, May 22, 4:00–6:00 P.M. ET, 3:00 CT, 2:00 MT, 1:00 PT
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