From herstory-admin at cwluherstory.org Fri Nov 15 06:53:10 2002 From: herstory-admin at cwluherstory.org (herstory-admin@cwluherstory.org) Date: Wed Mar 24 07:53:51 2004 Subject: [Herstory] November CWLU Herstory E-Zine Message-ID: Hello: Welcome to the November issue of the CWLU Herstory E-Zine. Please send us news tips about upcoming events you know about. Also, don't be shy. Send us news about yourself and what you are doing. Feminist networking is part of what we are about. Forward our E-Zine to colleagues and friends who may want to subscribe. Remember: Buy online from Women and Children First Books or the History Channel.com using the links from our homepage. The links are the History Channel.com and Women and Children First logos. It's a great way to buy books, videos, music or other items. We will earn a small but much needed commission. NOTE: We had to switch our mailing software again. Please e-mail infogal@cwluherstory.org if you have any problems. *************************** Archie Motley dies at the age of 67 Although his name may not be known to many CWLU Herstory E-Zine readers, Archie Motley was a strong supporter and friend of our project. Archie was a people's archivist, who believed that the lives of working people and social activists were important enough to be included in the archival collections of libraries, museums and universities. The son of an African-American father and a German immigrant mother, Archie devoted his life to fighting discrimination and exploitation through his work as a historical archivist. His father was the noted American painter Archibald Motley. At the Chicago Historical Society (CHS) where he worked, Archie was largely responsible for building the impressive collection of documents and personal papers that tell the story of Chicago from the bottom up. The CHS has the largest collection of CWLU documents in the nation. Archie died after falling off a ladder at the CHS while doing what he did best,tending his beloved archives. He will be missed. We would like to place a dedication to Archie on the Archive Section of our website. We feel it is a fitting tribute to a person who really helped this project grow. Any feedback on this idea is welcome. *************************** Jane: Abortion and the Underground to be performed in Florida Planned Parenthood of North Central Florida has teamed up with students from the University of Florida and Florida State to mount a production of Paula Kamen's play about the Abortion Counseling Service. Christine Gajda of Planned Parenthood got in touch with us and we sent her some of the original promotional graphics from the 1999 premiere here in Chicago. She plans to use them to promote the Florida production. Christine tells us that the students are working hard and plan to present the play in several cities the week of the Roe v Wade anniversary. *************************** Bust Magazine uses one of Elaine Wessel's Rock Band photos Bust Magazine, the brash in-your-face publication for young feminists, contacted us when they saw a photo of the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band on the website. They really liked one of the Rock Band photos and we helped them get in touch with Elaine to secure her permission. The photo should be running in the latest issue. We haven't see the story that it accompanies, but the publisher promised to send us a copy of the issue. You may visit the Bust website at http://www.bust.com/ . *************************** New Photo Essay on JoFreeman.com about the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston The National Women's Conference in 1977 was organized to celebrate International Women's Year and set a women's agenda for America. It was an amazing event in many ways. Where else could you see Bella Abzug, Lady Bird Johnson and Maya Angelou all on the same stage? Feminist scholar and writer Jo Freeman was there and shares her photos of the event accompanied by an essay at http://www.jofreeman.com/photos/IWY1977.html. Jo plans to continue expanding her website with more photos and articles. We'll keep you posted. *************************** Check out our Chicagoland Feminist Calendar We remodeled the Feminist Salon and added an interactive calendar of Chicagoland feminist events. We will also begin adding events that are not happening in Chicagoland, but would be of interest to Chicago feminists. If you have an event you would like posted, e-mail us at infogal@cwluherstory.org. While you are perusing the calendar, take our monthly poll. This month's poll concerns the issue of single gender schools. And don't forget to read the Feminist Quote. They are generated randomly from our database so you see a different one each time you visit. One of our favorite quotes is,"Where would men be without women? Scarce sir, mighty scarce." See if you can guess who said that. You may be surprised. You may submit articles directly to the Salon by copy-pasting them into a handy web form and then pressing submit. No fuss. No muss. So get out that college women's studies paper, or that feminist letter to the editor you never sent and post it to the Salon. You may also read and comment on articles already there. The Salon may be reached from our homepage links at http://www.cwluherstory.org or directly at http://www.cwluherstory.com/phpweb/ . *************************** The Herstory Project needs interns. Volunteer now! Graduate and undergraduate students are needed to write, edit, research, interview, do audio/video, add documents, do publicity and lots more. Our projects are exciting and challenging. Contact infogal@cwluherstory.org for more details. *************************** SO WHAT'S NEW ON THE HERSTORY SITE? We added a memoir from Heather Booth about her life in the movement. It was edited by UIC student Gina Caneva from an interview originally conducted by Carnegie-Mellon student Becky Kluchin. We totally revamped the Feminist Salon and the GrrlSmarts section. The Herstory E-Zines are now being archived on the site using a database for easier updating. We are currently editing a timeline of Chicago and national second-wave feminism from the 1960's to the 1980's developed by UIC student Ann Medina. Many thanks to Ruth Rosen for letting us use her national second-wave timelime from her recent book "The World Split Open". If any enterprising women's studies student wants to extend the timeline into the 21st century, please get in touch with us. Getting Ann's timeline on to the site is our big project this month. We plan to add a comment section along with the timeline so people can contribute suggestions and correct any errors. *************************** BOOK! Fireweed: A Political Autobiography" by Gerda Lerner (Temple University Press ) Gerda Lerner was one of the founding mothers of Second Wave feminism through her work as a feminist historian. A refugee from the Nazis, her work in women's history and race relations in America recently won her the Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing, the first woman to receive this honor. *************************** WEB SURFIN' WITH THE HERSTORY PROJECT Here are some web links of interest to feminists. Please send us your favorite links. The Internet is a huge place and it's easy to miss the buried feminist treasures. _____________________________________ http://www.womensenews.org/ "Womens eNews" is probably the best source of serious women's news on the Internet. Our Feminist Salon frequently links to their well written thoughtful articles. Womens eNews grew out of the NOW Legal Defense Fund, but became independent in January 2002. ______________________________________ http://www.about-face.org/ "About-Face" takes on the relentless mass media campaign to make women feel really terrible about themselves. The have galleries for both "offenders" and "winners". ______________________________________ http://www.fwhc.org/ "Feminist Women's Health Center" is an incredible resource on women's health, especially reproductive health. Most clinic waiting rooms have worn copies of Lady's Home Journal or Readers Digest. The FWHC website provides you with emotionally moving poetry and stories submitted by their site visitors. *************************** FEMINIST EVENTS AND ACTION CALENDAR Empower Your Improv Goddess! The Sirens, Chicago's all women improv group, invite you to an afternoon Fall Women's Improv Workshop. Break free from playing the mother, girlfriend, and wife and laugh it up with other women. Sunday, November 17th 12:30-4pm The Playground, 3341 N. Lincoln PRICE: Just $35 (includes bagel breakfast) To register: E-mail sirensimprov@hotmail.com or call 773-680-0826. For more info on Sirens go to http://www.sirensimprov.com/ ______________________________________ The Vagina Dialogues This workshop will cover a variety of topics regarding women's sexual and reproductive health including self-care, dispelling myths about our sexual anatomy, the menstrual cycle & cervical self-exams. Led by Carissa Szymanski, an educator from the Chicago Women's Health Center. This workshop is open to all women. Early to Bed is Chicago's only 100% woman-owned and operated erotic gift shop.They are committed to providing accurate, current information about women's health and sexuality. To that end they offer workshops, lecture about sexuality and safer sex to students and offer in-home demonstrations. Tuesday, November 19, 7:30 pm Early to Bed 5232 N Sheridan Rd Chicago, IL 60640 $10 (sliding scale) Call 773-271-1219 or visit http://www.early2bed.com for more info ______________________________________ Women and Children First Bookstore has a great lineup of events 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL Phone(773) 769-9299. Monday, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m. Young Feminists Discussion Group Subject to be Announced Check the Women and Children First website (http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com) for an announcement of the subject for the second meeting of our new group for women in their 20s and early 30s. Tuesday, Nov. 19 7:30 p.m. Women's Book Discussion: Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey This months selection is a magical novel about loneliness, love, and the profound connection between mother and daughter, which fuses the simplicity of a fairy tale with the complexity of adult passions. Book club selections are discounted 10%. Not an author appearance. Thursday, Nov. 21 7:30 p.m. Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin Americas Children : A Slide Presentation Americas Children, the first visual history of children in America, looks at four centuries of American life. Hometown newspaper photographers present a nostalgic but unsentimental view of Americas small towns. Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine show us children in mines and sweatshops. Family snapshots reveal children in the immediacy of their daily lives. Contemporary photographers glimpse girls at a pro-choice demonstration, an illegal immigrant huddled in his fathers arms, a boy limboing under a crime scene tape. The authors slide presentation is accompanied by historical background and text in the voices of the children themselves. Thompson and Austin have collaborated on two previous books, The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present and Children of the Depression. Tuesday, Nov. 26 7:30 p.m. Lynn Peril Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons From the 1940s to the 1970s, women were coaxed by advertisers and advice experts to "think pink" to attain feminine perfection in an adorable pink package that would set them surely on the road to marriage, motherhood, and total female fulfillment. In Pink Think, online zine editor Lynn Peril serves up a wildly entertaining but also eye-opening history and analysis of the time, including period memorabilia and artifacts, from the dreaded yet intriguing "Dud" of the Mystery Date board game to the impossibly glossy Campus Queen lunchbox. Cartoonist and writer Mimi Pond writes, "Peril has taken on a topic that would leave even professionally ironic post-feminists howling, sputtering and apoplectic in a pool of their own juices." December 2002 Events Sunday, Dec.1 5 p.m. Gerda Lerner Fireweed: A Political Autobiography A pioneer of the field of women's history, esteemed author Gerda Lerner has published 12 books, including The Creation of Patriarchy, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness, and Why History Matters. Her own life has encompassed many of the most significant social and historical developments of the twentieth century, and her remarkable autobiography, Fireweed, covers all of it: Her childhood in a Jewish family in Austria, imprisonment by the Nazis, two marriages including one to a Hollywood film editor who was blacklisted and who first introduced her to many left-wing political causes and of course, her lifelong development as a writer and scholar. Now Professor of History, Emerita, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, she was recently awarded the Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing, the first woman to receive this honor. Visit the Women and Children First website at http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com for dates and times as well as info about other upcoming happenings. *************************** LOOKING FOR A JOB? The Rogers Park Community Action Network(RPCAN) in Chicago is looking for an executive director RPCAN fights for social justice and community empowerment on issues such as gentrification, economic justice, affordable housing, worker rights and school reform. The Executive Director works with a hands-on Board of Directors to provide overall direction, administration and fundraising for RPCAN. A chief responsibility of the Director is the execution of direct-organizing efforts in the context of housing, gentrification and other issues identified by the board and membership.This position entails both organizing and administration, requiring flexible hours including evenings and weekends. To apply, send resume and cover letter describing approach to social action organizing to: Search Committee RPCAN 1545 W. Morse Chicago, IL 60626Email morseoffice@juno.com ______________________________________ Contributors to an encyclopedia on rape needed This will be an A-Z reference book for high school students, undergraduates, and the general public. There are approximately 200 narrative entries on key terms, organizations, history, important people,etc. Each entry will also include cross-references and suggested readings. There will also be an introduction, index, selected bibliography, and appendix with primary documents and statistics. If you are a Ph.D. or ABD in the relevant fields who can write clear and concise entries, please contact Dr Merril D. Smith at msmithnj@earthlink.net. ______________________________________ University of Houston needs a Women's Studies scholar in History, Political Science or Psychology to begin in Fall 2003 This associate or full professorship will include tenure in the relevant traditional department and will involve teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses cross-listed in Women's Studies. Firm commitments to teaching and to the study of women and gender as well as a strong research agenda are required. Review of applications will begin December 10, 2002, and continue until the position is filled. Send cover letter, c.v., publications (no more than 3), and a list of three references (names and addresses, including email where possible) to Women's Studies Search Committee, Women's Studies Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-3005. ______________________________________ The Feminist Majority Foundation has several jobs open for administrators, campus organizers and interns. Visit http://www.feminist.org/911/jobs/jobs_fmf.asp for the latest info. ______________________________________ The Feminist Majority Foundation maintains a constantly updated database of employers looking for feminists. Check them out at http://www.feminist.org and look for "Career Center" on their homepage.They also have a place to post your resume if you are looking for a job. They have recently upgraded their career section with some very useful features, so go there if you are on a job search. *************************** Well that's it for this month. Please send us any news about former CWLUers, upcoming events and feminist happenings. We depend on you to be our eyes and ears. Do you need research assistance? Do you provide a service? Do you need a service? Do you have a cool project you need help with? Are you looking for a job? Do you have a job to offer? Let us know and we'll try to include it. Feminist networking is part of what we are about. E-mail infogal@cwluherstory.org with your contribution. CWLU Herstory Website Project http://www.cwluherstory.org PO Box 548 Oak Park, IL 60303-0548 708-386-7197 A Project of the University of Illinois Center for Research on Women and Gender "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is:I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."- Rebecca West CWLU Herstory Website Project http://www.cwluherstory.org PO Box 548 Oak Park, IL 60303-0548 708-386-7197 A Project of the University of Illinois Center for Research on Women and Gender "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."- Rebecca West From herstory-admin at cwluherstory.org Thu Dec 5 00:38:08 2002 From: herstory-admin at cwluherstory.org (herstory-admin@cwluherstory.org) Date: Wed Mar 24 07:53:51 2004 Subject: [Herstory] December CWLU Herstory E-Zine Message-ID: Hello: Welcome to the December issue of the CWLU Herstory E-Zine. Please send us news tips about upcoming events you know about. Also, don't be shy. Send us news about yourself and what you are doing. Feminist networking is part of what we are about. Forward our E-Zine to colleagues and friends who may want to subscribe. Remember: Buy online from Women and Children First Books or the History Channel.com using the links from our homepage. The links are the History Channel.com and Women and Children First logos. It's a great way to buy holiday gifts like books, videos, music or other items. We will earn a small but much needed commission. *************************** We've remodeled the Feminist Salon with regularly updated feminist news from around the planet Please check out our newly remodeled Feminist Salon. We now have feminist news updated hourly from Moreover.com and updated daily from the Feminist Majority. If you want the latest in feminist news, we're the place to go. Vote in our new online poll: Should feminist organizations take a public stand against war with Iraq? Our Chicagoland feminist calendar of events is starting to get some traffic. If you have a Chicagoland event to announce or a national event that Chicagoland feminists might like to attend, e-mail the details to infogal@cwluherstory.org. Being an all-volunteer group, it might take a couple of days to get it up, so please try to send us event notices as far in advance as possible. Please send us articles, announcements, news stories, poems, essays, rants etc. to post on the Feminist Salon. You may upload them directly to the Feminist Salon from your web browser. We are indexed by Google and your submissions should show up in that search engine pretty quickly. All submissions are reviewed before posting and must be approved. Submissions are also subject to minor league editing for typos and syntax. Are you a college teacher? Ask your students to send us the best of their women's studies papers. Students may upload their work directly to the Feminist Salon with their web browser. For grade school and secondary school students we have the GrrlSmarts section. They may upload directly with their web browser as well. All submissions are reviewed before posting and must be approved. Submissions are also subject to minor league editing for typos and syntax. Last month we mentioned that one of our favorite quotes from the Feminist Salon quotation database was, "What would men be without women? Scarce sir, mighty scarce." If you were wondering who said that, it was Mark Twain. The Salon may be reached from our homepage links at http://www.cwluherstory.org or directly at http://www.cwluherstory.org/phpweb/. Grrlsmarts may be reached at http://www.cwluherstory.org/phpweb1/ . *************************** Former CWLUer? Early member of NOW or another feminist group? Would you like to be interviewed for student projects? It's student project season again and we are starting to get inquiries from both primary and secondary students about doing second wave feminist history projects. We had a list of potential interviewees from many months ago, but we would like to update that. If you would like to be contacted, please e-mail infogal@cwluherstory.org. If you sign up and you are busy when we contact you, no problem. We'll move on to the next person on the list. Were you a Jane volunteer? Not surprisingly, the Abortion Counseling Service is the most popular inquiry, so we especially need former Janes. Paula Kamen regularly refers students to our website when she gets inquiries about her Jane play. With the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade coming up, we expect more attention focused on the struggle for abortion rights. All that is required are your experiences to share and your patience with the students. Schools do an uneven job teaching women's history, so don't be surprised by students coming to you with misconceptions and very basic questions. You may conduct your interview any way you wish, via phone, e-mail, or even in person if the student is in your area. It's completely up to you. *************************** So what's happening with the Graphics Collective poster reprints? Not much. We check with Epson regularly to see if their new archival inkjet printer is available, but it's still being held up. Early product reviews we've read give it high marks, but for reasons unknown to us, Epson has not released it to the retail channels. Hang in there, we have a computer ready and waiting. All we need now is the printer and some time to print. *************************** Joan Berman is back from the 8th Interdisciplinary Congress on Women at Makerere University in Uganda The conference was convened to allow women from many countries to come together and to reflect critically on gender issues and upon the experiences of women. Joan will be on a panel at the Association for Women in Psychology annual conference in March to discuss the Interdisciplinary Conference. After the conference, Joan visited Kenya with her new telephoto lens to take photos of wildlife and landscapes. She is the featured photographer at http://www.RainbowArtists.com for the month of December, so if you can't make it to Kenya this year, you can still take a virtual tour with Joan as your guide. Joan is a former CWLUer and a member of our project. Her well organized collection of CWLU documents form the basis of our online archive. *************************** JoFreeman.com adds a new section on rightwing extremism in America Jo invites you to read her recent articles on Neo-Nazis in America, the Christian Coalition ( now headed by a woman) and her comparison of today's "War on Terrorism" with the Cold War of yesteryear. Jo was personally singled out during the Cold War red scare and tells a chilling tale of officially sponsored attempts to damage her work in the civil rights movement. For those with eyes to see, it is a cautionary tale of where this country might be headed in our time. Please visit http://www.jofreeman.com/rightreport/rightreport.htm to access these articles. *************************** Paula Kamen explores the "shadow side" of female relationships in a Chicago Tribune book review Paula recently had a major article in the Chicago Tribune reviewing Phyllis Chesler's Woman's Inhumanity to Woman and other books that explore the unsisterly side of life. Paula concluded that these are not "woman bashing" books as some have charged, but rather- "... offer valuable, multilayered, introspective and solidly researched insight into the complex underlying power dynamics involved in women's relationships with women--and the bigger societal questions they raise. Meanwhile, in the process of critiquing women realistically, they don't idealize men's ways of dealing with conflict or brush their stereotypically more direct forms of aggression under the rug." You may read the entire review online at http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/booksmags/chi-0211240011nov24,0 ,5318707.story?coll=chi%2Dleisurebooks%2Dhed Paula is the author of Jane: Abortion and the Underground and more recently, Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution. *************************** The Herstory Project still needs interns. Volunteer now! Graduate and undergraduate students are needed to write, edit, research, interview, do audio/video, add documents, do publicity and lots more. Our projects are exciting and challenging. You can pretty much design your own project or work with our suggestions. If you need academic credit, you will have to work that out with your professors, but we're willing to help. We are a project of the UIC Center for Research on Women and Gender. Dr. Margaret "Peg" Strobel is our primary academic contact person. *************************** Did you get properly credited for your work on the CWLU Herstory Project? We have a section of the site to recognize the many people who helped out on this project, whether their contribution was great or small. Please check http://www.cwluherstory.org/CWLUNew/contrib.html and let us know if you would like your name to be added. You may send along a short bio of yourself if you wish. You may also include your e-mail or a personal website address. We haven't kept up with this section as well as we should have, so if we left you off, we apologize in advance. Please help us to correct any oversights. *************************** SO WHAT'S NEW ON THE HERSTORY SITE? We added a memoirs from Naomi Weisstein and Ruth Carol about their experiences in the worlds of academia and science during the 1970's. Naomi Weisstein's article is entitled "How can a little girl like you teach a big class of men?"--the Chairman Said and other Adventures of a Woman in Science". In it Naomi, a research psychologist, details her various encounters with the pervasive sexism of the time. Naomi Weisstein is a former member of the CWLU and was member of the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band. Ruth Carol's article is called "I Want To Pick Your Brains: An Autobiographical Sketch of A Professional Woman". Ruth Carol battled sexism at Columbia University while trying to do research in her field of nutrition. Ruth is the mother of Estelle Carol, a former CWLUer and our website designer. Both Naomi's and Ruth's memoirs are posted in the Memoirs section and in the Feminist Salon section. We urge women now active in science and academia to visit the Salon and comment on these articles. How much (or how little) have things changed since the bad old days? ______________________________________ Our timeline of Chicago and national second-wave feminism from the 1960's to the 1990's developed by UIC student Ann Medina, is now up at http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUAbout/timeline.html. We have some blank spaces, so read over the timeline and send us your suggestions, additions and corrections. There is a form at the bottom you can fill out and submit. The timeline is an ongoing project and we welcome help from anyone who wants to help us expand it. ______________________________________ We added the poem Shema by Aurora Levins Morales to our Feminist Salon. Aurora generously allowed us to post a web audio file of her reading the poem. Shema was written in the wake of Sept 11, 2001 and is dedicated to Aurora's cousin who died trying to save lives on that terrible day. Aurora tells us that her book Shema: Writings on Love and War with an accompanying CD will be available soon. Aurora is a poet and storyteller whose Puerto Rican/Jewish background gives her a unique perspective on the world. Both she and her mother Rosario were CWLU members. You may reach her at RemediosCenter@aol.com. *************************** BOOK! The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth" by Barbara Seaman (Hyperion ) Due to be published in 2003, Barbara Seaman writes the long overdue history of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), tracing it back to the 19th century when the 1899 Merck Manual listed a number of "remedies" for menopause. "Often they contained heroin and opium, but they had a product called Ovariian, made from the dried ovaries of a cow," according to Barbara Seaman. Visit http://www.usnews.com/usnews/nycu/health/articles/021118/18hrt.htm for a US News and World Report article on HRT that mention's Barbara's upcoming book. *************************** WEB SURFIN' WITH THE HERSTORY PROJECT Here are some web links of interest to feminists. Please send us your favorite links. The Internet is a huge place and it's easy to miss the buried feminist treasures. _____________________________________ http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~women/ H-Women is a good place to start if you are serious about women's history. Besides its excellent list of news, reviews and resources, you can sign up for their moderated listserv and find out what's on the minds of women's history scholars around the planet. ______________________________________ http://www.tui.edu/ The Union Institute is a unique university learning experience for self directed creative people who want a real education-- not just a piece of paper tied up with a nice ribbon. With faculty like Judith Arcana & Minnie Bruce Pratt and graduates such as Rita Mae Brown, Aurora Levins Morales and Representative Danny Davis, it is worth serious investigation if you are a person who values ideas and how they can change society. ______________________________________ http://www-dept.usm.edu/~mcrohb/ The Civil Rights Documentation Project is a comprehensive online resource for studying the civil rights movement in Mississippi. There is a complete listing of oral history tapes available as well as online resources including text, sound files and photos. Some of the early pioneers of the women's liberation movement were civil rights volunteers in the Deep South and their civil rights experience was an important influence on the women's movement. *************************** FEMINIST EVENTS AND ACTION CALENDAR Attention artists and poets! The movement to stop violence against women is looking for creative talent Outspoken Art/Arte Claro is seeking poems and visual art pieces for its March 17-22, 2003 exhibit to be held at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Outspoken Art/Arte Claro advocates the United Nations' Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women. http://www.cidh.oas.org/declaracion.mujer.htm . All communication will be done by email. There will be a jury process for selection/inclusion. There are no exhibition fees. The artwork and the poem should reflect the theme of the exhibition. Your submissions may be in Spanish or English. If you are interested in this project, please request the Poet Registration Form or the Artist Registration Form as soon as possible. E-mail Nela Rio, Organizer and Coordinator, St. Thomas University nrio@stthomasu.ca. ______________________________________ The Database of American Labor Graphics needs your help The goal of the Database is to identify domestic resources that hold diverse media, including graphics, prints, and posters depicting workers, the workplace, labor organizations, and labor culture, and create an online resource that will allow researchers to identify, as accurately and quickly as possible, which institutions are likely to have the materials they are looking for. Please look at their website http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~lcushing/LaborGraphicsProject.html for a list of the currently identified collection sources and to find out more about this project. If you know of any institutional or personal collection, large or small, that may have something to contribute to this survey please contact Lincoln Cushing, lcushing@library.berkeley.edu, (510) 642-1056 . ______________________________________ Student conference to support reproductive choice to be held in Washington D.C. January 22-23. On January 22-23, 2003, hundreds of students from across the country will gather in Washington, DC to show their support for abortion rights on the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that gave all American women the right to safe, legal abortion. At the Never Go Back Student Leadership Conference: Mobilizing Youth to Save Abortion Rights, pro-choice students from across the country will strategize together new ways to protect reproductive rights for future generations. Major leaders of the women's rights movement today will address the conference, including: Gloria Feldt - Planned Parenthood, Kate Michelman - NARAL, Kim Gandy - NOW, Dr. Jane Smith - Business and Professional Women USA, and many more! Register at http://www.feminist.org/store/ngbconference . The conference is being organized largely by the Feminist Majority which has stepped up its campus organizing efforts. ______________________________________ Do you enjoy comic books and comic strips? Scholars are invited to submit articles for an anthology,"Queering Comics," edited by Dr. Jeffery Dennis. The deadline is February 15, 2003. Contributions may explore depictions of same-sex desire, gender transgressions, glb etc. Visit http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131901 for more info or contact jdennis@fau.edu. *************************** LOOKING FOR A JOB? Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) is looking for both a communications director and a development director PFLAG made up of the parents, families and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, celebrates diversity and envisions a society that embraces everyone, including those of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Both jobs are based in Washington DC. Visit http://www.feminist.org/911/jobs/jobdescription.asp?jobID=2539 to find out more about the communications position or http://www.feminist.org/911/jobs/jobdescription.asp?jobID=2538 for the development position. ______________________________________ The Feminist Majority Foundation maintains a constantly updated database of employers looking for feminists. Visit http://www.feminist.org and look for "Career Center" on their homepage. They also have a place to post your resume if you are looking for a job. They have recently upgraded their career section with some very useful features, so check it out if you are on a job search. *************************** Well that's it for this month. Please send us any news about former CWLUers, upcoming events and feminist happenings. We depend on you to be our eyes and ears. Did you write a great article, poem, story or novel? Are you in the middle of an ongoing social movement? Do you need research assistance? Do you provide a service? Do you need a service? Do you have a cool project you need help with? Are you looking for a job? Do you have a job to offer? Let us know and we'll try to include your contribution. Feminist networking is part of what we are about. E-mail infogal@cwluherstory.org with your contribution. CWLU Herstory Website Project http://www.cwluherstory.org PO Box 548 Oak Park, IL 60303-0548 708-386-7197 A Project of the University of Illinois Center for Research on Women and Gender "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."- Rebecca West