[Herstory] June-July CWLU Herstory E-Zine

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Hello: Welcome to the June-July summer 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 the links 
from our homepage or the Book section of the Marketplace. Look for 
the  Women and Children First logo. It's a great way to buy gifts and 
we'll will earn a small but much needed commission.

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CWLU HERSTORY MEETING ON JULY 13: LAUNCHES PLANS FOR NEW FUNDRAISING DRIVE

CWLU Herstory Board, Steering Committee and supporters attending were 
Peg Strobel, Jenny Knauss, Coral Norris, Amy Laikin, Bob Simpson, 
Mary Ann Lupa and  Estelle Carol.

The meeting approved a plan to draft a fundraising letter to 
circulate to friends and colleagues in the feminist community. 
Contributors will receive Women Graphics Collective posters as gifts. 
We will  also  explore the possibility of selling mugs with Chicago 
Women's Graphics Collective designs on them.

At the time of the meeting, the Herstory Project bank account had 
$3,283. Since then we have purchased a 13 x 19 archival inkjet color 
printer to reproduce Chicago Women's Graphics Collective posters. We 
expect start-up costs for that to be around $1300 which includes $860 
for the printer.

We have already printed a few test posters and they look great! We 
are in the process of obtaining a PayPal account which allow us to 
take secure credit card orders and contributions over the Web. 
Hopefully, by September or October 2003, we'll finally have the 
poster reprinting project ready to roll.

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CWLU HERSTORY PROJECT IS HELPING ANNE ENKE WITH HER NEW MANUSCRIPT

University of Wisconsin professor Anne Enke is writing a book 
entitled "Locating Feminist Activism: Sexuality, Race, and Contested 
Space in the Upper Midwest". The book is organized around the spaces 
connected to women's activism. Part of her research involves the 
Chicago Women's Liberation Union. So far we've aided Anne by helping 
set up interviews, sharing names of contact people and duplicating 
documents she needs.

Anne is especially interested in the CWLU sports program. If you were 
active in the sports program and would like to help her out, let us 
know at infogal at cwluherstory.org and we'll pass your name along. She 
has a special request: If you visited the Ms. Lounge bar, or played 
with the Ms. Lounge team she would very much like to hear your 
recollections.

Ann uses the CWLU Herstory website in her classes at the University 
of Wisconsin and we are very excited to be working with her.

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THE CHICAGO WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER  HAS AN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

The Chicago Women's Health Center was founded in 1975 and has roots 
in the CWLU's health projects of the time. Women's Studies professor 
Rosalind Hinton and student Carianne Smogar of DePaul University are 
now working on an oral history of the Center. The CWLU Herstory 
Project is supporting their efforts by sharing resources and 
documents.

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THE CHICAGO WOMEN'S HEALTH HISTORY GROUP CONTINUES ITS WORK

Herstory Project's Health History Committee has decided to assemble 
an in-depth memoir of Chicago women's health activist Jenny Knauss. 
Kathy Mallin and Coral Norris are taping interviews with Jenny. Bob 
Simpson has offered to convert the audio tapes to digital format and 
help edit them. After editing is completed, the Committee will 
convert the taped interviews into a transcript. From there, they can 
be turned into a memoir that could be published on paper and on the 
web. Estelle Carol, Mardge Cohen, Amy Laiken and Laurie Crawford are 
also working on the project.

Jenny Knauss was recently featured on a WGN-TV news story about 
medical students pairing with Alzheimer's patients for the benefit of 
both.This very special program is sponsored by Northwestern 
University. You may view a web version of the news story at 
http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUMemoir/jennyvid.html .

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THE HERSTORY PROJECT IS APPLYING TO GIVE A PRESENTATION AT A 2004 
WOMEN'S STUDIES CONFERENCE

The Herstory Project hopes to do a roundtable presentation at a 
conference on June 10-12, 2004 at Loyola University. The Conference 
theme is "Centering Gender History". The sponsor is Women's and 
Gender Historians of the Midwest. Proposals are due Sept 1, 2003.

Plans are still very tentative, but we hope to be able to share some 
of the CWLU history as well as website teaching resources. We also 
plan to further develop a PowerPoint presentation on the  CWLU 
originally done by Peg Strobel.  Contact the CWLU Herstory Project at 
infogal at cwluherstory.org if you have suggestions.

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SECOND CALL! HELP IDENTIFY JO FREEMEN'S PHOTOS

Longtime feminist writer Jo Freeman has posted 4 sets of photos she 
took of  events circa 1969-1970. She is asking E-Zine readers to look 
at the photos and provide  information on the events, including exact 
dates and identifications of participants and organizers. Reports 
from actual participants are especially welcome. She would like to 
write historical essays about all three and any personal 
recollections, press clippings, leaflets etc. would be very helpful.

The FOUR photo sets are:

1- The Chicago ERA march (Date?) 
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/jofreeman/futurephotos/ChiERA/ 
There are photos of several  people  and  a nice picture of former 
CWLUer Heather Booth holding  her baby . A CWLU banner is clearly 
visible in several photos and one participant is proudly displaying a 
Graphics Collective poster. Can you identify the other people in 
these photos? When was the march held? Who organized it?

2- The protest at the American Medical Association: Who? What? When? 
Why? 
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/jofreeman/futurephotos/AMAweb/

3- WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell)
at the University of Chicago: What was being hexed at UC? 
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/jofreeman/futurephotos/WITCHweb/ 
(Date?) Former CWLUer Coral Norris may be seen peeking through her 
WITCH makeup at a WITCH hex. Do you recognize anyone else in these 
photos?

4- Protest at the Health, Education and Welfare Department in Washington D.C.
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/jofreeman/futurephotos/HEWweb/index.htm

You may contact Jo directly at jfrbc at hotmail.com if you have info to 
share with her.

Please visit her main web site at http://www.jofreeman.com. Jo is a 
prolific and original writer and is constantly adding new material. 
If you were involved in any of these events whose photos appear on 
her web site, you are invited to write your personal recollections 
and submit them for possible posting.

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CWLU HERSTORY PROJECT GETS SOME PUBLICITY AT THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S 
STUDIES ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) held its annual 
conference last June in New Orleans. The Herstory Project produced a 
publicity flier especially for the conference. Special thanks to 
Colette Morrow of Purdue  and Rosalind Hinton of DePaul who agreed to 
take fliers to New Orleans and circulate them at the conference.

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DIAL PRESS TO PUBLISH LETTERS ARCHIVED ON THE HERSTORY SITE

In the November 1971 issue of Womankind (the CWLU newspaper), Elaine 
Wessel published a letter about loving women. In the January 1972 
issue, Elaine's mom answered her. You may read the letters online at 
http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/motherdaughter.html.

Last month Dial Press contacted us to request permission to print 
these letters in a book that collects American women's letters from 
1776 to the present. We forwarded the permission request to Elaine.

Dial also asked us for permission to publish a 1968 letter about 
Black activism and reproductive rights from Patricia Robinson. We 
obtained her letter from a pamphlet in our archives, so we were 
unable to help them with permissions. We have gotten several queries 
from people looking for Patricia Robinson. If anyone has information 
about her, please pass it on to us. You may read Patricia Robinson's 
letter at http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/blackwomen.html .


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SINGER KRISTIN LEMS IS PUTTING TOGETHER A WOMEN'S HISTORY MULTIMEDIA SHOW

Many of you may know the feminist music of Kristin Lems, but you may 
not know that Kristin is also an associate professor at 
National-Louis University, teaching in the Department of Applied 
Language. National-Louis gave Kristin a sabbatical  for fall quarter 
2003 to put together a women's history PowerPoint show using spoken 
word, video clips, slides, along with songs and places for audience 
participation.

We wish Kristin the best of luck in her effort and we will share any 
of our resources that may help her.

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BITCH MAGAZINE NEEDS YOUR HELP

"Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture"  is an intelligent 
provocative publication with wit and style. It also needs your help. 
Facing the same grinding financial pressure that any independent 
publication faces, Bitch needs 3000 new subscribers to stay afloat. 
If you are not familiar with Bitch, visit your local feminist or 
independent bookstore to pick up a copy. Then log on to 
http://www.bitchmagazine.com and become a subscriber. You can also 
order Bitchgear like T-shirts and other apparel while you are signing 
up for a subscription.

Special thanks to Paula Kamen for bringing this to our attention.

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SO WHAT'S NEW ON THE HERSTORY SITE?

We added "Notes on a Writer's Workshop" to the Consciousness section 
of the site. This article from the December 1971 Black Maria literary 
magazine describes a women writers workshop sponsored by Liberation 
School. We also added "Why Women's Liberation?", a clear succinct 
explanation from the same issue of Black Maria. Black Maria was 
closely associated with the CWLU.
Please visit http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/conscious.html.

The 1975 Socialist Feminist Conference held in Yellow Springs OH 
brought together 1500 women to discuss issues of women's liberation. 
You may read a CWLU report on the conference at 
http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/socfem1975.html .

We posted a chapter from Jo Freeman's upcoming book, "At Berkeley in 
the 60's" in the Memoirs section. Jo's new book tells the story of 
her coming of age as a political activist during the Free Speech 
Movement at UC Berkeley. The chapter we posted tells how she 
hitchhiked across America to support the Mississippi Freedom 
Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic Convention.

We updated our Feminist Salon at http://www.cwluherstory.com/phpweb/ 
with several new articles including:

- an appeal from Bitch magazine for subscribers
- a review of the new book, "Women in Viet Nam: An Oral History"
- a review of the new film "Lilya-4-Ever", a powerful indictment of 
international sex trafficking
- an article about combatting domestic violence in Ecuador
- an announcement of a 2004 pro-choice March on Washington
- an article comparing the lives of Rachel Corrie and Jessica Lynch
- an article on women in the Vienna Philharmonic
- an article on why the Scandinavian social democracies are the best 
places to be a mom
- an article on the harassment of gay college students

Our Feminist Salon spotlights modern feminism. We urge you to 
contribute news, essays, poems, reviews, editorials and fiction that 
you have written. It's a great place to preview work-in-progress. 
We're open to just about anything feminist related. We get a modest, 
but steady stream of visitors.

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BOOK!

"Tidal Wave" by Sara Evans is a well written history of the Second 
Wave women's liberation movement. It has the best analysis of 
socialist feminism we've seen yet. Sara Evans also understands that 
the Midwest grows feminists as well as cornfields and avoids the 
bi-coastal bias we've seen in some other second-wave feminist 
histories.

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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.
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Http://www.beaglebay.com
Beagle Bay Books is a small women's press that recently published 
"Gudren's Tapestry", a tale of one women's quest to confront Attila 
the Hun in 5th century Europe.
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http://www.natwomanparty.org/
For many years the National Woman's Party under the leadership of 
Alice Paul led the fight for the ERA. Visit this site to find out 
about that struggle and about the NWP museum at the historic 
Sewall-Belmont House in Washington DC.
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http://www.ncnw.org/
The National Council of Negro Women was founded by Mary McLeod 
Bethune in 1935 and continues today to be powerful voice for African 
American women.

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FEMINIST EVENTS AND ACTION CALENDAR

Women and Children First Bookstore has some fine events scheduled for 
the remainder of July and August including  appearances by Carol 
LaChapelle, Michael R. Stevenson & Jeanine C. Cogan, Sharon Solwitz 
and Marc Weissbluth, M.D. Please visit 
http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com for a complete schedule.
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Women from Chicago History: A Legacy of Social Justice

Mary Ann Johnson of the Chicago Area Women's History Conference will 
present a slide show and discussion of the book, "Women Building 
Chicago", focusing on the women social justice activists of the Windy 
City. The talk coincides with an exhibit honoring 24 Chicago women 
social activists that will be at Archeworks until August 24.

Sunday, July 27th, 3:30 pm
at Archeworks, 625 N. Kingsberry, Chicago

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LOOKING FOR A JOB OR INTERNSHIP?

The Herstory Project is always looking for interns. We have lots of 
project ideas to suggest or you may propose your own. We are 
sponsored by the UIC Center for Research on Women and Gender and our 
principle academic contact is Peg Strobel. You'll have to arrange 
credit with your school, but we'll be happy to facilitate that in 
whatever ways we are able.

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Assistant Professorship in Women's Studies at Pomona College in California

Candidates' training, research and teaching interests should focus on 
women of color in the United States or other parts of the Americas 
(specifically focusing on Latina/Chicana, black/African American, 
Native American/American Indian, Asian American  or Pacific 
Islanders) and emphasize the intersection of race, ethnicity and 
gender. Formal training in feminist theory is strongly desirable.

Complete applications received by November 1, 2003, will be given 
full consideration. Please send a letter of application, curriculum 
vitae, letters from three references, teaching portfolio or 
statement, and transcripts to Nancy Olson, Administrative Assistant 
for Women's Studies, Smith Campus Center, Pomona College, 170 E. 6th 
Street, Claremont, CA 91711-6382.

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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 upgraded their career section with some very 
useful features, so check it out if you are on a job search.

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LOOKING FOR A SERVICE?

Did you ever want to swing a sword but not actually hurt anybody? The 
Chicago based Babes with Blades offers workshops in stage combat and 
also performs fully staged combat based shows. Their mission includes 
improving the quality of life for all women, and helping women to 
live free from fear by increasing the presence of the archetype of 
the woman warrior on Chicago stages.

Babes with Blades would like to partner with other Chicago women's 
organizations.

Visit their website at http://www.babeswithblades.org  or contact 
Niema Wilson at 773-988-1339 for more info.

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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 at cwluherstory.org with your contribution.






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"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