Herland Sister Resources

Movie Night: 7 pm, Wednesday, February 18th
Join Herland as we celebrate Black History Month with a special showing of Brother Outsider: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin.

This is a gripping documentary about a brilliant gay, lifetime activist for social justice. Shown nationally on PBS’s Point of View series, it is the story of one of America?s great organizers for nonviolent social change. Rustin is credited with being a mentor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the central organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.

A new poll has found that 79 percent of all Americans believe that gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military. The CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, which was conducted December 5-7, 2003, surveyed 1,004 adults. Survey participants were asked, “Do you think people who are openly gay or homosexual should - or should not - be allowed to serve in the U.S. military?” In the 18-29 year age range, 91 percent said that gays should be allowed to serve openly. Those aged 30-49, 50-64, and 65 and over were 81, 74, and 68 percent respectively.

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Herland recently celebrated a twenty-year anniversary. That is a momentous accomplishment for an independent, women’s bookstore. A number of women worked very hard to put on an extensive celebration for this occasion. I want to commend them in the work that they did.

Prior to the celebration, a lot of information and history was gathered. This information was used to prepare a pamphlet telling about the history of Herland. It was also used to acknowledge a number of women on the night of the concert. Inadvertently, part of the history of Herland was altered, and part of it was left out. There was nothing deliberate about this. However, history is all too often rewritten, and many times in the rewriting women are excluded or delegated to a place of unimportance. For that reason, I believe that whenever possible we should hold on to our history and re-tell it. I wrote a similar article to this for The Voice ten years ago, and I have decided that it is time to write it again.

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