Questions from an impatient and concerned observer in Evanston, IL Posted December 20, 2018 Update February 3, 2019: See response from Executive Director of CWHL To: Center for Women’s History & Leadership Evanston, IL Attn: Glen Madeja, Exec. Director Dear Mr. Madeja: I think I speak for many when I say that I have […]
Women’s Public Authority
Posted Sept. 26, 2018 Per Gillian Flynn: “They don’t care about us enough to hate us. We are simply a form of livestock.”’ Tweeted by Sarah Kendzior re “endless wave of revelations about sexual assault” In Time magazine, December 2017: Gillian Flynn: A Howl Sarah Kendzior is an expert on Central Asian autocracies and has […]
Updated resources: Dec. 9, 2018, March 21, 2019 Posted September 6, 2018 I agree with those who say that Americans are in a constitutional crisis in 2018. I believe that the most unifying, sanity-inducing, and relief-giving activity that we can do right now is to learn the details of the Great Law of Peace and […]
Inspiration from FARM WOMEN UNITED — Reclaiming the U.S. Constitution: The 2018 Dairy Farm Crisis Posted July 22, 2018 As a 67-year old lifelong activist, in 2018 I am finding more and more need to refer to the U.S. Constitution, only to find that the Constitution itself is outdated and unclear on many things—including public […]
FOOD-and-FARM POLICY: MANIFESTING FEMINISM IN ILLINOIS Posted May 9, 2018 A working definition of feminism: Feminism is the act of remembering that no humans exist or thrive without the wisdom, agency, and authority of women — as indigenous individuals, as an intergenerational culture (women-to-women), and as the center of a wild species living on this Earth. […]
UPDATE February 15, 2021: When I wrote this post almost three years ago, I pegged the age of the U.S. food farm movement at 20+ years based on my personal experience at the time. Although there’s never a precise moment as to when a movement begins, I now date the current food & farm movement […]
WOMEN’S AUTHORITY, WOMEN’S LIVES: The ERA or the Great Law of Peace? Which amendment would meaningfully improve U.S. women’s lives — the ERA or the Great Law of Peace — sooner rather than later? Posted March 29, 2018 I am 66-years old, a born feminist for many reasons, most of which still exist today. When […]
Job Posting for the Women’s March organization — AKA the real West Wing, the real Executive Branch Posted July 31, 2017 This is an updated and reformatted version of a July 26, 2017 announcement posted on two food-and-farm listservs serving U.S. and North America. To: Women, Food, and Agriculture Network (national organization based in Ames, […]