Women’s Pentagon Action

WRL Peace Calendars Featuring Women’s Voices, Art, and Activism

WRL Peace Calendars Featuring Women’s Voices, Art, and Activism

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With the second wave of feminism gaining wide acceptance by social change organizations, WRL leaders decided that it, at last, needed to codify the accomplishments of pacifist women. Thus the organization’s 1972 peace calendar, In Woman’s Soul, whose title was taken from Emma Goldman’s pronouncement that women’s emancipation begins in their soul, was devoted to the writings and artwork of…

Out & Outraged: Direct Action During the AIDS Crisis

Out & Outraged: Direct Action During the AIDS Crisis

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In the late 1980s it seemed there was no end to the AIDS crisis and increasing homophobia across Reagan-era America. The Supreme Court’s 1986 decision in Bowers v. Harwick upholding Georgia’s sodomy law led more than half a million LGBTQIA+ folks and allies to converge on Washington, DC from October 8-13, 1987 for what would become a series of historic events…..

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