SAVE OUR BACKS! Tomorrow in Washington, D.C.
Sep 6th, 2008 by admin
Date: Sunday, September 7, 2008
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: DCAC
Street: 18th Street NW
City/Town: Washington, DCoff our backs, the longest-running feminist newsjournal in America, is hosting a fund raiser featuring a variety of feminist, gender-conscious and/or lesbian performers to raise money for our publication!
Featuring:
-Palestinian singer and R&B artist Sabreena da Witch
-acoustic act Michelle AntiSocial
-lesbian comedian Kat WilderotterRefreshments, raffles and oob memorabilia also available!
$12 at the door, $9 for DCAC members
Donations strongly encouraged.
If you’re unable to attend the event, donations can be make through our website at www.offourbacks.org or checks can be mailed to 2337B 18th St NW // Washington, DC 20009. All donation are tax deductible.
I’ve written a number of articles for off our backs over the past couple of years, guest edited one issue, and have worked with the collective since 2006. This is an incredible, committed group of radical feminist women, and they deserve our support! We cannot lose this amazing, herstoric, FINE publication! If you’re near D.C., go to this event! If you aren’t, SUPPORT OOB!
Heart
And if you, like me, are too dumb to figure out where the donation link is on OOB’s website, here it is!
http://www.easycart.net/offourbacksinc./Donations.html
Heart, is OOB on hiatus until they make sure they can keep their heads above water? I submitted something a while back and never heard anything. Wondered if they were taking a fundraising/stabilizing break. Thanks for any info!
$12 for a fundraiser? You’ve got to be kidding me! I think people spend more than this on Starbucks for goddess sake.
We watched an old women’s bookstore go under in Los Angeles a long time ago. The community just didn’t want to buy the books there anymore. It was sad, but there wasn’t the commitment.
I’m embarrassed not to have done so before now, but I JUST SUBSCRIBED TO OOB! Oh I hope it helps!!
Good for you. I think my friends have subscribed to OOB for well over 28 years now. I still ship extra copies to my old feminist friends in Japan.
A Japanese friend still sends me a Japanese feminist calendar every December. She’s been doing this since 1985! Japanese feminists, in it for the long haul, loyal to the end, THE best feminists and colleagues in the entire world… bar none!!!!
Satsuma, I was at the First Asian Lesbian Network conference in 1990 in Bangkok, and met some of those amazing Japanese dykes. (in those days, the word “dyke” was still used as a term of pride, power and celebration). I will remember them for the rest of my life.
I met a lesbian separatist from Bangladesh, a land the suffers terrible flooding. She was travelling alone. I have never in my life met a braver woman. When I look back, I see how “privileged” (in a spiritual sense) I have been to have had these experiences with so many brave lesbians.
It is so wonderful to see you posting your life, your stories, Mary Sunshine. xxxooo
Yes Mary, I was very amazed at all the radical lesbian feminists I met in Japan and in China. We all used the word Dyke back then, and we planned some of the very first lesbian feminist conferences EVER in Japan back in the early 80s. These really were the best and the brightest women I’ve ever worked with.
Japanese separatists were driven and highly accomplished. I think we must have raised thousands of dollars for a rape crisis center, published four or five periodicals, planned several conferences and worked with women’s groups in Thailand, South Korea and the Philippines to try to end sex tourist, as it was called back then.
We sent representatives to the Stokholm UN Women’s conference, the Nairobi conference and the conference in Beijing. I am amazed, looking back, at how much work we all did, and how many languages we all spoke. My early adulthood was filled with a feminism that was Asian, so it always kind of confuses me when so many women in blogland accuse feminism of being for white women only. Guess they haven’t lived in non-white countries and worked with Asian Dykes.
I thought the Japanese women far brighter and filled with a kind of optimism that just doesn’t exist in the U.S. They were completely financially self-sufficient, had never ever married men and were focused. I think Japanese society is far saner than in the U.S. A lot of feminism in the U.S. got to be pretty crazy, what with pro-porn feminism for goddess sake! We were all solidly anti-porn, separatist and well educated in all the lesbian feminist classics. I look at that time as the golden age of lesbian feminism. Now the true faith has been contaminated… sigh….
I couldn’t attend that event, so I made a donation to Off Our Backs.
It is so wonderful to see you posting your life, your stories, Mary Sunshine. xxxooo
I agree. Women’s stories matter so much.
I sometimes think about or consider becoming a lesbian separatist, ’cause of the harms men do to us. But I like when I see a few men change their behaviors; it usually makes me think there is still hope…