Revolutionaryf Feminists in Seattle

• In Event: States of Resistance: Local Struggles, Global Impacts

Abstract

A narrative and analysis of the radical women's liberation movement in Seattle. Emphasis on the vital role played by women of color to create meaningful intersectional coalitions in an overwhelmingly white city. Presentation charts the short-term successes and lasting achievements, from organizing working women, campaigning for subsidized childcare, creating women centered rape crisis clinics, women of color-controlled health clinics. The wlm was central to winning the first popular vote in the US to liberalize abortion laws. A critique of the failures of its white members to listen to women of color. Perhaps a model for contemporary intersectional feminist activism.

Presenter

• Barbara Hancock Winslow, Brooklyn College