For those of you who are unable to travel to the Pacific NW to camp with sisters in person (yeah, we’d be bummed too!), we are opening up five of our Zoom presentations as they happen for you.  For just $25 you can experience a rich program of five knowledgeable and talented speakers over four days.

Wednesday, June 25 at 11:30 am Pacific - Lorraine Nowlin: Rising Together: The Key To Unity Beyond All That Divides US

Her goal is to remind women that it is impossible to achieve liberation or empowerment if we are divided. 

Some of the divisions she will discuss are: Racial/Ethnic Division, Religion, Mothers/Childfree, Heterosexual/Lesbian. 

Prioritizing women, regardless of background and culture, is the key to overcoming these divisions. These divisions lead back to the same source (patriarchy/male supremacy), and that source benefits from our division. I will give my personal testimony of how I placed being a woman above "Blackness" and what that means. The bulk of my talk will focus on racial and ethnic division, but I will do my best to give as much time as possible to the other topics.

Lorraine Nowlin is a current board member of WDI and coordinates their Black Women’s Caucus.  She writes as The Radical Womxxn on Substack: https://substack.com/@lorrainenowlin

Thursday, June 26 at 11:30 am Pacific - Lauren Levey: Jews and the Women’s Liberation Movement

Who are Jews? How can we think about the intersectionality of woman and Jew, collectively and politically? In what ways are the oppressions similar and different? Some thoughts about priorities.

Lauren Levey is a lawyer and currently serves on the board of WDI and coordinates both WDI USA’s State Legislative Advocacy team and the Lesbian Caucus.

Thursday, June 26 at 4:00 pm Pacific - Merle Hoffman: Abortion rights in a Post Roe V. Wade America.

Merle Hoffman is the founder of the earliest abortion clinics and author of a new book, “Choices: A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto” where she argued that we must learn to love the struggle even in the face of setbacks.

Friday, June 27 at 11:30 am Pacific - Wendy Murphy: The fight for equality: where are we—really?

Since neither major political party supports women’s equality women need a strategy that transcends partisan politics. How would such a movement work? What is the path forward?

Wendy Murphy is an adjunct professor at New England Law in Boston, MA.  She is a former Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, an impact litigator specializing in women’s rights, and a former sex crimes prosecutor.

Saturday, June 28 at 11:30 am Pacific - Sheile Jeffreys: The Beauty of Male Domination

Sheila will explain how beauty practices such as makeup, high-heeled shoes, and tight and revealing clothing create 'gender', harm women's mental and physical health and opportunities, and form a framework for male domination

Sheila Jeffreys is a radical lesbian feminist writer and activist. She joined the Women's Liberation Movement in the UK in 1973. She moved to Australia to be a professor at the University of Melbourne in 1991 where she taught feminist politics and wrote books on the politics of sexuality. She now lives in Brighton in the UK and her 13th book, “Uprooting Male Domination” will come out later this year.