NOTES Trip to the Bentley
Page 25 Letitia J Byrd- first African American woman in public school system or something like that? Interesting story
Elly Peterson
Highest ranking woman in Republican party
1964 1st woman to serve as chair of Michigan Republican Party
Women of Color Task force- a box to be taken out a different day
International Neighbors Photograph Series
Contact: Multicultural Studies Librarian
Women’s Suffrage- Fiber Pieces like what they would use during protests
Mosaics
Print over the top of Images on the Epson Printer.
What does it mean to be an invisible community? What does that graphically look like? Silk over something? Translucent?
Skulda V. Baner
Free Women’s Words Newspaper
Bimonthly women’s newspaper which grew out of Women’s crisis center newsletter
Work w/o hierarchy, who no president or editor, trying to share power and responsibility
The racism of white culture abuses & ignores women of color
POC- especially women- ignored
Women’s Crisis Center
Originally in the basement of St. Andrwss
Church was the 1st rape crisis center in the country
Opened in response to the John Norman Collin’s rapes of north side of A2
Until 1973, abortion was still illegal, so WCC helped women find safe abortions, The Center soon became the core meeting place for women’s issues and to put feminist values into practice
Pillars of Free Women’s Words
Liberation
The Personal is Political
Sexuality
Women’s Issues (Defining Our Feminism)
Education and Empowerment
Could I base my book around these principles? Find stories that match the pillars and extend on them?
Moved to Ypsilanti in 1989
“A Woman was Raped Here”- spraypainted on sidewalks at 280 different sites--can be found in The Observer (this was written in Jan 1989)
History? Contemporary? Does it matter?
How do you balance the past with the future?
How do you balance analog with technology?
How does analog inform technology?
THOUGHTS
I could go to the Labadie Collection and search for stories about POC and women on campus…
Do I have to talk about campus? Make it a conscious effort not to talk about campus?
When does this story have to be from? What if it’s contemporary?
What if I can’t find stories about POC because they weren’t recorded? Invisible Communities? What does that look like?
I want to make this big because I want it to serve as a monument to these memories/histories/movements