Educator and author Merle Woo delivered this rousing poem connecting gender, sexuality, race and class as a featured speaker for San Francisco’s Pride rally in 1981.
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High Voltage Women Book Launch, Melbourne
Enjoy highlights of Melbourne’s High Voltage Women book launch, held at the Electrical Trades Union.
US Women’s Soccer team closes ranks for equal pay
This world champion, vastly popular squad of athletes is winning victories against astonishing sexist discrimination, and stirring others to do likewise.
Book review: Revolution, She Wrote
Author Clara Fraser explains with attitude why her long-lived life was thrilling and fulfilled — because she’d been fighting for a better future for all. “The momentum of history, like the logic of science, is on our side.”
Book review: Dark Emu
Rich history of agriculture hiding in plain sight.
Author Susan Eisenberg reviews High Voltage Women
Eisenberg, a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, praises the book’s “rich accomplishments.”
High Voltage Women available now!
The riveting new history of groundbreaking electrical tradeswomen and socialist feminists in the fight for affirmative action. Get your copy today!
Wrenching and real — If Beale Street Could Talk
A moving love story, brilliantly acted, directed and musically scored, and deeply political.
High Voltage Women: pioneer tradeswomen who made history against relentless odds
Book review: The compelling story of trainees who put their bodies on the line to break into the electrical trades at Seattle City Light.
Netflix’s “Trotsky”: a hatchet job and a con job
Fake news: The brave, far-sighted co-leader of the Russian Revolution is portrayed as a bloodthirsty sex-monger.
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