Tickets will be on sale soon to attend the first national conference of Feminists In Struggle. The women-only conference entitled “Our Radical Roots: A Women’s Liberation Organizing Conference” will take place in a beautiful location with gardens, walkways and a swimming pool approximately one hour from San Diego from Friday night 7/5 to Sunday afternoon 7/7.
The conference will feature renown feminist speakers such as Max Dashu (feminist historian & author who will appear remotely), Ann Menasche (FIST), Christy Hammer (FIST), Thistle Pettersen (folk musician & founder of WLRN) who will be performing her original feminist music, Hilla Kerner (Vancouver Rape relief, Carol (de-transitioner), Amie Ichikawa (Woman to Woman, advocacy group for women in prison, Wendy Murphy (ERA attorney who will be appearing by video), Dr. Suzanne Vierling (FIST) and Arianne (LGB Alliance USA).
Attendance is relatively low cost with some full and partial scholarships available.
This will be a highly interactive organizing conference with plenty of time to ask questions, and discuss a variety of feminist issues. A focus will be how to build FIST as a grassroots left-wing democratically-run membership organization dedicated to a renewed multi-issue radical feminist movement. There will also be plenty of time to socialize, make new friends, and enjoy the surroundings with your sisters in the struggle.
This event is not to be missed!
I am very interested. I have to see if I can move my schedule around to attend. However, I wanted to share with you our gathering info: https://www.enspyrewellness.com/wildwombynswiseways
I have already received push-back, and I assume there will be more…yet we know how important it is to create safe spaces for biological women to gather. We have a variety of facilitators from Philosophy talks on Radical Feminism to learning how to make fire using friction to weaving a basket and everything in between. This year we are limiting it to 33 participants and the rest will be facilitators. Next year we hope to open up more spaces. All the food will be organic and mostly grown onsite. We are on 40 acres in the forest backing up to thousands of acres in undeveloped forest land. It is remote and very beautiful. I hope that you all are able to come!
I would love for you to present if that would be possible. I look forward to connecting with you soon! In gratitude, Heidi Hampe