Lavender Women & Killer Dykes: Lesbians, Feminism, and Community in Chicago
@ Gerber Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, October 12th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 1st
Lavender Women & Killer Dykes: Lesbians, Feminism, and Community in Chicago.
Mark your calendars for our new exhibit opening October 12th!
Gerber/Hart will be opening a new exhibit, Lavender Women & Killer Dykes: Lesbians, Feminism, and Community in Chicago, co-sponsored with the Chicago Women’s History Center.
In the 1970s and 1980s, as the women’s liberation movement was gaining momentum, lesbians worked both within and outside of the feminist movement to create a better, more inclusive world for all women. In Chicago, lesbians organized community centers, music festivals, bookstores, newsletters, publishing presses, and health centers that created spaces to benefit and centered women’s issues. While conflicts arose over what both a feminist space and a lesbian space meant (and who would be included or excluded), the vast number of spaces in this period of Chicago’s history reflects a truly diverse group of women fighting to create a better world.
Join us next month for the opening on Saturday, October 12 at 7:00 p.m., featuring remarks by historian Finn Enke, Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Finding the Movement, Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (2007). A reception with drinks and desserts will follow the opening remarks.
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