Moving Forward for Women's Liberation

THE SHULAMITH FIRESTONE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MEMORIAL CONFERENCE ON WHAT IS TO BE DONE 

To mark a year since the death of Redstockings co-founder Shulamith Firestone and reawaken the kind of fresh, radical questioning and action she inspired, Redstockings called for a memorial conference in her name in the fall of 2013 on "What Is To Be Done?" The enthusiastic response demonstrated that women continue to be very interested in "big picture" questions about how and why women are oppressed and how the answers to these questions bear on liberation strategies. Eighty-six women gathered in New York City for the conference. They were women of color, white, young, old, and from across the US and Canada. You can listen to the full audio here and see some photos of the conference on our facebook page.

CONFERENCE BLOGImage by Lori Hiris, October 5, 2013, NYC.

A blog created for the conference with background info on Shulamith, readings, and participant bios and evaluations is an archive of conference debate and discussion.

THE MEMORIAL

More information about Shulamith and the memorial for her that was held in New York City on September 23, 2012, including a recording of the women's liberation section of the memorial, is available by clicking here.

UPPING THE GAME: FROM WINNING THE STRIKE WEAPONS TO ORGANIZING THE STRIKE

In a new book released in 2019, "Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women's Work," Jenny Brown, a new generation Redstocking, shows that women in the United States have been on strike individually and spontaneously. Now it's time to get organized in exercising our birthstrike weapon - among many others!!

This book is the product of a collaboration between National Women's Liberation and Redstockings. Jenny is not just the author but the lead organizer for National Women's Liberation, a mass action group that Redstockings co-founded with a long-time collaborator from the 1960s - Gainesville, Florida Women's Liberation.

To order and read more about Birth Strike, visit the blog here. 

RADICAL FEMINISTS SPEAK AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Veteran 1960s radical feminists Ti-Grace Atkinson and Kathie Sarachild of Redstockings spoke on Radical Provocations, Feminist Futures & Feminist Pasts on March 26 and 27, 2013 at Arizona State in Phoenix, Arizona.

Kathie Sarachild's talk "Feminist Revolution: Toward a Science of Women's Freedom" can be seen, including the question and answer period, by clicking here. Unfortunately, the video of Ti-Grace Atkinson's talk had technical difficulties and we cannot provide it. Redstockings hopes to be soon making the written version available.

 
DOUBLE MILITANCY: RADICAL FEMINISTS JOIN OCCUPY WALL ST. December 2011.

SPEAK OUT & PROTEST AT THE UNITED NATIONS Redstockings organizes a rally at the UN on International Women's Day 2007 to demand rights for women in the United States that women in many other countries have. Click here to see a video of the Speakout. Read more for excerpts from the Press Release.

United Nations, New York City, March 8, 2007.
Photo by Brendan Fitzpatrick

REDSTOCKINGS' FIRST ACTION FOR NATIONAL HEALTH CARE IN THE U.S.: A consciousness-raising workshop at a conference for devising a national health care system, May 16, 1987, Chevy Chase, Md. "Consciousness-raising has proved to be a powerful tool both for the learning of the 'organizers' and the learning of those whom they are organizing...it offers enormous promise of help in popularizing the national health care issue and more quickly winning this wonderful advance for the masses of people in the United States and this basic building block of women's liberation."