| Kathie Sarachild, Jenny Brown and Amy Coenen have collaborated across the feminist and Redstockings generations. Sarachild is one of the 1960s Redstockings veteran organizers and theoreticians. Brown and Coenen began their association with Redstockings in the late 1980s and early 1990s as young college activists in Gainesville Women's Liberation (GWL) and the National Organization for Women. GWL, founded in 1968 and the first Southern women's liberation group of the 1960s, also collaborated closely with the New York-based Redstockings during those rebirth years, a collaboration which continues today. All were editors of the Redstockings organizing packet Women's Liberation & National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. |
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Jenny Brown. Before moving to New York City, Jenny lived and worked in Gainesville, Florida. As co-chair of the local Labor Party, she helped lead a successful campaign in the 2000 elections in Alachua County, Florida that garnered 65% of the vote for a referendum backing universal health insurance. She was a paid staffer for both Gainesville Women's Liberation (GWL) and Redstockings for many years, and was a co-editor of The Gainesville Iguana, an alternative newspaper. When Redstockings and GWL founded National Women's Liberation in 2009, she became the national organizer of the new group. Her new book Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women's Work is out in March, 2019. Read more about Jenny on the Birth Strike blog. Photo: Labor Party Press October 2002 |
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Amy Coenen lives in Gainesville, FL. She has been an organizer for over 25 years, beginning as a student activist with Campus NOW at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She soon became part of Gainesville Women's Liberation, which started collaborating with Redstockings of New York City in the late 1960s. Amy is an illuminating and exciting speaker who currently organizes with National Women's Liberation and Redstockings. She works as a nurse practitioner and has two teenage children. Photo:Jenny Brown/Iguana 1994 |
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Kathie Sarachild is the founder of the Redstockings "Archives for Action" project. She was an editor and contributor to the 1975 Redstockings book Feminist Revolution, republished by Random House in an abridged edition in 1978. In the late 1960s, she coined the slogan "Sisterhood Is Powerful" and was a major architect of the program for consciousness-raising groups that did so much to spread the movement during its rebirth years. |