Focus on Women: Women's Lives
 
Here you’ll find information about progress being made by women to help the cause of social recognition, equality and acceptance of alternative life styles, special activities and gatherings, stories about women's lives in Asheville and Western North Carolina, ways people can connect socially and politically, and other related important and educational information. Your suggestions and submissions are welcomed.
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 SisterSong is building a movement for
Reproductive Justice
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We mobilize women of color around our lived experiences by:
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bringing women of color together
- encouraging our collective sustainability through mentoring and self-help
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providing a framework that resonates with our lived experience
- organizing and mobilizing to affect change
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Validation is a state of the art, tested model of practice which helps disoriented older people reduce stress, lessen movement to vegetation, and enhance dignity and happiness. more...
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The Southeastern Women's Studies Association (SEWSA) is a feminist organization that actively supports and promotes all aspects of women's studies at every level of involvement. more...
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MARCH is National Women’s History Month
The overarching theme for March 2010 is Writing Women Back into History
In 2010, in celebration of our 30th Anniversary, we'll highlight themes from previous years, ones that recognize a different aspect of women’s achievements...
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Dear Community Member:
Next summer, we are producing a tour for the documentary Fish Out of Water, and one of our tour stops will be in your Asheville!
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RALEIGH (AP) -- A Tryon poet whose poems read like miniature short stories has been named North Carolina's new poet laureate...Cathy Smith Bowers was installed Feb. 10. more...
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9th Annual Gender Conference:
Centennial Celebration of Josefina Niggli
March 10, 2010
9am - 4pm, University Center, Western Carolina University
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Recently the UN announced approval of a new agency for women—an event that followed years of complex organizing by individuals and advocacy groups around the world. more...
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Ellenburg
Contrary to stereotypical belief, most lesbians really like their fathers. The idea that brutish, or absent, male figures drove the lesbian into the arms of other women is simply not true...with writers of this caliber, no single category is going to hold them. All women will appreciate these essays. more...
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A collection of poetry, essays.... more...
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Out of more than 500 Nobels ever awarded in the sciences, less than 40 have been awarded to women. That 3 Nobels were awarded to women this year represents a sea change in the Nobel Committee's decision-making as the successful result of a behind-the-scenes campaign to represent women more equally. Rebekah Spicuglia,
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A Time magazine cover story and a week of programming on NBC immediately followed the release of The Shriver Report.
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Poet Carolyn Forché’s experience suggests that universal access to health care is not only the right thing to do morally but financially as well.
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Marian Greene
Ready, set, GO!
Those were the words that my daughter lived to hear. All she wanted to do was run. In fact, she ran up to ten miles a day and competed in state level track and cross country meets.She was being recruited by several different colleges, and looking forward to her senior year. more...
She Soared Above the Army's Glass Ceiling
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by Christian Davenport Washington Post Staff Writer
Fort Myer Honors Pioneering Pilot Sally
Growing up in Kansas, Sally Murphy said, she never thought of being a soldier. She would become a teacher, because that's what women did.
But that idea didn't take. And although many in her generation looked at images of the Vietnam War with repulsion, she saw something alluring. The thrill of combat. The wind-whipping whirl of the Army helicopters, touching down in an open field, carting away the wounded. Click here
Joyce Metayer
When asked, “What’s your passion in life?” Joyce Metayer says, without a moment’s hesitation, “Making art and being in nature.” Joyce is an artist who is best known for her Sculptural Archetypes…wall reliefs that are a combination of painting and sculpture, impeccably constructed by sewing, and often circular in format. The look of her work is very contemporary even though she claims it is based on Paleolithic feminine symbology. more...
It's More than Thelma and Louise
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Judith Warner recently raised the issue of just how reliable rape statistics are in an opinion piece in the New York Times, The Legacy of Thelma and Louise. Warner got caught in a cross-fire when she reported statistics that showed a dramatic drop in the rape statistics: but then she discusses just how reliable these statistics actually are. What she doesn't mention is that the population demographics of the US, with its lower percentage of younger people, likely contributed to whatever drop there was.
Stephanie Dalton
In 2000, the Cathedral of All Souls, located in the historic district of Biltmore Village in Asheville, NC, made the decision to offer the Blessing of a Covenanted Relationship for same-gender couples. Soon afterwards, the American Anglican Council denounced the cathedral's decision. The controversy over homosexuality and organized religion is one of the fiercest and most delicate of controversies in the U.S. today. more...
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It is never easy or quite accurate to pinpoint one event as the beginning of an entire movement...but many American LGBT people, we recognize that there have been hundreds of Actions that have signified our liberation throughout time, but we choose - JUNE 28, 1969 to Symbolize - OUR PRIDE! more...
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Validation Therapy with Naomi Feil, ACSW - Teaching Empathy in Working with Disoriented Older Adults - Join Us Thursday, April 29 at MAHEC 
Cathy Smith Bowers Named Poet Laureate
HIS HANDS, HIS TOOLS, HIS SEX, HIS DRESS Edited by Catherine Reid and Holly K. Iglesias
ecology through art: the work of joyce metayer