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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Womens Media Center
This year, only 13.5% of Congressional guests on the five major Sunday morning talk shows have been women.
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Asheville, NC –Blue Ridge Pride will hold “Rainbows for Pride” month long fundraiser during July 2010. The fundraiser sells $1 rainbows in community businesses to be displayed throughout the month. more...
Sheville Staff
Mission:
Create awareness of the issue of bullying and youth harassment
Provide resources for these professionals to address the issues within their constituent groups
Provide training/education regarding best practice methods for reducing and eliminating bullying behavior and promoting advocates and allies
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Black Mountain, NC – Women from across the Southeast will gather at the 6th annual Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference on October 1-3, at Lake Eden. With over 60 classes by more than 30 teachers, more...
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In his controversial sermon at St. Peter’s last week, Reverend Raniero Cantalamessa expressed no concern for Catholic Church policies that endanger women, writes Angela Bonavoglia, author of “Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church. more...
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We mobilize women of color around our lived experiences by:
* bringing women of color together * encouraging our collective sustainability through mentoring and self-help * providing a framework that resonates with our lived experience * organizing and mobilizing to affect change
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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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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...
It's More than Thelma and Louise
Sheville Staff
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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