Women's Museum of California

Join the Women's Museum of California and Women's March San Diego on #internationalwomensday for a discussion with County Supervisor Nora Vargas. Women leaders have demonstrated their skills, knowledge and networks to effectively lead in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts. Today there is more acceptance than ever before that women bring different experiences, perspectives and skills to the table, and make irreplaceable contributions to decisions, policies and laws that work better for all.

TOMORROW! Don't miss this interactive presentation presented by Desiree Coleman. Participants will have a greater understanding of intersectionality and the cross-section of race and gender issues. Participants will connect how womxn with intersecting identities (sexual identity, race, gender, ability status, socioeconomic status, etc.) experience additional layers of bias, racism, and discrimination. https://bit.ly/3775zGa

At a time when American society was seeking to assimilate Indigenous culture and keep women oppressed, Zitkala-Sa fought for her right to be a Yankton Dakota woman. This was exemplified in her latchkey work in getting US citizenship status for American Indians through the passing of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. https://bit.ly/37CeDmC

Only 1 month left until the 20th annual San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony! Purchase your tickets and join the celebration: http://bit.ly/2V4fPqe

In case you missed this month's Trailblazing Women with Sandra Maas News. Entrepreneur Samantha Binkley is blazing the trail of wellness with her company "Healthy On You." Founded six years ago, Sam's business offers healthy cooking classes that she teaches from her lively Del Mar kitchen and popular organic spice blends sold nationwide. In this episode of "Trailblazing Women," Sam shares with Sandra Maas, the struggles and successes in building her business, lessons learned from "Jamaican sister" Kamala Harris and her own push to help black-owned businesses thrive. https://youtu.be/o6twtNdN_jY

According to a recent study from SDSU's Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, in 2019, women comprised 20% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 100 grossing films in 2019, up from 16% in 2018. Learn about the progress for gender equality both in front of and behind the camera. Join us November 14th for our discussion on the status of #womeninfilm:

Women's Film Festival San Diego highlight: Without shame and without fear "Ours to Tell" depicts four people who share their stories and walk in their truth. By owning the lives they choose what unfolds is an unfiltered and poetic demonstration of how the right to access abortion acts as a dynamic turning point in an individual's journey to freedom and self love. Each with different perspectives and experiences, the film's subjects Brittany, Hannah, Nick and Ylonda take u...s inside their worlds, their families, their souls and boldly illustrate the beauty and power of bodily autonomy. As we watch, listen and love each storyteller we also bear witness to a chilling reality: The fundamental freedom to own our body and future has never been more uncertain than it is today. See "Ours To Tell" and other films from #womenfilmmakers this month when you purchase a #WFFSD festival pass: https://bit.ly/3ofrC4w

On this election day we remeber a California woman who pathed a way for #womeninpolitics "It has been a good life that I have had, through a very hard one, but I know the future will be even better, And as I think back I know that is the only kind of life: In serving one's fellow man one serves himself best" Charlotta Bass, an African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist, ran "The California Eagle," an African American newspaper that focused on political activi...sm and civil rights. Bass is believed to be the first African-American woman to own and operate a newspaper in the United States. Bass was also the first African American woman to be nominated as the Vice President of the Progressive Party in 1952. Her activism led her to be monitored by the FBI, who continued to view her as a potential security threat up until she was in her nineties. See more

178 woman suffrage badges - international, national, state, and local - collected by California suffragist Alice Park. "They are more than souvenirs of curiosities, they are evidence of the wide-spread work of organized women." #womensvote100 #election2020

New digital exhibit! With enduring resilience and determination, women have marched throughout the history of our country to battle injustice and demand equal treatment from the United States government. Before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, they had that one very important right granted to all U.S. citizens that allowed their voices to be heard. Marching Towards Empowerment: Beyond Suffrage allows visitors to walk within the footsteps of the fearless women who marched for our rights. With every step they took, these women carved a path forward and ensured that our country lived up to our most prized ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. https://bit.ly/328y585

The anti-lynching crusade, along with women’s suffrage, became the platforms upon which the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) was founded in 1896, with Mary Church Terrell as its first president. High profile founders included Harriet Tubman, Margaret Murray Washington, Frances E.W. Harper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell. NACW adopted the motto Lifting As We Climb, with the intention of demonstrating to an ignorant and suspicious world that our aims and interests are identical with those of all good aspiring women. In 1912 the organization endorsed the suffrage movement, two years before its white counterpart, the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. #WomensVote100 #womenshistory

Instead of connecting with the dead many people used Halloween to connect with their true love. There used to be several traditions and activities women would participate in on Halloween in order to connect with the spirits and find out information about their future husbands. http://bit.ly/2RW0Yxp #Halloween #womenshistory

The church and those in power made expert use of the printing press, weaponizing it to disseminate propaganda that declared magic and witchcraft inherently evil. With the intent of identifying and punishing women who did not submit to their will, then the church used reproducible media to associate independent women with witchcraft, regardless of their actual experience with magic.

Join us November 13th for a sepcial virtual screnning of The FIght as part of our 2020 Women's Film Festival San Diego! The Fight is an inspiring, emotional insider look at how these important battles are fought and the legal gladiators on the front lines fighting them. Directors Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, and Eli Despres capture the rollercoaster ride of the thrill and defeat in these deeply human battles. When a mother is separated from her child, a soldier is threaten...ed to lose his career, a young woman’s right to choose is imperiled at the pleasure of a government official, and the ability to exercise our basic right to vote is threatened, the consequences can be devastating to us and to future generations. The Fight celebrates the unsung heroes who fiercely work to protect our freedoms. Immediately following the film there will be a pre-recorded discussion between Kerry Washington and the five ACLU lawyers featured in the film.

Get to know women who have made a positive difference in their communities with our digital exhibit of Women in Activism: https://bit.ly/3dIrwwv #womenshistory

#DYK that Belva Lockwood ran for president of the United States in 1884 and 1888? She was the first woman to appear on an official ballot. She was also one of the first female lawyers in the US and successfully petitioned Congress to be allowed to practice before the United States Supreme Court. #womenshistory #womeninpolitics #suffrage

#WFFSD Highlight: Under Darkness is based on a true story in World War II Poland, a young Jewish woman struggles to survive after her family is murdered. Refusing to give up, she joins the Soviet resistance, and realizes that through photography she can remember the past while documenting for the future. Tickets for the 2020 Women's Film Festival San Diego go on sale this Thursday! Check out this year's schedule and film line-up here: https://www.womensmuseumca.org/wffsd