Pedestal: A Women's Liberation Newspaper
data provider: CONTENTdm
is part of: Pedestal
issued: 2016-11-10
issued: 1972-08
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/pedestal/items/1.0340839/source.json
extent: 16 pages
format: application/pdf
note: I LlftEIUfflftN NEWtrAPER L MUHMTAL MMVRJJSBlti ct NSliE THIS 1*SUE... W#MEN IN LAW TRIALS •P, BY, AN» FAR W«MEN -xc 2 FESTAL vol. IV, no. 7 1<?7Z 9MFM1TY PM iC@ BY CHERYL X Infinity Fair (youth culture festival) offered free booth space to various community organizations . Some of us at the Women's Center decided we could use a little publicity in Vancouver, so I volunteered to respond to the invitation to-participate. My first step was to phone the woman who had contacted us originally. Well, of course, we all know a mere woman can't make any.official commitmei- nts, so this lady had to refer me to the male program director: I would have to go for an interview with the gentleman to discuss whether we could take them up on their offer. The woman had one of those slick Hollywood names with a ring, like Tippy Hedren, and the fellow had one of those third-generation, establishment,! prep-sehool names like Chase Sanborn III. So automatically I expected programmed behavior. I never did meet Tippy but Chase turned out to be just what I had expected, only younger (about 25). He asked me to explain the Women's Centre and to orient it on a political-social scale of the general Vancouver women's movement. I had only'been in Vancouver 5 weeks, but that didn't stop me from rattling off a history and description worthy of ten womens organizations. Why, I wondered, an I trying to sell HIM the Wbmen'sCenter? The success .of Infinity Fair depended on the participation of groups such as ours. He should have been selling me on the advantages for us in participating. But the salesmanship was infectious. "Are you a women's liberation organization?"he asked. "The Center,''I said, "is open to and operated for all women in Vancouver. However, I told him "the women who are involved in the center to the point of staffing and operating it are generally personally committed to women's liberation. "Then your organization is political rather than a social-action group?* yhe asked,, meaning of …
note: Vol. 4, no. 7; August 1972
has type: Newspapers
spatial: British Columbia
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0340839
language: English
provider: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : Vancouver Women's Caucus
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. For permission to publish, copy or otherwise distribute these images please contact the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/
source: Original Format: Simon Fraser University. Archives and Records Management
subject: Women's rights--Periodicals
subject: Feminism--Periodicals
type: Text