Make a Difference in Our Local Community: Start By Believing
By Carly Fox, AmeriCorps VIP Fellow

When someone tells me they were raped or sexually assaulted, I start by believing.

If someone comes to you and tells you they’ve been sexually assaulted what will your reaction be? A majority of people who are sexually assaulted confide in a friend or family member first. The response of the confidant is crucial to the survivors healing and reporting of the crime.

When someone says “I’ve been raped” the most important words in the world …

Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s.
A prominent writer and political figure, Steinem has founded many organizations and projects and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. She was a columnist for New York magazine and co-founded Ms. magazine. In 1969, she published an article, “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation” which, along with her early support of abortion rights, catapulted her to national fame …

I had the honor to speak in front of the Women Lawyers Association  about  Angie King, about the woman, the feminist, the women’s advocate….but above all about the fierce and loyal friend.
It was a wonderful luncheon, Angie received the OWL Award, and here are her words…

I am greatly honored to have been chosen by my colleagues and friends as the first recipient of the outstanding woman lawyer award, and I humbly thank you.  Also, in the tradition of the Academy Awards, I have to thank my parents for raising me in …

Our editor, Sonia Paz Baronvine-Silva and Angie King at the Women Lawyer Association Angie is holding her OWL Award.

The Women Lawyers Association recently created the OWL Award to honor a local female attorney promoting the advancement of women within our community. The OWL Award – Outstanding Woman Lawyer Award will be presented annually, in March, Women’s History Month, followed by a speaker addressing elimination of bias for continuing education credits during our regular monthly meeting.
We are thrilled and proud to announce the recipient our first OWL Award is – Angie …

The push for woman’s suffrage was at an important turning point when the historic March 3, 1913 Woman’s Suffrage Procession stepped off down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.

Preparing to celebrate the “Suffrage Parade’s” centennial has been a challenge and an honor for every organization and destination listed inside. We’ve worked hard together toward this moment—our chance to let you choose what you’ll experience and remember from this key moment in women’s history—the day one hundred years ago when a suffrage parade made history, not just in Washington, DC, but across the …

Desconocida para la mayoría de los chilenos esta poetiza chilena rompió con todos los cánones de la sociedad establecidos para una mujer de principios del siglo XX . Rebelde, amante de las tertulias y de la intelectualidad, tuvo que pagar un precio alto por ir contra la corriente y haberse atrevido a escribir y a ir mas allá de lo que se le tenía destinado. De esta manera perdío a sus hijas, su familia la trató de loca y tuvo que exiliarse para terminar muriendo de una sobredosis, triste y …

Angie King and Sonia Paz Baronvine-Silva both past WCC presidents, met today to reminiscent and have coffee…

Gerda Lerner died recently, at the age of 92.  She was certainly not a household name, like Gloria Steinem, or Betty Friedan, but she was as important to the modern women’s movement as either of them, if not more so.  Gerda Lerner was a pioneer in the field of gender studies and a strong advocate for gender equality. Lerner was a founding member of the National Organization for Women and had a role in creating Women’s History Month.

I first became aware of her contributions in the 1970’s, as did many …

Long before Gerda Lerner helped redefine the study of history to give women a more prominent place in it and before she established the doctorate program in U.S. women’s history at UW-Madison in the 1980s, she had to live through one of history’s worst horrors and — barely — survive it.

Lerner (then Kronstein), who died Wednesday night in Madison at age 92, spent her 18th birthday in a Nazi jail in Vienna expecting death and being fed food scraps by two gentile cellmates after authorities cut rations to Jews.

“They taught …

Dear Sonia,

From all of us here at the National Organization for Women, we wish you and your loved ones a very happy Thanksgiving.

This has been a big year for us, and we have you to thank for our victories. Thanks to you, we made sure women’s voices were heard in the 2012 elections. President Obama was re-elected, and more women (and women’s rights supporters) are headed to the U.S. Senate and House. For the first time, same-sex marriage was upheld and an anti-LGBT marriage …