Meet the Witches, Lesbian Separatists, and Other Brave Feminists Who Shook Up the ‘60s and

Meet the Witches, Lesbian Separatists, and Other Brave Feminists Who Shook Up the ‘60s and '70s “You don’t make change by being polite and folding your hands.”“Most schools teach the basics of the women’s rights movement—the fight for suffrage, Roe v. Wade, and the Equal Rights Amendment—but what about the spunky ladies behind WITCH (the Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy From Hell) or the first national "Ogle-in” in 1970, when women turned the tables of street harassment by catcalling male brokers on Wall Street?While voting rights were key for the first wave of feminism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reproductive rights took center stage during the second wave of the '60s and '70s, as women fought for better access to contraceptives and safe abortions. “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a new documentary that will have its Bay Area premiere on Feb. 6, explores some of the second-wave movement’s lesser-known moments.Mother Jones: What was life like for women activists during the late 1960s? What inspired their activism?Mary Dore: It’s extremely hard for people who didn’t live through it to know how prejudiced it was. [Journalist] Ellen Willis told me that an amazing part of the women’s movement for her was actually starting to enjoy the company of other women, because basically that was something that hadn’t been done. Women didn’t go out unless they were on a date, that’s how they were expected to live. [Writer and activist] Alix Kates Shulman talked about how when she was in college, if you weren’t engaged or married by the time you graduated, there were humiliating rituals. It’s not just that jobs were segregated. Women were essentially treated like infants.Read the full interview and watch the trailer here -- source link

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