Poster for the Mountain Moving Coffeehouse for Womyn and Children, a lesbian-feminist music, poetry,
Poster for the Mountain Moving Coffeehouse for Womyn and Children, a lesbian-feminist music, poetry, performance arts, and meeting space held in Chicago from 1974 to 2005. Named for the poem “Mountain Moving Day,” by Yosano Akiko. Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective.“I was born hereSecond row third seat from the leftlistening to icon womenwho had helped create a dynastyfor all us young artist wanna be’s andin that momentthe spirit of women’s work washed over me andrespect for women’s space became my beliefI was born into womanryBirthed by three midwiveswho didn’t smack me into screamsbut dared me to speak andthose three became my surrogates…Cause they were the three that birthed meAnd this is the house that raised meAnd you are the women that watched over meAnd that’s why I’m the woman that I turned out to be.”— C.C. Carter on the closing of Mountain Moving Coffeehouse, December 10, 2005, as quoted by Sarah Lucia Hoagland in Philosophy in Multiple Voices (2007). -- source link
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