{"id":72,"date":"2018-11-09T16:22:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2018-12-18T16:55:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T16:55:53","slug":"prior-to-the-collective","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/activism\/prior-to-the-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"Prior to the Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The twelve women, Sharon Deevey, Charlotte Bunch, Rita Mae Brown, Joan Biren, Ginny Berson, Susan Hathaway, Helaine Harris, Coletta Reid, Lee Schwing, Jennifer Woodul, Mancy Myron, and Tasha Dellinger Peterson, were involved several radical lesbian initiatives prior to the formation of the Furies in 1971.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furies\u2019 members, Sharon Deveey and Joan Biren participated in the Black Panther Party\u2019s Revolutionary People\u2019s Constitutional Convention, a convention which called together activists to write a less oppressive United States Constitution.<sup>1<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The different black liberation organizations inspired the Furies to become a separatist collective.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> To learn more about the connection between the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement and Black Liberation check out the book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Radical Sisters: Second Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Anne Valk.<sup>2<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Due to their experiences of homophobia and classism during the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement, the Furies collective felt formation was necessary. \u00a0Yet before women decided to leave the movement they were active as \u201c&#8230;they sought to make their own condition primary\u201d after being dismissed by men in other social movement organizations.<sup>3<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Charlotte Bunch, one of the founding members of the Furies, was also a founding member of the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement in Washington, D.C.<sup>4<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The activities held by the various chapters of NOW (National Organization for Women) were national and local protests and establishing programs that addressed violence, reproductive rights, and the needs of children. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_338\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-image-338\" src=\"http:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2018\/12\/National-Hugging-Day.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2018\/12\/National-Hugging-Day.png 800w, https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2018\/12\/National-Hugging-Day-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2018\/12\/National-Hugging-Day-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2018\/12\/National-Hugging-Day-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2018\/12\/National-Hugging-Day-676x676.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Out of the O Zone,&#8221; The Furies, vol. 1, no. 2<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frustratingly, lesbian-feminists could not confront their specific oppression from within either of these movements. Lesbian feminists, disgruntled with the limitations they encountered in the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anne Valk, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Radical Sisters: Second-wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008,) 140\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2 Valk,\u00a0<em>Radical Sisters, 126.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3 Valk,\u00a0<em>Radical Sisters,\u00a0<\/em>60.<\/p>\n<p>4 Valk,\u00a0<em>Radical Sisters, 65.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The twelve women, Sharon Deevey, Charlotte Bunch, Rita Mae Brown, Joan Biren, Ginny Berson, Susan Hathaway, Helaine Harris, Coletta Reid, Lee Schwing, Jennifer Woodul, Mancy Myron, and Tasha Dellinger Peterson, were involved several radical lesbian initiatives prior to the formation of the Furies in 1971.\u00a0Furies\u2019 members, Sharon Deveey and Joan Biren participated in the Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/378"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/shepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}