Vision 2020 Ventura County

08/26/2021

Today we celebrate the 101st anniversary of a women's right to vote. Though that did not happen for all women 101 yrs ago. It was the beginning of our continued fight for everyone's right to vote. Please check out our performance and educationally entertaining video for a tidbit of history of the suffragists and what they stood for. Vision 2020 Ventura County
https://youtu.be/0GeU0X8WhpU

07/19/2021

The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the meeting launched the women's suffrage movement, which more than seven decades later ensured most women the right to vote. Today marks the anniversary of this historic event. Thank You Gloria Miele for this great image. Learn more about the convention here: https://www.history.com/topics/womens-rights/seneca-falls-convention

06/15/2021

Passion Players are at it again. Sharing the message about the .

06/15/2021

01/09/2021

Here is another less-told story from the suffrage movement:

California Historical Society is excited to present a virtual program entitled “S*x and Suffrage,” with guest presenters Sherry L. Smith, Kimberly A. Hamlin, and Wendy Rouse.

The program will be live on the CHS YouTube channel the week of January 18.

The presentation will feature a number of early twentieth-century suffragists whose sexual lives not only intersected with their political activities but helped defined them.

Kimberly Hamlin’s account of Helen Hamilton Gardner tracks how the impact of her scandalous affair with a married man shaped her determination to empower women not only through the vote but to exercise greater control over women’s and girls’ sexuality and bodies.

Sherry Smith’s presentation of Sara Bard Field reveals how her decades-long free love affair with a married man coincided with her involvement in the suffrage movement. The latter, in turn, helped Field recalibrate the power relationship with her long-time lover.

And Wendy Rouse examines the significance of q***r relationships among suffragists who challenged the heteronormative social conventions of their day.

https://californiahistoricalsociety.org/blog/sex-and-suffrage/?utm_source=CHS+Website+Email&utm_campaign=caea07c9fc-Society+Happenings_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7bd3fab119-caea07c9fc-256597217&mc_cid=caea07c9fc&mc_eid=5f4173a6c8

Message shared from our sister in support: Ventura County Women's Forum Collaborative

California Historical Society is excited to present a virtual program entitled “S*x and Suffrage,” with guest presenters Sherry L. Smith, Kimberly A. Hamlin, and Wendy Rouse. The program will be live on the CHS YouTube channel the week of January

12/05/2020

Celebrating Ojai's Suffrage. In 1920, California was already far ahead of the rest of the country by nine years. And so was the Ojai Valley. Check out this great story which features a great interview with Deya Terrafranca from Museum of Ventura County, Patterson from League of Women Voters of Ventura County and our own Vision 2020 Ventura County mother daughter due with some fun photos.

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11/26/2020

Thank you...for being a gift in my life! I am so very grateful for the AMAZING community of Brilliant, Kind, Talented and Compassionate Women who nurture others, take a stand for equality and integrity, and who give generously of their talents and gifts to make the world a better place. Thank you for being YOU. Sending you all a HUGE HUG!

I hope you enjoy a safe and meaningful Thanksgiving with those in your "pod".

In Sisterhood...
Dawn Dyer

11/18/2020

Frances Broads Greene: Silent Sentinel and George Gershwin’s Early Piano Teacher

The purpose of this article is twofold: to place Greene’s correct name within Gershwin scholarship, and to reveal and emphasize her more important role as an enthusiastic suffragist who helped affect the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

https://www.american-music.org/page/BulletinCurrent