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Women's Museum of California A museum dedicated to educating and inspiring present and future generations about the experiences a

"Season’s Greetings to all and to all Equal Rights"What's on your holiday wish list this year?Button from the Women's Mu...
12/21/2022

"Season’s Greetings to all and to all Equal Rights"

What's on your holiday wish list this year?

Button from the Women's Museum of California feminist button collection.

While this new era for our organization is just beginning, I am sad to share that my tenure with the Museum is ending. A...
12/20/2022
Message from WMC Director Felicia Shaw

While this new era for our organization is just beginning, I am sad to share that my tenure with the Museum is ending. As I complete my three-year contract on December 31 and step down from my role as Executive Director, I leave with a full heart – satisfied with all I helped accomplish and ready for my next big adventure.

Standing at the start of our 40th anniversary, I look forward to witnessing how the Museum will continue to lead in the march toward women’s equality. I intend to stay connected to the Museum in meaningful ways and be a part of its bright future. So, I say goodbye for now, but never farewell.

When I joined the Museum in 2020 as Executive Director, I knew that reinventing a cultural institution like ours, with cherished traditions and a long history of community service, would be challen…

Women came from all over the country to work on assembly lines of defense production plants in San Diego, including Paci...
12/19/2022
Heroines on the Homefront | Women's Museum

Women came from all over the country to work on assembly lines of defense production plants in San Diego, including Pacific Parachute Company and Convair. Nationally, women made up 65% of the aircraft industry’s workforce during World War II:

This exhibit celebrates the women who gave their time and energy to support the war effort in the 1940s.

In 2023 the Women's Museum of California will celebrate 40 years of inspiring and educating generations on the contribut...
12/16/2022
Membership | Women's Museum

In 2023 the Women's Museum of California will celebrate 40 years of inspiring and educating generations on the contributions of diverse women. Be a part of this milestone year and help us continue preserving by becoming a WMC member today:

Join or renew your WMC membership today and enjoy exclusive benefits and support daily operations.

It's not too late to nominate a   woman to be inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame! You have until December 31 to get ...
12/15/2022
Nominate | San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame | United States

It's not too late to nominate a woman to be inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame! You have until December 31 to get your nominations in. Help us celebrate outstanding women who have made a difference:

Nominate a woman who has made a positive impact in San Diego

Book an interactive experience for your class, club, or organization at the Women's Museum of California!Led by trained ...
12/14/2022
Field Trips and Group Visits | Women's Museum

Book an interactive experience for your class, club, or organization at the Women's Museum of California!

Led by trained WMC staff, our docent tours and interactive workshops educate and inspire people of all ages on the contributions and accomplishments of diverse women throughout history and today.

Visit the Women's Museum of California Education Center by booking a group visit for your class, community group, or organization.

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured th...
12/13/2022
Pioneering Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes dies at 84

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died. She was 84.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died.

Don't miss our lunchtime talk with Desiree Aspiras tomorrow about her organization Printmakers Against Racism. You must ...
12/12/2022
Artist Talk With Desiree Aspiras

Don't miss our lunchtime talk with Desiree Aspiras tomorrow about her organization Printmakers Against Racism. You must register in advance for the Zoom link:

Join the Women’s Museum of California for a virtual lunchtime lecture on December 13 featuring artist/activist Desiree Aspiras .

“When we activate that creative piece, it kind of opens up new ideas and alternatives for us and what we might be willin...
12/11/2022
San Diego therapist and artist wanted to do more for social change and founded Printmakers Against Racism

“When we activate that creative piece, it kind of opens up new ideas and alternatives for us and what we might be willing to do or try, so I’ll be talking about art as a tool to connect us to what’s meaningful to us and to explore and to express. Whether that’s to express pieces of who we are, or to express dissent or outrage, or incredible grief; all these deep emotions and responses to these really difficult things that are happening in our world, art has the capacity to hold all of that.” https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2022-12-11/san-diego-therapist-and-artist-wanted-to-do-more-for-social-change-founded-printmakers-against-racism

Don’t miss our artist talk with Desiree Aspiras this Tuesday to learn more about her work contracting art and activism: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-talk-with-desiree-aspiras-tickets-469218173187

Desiree Aspiras is the founder of Printmakers Against Racism, a project she started in 2020, raising money for social justice causes

Join us this afternoon for a bookmaking class with artist Bhavna Mehta:
12/10/2022
Craftivism Class: Bookmaking

Join us this afternoon for a bookmaking class with artist Bhavna Mehta:

Learn how art and activism connect with WMC's series of "Craftivism Classes".

Join us tomorrow for our latest   Class! Students  learn all about bookmaking with artist Bhavna Mehta:
12/09/2022
Craftivism Class: Bookmaking

Join us tomorrow for our latest Class! Students learn all about bookmaking with artist Bhavna Mehta:

Learn how art and activism connect with WMC's series of "Craftivism Classes".

The shirts featured on our online exhibit are just a small peak inside the Women's Museum collection of feminist clothin...
12/07/2022
Feminist T-Shirt Collection | Women's Museum

The shirts featured on our online exhibit are just a small peak inside the Women's Museum collection of feminist clothing. Do you have a favorite feminist graphic t-shirt?

A look inside the Women's Museum collection of feminist t-shirts

Introduce your students to the hidden histories of women by booking a field trip to the Women's Museum of California for...
12/06/2022
Field Trips and Group Visits | Women's Museum

Introduce your students to the hidden histories of women by booking a field trip to the Women's Museum of California for2023! (Hot Tip: If you're thinking about special activities for book a trip now. Availability for March 2023 is filling up!)

Visit the Women's Museum of California Education Center by booking a group visit for your class, community group, or organization.

Join the Women's Museum of California next week for a virtual discussion with artist and activist Desiree Aspiras. Learn...
12/05/2022
Artist Talk With Desiree Aspiras

Join the Women's Museum of California next week for a virtual discussion with artist and activist Desiree Aspiras. Learn about the intersection of art and activism and how Desiree founded Printmakers Against Racism during the pandemic and raised over $50,000 for Black Lives Matter and other causes.

Join the Women’s Museum of California for a virtual lunchtime lecture on December 13 featuring artist/activist Desiree Aspiras .

Do you know who the first woman zoo director was? Or why Kate Sessions is called the Mother of Balboa Park? Have you eve...
12/04/2022
Balboa Park Walking Tour | Women's Museum

Do you know who the first woman zoo director was? Or why Kate Sessions is called the Mother of Balboa Park? Have you ever wondered what role women played in organizing the 1915 California-Panama Exposition? Join us for our next free walking tour of Balboa Park!

Learn about the women of Balboa Park! Join the Women's Museum of California every first Sunday of the month for a free walking tour of Balboa Park.

Our stories need to be told! Join us on December 10 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM at the WMC Education Center to learn all abou...
12/03/2022
Craftivism Class: Bookmaking

Our stories need to be told! Join us on December 10 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM at the WMC Education Center to learn all about bookmaking with artist Bhavna Mehta. In our December Craftivism class, students will be able to tell their own stories by making a journal with paper.

Learn how art and activism connect with WMC's series of "Craftivism Classes".

Through the years, The Women’s Liberation Movement aided women in making inroads into other professional careers, sports...
12/02/2022
Rockin' the Political Boat | Women's Museum

Through the years, The Women’s Liberation Movement aided women in making inroads into other professional careers, sports, and the military. In addition, it was during this era in which women realized that they no longer needed to rely on men in the political sphere to secure their rights and began running for political offices themselves:

Through the years, The Women’s Liberation Movement aided women in making inroads into other professional careers, sports, and the military.

Thank you Timesofsandiego.com for including the Women's Museum of California in your list of 10 worthy nonprofits to sup...
11/29/2022
10 Worthy Nonprofits to Support on Giving Tuesday 2022 in San Diego

Thank you Timesofsandiego.com for including the Women's Museum of California in your list of 10 worthy nonprofits to support this :

Giving Tuesday is the altruistic rejoinder to the shopping or**es of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Nonprofits across the globe are urging people to give, but these 10 will specifically help San Diego.

11/29/2022

At the Women’s Museum of California, we bring the stories of phenomenal women to light. We work to ensure that the lives, experiences, and achievements of women are equally represented in historical narratives, museum collections, and in the public sphere.

When you support the Women's Museum of California on you help us fulfill our mission to instill balance in our history books and enable the hidden stories of California women to be told: womensmuseumca.org/donate

Join the Women’s Museum of California for a virtual lunchtime lecture on December 13 featuring artist/activist Desiree A...
11/27/2022
Artist Talk With Desiree Aspiras

Join the Women’s Museum of California for a virtual lunchtime lecture on December 13 featuring artist/activist Desiree Aspiras. She is the founder of Printmakers Against Racism, a project she started which engages printmakers across the world to make and sell prints and donate their proceeds to support racial justice.

Join the Women’s Museum of California for a virtual lunchtime lecture on December 13 featuring artist/activist Desiree Aspiras .

Join us in the spirit of giving this December by participating in our Period with Dignity Drive. We are partnering with ...
11/26/2022

Join us in the spirit of giving this December by participating in our Period with Dignity Drive. We are partnering with Fulling Destiny, a nonprofit organization striving to support and empower menstruators experiencing homelessness, by collecting:
Tampons
Sanitary napkins
Feminine wipes
Underwear
Socks
Fulling Destiny’s aim is to decrease monthly worries and provide necessary period products for all. With these actions, they hope to empower those in need and help increase menstruators’ self-esteem, one menstruator at a time.
Drop off the requested items at the WMC Education Center on December 3rd from 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM.

There is no better time than now to become a member of the Women's Museum of California . From reproductive justice, to ...
11/23/2022

There is no better time than now to become a member of the Women's Museum of California . From reproductive justice, to pay equity, to greater representation of women in government – we fulfill our mission by providing historical context to issues facing women today: https://womensmuseumca.org/membership

Today’s Doodle celebrates Mexican American actress, Myrtle Gonzalez and was illustrated by Bay Area-based guest artist, ...
11/23/2022
Celebrating Myrtle Gonzalez

Today’s Doodle celebrates Mexican American actress, Myrtle Gonzalez and was illustrated by Bay Area-based guest artist, Ana Ramírez González. Myrtle Gonzalez starred in an astounding 80 silent films in just five years between 1913 and 1917. On this day in 1914, one of Myrtle Gonzalez’s most well-known films, The Level, was released.

Celebrating Myrtle Gonzalez!

Join us in the spirit of giving this December by participating in our Period with Dignity Drive. We are partnering with ...
11/22/2022

Join us in the spirit of giving this December by participating in our Period with Dignity Drive. We are partnering with Fulling Destiny, a nonprofit organization striving to support and empower menstruators experiencing homelessness, by collecting:
Tampons
Sanitary napkins
Feminine wipes
Underwear
Socks
Fulling Destiny’s aim is to decrease monthly worries and provide necessary period products for all. With these actions, they hope to empower those in need and help increase menstruators’ self-esteem, one menstruator at a time.
Drop off the requested items at the WMC Education Center on December 3rd from 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM.

Suffragist Alice Park was the founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Park is most notable fo...
11/19/2022

Suffragist Alice Park was the founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Park is most notable for writing the California law that granted women equal rights of guardianship over their children in 1913. ⁠

Who tells her story? We do. But we need your help.⁠

Let's work together to increase the visibility of women’s accomplishments in history. When you donate to the Women's Museum of California you support programs that make a difference. https://www.womensmuseumca.org/donate

We had fun with High Tech High students yesterday at the Women's Museum of California! The students explored our exhibit...
11/17/2022

We had fun with High Tech High students yesterday at the Women's Museum of California! The students explored our exhibit, and learned all about craftivism.

You can book an interactive experience for your class, club, or organization at the Women's Museum on our website: https://www.womensmuseumca.org/workshops

Join the Women's Museum of California every first Saturday of the month for our   Walking Tour of Balboa Park. Reserve y...
11/17/2022
Balboa Park Walking Tour | Women's Museum

Join the Women's Museum of California every first Saturday of the month for our Walking Tour of Balboa Park. Reserve your spot on our next tour here:

Learn about the women of Balboa Park! Join the Women's Museum of California every first Sunday of the month for a free walking tour of Balboa Park.

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Our mission is to educate and inspire current and future generations about the experiences and contributions of women by collecting, preserving, and interpreting the evidence of that experience. The Women's Museum of California is one of only three stand alone museums of women's history in the country.


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Retired Navy Capt. Kathy Bruyere, a pioneer for women’s equality in the Navy, died Sept. 3 in San Diego following a battle with cancer, according to her family.

Bruyere, 76, grew up in an Army family and joined the Navy in 1966 after graduating from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.

Two years later, she married her first husband, then Navy Lt. Kellie Byerly, and the two later became the first officer couple to attend the Naval War College in Rhode Island.

She also served as a recruiter during the Vietnam War and at the Bureau for Naval Personnel, which was then in Washington, among other assignments.

In January 1976, she gained a measure of fame as one of 12 women featured on the cover of Time magazine for a “Women of the Year” (1975) issue — which was done in lieu of the annual “Person of the Year” issue. At the time, she was a lieutenant commander, and in 1975 had become the first woman tapped as a flag secretary and aide to an admiral, according to Time magazine.

Female sailors had worked on the staffs of admirals, the Time story noted, “but had far less authority than Byerly. She heads the admiral’s staff and handles all liaison between his headquarters and the nine Pacific training commands.”

In the issue, she acknowledged that she was not thrilled about the potential for combat but said she “would not like to deny any woman the opportunity to do anything she is capable of doing, including firing a gun.”

A year later, she and five other female sailors helped clear the path for women to serve on ships and aircraft engaged in combat — assignments previously barred to them under the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of 1948. The sailors, who claimed their careers and potential promotions were negatively impacted by the policy, filed a class-action lawsuit against the secretary of defense and secretary of the Navy in 1977, and U.S. District Judge John Sirica, of Watergate fame, determined the law was unconstitutional in 1978.

"Some people thought it was treason — ‘How dare I try to challenge the system?’ " Bruyere told the Orlando Sentinel in a 1991 interview. "But others kept saying, " ‘Good for you, good for you.’ "

She went on the serve as special assistant to the chief of naval operations for women’s policy, where she was involved in a 1987 study examining career opportunities for women in the Navy and sexism across the service.

A year later, as the first female executive officer of the Navy’s New York Recruiting District, she and Byerly divorced and she later met and married her second husband, Thomas Bruyere, also a Navy officer.

In June 1991, Bruyere, by then a captain with 25 years of service, took charge of the Navy’s only boot camp that included women, according to the report in the Sentinel, which described her as “arguably one of the Pentagon’s top experts on women in the Navy.”

The Orlando Naval Training Center. which processed 30,000 enlistees a year, one third of them female, had been severely criticized the year before for its handling of r**e and sexual harassment cases. It was also slated for closure.

Bruyere remained undaunted.

She viewed the command as an opportunity to create coeducational training and study programs, fostering teamwork and mutual respect in the hope of reducing abuse and assault incidents, she told the Sentinel.

“This is where you plant the seeds, giving recruits the opportunity to solve problems as professionals, to respect each other’s talents,” she told the newspaper.

Bruyere retired in 1994. Looking back on her naval career, Bruyere she was most proud of the work she did “to make a difference and help to open equal opportunities for all,” she told the San Diego Veterans Magazine in March 2020.

When asked about the groundbreaking lawsuit, Bruyere told the magazine, “I just believe we should all have the same opportunities.”

“There is nothing today’s women cannot do — we need them to keep charging ahead,” she said.

In retirement, Bruyere continued to serve her community, her family said. She was on the boards for the local chapters of the San Diego Parkinson’s Association, the San Diego Alzheimer’s Association, the George G. Glenner Center for Memory Care and Caregiver Support, and the San Diego chapter of the Military Officers Association of America. She also volunteered as a volunteer for 11 years at the Miramar National Cemetery, where her husband is interred.

The couple was together for more than 20 years before Thomas, also a retired captain, died in 2009 after a 15-year battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Bruyere, who died at Paradise Valley Hospital in San Diego, is survived by four brothers, one sister, three stepsons and 10 grandchildren. According to her family, she will be buried with full military honors at Miramar.

“Kathy was always so positive and selflessly concerned for the betterment of institutions and others professionally and personally," said her stepson, retired Army Lt. Col. Trent Bruyere. "Frankly, she left this world a better place and will be missed.”

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Yahooo....it's Kamala Harris for VP.
Hi everyone,
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
- Joan Didion

During these times, let’s find a tablet, electronic or paper, and write about our feelings as we meet “the common themes of an uncommon experience.” And, add images to your daily journaling.
Illuminated Journal
• a tool for living more creatively and authentically.
• a way to engage with the images and metaphors that guide and inform our lives.
• a daily practice of self-expression.
• an ongoing method of coping with daily life challenges.
-Judith Greer Essex, Ph.D., Expressive Arts Institute

Also, Writers, Ink, our partner at Barracks 16, offers many online classes. Please check out the list at sandiegowriters.org

Be safe and start writing!
Anne
Women's History: https://youtu.be/0jmkC7RjFRM Rock is loud and so are sports (I've never heard of a quiet sport). Since Ms. Aaron is female, I put two and two to four and thought why not have a recognition of women in athletics?
The search, of course, was for female athletes. So yeah, it’s loud, whether it’s rock music, or athletes. All pictures were researched 1985, the year of the song. Please note that search engines can be inaccurate and images can be mistagged with the wrong year. All pictures used were in the order of the search results. I don’t discriminate; I prefer this “mixed bag” approach.
The one thing that was altered, however, was the somewhat haunting chorus in the solo-bridge. You first see a picture of Lee and John Albani followed by a team that tragically passed away. The link is https://cyclones.com/news/2015/9/8/210325897.aspx for more information and you will see the picture.
Obviously, a song is finite and only so many pictures can fit in, but overall, it was fun to put together.
Alice Park, suffragist, pacifist, of Palo Alto. I just saw an article authored by Melissa Jones of your organization, I believe, that gave her an incorrect birthdate. ("Alice Park was born February 2nd, 1891") No! She lived almost 100 years. Her lifespan should be more like 1862 to 1962.. Please correct the article. Thanks. Kathryn Akatiff, Palo Alto. P.S. She was AMAZING. Perhaps you mixed her up with Alice Paul????
Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Right to Vote, (1920-2020) at the 131st Annual Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, New Years Day 2020. Many great photos from this theme! Congratulations Ladies! ;)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218174678416978&set=pcb.10218174679817013&type=3&theater
Gracia was a great woman. We are all stronger for having known her.
Hi! I wanted to let you know that Friday and Saturday, Comickaze - Liberty Station - Barracks 15 next door is hosting the creator and publisher of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force comic.

They wanted to create something that celebrates the fresh new energy and diversity of the stagnated legislative body, and help some good causes at the same time,” A portion of all sales will go to America’s United Service Organization (USO), and RaicesTexas.org, which provides free and low-cost legal services to under-served immigrant children, families, and refugees.

https://www.facebook.com/events/334325290839123/
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Two great women in history to acknowledge today: SUSAN B. ANTHONY
In 1873, Susan B. Anthony was tried for voting illegally, was convicted, and was fined $100, which she refused to ever pay.
SUSAN LA FLESCHE PICOTTE Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American physician, was born today in 1865.
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It's a beautiful day for a walk! This Saturday, June 15 at 10:30am we invite you to go beyond the walls of the Women's Museum of California and around the city in our historic walking tours which focus on women's contributions to our San Diego culture and community.

Meet in downtown San Diego outside the Lyceum Theatre in Horton Plaza for a walking tour of the Gaslamp Quarter District with highlights of the women who worked to improve the lives of people in the district, and those women who helped to "clean up" the area.
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