This week I found something that pertained very directly to my topic for this semester. It was actually something that I found really interesting to read as well. This is a newsletter from the Women’s Resource Center, located in Peabody Hall, at Miami of Ohio. It is stated to be …
This week while I was scanning my N.O.W. items from 1977-1978, I came across a newspaper clipping that talked about Fantastic Feminist and Joanne McQueen’s feminist items business run out of her home in Oxford, OH. It talks about how she decided to make a Fantastic Feminist superhero-esque response to …
Recently, while rifling through my scrapbook, I came upon a book cover written by Joanne McQueen. It is entitled, “Interpersonal Relationships with my Brothers: How Brothers Affect Brother and Sister Relationships.” This idea was fascinating to me, as I have a brother of my own. I reflected on my own …
While sifting through my scrapbook focused largely on the late 70s, early 80s, I am lead to thinking about the political atmosphere at hand here during the late 70s, early 80s. I stumble upon an ad for a brochure that promises to shed light on the rape culture and educate …
In this age of technological growth, where computational power is said to double every two years, a span of thirty-eight years represents an exponential, staggering degree of advancement. Merely looking at the methods of communication we use, we can track the rise and fall of an extensive number of mediums …
This last post for my blog has less to do with the scanning process and more on how I am applying everything I have learned into the real world. I created a survey that asks ten questions, all of which are fairly simple and easy to expand on. They are …
Over the course of this semester, I have been working to digitalize a couple of years of Joanne McQueen’s work, 1979-1981 in particular. In addition to getting to know Joanne personally and listening to her stories about the ERA and countless of other events, I have gotten to see the …
Back in the beginning of the second wave of the Feminist Movement, women had to resort to educating themselves on feminist topics because a lot of the discourse was only available to people who could afford college. Women’s sexual health during this era was no different because women were not …
A big portion of my scrapbook related to the Fantastic Feminist is dedicated to women learning how to defend themselves from a sexual predators. There was this folder that was titled “We Care America”, which used to be called “Weapons Corp America”. There were pamphlets that teach women how to …
Hillary Rodham Clinton has been in the public political eye for basically 30 years. She has endured great setbacks while having amazing successes. During this election cycle, she was nominated by the Democratic Party to be their candidate towards the 2016 Presidential Election. She faced untold amount of scrutiny for everything …