Los Angeles Indymedia : Activist News

The Woman's Building was a great political/activist space for women that opened in los angeles in 1973 in macarthur park, moving to spring street, near chinatown in 1975.

It housed many different feminist projects, including:

galleries

theater companies

the original site of Sisterhood Bookstore (which was one of the oldest feminist/women's bookstores when it closed in 2000, with a brand new barnes & noble right across the street)

Womantours Travel Agency

a coffeehouse

offices of Nat'l Org of Women

Woman's Graphic Center

Feminist Studio Workshop (founded by artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, & art historian Arlene Raven. there, they had classes on visual arts, writing, performance art, video, graphic design & the printing arts.)

you can find bit & pieces of the woman's building in different places, including the southern california library for social studies & research

los angeles needs another woman's building!

woman's building web site

q & a with terry wolverton

Terry Wolverton is also author of Mystery Bruise, a book of poetry (1999); and has edited, among other works, Circa 2000: Lesbian Fiction at the Millennium (2000); and Circa 2000: Gay Fiction at the Millennium (2000).