Originally posted on the Fenway Focus blog.
In commemoration of Women’s History Month, Fenway Health’s Women’s Health Team, the Lesbians of Color Symposium Collective, Flashback Sunday: Elders of Color, Older Lesbians Organizing for Change, and Rally presented a screening of A Moment in Her Story: Stories from the Boston Women’s Movement. Directed by Catherine Russo, the film provides an exploration of major challenges faced by the Second Wave Women’s Movement Boston activists of the late 60s and early 70s. Through 22 interviews with leaders of the movement, the movie documented activists advocating for issues surrounding domestic violence, reproductive health, local politics, and more. Much like today, feminist activists who possessed multiple marginalized identities, such as LGBTQ, racial minority, and working class women, faced resistance in the mainstream movement and created their own feminist subgroups to embrace their diversity.