"We are determined to foment a rebellion,
and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws
in which we have no voice or representation."
-- From Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March, 1776
....................... * ........................Abigail's Rebels: A Feminist Activist Discussion List ABIGAILS-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM is an email list named in honor of Abigail Adams: women of letters, american patriot, businesswoman, wife & mother.
In order to further Abigail Adams' "rebellion" of the full emancipation of women (thereby achieving the liberation of humankind & creation)--a rebellion which continues on many fronts from a woman's own body, to the home & office, to the NGO/UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, to cyberspace & beyond--the email list BEIJING95-WOMEN was renamed ABIGAILS-L on December 28, 1995. Irene Stuber (istuber@direclynx.net) and Jennifer Gagliardi (gagliajn@netcom.com) co-moderate ABIGAILS-L, focusing on issues concerning and impacting the feminist community. It is hoped that this information exchange on ABIGAILS-L will facilitate feminist activism.
Any direct action undertaken on behalf of the feminist/pro-feminist community is appropriate discussion material on ABIGAILS-L--from personal day-to-day decisions (domestic activities, consumer choices, work place issues, etc) to direct political action (electing women to political office, especially oneself *HINT,HINT*). Speak from personal/professional experience with the view of addressing a common concern.
ABIGAILS-L also serves as a compliment to issues raise on BEIJING95-L (beijing95-l@majordomo.netcom.com) a email list dedicated to the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995; Catt's Claws (catts-claws@majordomo.netcom.com) a feminist newsletter; and Women of Achievement & Herstory (woah-herstory@majordomo.netcom.com) a daily posting celebrating women (currently on hiatus--Irene is editing a book version of WOAH-HERSTORY!).
May 1998, ABIGAILS-L moved from NETCOM.COM (which used majordomo) to its new home, LSOFT.COM to take advantage of LISTSERV's many customization features.
Aside from discussion, ALERTs (phone/fax/email or direct action alerts), ANNOUNCEMENTs (conferences, meetings, etc), DAREs (Direct Action REsources), and QUERYs (request for info/contacts) of interest to the feminist community are welcomed and will be appropriately tagged. Please also prefix all your Subject Line with AB to further aid people sorting through their mailboxes.
As of July 96, we are not accepting any posts related to NOW until NOW sponsors its own discussion list. Please address your NOW-related comments to NOW@now.org or check out http://www.now.org/.
To cut down on multiple crossposts, ABIGAILS-L does not reproduce the ALERTS from the following ESSENTIAL alert-lists. We highly recommend that you subscribe to the following:
Irene Stuber's CATTS-CLAWS (CATTS-CLAWS@majordomo.netcom.com)
Emilys-List (EMILYS-LIST@newmedium.com)
Fem-Alert (FEM-ALERT@feminist.org)
NOW-ACTION-LIST (NOW-ACTION-LIST@now.org)
Women Leaders Online (WLO): Women Organizing for Change (WOC) (WOC@listserv.aol.com)
See below for further recommendations.
ABIGAILS-L is a MODERATED list. Once your subscription reqquest has been approved, your posts are automatically forwarded to the list. We ask that all subscribers follow the norms of nettiquette, respecting the dignity & good taste of all involved. Plurality of opininons is great--flaming & misogyny is not.
We request that subscribers refain from sending unsub requests & one-liners to the list. If you are responding to a post & are quoting, please clip extrangeous original text &/or intersperse your comments between quoted material. If you are forwarding info, please reformat the post into a readable form, removing quote marks AND cite the list or web site from which you are crossposting. Posts far off-topic will be will be encouraged to take the discussion to a more appropriate forum or off-list. And if a thread "splinters", the moderator will issue a STOP POST. Subscribers who disruptive on- or off-list or who do not agree to abide by nettiquette as interpetted by the list moderators will also be unsubscribed.
MODERATION means that although there maybe slip ups (we are very humyn ;-) ABIGAILS-L will be a fabulous, fabulous list--a great space for feminist & pro-feminist to meet, discuss, strategize, and implement a better present & future for ourselves, our children & loved-ones, and the world!
To subscribe to ABIGAILS-L send an email msg:
To: LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Subject: (leave blank)
Text: add abigails-l (first name (last name)(email address)
(First Name, Last Name, & email addess are required by LISTERV software!)
The message will then be forwarded to the list-owner/admin, Jennifer Gagliardi (gagliajn@netcom.com), who will process the request as soon as possible (your patience is appreciated).
To post a message to ABIGAILS-L send an email msg:
To: ABIGAILS-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Subject: AB: (appropriate subject title)
Text: (your message)
To unsubscribe to ABIGAILS-L send an email msg:
To: LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Subject: (leave blank)
Text: delete abigails-l (email address)
If there are any problems, please feel free to contact Jennifer Gagliardi (gagliajn@netcom.com), ABIGAILS-L list-admin & comoderator.
New subscribers are also encouraged to checkout the following lists & internet resources:
Books:
CYBERGRRL! : A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB Aliza Sherman
DOES JANE COMPUTE? : PRESERVING OUT DAUGHTERS' PLACE IN THE CYBER REVOLUTION Roberta Furger
HTML FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB Eva Castro
THE INTERNET FOR WOMEN Rye Senjen & Jane Guthrey
NEARLY ROADKILL: AN INFOBAHN EROTIC ADVENTURE C Sullivan & K Bornstein
TEACH YOURSELF WEB PUBLISHING WITH HTML Laura Lemay (many editions)
TECH GIRLS'S INTERNET ADVENTURES Girl Tech
USING EMAIL EFFECTIVELY Linda Lamb & Jerry Peek
WIRED_WOMEN: GENDER & NEW REALITIES IN CYBERSPACE ed L Cherny & E Weise
THE WOMEN'S GUIDE TO ONLINE SERVICES Judith Broadhurst
WOMEN'S WIRE WEB DIRECTORY Ellen Pack
Email Lists:
BEIJING95-L (beijing95-l@majordomo.netcom.com)
FAVNET (Feminist Against Violence Network)(FAVNET@OTD.COM)
FIVERS (Feminists against Intimate Violence through Empowerment, Energizing, Education, Exchange Resources, Resistance, Research AND Support) (FIVERS@ATHENS.NET)
FEMISA (femisa@csf.colorado.edu)
Irene Stuber's Catt's Claws (catts-claws@majordomo.netcom.com)
Irene Stuber's Women of Achievement & Herstory (woah-herstoryMajordomo.@netcom.com)
RURALWOMYN (RURALWOMYN@PLAINS.NET)
WMST-L (Women Studies List) (WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU)
Or check out any number of gender-inclusive, feminist-related forum's as listed in Joan Korenman's frequently updated Guide to Feminist Mailing Lists. On WWW
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/f_actv.html (activist lists)
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html (web sites)
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Websites of ABIGAILS-Lers:
IRENE STUBER: Women's Internet Information, Inc (archives of CATTS-CLAWS & WOAH-HERSTORY) **Irene is the co-moderator of ABIGAILS-L**
http://www.undelete.org/
Jennifer Gagliardi: CyberFem Barbie's Web Page **Jennifer is the co-moderator of ABIGAILS-L**
http://www.oocities.org/Wellesley/8984/
Also checkout CyberFem Barbie's Stamp Collection:
http://www.oocities.org/Wellesley/8984/womenstamps.html
Beth Sheresh: Electronchasers
http://www.electronchasers.com/
Captain Barbara A. Wilson, USAF (Ret), MA, MBA: Women Veterans - a history of their past:
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb
Catherine Briggs: Francois Xavier Bagnoud
http://www.fxb.org/
Cheryl McLaughlin ..Woman/Wife/Mother/Cyberwoman/Etc..School Social Worker
http://cats1.admin.pps.pgh.pa.us/~mclaughl/welcome.htm
Ellen M. Zucker: Art, Illustration, & Caricatures
http://www.netreach.net/~emzucker
EvaS: women2women
http://women2women.com/
JeanneK's HomePage (poetry!)
http://members.delphi.com/jeannek
Joan Saks Berman Stock Photo Collection
http://www.photosource.com/psb/psb_6275.html
Laura X S.F. Women's Centers Date/Marital Rape Education Project
http://members.aol.com/ncmdr/index.html
The Liz Library (great links of law, literature, & life!)
http://www.gate.net/~liz/
Mary Ruthsdotter: National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/
Meri Ratzel: The World Wide Wall: A joint Rosebud Artist Co-op & Art
http://ac.rosebud.com/
Merrilyn McDonald:
Protest Quebec's Failure to Protect Sexually Abused Children!
http://www.serv.net/~merrilyn/
Amnesty for Kids!
http://www.serv.net/~merrilyn/amnesty.html
Nick Seidenman
http://www.safari.net/~nicks/
Sandra Reid: People's Tribune and Tribuno del Pueblo Speakers Bureau
http://www.mcs.net/~speakers
Shelley Jacobs Mintz: International Women's Day Celebration: a project of the YWCA of the U.S.A.
http://www.castle.net/~iwd/
Trish Wilson: The Women's Network
http://members.aol.com/asherah
Varda Ullman Novick: Advisory Panel
http://www.AdvisoryPanel.com/
William Affleck-Asch's Home Page (Washington NOW, feminist links, & music!)
http://home.att.net/~feminist/index.html
Other Feminist Web Pages of Interest
"Prudence indeed, will dictate that governments long established
should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they were accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such
government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has
been the patient sufferance of the women under this government and such is
now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to
which they are entitled.
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.
---
"Now in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people
of this country, their social and religious degradation -- in view of the
unjust laws ... and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed,
and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they
have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to
them as citizens of the United States."
"Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing
less!"
--The motto of the Revolution, the publication of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
"Women have always fought for men, and for their children. Now they
are ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement is
established."
-- Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story.
"You really CAN change the world if you care enough."
-- Marion Wright Edelman
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"Women are no longer asking for rights. We expect them, and if any of
you prevent us from using them, we will go through you, we will replace you,
we will fossilize you into horror museums along with slavery, burning at the
stake, and \\`Kinder, Kuche, Kirche.'"
-- Irene Stuber in a 1992 article.
i found god in myself
--Ntozake Shange
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Thanks once again!
Irene Stuber
Jennifer Gagliardi
June 27, 1998
& i loved her
I loved her fiercely.
(istuber@direclynx.net)
comoderator ABIGAILS-L
editor CATTS-CLAWS
editor WOAH-HERSTORY
http://www.undelete.org
gagliajn@netcom.com
list-admin & comoderator ABIGAILS-L
list-admin CATTS-CLAWS
list-admin WOAH-HERSTORY
moderator BEIJING95-L
moderator FAVNET
http://www.oocities.org/Wellesley/8984/