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Wages Due Lesbians (Toronto) Invites All Women To A Conference On
Lesbians And The Wages For Housework Campaign

TOWARD A STRATEGY
FOR THE LESBIAN MOVEMENT

INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS: WILMETTE BROWN - FROM SAFIRE: BLACK WOMEN'S GROUP (NEW YORK)
RUTH HALL - FROM WAGES DUE LESBIANS (LONDON, ENGLAND)

TORONTO UL 2225

IT WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONFRONT THE MOST CRITICAL QUESTIONS NOW FACING US AND OUR
MOVEMENT :

WHY WE WANT AUTONOMY

An international panel of lesbian women from Canada, England and the United States,
On why we need autonomy from men - including gay men, and from straight women, so we don't
subordinate our own interests to those who have more power than us. Our own organizations
are necessary in order to guarantee that we won't have to hide our lesbianism, and that
more and more women will have the power to choose whether to be lesbian or not. Lesbian

autonomy is in the interest of everyone fighting for sexual choices and full human lib-
eration.

SEXUALITY

Our fight as lesbian women for control over our sexuality, within the context of all
women's fight for sexual choices.

What does it do to our sex lives to always be thinking about having to go to work in
the kitchen, the typing pool, or on the assembly line the next morning?

Is it our fault if our sex lives aren't what we think they should be?

How the state organizes our sexuality through abortion laws, population control, and

wagelessness, and how our fight against it explodes the separation between "personal" and
“poyiticak"..

OUR LIVES AS LESBIANS

Informal rap sessions on areas like:
Closets: Problems of coming out and staying out -- What's at stake?
Lesbians in smaller towns
Younger lesbians, older lesbians
Relationships
Conflict with straight women

CHILD CUSTODY /~ THE CUTBACKS

To be "a fit mother" a woman is supposed to sleep with and depend financially on a
man. One of the most important fights we are making- is to be able to be lesbian without
losing either our children or the possibility of having children.

The government cutbacks, by imposing more poverty on women, threaten to impose the
Status of unfit mother on any woman who is struggling for her independence, especially
lesbian women, prostitutes, women on welfare, native women, and women prisoners.

How can we organize against our poverty for the power:

To have and keep the children we might want
To live where and with whom we wish
To no longer have to hide our lesbianism

We urge individuals and groups to write statements for the conference on any or all
of the above areas, for the discussion which we hope will be as open and as full as pos-
Sible. These papers, and any other materials, should be sent to:

Sabet Pibe Box 3b, Station E
-U. BOX 30, ation
FOR ae ae Px Toronto, Ontario (416-466-7457 / 465-6822)
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