WHAT IS WOMENS LIBERATION?
from Womankind (December 1971) (Editors Note: The CWLU did a lot of organizing among working class high school and community college students. Here are some reflections by high school women.) Women’s Liberation is a movement of people coming together out of a need to learn what it means to be human, to understand what it means for forces around us to keep us from that humanity, and to act together creatively out of a sense of what it means to be free. Let’s begin by sharing how we can be ourselves, let’s move ahead with ideas of what we want to be: …some stories and questions about our lives… Kathy Evans, age 16, gets up at 6:15 to get to school by 7:45. Why does she need so much time? Among the many things she does, is to smear on foundation to cover up those nasty pimples, when actually exposure to the air would speed up their departure. Then eyeliner, mascara, eye shadow, etc. to disguise her own natural beauty, but making her look like those gorgeous covergirls and ad-models. B
