She Said, She Said
The Last Archive
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In 1969, radical feminists known as the Redstockings gathered in a church in Greenwich Village, and spoke about their experiences with abortion. They called this ‘consciousness-raising’ or ‘speaking bitterness,’ and it changed the history of women’s rights, all the way down to the 1977 National Women’s Convention and, really, down to the present day. The idea of ‘speaking bitterness’ came from a Maoist practice, and is a foundation to both the #MeToo movement and the conservative Victim’s Rights movement. But at what cost?
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:10.0 | Imagine there's a place in our world where the known things go. |
| 0:15.6 | A quarter of the mind, lined with shelves, cluttered with proof. |
| 0:20.7 | A purple cowboy hat. Oh, someone's put up here on the wall a poster. |
| 0:26.0 | It says, the personal is political. |
| 0:29.0 | I love those day glow flowers. |
| 0:31.0 | This place, this warehouse stores the facts that matter and matters of fact the evidence of the past. |
| 0:40.3 | It's all that stands between a reasonable doubt and the chaos of uncertainty. |
| 0:45.0 | It lies in a time between now and then. |
| 0:49.0 | The sign on the door reads, |
| 0:51.0 | The Last Archive. on the door reads, the last archive. |
| 0:55.0 | Step out that door to Greenwich Village across the passage of time |
| 1:02.0 | to a Friday night, March 21st, 1969. |
| 1:06.0 | Walk down West 4th Street and up the steps to the Washington Square Methodist Church, |
| 1:12.0 | a cathedral. |
| 1:14.4 | It'll cost you $2 to get in. |
| 1:16.6 | A donation to the Red Stockings, radical feminists best known for staging a protest |
| 1:22.1 | at the Miss America pageant. |
| 1:24.4 | There are 300 people seated in the church. |
| 1:27.3 | Mostly women. |
| 1:28.3 | There's a handful of men here too. |
| 1:30.4 | Oh, and lucky for us, there's a tape recorder up there on the altar. |
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