What’s happening for RWCC?
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Honoring Ofelia Valdez-Yeager
Riverside Women Creating Change mourns the loss of Ofelia Valdez-Yeager, a champion for Riverside whose contributions are visible — in the Cesar Chavez memorial and the Cheech — and far-reaching in the countless RUSD and UCR students whose lives she touched and through her family. Her legacy of community and change-making will inspire and endure.…
Transitions
One of the most difficult and moving aspects of our project is when women we know, love, and value join the ancestors. We would like to mark the transitions of Susan (“Sue”) Enid Strickland in September 2022 and Deenaz P. Coachbuilder in October 2022. We miss them but rejoice in their long lives and their…
Mapping women’s place names in Riverside
We have added a feature, “Riverside – City of Women,” to our website, using Google maps to indicate local sites named for women. Inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s essay, “City of Women” (The New Yorker, October 11, 2016), we started paying attention to where, who, and why Riverside’s landscape is marked with the names of women.…
We’ve launched!
Dear Women Creating Change, Thank you for following our progress. For those who are new to the project, thank you for finding us. I’m excited to announce that the project website is now live! Last year, Jane Block approached several of us about a proposed project highlighting the work of women activists in the City…
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