Valley Women's History Collaborative
The Valley Women's History Collaborative (VWHC) is an active group of
students, scholars, and community volunteers dedicated to researching,
collecting, preserving, and publicizing the history of women committed
to social justice for women, including but not restricted to self-identified
feminists, lesbians, womanists, and queers in Hampshire, Franklin, and
Hamden Counties of Western Massachusetts from the mid-1960s to the present.
WHAT'S NEW?
- We have been awarded a Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts Competitive Grant to host three community events in Northampton, Amherst, and Greenfield to share the history of the Mary Vazquez Softball League. These events will feature showings of Lacey Johnston's film, In League With Us (produced with the support of Amherst Community Television).
- Our Historical
Timeline is now interactive.
Please feel free to contribute your comments on listed events or contribute new events. - We are now collecting a
History of the Mary V. Women's Softball
League.
Contribute your memories of the League here. - David Cline's book Creating Choice: A Community responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973 has been published by Palgrave/Macmillan, now in its second edition. Creating Choice is based on oral histories collected as part of the VWHC.
Projects
We are currently involved in several different projects, such as updating
our Timeline, researching particular group
histories, oral history interviewing, and connecting donors of relevant
papers with area repositories.
We welcome inquiries. Please contact one of the VWHC Coordinators if you can volunteer to assist us. Possible areas of contributions include:
- Research of a particular
topic, group, event, etc.
- Oral Histories (of yourself
or others)
- Outreach
- Fund-raising