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Seneca Falls Dialogues – 2014
Unusual Suspects in Sustainability:
Expanding Circles for Feminist
Activism
 By Krista Bailey, Grace Lidinsky-Smith, and April Lidinsky

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Organizing our time together:
 1) Krista on community
organizing from
campus and city
positionality
 3) Grace on
undergraduate campus
organizing
 2) April on campus-community
organizing
as a faculty member
 All of us: Challenges
and best practices.
Brainstorm and sharing.

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Questions for our time together:
 What does it mean to have a sustainable community,
and why does it matter?
 How do elements of sustainable communities align
with feminist values and ideals, and how can they
work together to create healthy, equitable, and
sustainable communities?
 How are we dialoguing as feminist sustainability
champions?

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Unusual Suspects for Sustainability

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Greenhouse Community Garden

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Urban Garden Market

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Purple Porch Co-op

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Michiana Monologues – a campus-community
theatrical fundraiser

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Feminist Federation of South Bend

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FFSB: One Billion Rising and Equal
Pay Day … and more!

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Presenting to the
City of South Bend

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Culture of Care on IU Bloomington’s
campus:

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Campus activism: “Slut walk”

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Tabling for Take Back the Night;
Bystander Intervention

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Group activity:
 Introduce yourselves
 Quick Share
 Local projects you’re working on
 Challenges of outreach to “unusual suspects”
 What’s working for you?
 What do you need help with?
 Share with the larger group
 Projects being addressed in your Group
 Strategies That Work (2)
 Challenge Facing Your Group(1)

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Thank you – let’s be in touch!
 Krista Bailey: Sustainability Coordinator, Office of
Sustainability, City of South Bend:
 kbailey@southbendin.gov
 April Lidinsky: Director and Professor of the Women’s and
Gender Studies Program, Indiana University South Bend
 alidinsk@iusb.edu
 Grace Lidinsky-Smith, Student and Culture of Care Director
of Sexual Well-being, Indiana University Bloomington
 glidinsk@indiana.edu