EqualityQuilt

Our Masthead - Women's Work Is Never Done

Here's a quick review of our masthead.  Starting on left, the first image and several others across are from a Victorian crazy quilt made by Bonnie's great-grandmother many decades ago in upstate New York.  Many thanks to my dear sister Judith Peace Greenberg for preserving it and sending the photos.  Next is part of a star quilt made by the Dakota women of Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana, where I was growing up about 45 years ago - now in my living room at home. Then more crazy quilt.  Next is a comforter knitted by my late mother-in-law Cilka Zakelj, who came to America as a refugee from Communist Yugoslavia in 1948.  Will it be too much information if I say I sleep beneath this comforter every night?  After more crazy quilt, there's an embroidered tree from a Hmong pillow, made in the 1980s by one of the women who resettled in Minnesota then. Then part of a woven wool purse brought to Minnesota from Ecuador by Silvia Ontaneda's mom.  And then more crazy quilt. 

Please feel free to send images of your favorite stitchery - one more way to honor women's heritage.  We are never alone in working for better lives for all women and their families.   One small patch, one small stitch at a time, together we can achieve equality and justice for everyone.  - Bonnie

Hello Cyber Women and Friends!

Welcome to the launch of the Minnesota Women's Consortium blog!  Our purpose here is the same as our mission in the less-cyber-world:  to achieve equality & justice for all women & girls, by connecting organizations & individuals sharing that goal.  Except here in cyberspace we will work on that with way fewer in-person meetings. Now we can interact with a new friend writing us from Warroad to the northwest, Caledonia to the southeast, and YOU, and maybe St. Paul-native astronaut Heidi Stefanyshyn-Piper will