Watch Our Our bodies Ourselves Digital Occasions!

OBOS co-founders (left to proper) Norma Swenson, Paula Doress-Worters, Joan Ditzion & Judy Norsigian at an “Our Our bodies Ourselves: Then & Now” fiftieth anniversary occasion in November 2019 in Newton, MA

By OBOS | PUBLISHED: October 10, 2021

Every year, Our Our bodies Ourselves participates in varied occasions that function or have a good time the historical past, legacy, and ongoing work of OBOS. This previous yr, because of Covid-19, the occasions had been held just about. Whereas we’ve missed seeing a few of you in particular person, we’re glad that lots of the occasions had been recorded and may now be watched from house!

Beneath is an inventory of occasions out there to stream:

In October, OBOS co-founder Wendy Sanford printed her highly effective new memoir, “These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class.” Porter Sq. Books celebrated the publication with a web-based e book discuss. Watch a replay of the event. (Please observe: to observe the replay, click on on “register” after which enter your electronic mail tackle. This can mean you can see the replay.)

Final month, the Coletivo Feminista Sexualidade e Saúde and Our Our bodies Ourselves celebrated the publication of the primary quantity of “Nossos Corpos por Nós Mesmas,” a Brazilian Portuguese adaptation of “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” The occasion featured “Nossos Corpos” mission coordinator Raquel Pereira and e book workforce member Janine Pimentel, OBOS co-founders Judy Norsigian and Norma Swenson, and pioneering Brazilian researchers on girls, well being and sexuality, Simone Diniz and Sonia Corrêa. Be taught extra concerning the occasion and watch a replay.

In August, OBOS board members Diana Namumbejja Abwoye and Judy Norsigian had been invited to talk at a Digital Radcliffe Guide Discuss, organized in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the e book’s first version and in reference to the Boston Ladies’s Well being Guide Collective Data housed in Schlesinger Library. The discuss, moderated by Wendy Kline, a historical past of medication professor at Purdue College, featured OBOS board members Diana Namumbejja Abwoye and Judy Norsigian. Word: For many who requested about how one can assist both a reprinting of the Luganda adaptation that Diana spoke about or a brand new adaptation into Acholi (for ladies in northern Uganda): you'll be able to ship earmarked donations through examine to Our Our bodies Ourselves, PO Field 590403, Newton Heart, MA 02459.

In April, the Boston College Faculty of Public Well being held an occasion titled The Ladies’s Well being Motion: Celebrating 50 Years of Our Our bodies Ourselves. The panel of specialists included Judy Norsigian, co-founder and board chair of Our Our bodies Ourselves; Nashira Baril, founding father of the Neighborhood Delivery Heart; Charlie Ruth Castro, co-founder of Fundación Mujeres Con Derechos, and Wendy Chavkin, professor emerita on the Columbia Mailman Faculty of Public Well being.

In March, Suffolk College Summa Society held a webinar on “The Evolution of Our Bodies Ourselves.” OBOS co-founder and board chair Judy Norsigian, OBOS board member Diana Namumbejja Abwoye, and director of Suffolk College’s Heart for Ladies’s Well being and Human Rights Amy Agigian mentioned the historical past of Our Our bodies Ourselves and the forthcoming Our Bodies Ourselves Today on-line platform. Watch a video of the event.

Final November, the Waltham Public Library held an occasion titled “Then and Now: Our Bodies Ourselves: The Roots of the Women’s Health Movement” that featured interviews with OBOS co-founders Joan Ditzion and Judy Norsigian.

And eventually, additionally in November, the BBC produced an exquisite hour-long radio documentary on the historical past and influence of Our Our bodies Ourselves. Listen to the documentary.