Last Tuesday my awesome friend Shawnda hosted a House Party. I’d heard of house parties before – you know, like makeup parties, kitchen parties, lingerie parties, etc., but not this particular kind of House Party. Basically we gathered at Shawnda’s place to watch this really fantastic 3-hour PBS documentary entitled Makers: Women Who Make America narrated by Meryl Streep that was all about the women’s movement from the 1950s through the 1980s (roughly) while we ate brownies, drank wine and southern comfort and hot tea (prepared and served by Shawnda’s lovely husband Chris), and received a free goody bag full of a bunch of great skin products to take home! And it was awesome. I mean, if we’re going to gather for a girl’s night of nosh and girl talk and house party stuff, we might as well be doing something great like learning about and appreciating all the wonderful trailblazing women who paved the way for us to be treated as equals of our husbands, work outside the home, receive equal pay and fair treatment at work, take control of our own bodies and health care, stand up to domestic violence, and a million more things we as modern women can tend to take fore granted. It was informative, inspiring, and fun with a powerful cast of women featured in interviews and a pretty wonderful soundtrack of music through the decades to accompany the documentary. I would highly encourage everyone (men and women alike!) to watch the three-part series here.
We felt this quote summed it all up pretty nicely: “I have a brain and I have a uterus, and they both work.” – Patricia Schroeder
