The July 17th Jane Addams Branch meeting is available to watch, as host Gloria McMillan, originally from Chicago, gave a presentation about Jane Addams, the ‘Invisible Woman’, providing history the media doesn’t share, and ideas for improving media attention in the present.

We have made great progress by using new communication channels and technologies via WILPF! Looking back at the legacy of Jane Addams and Hull House residents, Gloria examined how they were able to get national coverage for the issues they were working on, and different methods they used to do this.

First, Gloria led a deep dive to explore even more avenues of effective communications, looking back to how the Hull House field lab functioned as a social experiment developing a surprising  peace tool. She also explored how both external and internal media are both crucial to WILPF’s growth into the future.

The interactive two-way Zoom session, also ventured into the importance of social space. The Hull-House studies of Urban Social Mapping show how policed urban and rural spaces are. Who gets to go where to be heard is as important as what is being said. WILPF’s ability to crack the social space barrier was a real success because each new space in which we become visible means we have a new audience! Policing of social space includes barriers to media coverage that are as large now as when Hull-House began.

Gloria also encouraged members to join the new e-list for the Cultures, Communications and Sensitization Committee. Email her at scifi200111@gmail.com to be added to the list.

A transcript of the talk is also available on site.

The next meeting will be on August 22, 2024. Register here.