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Women Count! / Women in Dialogue
Philadelphia: Box 11795 Phila PA 19101 215-848-1120 San Francisco: Box 14512 SF, CA 94114 415-626-4114 womencount@womenindialogue.us
The Grand Opening June 9-11, 2023
The Crossroads Women’s Center, as part of the grand opening of its new Center at 5011 Wayne Avenue, hosted an exciting and successful International and Community Gathering: End Women’s Poverty – A Guaranteed Care Income for All Caregivers of People and Planet that took place June 9-11, 2023. The gathering brought together people from more than two dozen countries and states, cities, and towns in the US, as well as the local neighborhood. Selma James and Margaret Prescod kicked off events with presentations on a half-century of archives from the Wages for Housework Community Archives funded by the Mellon Foundation.
Topics during the weekend included women’s self-help regenerative farming collectives, challenging child welfare system abuses, opposing the criminalization of poverty and protest, unity in autonomy, and much more. Presentations from Mildred Aristide, the former First Lady of Haiti, and Rep. Gwen Moore of WI were special highlights. A press conference outside of the Philadelphia Family Court in support of the recommendations from the Philadelphia City Council Special Committee on Child Separation on Monday, June 12, and an event, Coming Out in Millions with Wages for Housework, at the Parkway Central Library for LGBTQ+ History Month on Tuesday, June 12, closed out the formal activities. Meetings and socializing were key parts of getting to know each other and building the movement for a care income.
Welcome to the Crossroads Women’s Center!
Women in Dialogue (WinD) was founded in 1985 by women of different races, ethnicities, ages, nationalities, gender identities, and dis/abilities. Our mission is “to bring communities together by bringing women together to address our common concerns.”
We are committed to getting all women’s contributions to the economy and society recognized and valued in policies and resource allocations — whether these contributions are waged or unwaged — including the essential caregiving of people and the natural world. We are also tackling women’s and children’s poverty and food insecurity.
Women in Dialogue bases itself on the belief that community development begins with grassroots directly-impacted women speaking up and acting on our own behalf with the support of others.
In 1998, Women in Dialogue founded the multi-racial community-based Crossroads Women’s Center in a small storefront at 33 Maplewood Mall in Germantown. In 2016, we purchased a large run-down building at 5011/5013 Wayne Avenue and, with the help of the Philadelphia Department of Commerce and PIDC, began renovating the building, making it into a welcoming, accessible, and environmentally and community-friendly space.
We just completed phase one of our project in January 2023 and are starting to move in. We will soon embark on fundraising for phase two which will give us a large kitchen for events, audiovisual equipment, and a new storefront on the 5011 side of the building. Thanks to all who help!
The main room at our old Crossroads Women’s Center
The main room at our new Crossroads Women’s Center
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