Free Beer Tomorrow Rough Cut Screening: 50 Years of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State

Free Beer Tomorrow Rough Cut Screening: 50 Years of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State 

It is hard to articulate how closely tied Jack’s/Summit Station was to the activist and academic worlds of Women’s Studies on the campus of Ohio State University. At least half of the 55 folks interviewed for Free Beer Tomorrow were students, professors or friends of the program. All of the interviewees benefitted from the work associated with the formation and implementation of the program. So many stories of badass resistance and unabashed authenticity. 

For this screening of the Free Beer Tomorrow rough cut we will watch the film with an emphasis on the relationship between the feminist movement for women's liberation and the formation of what would become the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at OSU. Though the first women's studies classes were taught in 1970, the Office of Women's Studies was not formed until 1975. In conjunction with the formal 50th Anniversary celebration on campus, the folks at Free Beer Tomorrow (also graduates of the program) invite you explore the relationship between feminist/lesbian/queer spaces and the quest for collective liberation.  

The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring early leaders in the movement to establish the office. Panel presenters will include Dr. Leila Rupp, the first hire in the Center; Dr. Phyllis Gorman, a student of Leila's and an early graduate of the program, and others.  The panel discussion will be moderated by LuSter Singleton, a double graduate of the program (B.A. and M.A.)  All proceeds from the event will go toward completion of the documentary film.

Lisa Ransdell in the Women's Liberation office at the Ohio Union, 1978. Photographed by Lynette Molnar

ASL Interpretation will be provided.  

This event is made possible with the generous support of WOSU Public Media.