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1948 |
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Margaret Jacobs was born on 15 May 1948 in Melbourne. She gained a BA Dip Ed before working variously as a teacher, community worker, public servant, editor and writer. Jacob's memberships included the Open Consciousness-Raising Group and rostering with the Women's Liberation Centres from 1971 to 1977; the Pram Factory's Melbourne Women's Theatre Group and involvement in street theatre; the Lesbian Action Group (LAG) from 1978 to 1984 and her subsequent attendance at the first Australian Gay and Lesbian Conference in Sydney; the organising group for the 1984 Melbourne Socialist Feminist Conference; the Women's Liberation Archives Group from 1984 to 1994; Women in Black, circa 1990, when Jacobs joined a deputation to lobby the Foreign Affairs Minister, Gareth Evans, on behalf of the Palestinians and Palestinian women prisoners in Israeli prisons; and Defenders of Native Title (DONT) from 1994 to 2004. She continued with Women in Black and, as a refugee activist, was also a founder of Refugee Voices which supports refugee speakers.
This collection is No.3 of the Victorian Women's Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archive. |
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Feminists |
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