Gender and the Built Environment - A Resource for Teaching and Learning

Women's Land

 

Commentary
Women gathered for the Lesbian March, gay and straight, with banners and cameras ready to participate or observe. Few were certain what would happen, there had been talk of the March heading out of the Forum site and out on to the public streets.

This mass of ready women, animated and alive created for a brief time a sense that this was indeed women’s space. In communities around the globe women, gay and straight, have formed ongoing communities with the express purpose of creating women’s space. Living together an almost subsistence lifestyle Land dykes have been pioneers in this difficult endeavour of building houses, caring for the earth, creating and sustaining women’s land communities.