5/25/23: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: “Emma Goldman Clinic Stories”

Screening/discussion of abortion clinic documentary "From One Place to Another: Emma Goldman Clinic Stories" with director LeAnn Erickson, moderated by Katelyn Campbell

From One Place to Another: Emma Goldman Clinic Stories (1996)

In January 1973, the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision swept across America, changing women’s lives as it politicized women’s bodies. At the same time in Iowa City, Iowa, a group of young feminists met to form a women’s health clinic dedicated to the tenets of self-help and access to abortion. This documentary utilizes a storytelling format to chronicle a historical movement and the women who seized it.

LeAnn Erickson

LeAnn Erickson is a Professor of film and video production at Temple University in the Department of Film and Media Arts and has been an independent video/filmmaker for over 35 years. Her work has appeared on public and cable television, in media and art galleries and has won national and international recognition in video/film festivals. Her work includes documentary, experimental and animation titles, including Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII (2010), Neighbor Ladies (2005), From One Place to Another: Emma Goldman Clinic Stories (1996), and Mystery Dates (1992).

Katelyn Campbell

Katelyn M. Campbell is a scholar of radical feminist history, rural queer cultures, and US land politics in the twentieth century. She earned her Ph.D. in American Studies with distinction from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in spring 2023. Her current manuscript project expands upon archival work completed for her dissertation, Unsettling Womyn’s Land: Property, Sovereignty, and the Radical Imagination of Lesbian Feminist Thought, which argues for the utility of archives of rural lesbian feminisms for present-day social justice movements. Katelyn is the 2016 Harry S. Truman Scholar from West Virginia and an alumna of Wellesley College.