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SGC 2001

Third Annual Southern Girls Convention: Auburn, Alabama July 20-22, 2001. InfoShop site designed by Ailecia.

Third Annual Southern Girls Convention: Auburn, Alabama July 20-22, 2001. Auburn site designed by Charles.

(For a variety of reasons—trying to appeal to different audiences, targeting information most relevant to particular people, dividing the labor of managing updates—the SGC 2001 organizers developed two websites. One was hosted on InfoShop.org, and the other was hosted on the Auburn Women's Organization's web space at auburn.edu)

Press & Stories

• Southern Voice 2001-07-12: Lesbians, allies organize in AL
• Athens Banner-Herald 2001-07-15: Radical South
• Athens Banner-Herald 2001-07-19: Radical Road Trip
• Montgomery Advertiser 2001-07-19: Tolerance focus of women's gathering
• Birmingham Weekly 2001-07-19: Southern girls speak out (cover story)
• Auburn Plainsman 2001-07-19
• Opelika-Auburn News 2001-07-20
• Ink 19 2001-07-20: The Southern Girls Convention (music report)
• Coalition of Immokalee Workers 2001-07-21
• Women's Action Coalition Memphis (partly announcement for 2001, partly article about past conventions)
• For the Record 2001-07-24 (Alabama Public Television)
• Auburn Plainsman 2001-07-2001
• Geekery Today 2001-07-27: Southern Girls Convention Builds Pro-Woman Community in the Deep South
• Independent Media Center 2001-07-31: Largest ever Southern Girls Convention builds pro-woman community in Deep South
• New Times Broward-Palm Beach 2001-08-02: Gimme an A! (focus on radical cheerleading)
• The Militant 2001-08-13
• Thoughtworm zine: Southern Girls Convention - Independent Travel Report by Malinda

The Controversy in Auburn

In the weeks following Southern Girls Convention 2001, the convention stirred up controversy, mostly printed in the Op-Ed pages of the Opelika-Auburn News, between Right-wing opponents of the convention and its supporters. We've gathered together as many of the letters and Op-Eds, both from supporters and from the backlash, as we could find.

1. [2001-07-27] Claire Rumore, Ailecia Ruscin, and Charles Johnson: Southern Girls Convention Organizers Answer Critics, from the Opelika-Auburn News
2. [2001-07-31] Heather Novak: Toasters from HQ
3. [2001-08-09] Becky Robertson: No Balance at AU, from the Opelika-Auburn News
4. [2001-08-09] Charles Johnson: Responding to Anti-Lesbian Bigotry, from the Opelika-Auburn News
5. [2001-08-27] Claire Rumore and Charles Johnson: Why Cutchins Can't Read, from the Opelika-Auburn News