Woman, Earth & Spirit, Inc. values and initiates efforts to help record and preserve the lives, stories and cultures of marginalized women.

    A primary focus is Lesbian Lands and Lesbians on Land, an extensive and often invisible community and culture of wimmin who have gone largely unrecorded.  We also record the lives, stories, projects and efforts of a range of Lesbians and progressive women.

Our mission is to gather existing materials, to organize systematic documentation of as many individuals and lands as possible, and to edit materials into DVDs, tapes, CDs, books, etc to make these lives and accomplishments more known. We then Archive all source and edited materials that we create as well as what we have collected.

In addition we have the equipment to duplicate and distribute print, audio, video and photographic media.  We also make our equipment available to Lesbians and other women to produce their own Projects.  And, we will increasingly be able to provide instruction and help as well.  Several of our 2008 Workshops at Outland focus on Recording Our Lives: Basic Film.

We currently have 18 women working with the Media Project as Documentors, Editors, Coordinators, Advisors, Consultants and Supporters.  We are delighted to have women offering their support and assistance like Martha Wheelock who has produced over a dozen highly acclaimed award-winning and internationally shown films. 

Julia Penelope, widely published writer and editor extraordinaire, is another of our Consultants.  We are pleased to welcome internationally-recognized Liliana Kleiner, highly successful artist who has also produced award-winning films, has books published in 3 languages, and does performance art.

Although only 18 months old, the Media Project has already completed and is distributing 3 full-length DVD documentaries of the lives of 4 women from Alapine Village in Alabama-- Ellen Spangler & Mary Alice Stout; Linnea Almgren; Winnie Freed. At least two more DVDs are scheduled for release in 2008.

Like all WE&S sponsored Projects, materials produced by the Media Project are available on a sliding scale, including offer whatever you can.