"Making Ourselves a(t) Home in Academia": The Founding of OSCLG

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1973—AnaMaria dropped her suitcase on the bed and grabbed an apple from the fridge. After flying all day from one coast of the United States to the other, she was starving. She had just returned from the annual convention of the Speech Communication Association (SCA),2 disillusioned by everything associated with “the academy”— especially the closed-minded reactions to her quest to pursue issues of sex in communication for her dissertation research.3 Feeling quite alone, she sought comfort in her books. She found her copy of Betty Freidan’s The Feminine Mystique on the shelf and plopped on the couch. She doubted she would reread any of it, but just holding it made her feel better.