when i was working with shane watson on the historic context statement, the women's building came up as an important venue for so many community groups organizing for social change. within the lgbtq2 community, but other important social movements in san francisco. i started talking with the national park service about it being a very significant site that had not yet received the recognition that was due. at first we were work on nominating it as a national historic landmark, which i was thrilled about because it represented a kind of radical shift for the park service to think about funding and nomination for an nhl that was about radical history and was about second wave femininism for which there are very few sites nominated or designated at the national level. after trump was elected, the park service called me and said there's no way we're going to get this signed by whatever secretary of the interior comes into place. so let's make this nomination to the national register so that's the path i've been work on. this nomination was developed with financial support, from the natio