Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff

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Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff (birth year - ) is the former editor of Gentle Spirit magazine,[1] a homeschooling and homesteading magazine, published between 1989 and 2001, that reached a readership of approximately 35,000 before being forced from the marketplace in an anti-trust lawsuit, Seelhoff v. Welch. Seelhoff's high profile in Christian homeschooling, and the details of the case which was decided in Seelhoff's favor, led to the case being closely watched by the U.S. homeschooling movement as a battle for its control between conservative Christian and independent homeschoolers.[2][3] A former ardent Quiverfull proponent and birth-mother of eleven children, she has since divorced her husband and become a writer, and under the pseudonym "Heart", a radical feminist blogger.[4] [5] [6]

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Homeschool Anti-Trust lawsuit

In 1997, Seelhoff filed an antitrust lawsuit against eight conservative Christian individuals and organizations, including competing homeschooling guru Mary Pride, represented with the assistance of the Home School Legal Defense Association. The case went to trial in September 1998 and a unanimous jury found in Seelhoff's favor, awarding her in excess of $1 million (Pride herself settled out-of court). The lawsuit was dubbed the "Homeschooling's Anti-Trust Case".[7]

Politics and philosophy

In 2001 Seelhoff created a radical feminist[8] website and began writing and publishing feminist articles. In 2006 Seelhoff served as guest editor at the invitation of the collective of the feminist newsjournal Off Our Backs and has since written additional articles for Off Our Backs and other publications.[9]

References

  1. ^ See archived articles and issues at the Gentle Spirit website
  2. ^ See Helen Cordes, "Battling for the Heart and Soul of Homeschoolers" in Salon Magazine, October 2, 2000. Also, see Helen Hegener, "Homeschooling Freedoms at Risk," Home Education Magazine, March 5, 1996.
  3. ^ Cheryl Seelhoff, Who Stole Homeschooling, in The Link, Vol. 5, No. 2
  4. ^ Linda Dobson,Newswatch Special Report, Home Education Magazine, Sept/Oct 1999
  5. ^ Shay Seaborne,The Truth About Cheryl, Home Education Magazine, Sept/Oct 1999
  6. ^ Helen Hegener, Interview with Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff, Home Education Magazine, Sept/Oct 1999
  7. ^ Home Education News, April 2004
  8. ^ The Margins
  9. ^ See,Confronting the Religious RightOff Our Backs, 7/1/06;Women in the Military: The Rape of the Hadji Girl, Off Our Backs, 4/1/06;Join Us! The Motherhood Revolution, Off Our Backs, 4/1/06; Motherhood as Revolution: Raising Bi-Racial Children, Off Our Backs, 1/1/06;Radical Feminism and the Politics of Pregnancy and Birth,Off Our Backs, 1/1/06

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