This video is from the SPARK summit. How should we (as adults) frame the discussion about the media’s sexualization of girls? Do you agree with the approach of this video? Is anything missing from its analysis?
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Do It Anyway – Tyrone Boucher
Tyrone Boucher is one of the eight activists profiled by Courtney E. Martin in her new book, Do It Anyway.
What activism is inspiring you that isn’t getting the coverage in the mainstream media that it deserves?
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recLAmation film trailer
Come to the Makeshift Reclamation events in NYC on October 14th and 16th for a screening of Hilary Goldberg’s entire film.
Here for details.
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Makeshift Reclamation
If anyone is familiar with the stellar feminist magazine make/shift (and get your hands on a copy ASAP if you aren’t!), you’ll be thrilled to know that there is an affiliated event that will be stopping by NYC in the next few days. It’s called Makeshift Reclamation, and it’s a bit hard to describe, so I’ll defer to their own words:
“A multimedia event showcasing how contemporary feminists are resisting and creating alternatives to not only gender-based oppression but also a collapsing economic system, climate crisis, and more. Featuring live readings, performances, and video works by artists and activists including Jessica Hoffmann, coeditor/copublisher of the independent, transnational, antiracist feminist magazine make/shift; Hilary Goldberg, whose new project, recLAmation, is a Super 8 experimental documentary/narrative film in which queer superheroes navigate a future beyond capitalism; and others.”
October 14, 2010 Barnard College, 6:30 pm
October 16, 2010 Bluestockings, 7 pm
Both events are free.
For more information, check out their website.
Women Deserve Choice
Sonya Renee \”What Women Deserve\”
If this doesn’t inspire you about the issue of Reproductive Justice, I don’t know what will. Sonya Renee’s poem is amazing because it demonstrates the complexities of abortion rights, how social and economic injustices are inextricably tied up in the issue. She reveals the hollowness of the anti-abortion movement’s rhetoric that to be pro-life is to somehow be pro-woman. Her language is powerful, in a hits-you-in-the-gut, sends-shivers-down-your-spine kind of way.
Sometimes, it is easy to reside in a bubble–for me, studying at a women’s college in Manhattan, a place where a support of abortion is assumed to be a given–and not fully realize the extent to which women’s reproductive rights are under siege around the country. In Colorado right now, for instance, there is an amendment that will shortly be voted on which seeks to legally define a fertilized egg as a person, with all the attendant rights (more on this topic shortly). What the Reproductive Justice movement reminds us is that while abortion is technically legal in the United States, not all women have equal access to reproductive health services, and any analysis of reproductive rights must be done with an eye to other existing economic and social inequalities.
On Wednesday, there will be a day long conference called Critical Intersections: Reproductive and Economic Justice, which is organized by the New York Women’s Foundation and the Barnard Center for Research on Women. If you are interested in this event, click here for more information. It will be held at Barnard College in New York (117th and Broadway).
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