Paradigm Shift

Show your love for “indie, feminist publishing” this Friday night by heading to 116 (116 MacDougal Street, New York, NY) at 9 pm for “Faster, Pussycat,” a dance party to benefit the Feminist Press!  There will be raffles, including prizes from Babeland and Dykes in the City.

Co-hosted by:
Bklyn Boihood
The Desk Set
Que(e)ry Librarians
Riot Grrrl Ink
with media sponsor Velvetpark: Dyke Culture in Bloom

9pm-11pm DJ Shae Bryant
11pm raffle prizes! announced by Bevin Branlandingham
Then WOAHMONE (Nath Ann & Savannah!) brings us dancing into judgement day!

moving images by Nica Ross!
super rad FP books for sale!
plus Tura Satana immortalized on the big screen all night long!

$5 before 10pm, $7 after.

RSVP on Facebook today!

Women’s Voices Now, in conjunction with the Rubin Museum of Art, presents a film and dialogue event focused on women of the Muslim World.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Catinca Tabacaru
919.475.8407

May 17, 2011—Riding high after the successful Women’s Voices from the Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival, held in Hollywood, CA, Women’s Voices Now (WVN), a non-profit New York City-based arts organization, has partnered with The Rubin Museum of Art to bring the Festival films and women’s issues to the forefront.

On May 21st, The Rubin Museum of Art (150 W. 17th Street) presents A Focus on Afghanistan, featuring a full day of screenings and two panel discussions highlighting WVN’s astounding collection of Afghan films. This collection is the largest collection of Afghan films ever presented outside of Afghanistan. The films touch upon a range of subjects from drug addiction and domestic violence to tae-kwon-do and fashion, and feature some of Afghanistan’s most inspiring and powerful women. The screenings will be held in four segments beginning at 12pm, 1pm, 3pm and 4pm. At 2:25pm, there will be a panel discussion with Rina Amiri (Political Affairs Officer in the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General at the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan-UNAMA), Masha Hamilton (author and founder of the Camel Book Drive and the Afghan Women’s Writing Project), and Wazhmah Osman (filmmaker, Buried Alive: Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban). A second panel discussion will begin at 5:25 with Anita Anastacio (Senior Technical Advisor for Education, International Rescue Committee), Vikram Parekh (Policy Officer in the United Nations Peace-building Support Office) and Sunita Viswanath (co-founder for Women for Afghan Women). Each panel will contextualize the films preceeding the discussion and with provide further insight on the on the topics addressed. TIckets for the event can be purchased at www.rmanyc.org.

For more information, visit www.womensvoicesnow.org/events

In a dark humor vein, Dessert & Disorders links together the ideas of the final course of a meal and human obsessive-compulsive disorders. Murky impulses and mental dysfunctions are presented or “served” as a treat, through a combination of video and stills.

Opening reception with the artist: June 2nd, 6-8pm
Show runs June 2nd- July 2nd at the –
Bill Hodges Gallery (24 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019)

Schreiner’s exploration of problematic states of mind is conveyed through self-representations consisting of obsessive repetition of the same actions. Self-representation and prominent use of the body have been key elements for feminist interpretations of works of art by female artists, such as Ana Mendieta and Cindy Sherman. Nonetheless, Schreiner’s work significantly differs from Mendieta’s and Sherman’s. Compared to Mendieta, Schreiner does not disguise the body in natural environments in order to signify a return to Mother Nature; instead, she emphasizes and dramatizes the presence of the body through the use of sensuality. And unlike Sherman, Schreiner’s use of self-representation does not involve playing stereotypical female roles in front of the camera; self-representation is, for Schreiner, instrumental to portraying mental states that affect behavior and the body, regardless of gender. Her video portrayals are often accompanied with flowers, glitter and food-smashing gestures in what seems to simultaneously be an attempt to establish an imaginary world filled with magic, and an effort to destroy it.

For more information about “Dessert and Disorders,” check out .

You can make a difference.

Join us Wednesday, May 11, 2011 –  In front of the NYPD Rape Cop’s  misogynist lawyers, Joe Tacopina and Chad Seigel, whose strategy is to put the rape victim on trial and questioningly compared her bruised genitalia and all women’s private parts that Seigel calls “it” he compares to a Venus fly trap that snaps shut!

Comparing women’s private parts to a fleshing eating plant in court is an in your face hate crime.

Even more woman will not come forward and the stats for RAPES are up!!!!

See you in front of Joe Tacopina Chad Seigel’s law firm (275 Madison Avenue at 40th Street)
Contact: Stoprapenyc@yahoo.com or Suzannahartist on YouTube
Go to YouTube search Tacopina Seigel NYPD Rape – watch YouTube series.

Reminder –  Tacopina represented Hiram Monserrate until he couldn’t tax payers to pay his $750 an hour rate and represented Natalee Holloway’s murderer – you can watch Tacopina on YouTube declaring Van der Sloot’s innocence.  It is sickening!!!

Poetic People Power will premiere its 9th annual show titled “The Revolution Will Be…” at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Poets include Tara Bracco, Erica R. DeLaRosa, Andy Emeritz, Frantz Jerome, Shetal Shah, Jonathan Walton and Justin Woo.

Date: May 25, 2011
Time: 7 PM
Venue: Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 East 3^rd Street, NYC
Admission: $15 online or at the door.

Poetic People Power is an ongoing project that combines poetry and activism. Each year, poets are commissioned to write new poems about timely social or political issues. In light of recent events, this year’s show focuses on protest and revolution. Join us as our poets bring their creativity to the stage! More info at www.poeticpeoplepower.com

Poetic People Power is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Monday, May 9, 2011 at 6:30 pm ET
The Paley Center for Media (25 W. 52nd Street, New York, NY)

IN PERSON

Qanta Ahmed, Associate Professor of Medicine, SUNY-Stony Brook; Author, In the Land of Invisible Women
Maha Awad, International Television Host and Producer
Danielle Lurie, Filmmaker, In The Morning
Negar Mottahedeh, Associate Professor, Program in Literature Duke University – Reading Film Fiction
Catinca Tabacaru, Executive Director and General Council, Women’s Voices Now

The Paley Center in partnership with Women’s Voices Now and the Rubin Museum will examine how women in Muslim worlds are using media to illuminate their personal and cultural environments. The panelists will consider what happens to a previously closed society that now confronts the free-flowing information of the Internet, as well as how women are using all types of media to struggle for civil, economic, and political rights. The discussion will also focus on the recent uprisings in the Middle East and the role played by women using social media and the Internet. Before the discussion, several films from different genres will be screened to exemplify the diversity of these women’s response.

Follow the live tweets @PaleyCenter on Twitter and use #MuslimWomen and #PaleyLiveNY to join the conversation!