Come out for the WAM!NYC weekend kick-off HAPPY HOUR this Friday with Paradigm Shift NYC!. We’re gathering at 6:30 p.m. at the sleek, chic Ella Lounge at 9 Ave. A in the East Village! Meet new friends, mingle, and get psyched for the WAM-lt-Yourself conference this Saturday! http://www.womenactionmedia.org/events/wamit/nyc/
Feel free to bring interested friends and colleagues!! We always have a great time.
See you there!!!
Best,
Emily and Jean (and Paradigm Shift NYC)
“Understanding Domestic Violence: Essentials and Intersections” is a four-day intensive course on the fundamentals of domestic violence, emphasizing the intersections between violence and the many health and social justice issues affecting New York City’s communities. Topics include types of abuse and trauma, why men batter and abuse, impact of abusive behavior on women and children, multiple forms of safety planning, HIV and substance abuse, culture and immigration, DV in LGBTQ relationships, and navigating social service and legal systems. This course is the prerequisite for all CTI courses.
The course is on Fridays – 3/25/11, 4/1/11, 4/8/11, 4/15/11 from 9:30am-5pm
CONNECT is dedicated to preventing interpersonal violence and promoting gender justice. Through legal empowerment, grassroots mobilization and transformative education, we seek to create safe families and peaceful communities.
The course fee is 200 dollars but there is a sliding scale available to help accommodate all people that are interested.
For any other questions or concerns, email connect@connectnyc.org or call (212) 683-0015 ext.215.
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“Using the theme: ‘No Wave: Moving Past the Tide” the 11th Vision in Feminism will create a space to push against the limits of the current understanding of feminism. The theme ‘No Wave’ is more than an exploration of the distinct, and all too limiting waves, so often referred to in feminism. Together we will interrogate: exclusionary spaces that approaching oppression as silos of experience, manifestations of identity warfare, and find ways to leap over the gaps between feminist theory and anti-oppression application. There will be three tracks of workshops:
1. Groundwork: revisiting the primary elements of Feminism through its actions, goals, and faults.
2. Skillshare: Application of theory from sharing how to safely ride a bike, to dismantle the machine of our oppression.
3. Digging Deeper: No space for ‘theory for theory sake’ these workshops will focus on ‘doing the work’ of challenging each participant to move forward applying current critique writing and theorizing.
Registration for the conference is a sliding scale of $10 – $15 in advance and $15 for day-of registration.
vegan breakfast and lunch provided. Childcare upon request- please email if needed!
American University students get free admission with student ID.
Paying online will allow us to better gauge food and beverage needs. Additionally, if you pay more than $10 the additional funds are paid forward to a scholarship attendee: http://tinyurl.com/ViFPayPal
After the conference please join us at Science Club for the annual HIPS Benefit Art Night! More details to come!
Questions? Ask us! Email ViF with questions, concerns, and to pre-register: visionsinfeminism@gmail.com.
For more details leading up to the conference and pre-conference events:
www.vifcollective.com“
Ladybits co-founder Abbi Crutchfield has long been co-hosting New York’s longest running clean comedy show, Living Room Comedy, with Luke Thayer at the Postmark Cafe in Park Slope.
This month, Living Room’s shows will feature all-female lineups as Ladybits meets the Living Room in a grand estrogen explosion!
Featuring Arden Myrin, Nikki Glaser, Jennifer Grant, and Ladybits co-founders Abbi Crutchfield and Jen Dziura.
Come and make yourself at home with Abbi and Luke at this unique comedy show. It’s just like your living room…only hilarious! (By “just like your living room,” we mean there’s good coffee and scones!)
Friday, March 25 @ 8pm
NO Cover, NO Food/Bev. Minimum! Totally FREE!
The Living Room at Postmark Cafe
326 6th Street (between 4th & 5th aves)
Park Slope, BK 11215
www.livingroomcomedy.blogspot.com
or call (718) 768-2613
Take the F train to 7th Ave stop or 4th Ave/9th Street stop
OR Take the R train to 4th Ave/9th Street stop.
Tomorrow, March 13th, join Sunsara Taylor for a discussion entitled “Ending Women’s Oppression: Imagining – and Fighting For – a Different World!” The talk will be taking place at 3:00 pm at Revolution Books (146 W. 26th Street, New York, NY). Remember to set your clocks ahead!
Taylor is a writer for Revolution newspaper and sits on the advisory board for The World Can’t Wait!, a group that “organizes people living in the United States to repudiate and stop the fascist direction initiated by the Bush Regime, including: the murderous, unjust and illegitimate occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; the global “war of terror” of torture, rendition and spying; and the culture of bigotry, intolerance and greed.”
If that alone is not enough to convince you to attend this talk, here is a brief description of the event:
“If you are a woman, your body is a battleground. Spin the globe. Anywhere you look women are being held down and slammed backwards, objectified and degraded. But there is no biological, god-given, or man-made reason why things have to remain this way. All this can change through revolution and through building a movement for revolution — starting now!”
A donation of five dollars will be requested at the door.
Reflections on International Women’s Day, from Anika Rahman, the new president of the Ms. Foundation.
It’s also Feminist Coming Out Day, a new national campaign. Declare your feminist pride at http://feministcomingoutday.com/sub
On Friday, March 18th, and Saturday, March 19th, the New School will be hosting “Endangered Species: Preserving the Female Body,” “an international summit to challenge the toxic culture that teaches women and girls to hate their bodies.” The conference is being organized by the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute and plans to “launch a comprehensive, worldwide campaign in collaboration with the leading organizations and individuals already on the front lines of this public mental health epidemic. This campaign will engage government officials, educational institutions, multi-national corporations, the fashion industry, and the mainstream media to join us in creating a new visual culture–one where the diverse, real beauty of women and girls is valued and magnified. The time is now. Take back your body. Re-imagine the world.”
“The summit will be a lively combination of keynote speeches, panels, international video testimonials, LOVED BODIES, BIG IDEAS presentations, and group discussions/action groups. We hope it incorporates frank, complex, and solution-oriented conversations among a genuinely diverse range of people.”
For more information about the schedule and speakers, check out the program.
The website also has information about online registration, details about other activist events in New York City, and great blog posts about body politics!
The Second Annual ‘Engendering Progress’ event honoring women thought-leaders, activists, and trailblazers will be held on Thursday, March 24th from 7-11pm at popular establishment Marquee at 289 Tenth Avenue in Manhattan.
This year’s honorees include: GEMS, Domestic Workers United, Women’s Media Center, Krista Brenner (pro-choice activist and one of the few women in New York State to hold the position of campaign manager in 2010) and Lizz Winstead, co-creator of the Daily Show. We are expecting a strong showing of several hundred progressive young people and a special guest elected official!
HERE is information on last year’s honorees as well as some pictures of the event which attracted over 100 young people and brought together many groups that had not had the chance to meet previously.
RSVP on Facebook and
Co-sponsors include: NY Downstate Young Democrats, NYS Young Democrats Caucus of Color, Greater NYC for Change, New Kings Democrats, Paradigm Shift (NYC’s Feminist Community), Women Elect, and NARAL Pro-choice NYC.
Meet PShifters at 12:30 PM Tomorrow- Front of Duane Reade at 111 Worth St., corner of Worth and Lafayette
Look for the PShift banner (cell 201.394.8173)
IT’S TIME TO FIGHT BACK!
Join us Saturday, February 26th at 1:00pm in Foley Square! Stand with thousands of New Yorkers and voice a common message:
RSVP here TODAY:
http://bit.ly/eX9rEb And share this event with your friends!Sponsoring Organizations: (List in formation) Choice Matters, Community Health Care Networks, Concerned Clergy for Choice, Diaspora Community Services, Family Planning Advocates of New York State, Feminist Majority Foundation, Judson Memorial Church, League of Women Voters-Nassau County, Inwood House, Long Island Women’s Association, NARAL Pro-Choice NY, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, National Council of Jewish Women New York Section, New York Civil Liberties Union, NOW-New York City, NOW-New York State, Planned Parenthood Affiliates New Jersey, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood Mid- Hudson Valley, Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, Planned Parenthood of New York City, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, Public Health Association of New York City, Public Health Solutions, Raising Women’s Voices, Religious Institute, Reproductive Health Access Project, SisterSong NY, Trust Black Women, Trust Women, United Neighborhood Houses, Violence Intervention Inc., Women’s Media Center, Working Families Party, YWCA of Brooklyn
