Wings & Dreams:4 Elements of a New Feminism publisher, Maria-Anna Foohs, of Bavaria, Germany, will be at Bluestockings bookstore, at 7 pm on May 23, 2010, to discuss, read, and open the conversation on a New Feminism. This book, reviewed by Paradigm Shift’s Shawnta Smith, is in German and English, and invites women and men to harmonize to solve some major women’s rights issues.
For more information on “Wings and Dreams: 4 Elements of a New Feminism”
VISIT WWW.RETHINKINGVIRGINITY.TUMBLR.COM FOR FULL SCHEDULE AND SPEAKER BIOS
May 3, 2010
10:15am- 5:15pm
Harvard University
Is there a sex-positive way to teach abstinence? What are the historical and cultural origins of the virginity ideal? How does a queer person lose their virginity? Does anyone even know what virginity really is?
From debunking myths to defying norms, the Rethinking Virginity Conference will feature gender and sexuality scholars and experts, including:
Lori Adelman ’08 (Feministing.com, International Women’s Health Coalition)
Lux Alptraum (Fleshbot)
Chloe Angyal (Feministing.com)
Megara Bell (Partners In Sex Education)
Sady Doyle (Tiger Beatdown)
Dr. R. Marie Griffith (Harvard Divinity School)
Elizabeth Janaik (Center for Wellness at Harvard University Health Services)
Dr. Kathleen Kelly (Department of English at Northeastern University)
Shelby Knox (“The Education of Shelby Knox”)
Ellyn Ruthstrom (Bisexual Resource Center)
Therese Shechter (“I Was A Teenage Feminist”, “How To Lose Your Virginity”).
This conference is free and open to the public. Attendance at the entire conference is not mandatory but please register if you plan on attending any part of the event. To register, RSVP to this Facebook page and send an email to rethinkingvirginity@gmail.com with your name in the subject line of your email.
For more information, visit www.rethinkingvirginity.tumblr.com. Does your organization want to table at the event? Interested in becoming an official publicity partner? Email lenachen[at]fas.harvard.edu.
WATER’s Feminist Conversations in Religion Series presents an Hour-long Teleconference
A Conversation with Letha Dawson Scanzoni
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Letha Dawson Scanzoni is an independent scholar and writer
specializing in the intersection between religion and social issues.
She has written on such topics as feminism, relationships of love and
friendship, self-esteem and personal growth, human diversity, marriage
and family living, divorce, aging and care giving, sexuality and
gender, sex ethics, social justice-oriented folk music, and physical
and psychological family violence.
She is the author or coauthor of nine books. She co-authored with
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott the influential book Is the Homosexual My
Neighbor? With Nancy Hardesty she coauthored All We’re Meant to Be,
which helped launch the biblical feminist movement in the 1970s.
Letha is editor of Christian Feminism Today, a publication of the
Evangelical and Ecumenical Women’s Caucus (formerly titled EEWC
Update). She is also the content provider for the EEWC website and
writes the “Web Explorations for Christian Feminists” featured on that
site. In addition, she coauthors the 72-27 blog, “A
cross-generational dialogue between two Christian feminists,” with
Kimberly B. George.
Letha Scanzoni wrote “Why We Need Evangelical Feminists,” a chapter in
the forthcoming WATER collection, New Feminist Christianity: Many
Voices, Many Views edited by Mary E. Hunt and Diann L. Neu, to be
published in July 2010 by SkyLight Paths Publishing. We will feature
more of the volume’s authors on these calls throughout the year.
Please feel free to join us on the call for a fascinating discussion
with a highly respected colleague. We are delighted to work with the
women of EEWC who are doing remarkable work to transform their
traditions. So gather some friends, have lunch, and join in the
conversation! All are welcome.
The Feminist Conversations in Religion are open to all. These
hour-long live teleconferences highlight the latest issues addressed
by WATER. In addition to the teleconferences, feel free to go to our
Web site www.hers.com/water to listen to an audio version at your
convenience.
To register for the April 27, 2010 conversation with Letha Dawson Scanzoni:
Click water@hers.com now.
Type “Register Me” in the subject line, and send.
You will receive dial-in instructions by return email.
We encourage you to make a donation to WATER. Thank you.
The Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)
8121 Georgia Avenue, Suite 310
Silver Spring MD 20910
301-589-2509; Fax 301-589-3150
A comedic musical about one woman’s struggle to discover herself sexually and defy the taboos of society on female masturbation.
This musical preview is an hour show premiering at the Duplex on Monday, May 3rd, at 7pm.
Tickets are $10 with a 2 drink minimum, credit cards are accepted and payment isn’t taken until the end of the show.
Please join us because “If you can’t love yourself, who can you love”?
Reserved tickets are recommended. You can reserve via the website.
Go to: www.confessionsmusical.com or
Facebook http://bit.ly/bKFbs3 for more information.
Help us celebrate the exciting launch of CLICK: Moments When We Knew We Were Feminists (Seal Press) edited by our very own Courtney E. Martin and good pal, J. Courtney Sullivan.
The anthology features essays from Feministing co-founder Jessica Valenti, as well as editor Miriam Zoila Perez, among so many other awesome feminist voices (Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards, Rebecca Traister, Deborah Siegel, Shelby Knox, Winter Miller, Allisa Quart, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen etc.)
Gloria Steinem says: ” “You know how little kids say, ‘It’s not fair!’ and ‘You are not the boss of me!’? That innate sense of fairness is the earliest source of every revolution — including feminism. As more little girls grow up without being schooled or shamed out of this sense, more women, and many men, too, are having ‘Clicks!’ — those life-changing moments in which we see and stop putting up with the imbalance between women and men. Read this diverse, touching and entertaining anthology of ‘Click!’ stories to find a fairness that is all your own.”
Wed, April 28, 2010
6:00-9:00 pm
No Malice Palace
197 E. 3rd Street b/w Aves A and B, NYC
“Critical Beginnings: How Sex-Negative, Anti-Feminist Culture Sets Us Up for Violence”
Amy Jo Goddard, MA
April 29, 2010
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Barnard College Altschul Hall, Room 202
Broadway and 116th Street
Even with all of the progress we have made in creating pockets of sex-positive culture, setting new norms for the flow of smart, honest sexuality information and education, and the tremendous work of the feminist movement, we still live in a culture that is overwhelmingly sex-negative and anti-feminist. Sexuality educator, activist and filmmaker Amy Jo Goddard will discuss the roots of sexual disempowerment, and specifically, how our critical beginnings which suppress healthy sexual expression, which uphold harmful gender norms, and which fail to create gender equity set us up for violence. In this lecture, Amy Jo will discuss how unprocessed shame, guilt and/or trauma, a lack of education, role models and resources about sexuality, cultural, social and gender expectations—and the sexist code embedded in these cultural norms, and sexual stereotypes all contribute to a culture that promotes disempowerment and violence against women.
In this critical look at how sex-negative, anti-feminist culture disempowers us all, this lecture will make a call to women and men to take steps that will empower and enable healthy, authentic sexuality and dismantle conditions that feed and support violence.
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Passing the Reproductive Health Act will ensure that every woman in New York has the opportunity to make the decisions that are right for her, her family, and her future.
Why we need the Reproductive Health Act?
The Reproductive Health Act guarantees a woman’s right to control her reproductive health; ensures that a woman will be able to have an abortion if her health is endangered; treats the regulation of abortion as an issue of public health and medical practice, rather than as a potential crime; and guarantees everyone the right to use or refuse contraception.
New Yorkers overwhelmingly support a woman’s right to decide if and when to have a child — according to a NARAL Pro‐Choice New York/Global Strategy Group poll of registered voters, three‐quarters of New Yorkers support the Reproductive Health Act!
Sign the Reproductive Health Act petition on-line!:
The Justice Action Center, LSRJ and Pieper Bar Review are proud to welcome Shelby Knox and Aimee Thorne-Thomsen of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project to NYLS for this exciting event. Shelby and Aimee will discuss the ongoing debate over the issues concerning federally-funded abstinence only sex education from 6-7 p.m. We will then screen Shelby’s ground-breaking film, “The Education of Shelby Knox” from 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to NYLSLSRJ@gmail.com
Location: 185 West Broadway, Auditorium
Virtual Phone Bank for the Reproductive Health Act!
Thursday, May 6th 6:30-8:30
Tuesday, May 11th 6:30-8:30
Thursday, May 20th 6:30-8:30
Thursday, May 27th 6:30-8:30
NARAL offices: 470 Park Avenue South, 7th Floor South, New York, NY 10016
Join us in our offices or from home to mobilize NARAL Pro-Choice New York members to take action in support of the Reproductive Health Act, a vital bill that will protect the fundamental right of a woman and her doctor to make private medical decisions. We will transfer members directly to their State Representatives to make their pro-choice voices heard. Training and dinner will be provided.
To RSVP, please contact Lalena Howard at lhoward@prochoiceny.org or 646-520-3506
**To join our phone banks remotely, all you need is a computer with hi-speed internet access and a phone. If you are interested in phone banking from home contact, please indicate that when you RSVP to our Community Organizer atlhoward@prochoiceny.org or 646-520-3506**
