Paradigm Shift

No Longer in Exile:
The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at the New School
Friday, March 26 and Saturday, March 27
Theresa Lang Center (55. W. 13^th St.)

Friday, March 26, 2010:

Session 1: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
The State of the Art: Gender Studies

Saturday, March 27, 2010:

Session 2: 10:00am -12:30pm
Gender Studies: What Histories Do We Want to Claim?

Lunch served: 12:30pm -1:15pm

Session 3: 1:15pm-3:45pm
Gender Studies and Body Politics: Intersections, Directions, Representations

Coffee Break: 3:45pm – 4:00pm

Session 4: 4:00pm – 6:30pm
Front Lines and Boundary Lines: Reports from a Developing Field
Wine and Cheese Reception: 6:30pm – 8:00pm

“Inspiring Women” is being held in conjunction with this conference. The exhibit will take place adjacent to the conference in the Theresa Lang Center, March 26-27, 2010. The exhibition will then be on view in the Gimbel Library from March 29-May 31, 2010.

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Monday, February 22, 8 pm
The Tea Lounge
837 Union St.
Brooklyn, NY
FREE!
Join us for a screening of Obvious Child, a short romantic comedy about a Brooklyn gal who has an unplanned pregnancy, an abortion, and a great first date in an unlikely location. Activists from NARAL Pro-Choice New York will be there to talk about how you can help pass the Reproductive Health Act, a critical bill that will protect the fundamental right of a woman and her doctor to make private medical decisions here in New York State.
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March Across the Brooklyn Bridge for Health Care & the ‘Change Agenda’

Call Out the Special Interests and their Political Obstructionists
that are stopping ‘Change’ in Washington!

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH

11:30 a.m. – Gather at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn
12 noon – March across Brooklyn Bridge
1:00 p.m. – Rally outside NYC offices of Wellpoint Insurance
One Liberty Plaza, Broadway & Liberty Street in Manhattan

Bring posters, signs, and banners!

• AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE. Washington must move forward on a Change Agenda!
• HEALTH CARE IS THE WEDGE ISSUE FOR THE CHANGE AGENDA. If health care moves, so does everything else: jobs and labor law reform, climate change, financial services reform, and immigration reform.
• WASHINGTON MUST FINISH THE JOB ON HEALTH CARE. Get health care reform done, get it done right, and get it done now!
• THE SPECIAL INTERESTS AND THEIR POLITICAL SHILLS ARE STOPPING HEALTH CARE AND THE CHANGE AGENDA – health insurers, drug companies, banks and Wall St. firms, business trade groups.

Organized by Barack Obama Democratic Club, Center for Independence of the Disabled in NY, Citizen Action of NYC, Committee of Interns and Residents SEIU Healthcare, Communications Workers of America, Downtown East for Obama, Eric’s Law, Health Care for All NY, Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, MoveOn, National Physicians Alliance, NW Bronx for Change, NY-DSA, NY Immigration Coalition, NYers for Accessible Health Coverage, NYC for Change, NYS Nurses Assoc., Public Health Assoc. of NYC, Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need, UWS Baby Boomers for Change, Queens County for Change, Tribeca for Change, Westchester Health Care Reform Task Force, Young Invincibles

For more information or to sign-on as a sponsor, contact nycforchange.health@gmail.com or 212-925-1829.

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Start Time: Friday, March 5 at 7:00pm
End Time: Friday, March 5 at 9:30pm
Where: 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street

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Released in 2007 to great reviews, Stephanie Daley is the film that deal with reproductive rights and teenage sexuality that Juno wishes it was. The shame is that so few people saw it.

Come and watch the film and hear director Hilary Brougher talk about the film with Melissa Silverstein of Women & Hollywood.

Purchase tickets: Click here

Divorce Forum Meeting

Sponsored by the National Organization for Women-NYS

The next NOW divorce/custody/support forum meeting will be held tomorrow on Wednesday, February 17th, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm. As always there is an experienced matrimonial attorney attending to answer your questions and there is exciting news about legislation passed you should all know about.    Hope to see you there.  Please RSVP Tracy at  (516) 233-9343

What the Forum is NOT: free legal representation.

What the Forum IS:  It is an opportunity to learn how to help yourself navigate the murky waters of the court systems procedures and rules, to learn what options may be available to you, and to get answers to legal questions from an experienced matrimonial attorney free of charge.

It is also an opportunity to occasionally be involved in actions like supporting legislation so desperately needed to bring women a level playing field in courts.

It is an opportunity to network with women who are facing the same challenges that you are, and other women who often have the same judge, attorney, forensic and/or law guardian as you do.

Want to be involved in an important survey that addresses this issue?

Go to our  home page www.nownys.org and download the survey, fill it out and send it to us asap.

There are 2 opportunities to participate in this class!
Class 1: February 24, 2010, Noon-1 pm EST
Class 2: March 2, 2010, 8-9 pm EST
Cost: FREE

Tickets: http://amyjogoddard.eventbrite.com

Web: http://www.amyjogoddard.com

Many women are super empowered in the world, very successful and able to freely assert themselves—but they are unable to carry this power into their sexual lives, leaving them feeling insecure, or deprived of a core power they question whether they can really have. Many cultural factors, including a lack of know-how and role models, contribute to this gap. When your role models for what is sexually powerful come from narrow depictions of women in ubiquitous advertising, music videos or even pornography, it’s hard to figure out what your authentic sexual power actually looks like!
In this engaging and thought-provoking teleclass, you’ll discover:

• 4 core reasons why women become sexually disempowered
• 4 Essential elements that can assist you to nurture and grow
your sexuality, no matter where you are right now
• How your own creativity can nurture your sexuality and help
you come closer to your core sexual self
• 6 steps to personally empower yourself sexually

Sexuality educator Amy Jo Goddard will discuss the gaps and patterns she has observed over her 15 year sexuality career, and provide concrete ways women can access their most authentically powerful sexual selves. Women of all sexual orientations and identities are welcome to be a be part of this dynamic class, to begin to dialogue about feeling more confident in their own sexuality and with their sexual and intimate partners.