and more to come…! 

Tuesday, April 3
Family Values with Jennifer Baumgardner and Pagan Kennedy
7-9pm, KGB BarLook Both Ways, part memoir, part exploration of the growing number of young women who date both women and men and why that’s now possible. Jennifer Baumgardner, co-author of Manifesta and Grassroots, frequently writes and lectures on feminism, activism, and popular culture for magazines and on college campuses around the country.

The First Man-Made Man tells one of the most incredible life stories of the 20th century: the world’s first female-to-male sex change in late 1930s and 1940s.The book also leads readers through the medical breakthroughs that would forever change the rules of living in a human body. Pagan Kennedy has published eight previous books in a variety of genres, including novels and non-fiction narratives. She is a contributor to the New York Times Magazine and the Boston Globe Magazine.

Wednesday, April 4th – Free
Reading: Alix Kates Shulman “Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen”
7pm, Bluestockings Book Store
Join award-winning author and activist Alix Kates Shulman in celebrating the new, 35th Anniversary edition of “Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen.” A million-copy bestseller and called “the first important novel to emerge from the women’s liberation movement, the book sardonically looks at the double-binds of growing up female and sexy in middle-class America.

Thursday, April 5th – Free
Reading: Jennifer Baumgardner “Look Both Ways”
7pm, Bluestockings Book Store
For acclaimed author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner, bisexuality has always been more than the sexual non-preference of the 1990’s. In her new book “Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics” Baumgardner takes a close look at the growing visibility of queer and bisexual characters on the national cultural stage. Baumgardner is the co-author of “Manifesta” and “Grassroots”.

Saturday, April 7
Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturday
FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC

* Talk: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Performance Space, 4th Floor
5:00 p.m.
Artists Ambreen Butt and Siona Benjamin hold a discussion on feminisms and art-making. Free tickets are available an hour prior to the event

*Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls and Black Rock Coalition
5 – 7pm in the main lobby of the Brooklyn Museum
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls and the Black Rock Coalition present a unique mix of female musicians from NYC:

*Film: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
6:00 p.m.
See the documentary The Grace Lee Project (Grace Lee, 2005, 68 min., PG), exploring Asian American female identity. Free tickets are available an hour prior to the event.

*6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Hands-On Art
Education Division, 1st Floor
Bring along images of women important to you and create your own feminist collage. Free timed tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.

* 6:30 p.m. Young Voices Gallery Talk
Meet in the Rubin Lobby, 1st Floor
Student Guides Megan Becker and Anna Piazza explore Global Feminisms. Free tickets are available an hour prior to the event.

*7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Performance
Hall of the Americas, 1st Floor
Internationally acclaimed quintet Imani Winds plays a unique blend of classical, world, and jazz.

*7:00 p.m. Artist Performance
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Performance Space, 4th Floor
Artist Mary Coble examines identity and gender with Gender Mask (becoming). Free tickets are available an hour prior to the event.
*7:30 p.m. Young Voices Gallery Talk
Meet in the Rubin Lobby, 1st Floor
Student Guide Tina Le brings a feminist perspective to the permanent collection. Free tickets are available an hour prior to the event.

*8:00 p.m. Gallery Talk and Book Signing
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Performance Space, 4th Floor
Dr. Elizabeth Sackler shares her ideas behind the Center for Feminist Art and discusses The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. A book signing follows the talk. Free tickets are available an hour prior to the event.

*8:30 p.m. Film
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Fire (Deepa Mehta, 1996, 104 min., not rated) follows two Hindu women on a triumphant journey out of loveless arranged marriages. Free tickets are available an hour prior to the event.

*9:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Dance Party
Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor
JD Samson of Le Tigre spins a brand of punk and dance music.

*9:30 p.m. Curator Talk
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor
Maura Reilly, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, gives a talk in Global Feminisms. Free tickets are available an hour prior to the event

Wednesday, April 25th – Free
Reading: Hanne Blank “Virgin: The Untouched History”
7pm, Bluestockings
Join author Hanne Blank for an evening of virgins! “Virgin: The Untouched History” is the first comprehensive history of virginity. “Thoroughly researched, carefully argued and written with a sly sense of humor,” according to Publishers’ Weekly, Virgin is a treasure trove of information and insight about this often ignored aspect of women’s lives. Hanne Blank is the author of “Unruly Appetites.”

April 12 – 13, 2007

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Women, Men, and Food:Putting Gender on the Table 

Radcliffe Gymnasium
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Radcliffe Institute’s fifth annual gender conference explores the relationship between food and gender, from production to preparation to consumption. Panels consider the variety of ways in which men and women shape food, and how, in turn, food and foodways shape men and women. The extraordinary culinary collection of the Schlesinger Library provides inspiration for the conference and its investigation of such topics as cooking, eating, famine, nutrition, obesity, anorexia, food writing, and food studies.

Admission is free and registration is required. To register, please visit www.radcliffe.edu or call 617-495-8600 for more information.

I was really excited about the prospect of using Google Calendars and embedding it into this blog – sadly, though, WordPress won’t let me do that. So I’m still searching for a new, better way to display events. If you’re a technological genius and have any great ideas, please let me know!

There are some excellent events coming up – including a feminist pedagogy conference in October, a feminist philosophy conference this May, and a Right Rides fundraiser here in NYC later this month!

Thursday, March 29th
RIGHTRIDES SPRING BENEFIT
NoCa
323 West Broadway, NYC
between Grand Street and Canal Street
7-10 PM
$50 pre-event Admission, $55 at the door (cash only)
tickets here

Also, Linda Stein of Borat fame (and one of my favorite feminist artists) has a show up at Flomenhaft Gallery. Scroll down on the March calendar for full info.

Thursday – March 1 
5:30pm
Desiring Change: Sexuality in Multi-Issue Organizing
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Free & open to the public; no reservations required.
A panel with Amber Hollibaugh, Surina Khan, & Scot Nakagawa

Thursday – 1 March:
7:00 PM
CHALLENGING RACISM:The Use of Critical Race Counterstories
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Free & open to the public; no reservations required.
A lecture with Tara J. Yosso

Friday – March 2nd:
6:30pm
SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH FUNDRAISER AND RAFFLE
Absolutely 4th
228 W. 4th Street ( @ W. 10th Street )
To Benefit SAYSO! (The Sexual Assault Yearly Speak Out, a 12-hour reading of survivors’ stories in Union Square Park April 20th, 2007 )
Raffle – 6:30-9:30pm
Dancing – 8pm on
(happy hour until 9pm)
Recommended donation of $10
Receive a 2007 SAYSO! T-shirt with a $20 donation
RSVP

Saturday – March 3:
7-10pm
Political Blogging Panel with Amanda Marcotte and Happy Hour
The Tank
279 Church Street between Franklin and White

Come join us for an evening of political conversation and inebriation with blogger Amanda Marcotte!

It was no surprise that the first major “controversy” of the 2008 campaign revolved around bloggers. Now that the dust has settled from the John Edwards blog flap, come hear the inside story and discuss what it all means for progressive politics, netroots activism and fighting the hypocritical right-wing noise machine.

Join us this Saturday at The Tank for a night conversation, drinking, and networking. Panel discussion at 7pm, followed by free drinks and drink specials until 10pm.

7pm
PANEL: CAMPAIGNING, BLOGGING AND FIGHTING BACK: Netroots Activism in Presidential Politics

Amanda Marcottte
Amanda Marcotte is a writer and a feminist blogger who writes for and manages Pandagon.net. She hides out from the world with her computer in Austin, TX.

Scott Shields
After contributing to grassroots group blog Dean Nation, Scott Shields joined the editorial staff of MyDD.com in 2005. In 2006, Shields was recruited to join the Menendez for Senate campaign as the Director of Internet Operations. He currently sits on the Netroots Advisory Council for the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy and recently founded White Horse Strategies.

Ari Melber
Ari Melber is a regular contributor to The Nation and a contributing editor at the Personal Democracy Forum.

Moderated by Nancy Scola.
Nancy Scola is a Brooklyn-based writer and activist. She has, in the past, worked for former Virginia Governor Mark Warner’s Forward Together PAC and on the Democratic side of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Nancy is currently a weekend blogger at MyDD.

8-10pm
Happy Hour with free drinks & drink specials

Perhaps most importantly, this is an event to support Amanda Marcotte; there is a suggested donation of $20. All proceeds will go to Marcotte to cover her travel expenses and expenses for her blog, Pandagon.net.

Monday – March 5th:
12:00-2:45 p.m.
Abortion Providers’ Attitudes toward Women
UN Church Center, 777 UN Plaza, 10th Floor
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Join an international panel of experts for presentations of new evidence and an interactive discussion on access to abortion, provider attitudes and discrimination and the potential of new technologies to empower women.

Expert Panelists:
Akinrole Bankole, Ph.D., Director of International Research, Guttmacher Institute, “Women and abortion providers in Nigeria and Uganda.”
Leonel Arguello Irigoyen, M.D., Nicaraguan Society for General Medicine, “Denial of therapeutic abortion in Nicaragua – the perspective of health-care providers.”
Beverly Winikoff, M.D., M.P.H., President , Gynuity Health Projects, “Giving Women Choices: Access to New Technologies in Abortion.”
Marianne Mollmann, Advocacy Director, Women’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, “The Second Assault: Obstructing Access to Legal Abortion after Rape in Mexico.”
Laura Villa Torres, Youth Coalition and Ipas Mexico, “Rape, unwanted pregnancy and abortion – young people’s perspectives in Mexico.”

Moderated by Linda Prine, M.D., Associate Professor of Family Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Beth Israel Residency in Urban Family Practice; Medical Director of the Reproductive Health Access Project; Trainer and Abortion Provider at Planned Parenthood of New York City.

Wednesday- March 7:
6:00 pm
The National Council for Research on Women’s 25th Anniversary Women Who Make a Difference Awards Dinner
Cipriani Wall Street
55 Wall Street
New York City

For more information, please contact the benefit office at:
(212) 785-7335 Ext. 200
or email ncrw@ncrw.org

Thursday – March 8th
12:30pm
Feminist Speak Out at the United Nations
Ralph Bunche Park, 1st Ave & 43rd St
Redstockings will expose and protest the myth that U.S. women are the most liberated in the world. On March 8th, International Women’s Day, at the United Nations in New York City, women will testify from personal experience on the true conditions we face here, and join ranks with women of the world to fight for women’s liberation. Feminists with the National Organization for Women and Gainesville Women’s Liberation will hold a sister action in Florida to join Redstockings’ call for exposing this “Myth of America” and demanding for us what most countries in the world already have.

Thursday – March 8:
6:00 pm
NAPAWF Happy Hour
The Nightingale Lounge
213 Second Avenue at 13th Street, New York, NY
Come meet, mingle, and join the NYC Chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum for happy hour on International Women’s Day! Happy hour specials are from 6-8pm:
$10 cover
$3 domestic beers
$4 well drinks
$5 selected martinis
About NAPAWF: NAPAWF is the only national, multi-issue APA women’s organization in the country. NAPAWF’s mission is to build a movement to advance social justice and human rights for APA women and girls.

Friday – March 9:
7pm
Sexy Sexy Bang Bang: A benefit for PPNYC and Haven
@ Galapagos
Comedy and burlesque with: Carla Rhodes, Nasty Canasta, Lang Fisher, Bird of Paradise, Desiree Burch, PP Snatch, and Miss Saturn. Food and prizes from babeland and others.
$10

Friday – March 9:
8pm
2007 Annual Women’s Performance Festival
$15/$10 members/$8 low-income, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 421 5th Ave @ 8th St, Brooklyn, 718-832-0018, bax.org
An annual BAX favorite, this two-weekend festival presents innovative dance and performance by cutting-edge female artists. Also runs Mar 10 and Mar 16–17.

ALSO at BAX:
In the Presence of Family: Portraits by Ann Rosen
Brooklyn Arts Exchage, 421 5th Ave @ 8th St, Brooklyn, 718-832-0018, bax.org
A series of photographs that chronicles family diversity as exhibited through intermarriage, biracial adoption, integration and same-sex marriages.

Tuesday – March 13:
6-8pm
Planned Parenthood:Learn to Lobby Your Representatives
Planned Parenthood of New York City
26 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
What is lobbying anyway?
Can I really just call my representatives to express my opinion on the issues that matter to me?
Is it as effective to write a letter to my representatives as it is to meet face-to-face?
Get the answers to these and other questions about lobbying your elected officials on behalf of pro-choice policies in New York. Find out who represents you*, learn the ins and outs of lobbying your representatives, and practice talking about the issues with other activists.
RSVP by March 13

Wednesday – March 14:
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Accepting the Challenge: Getting to the Top without Becoming a Bitch in the Boardroom

Woodhull Office, 770 Broadway, 2nd Floor, NYC. Entrance to the building is on East 9th street
between Broadway and 4th Avenue.

Ever wondered what challenges women face in getting to the top ranks of the business and finance world? We are told successful leaders know how to turn uncertainty into inspiration and obstacles into opportunity. How do they do it? Often, more professional responsibilities cause additional stress and disruption in our personal lives. How do leaders effectively manage this change and make the transition a chance for significant personal growth?

Please join us for an informative dinner seminar on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 when we welcome Gwyneth Ketterer, who will be speaking about these issues. Drawing on her experience on Wall Street for more than 20 years, she will also tell us what drew her to a career in finance. What were the key defining moments in her career? And what is her vision for the next generation of women leaders in business and finance?

RSVP: Telephone 646-495-6060, or email

rsvp@woodhull.org (mailto:rsvp@woodhull.org)

Cost: $10 (Free to Woodhull Members (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=bwndd6bab.0.epryzwbab.fzqbjnbab.582&ts=S0234&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodhull.org%2Fmembership.php))

Thursday – March 15:
BAAD! Ass Women Festival 2007
Times vary, $5–$20 single event, $40 event pass, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, 84 Barretto St, Bronx, 718-842-5223, bronxacademyofartsanddance.org
A cultural festival celebrating Fierce Women’s History Month, featuring dance, theatre, music, film and art that celebrates the empowerment of women. Runs through Mar 31. See A&E Roundup for details.

 Wednesday – March 21:
7:00 PM
EMPIRES OLD & NEW:Feminist Perspectives
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Free & open to the public; no reservations required
A panel discussion with Elizabeth Castelli, Kim Hall, Natalie Kampen, Anupama Rao, & Neferti Tadiar

Thursday – March 22 – 24:
Facing Race  Conference
@ CUNY

Thursday – March 22, 2007
6:00-8:30pm
Katharine Henderson on God’s Troublemakers:
Multifaith Perspectives on Faith & Activism
The Riverside Church
91 Claremont Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Join Dr. Henderson and a panel of women leaders of many faiths as they reflect on the nature of faith and action across religious traditions. This is the first of four events in the Faith and Feminism Dialogue Series. Please RSVP by March 15
cjm@auburnsem.org

Friday – March 23:*
10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Global Feminisms Artists’ Talks and Performances, every half-hour.
Brooklyn Museum
EASCFA, 4th Floor

Friday – March 23-25:
INDWELLING: Living in a Female Body
The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute 25th Anniversary Gala Celebration

Honoring Eve Ensler
Photography Exhibition Juried by Joyce Tenneson
Fumerist Kate Clinton, Music by BETTY
Weekend of discussion, photography, music, poetry and personal testimony on the mounting crisis in women’s body image: the shrinking of women’s physical and social space and the advent of Size 0. Anticipated to be the largest gathering of women this Spring in NYC.

March 23 6–8pm Photography Exhibition/Sale juried by Joyce Tenneson.
Admission: $25

March 24 noon–6pm SPEAK–OUT, film, music, poetry and more.
Honoree and speaker Eve Ensler.
Admission: $25, students: $20, Sponsor subsidized tickets are available.

March 25 1–3pm Free event offering visitors information about Staying in Touch, and other relevant resources. Gallery talk by Joyce Tenneson.

The Great Hall at The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street and Third Avenue, New Yrok City
subways: N, R to 8th Street or 6 to Astor Place
For Tickets and more info: www.wtci-nyc.org

Friday – March 23 – 24:
FASHIONING CITIZENSHIP:Gender & Immigration (The Scholar & Feminist Conference XXXII)
@Barnard College
Visit the conference website for registration and additional information. Registration is required.

Friday – March 24:*
11 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Global Feminisms Artists’ Talks and Performances, every half-hour.
Brooklyn Museum
EASCFA, 4th Floor

12 – 1 p.m
Curator Talk: Ed Bleiberg, Ph.D., Co-Curator of Pharaohs, Queens, and Goddesses speaks in the galleries

1 – 2 p.m.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Curator Talk: Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin, Co-Curators of Global Feminisms, discuss the exhibition. A catalog signing follows the talk.

3 – 4:30 p.m.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
The Dinner Party Lecture Series: Judy Chicago and Dr. Elizabeth A. Sackler. A book signing follows the talk.

Sunday - March 25, 2007
1:00-4:00pm
Marya Axner and Judith Rosenbaum will present on “Sh’ma B’Kolah/Listen to Her Voice: Incorporating Jewish Women’s History into Jewish Education”
652 Lexington Avenue at 55th Street
via www.jwa.org

Friday – March 25:*
11 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Global Feminisms Artists’ Talks and Performances, every half-hour.
Brooklyn Museum
EASCFA, 4th Floor

1 – 2 p.m.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Lecture by Gail Levin on The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, and the dramatic story of how it twice came to Brooklyn. A book signing follows the lecture.

3 – 5 p.m.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Concert: Brooklyn Philharmonic Music Off the Walls: Feminism in Music

Saturday, March 31*
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Symposium: Feminisms Without Borders
Brooklyn Museum
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Tickets: $10 for adults; $8 for Museum Members; $5 for students/senior citizens.

Each ticket includes the full-day symposium as well as Museum admission.
Tickets available at the Visitor Center in the lobby during Museum hours. Tickets will be available starting March 1st. This event is expected to sell out quickly.

Feminisms Without Borders examines contemporary feminist art from a transnational perspective. The symposium offers two panels–Resisting Histories of Art and Local/Global Feminisms–in which a range of experts in the field each discuss their individual areas of specialization, encompassing a broad geographical spectrum.

Panel I: Resisting Histories of Art

The dominance of male European and American artists within art institutions and the canon of art history has long been a subject of contention. Each of the panelists has made a significant contribution to this discourse by addressing sexism and/or racism in their theoretical, curatorial, or art-historical projects.

Panelists:

Xabier Arakistain, Director and Curator at the Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Connie Butler, Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Joe Martin Hill, Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and founder of Vision-Connect, a New York-based curatorial consultancy
Tracey Rose, South African-born performance artist who lives and works in Johannesburg
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, art historian and Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Moderated by Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Co-Curator of the exhibition Global Feminisms.

Panel II: Local/Global Feminisms

It is time to look at feminism contextually, rather than as a singular, universal term. The panelists address the concerns of women locally and globally across cultural, racial, economic, or other differences, demonstrating that feminism must always be understood in the plural, feminisms.

Panelists:
Melissa Chiu, Director of the Museum and Curator for Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art, Asia Society, New York
Lalla A. Essaydi, Moroccan-born artist who lives and works in New York City
Tamar Garb, Durning-Lawrence Professor in the History of Art, University College London
Jos Esteban Muoz, Chair, Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, and Associate Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis and Latino Studies, New York University
Jovana Stokic, Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Curator of the Kimmel Center Gallery, New York University
Moderated by Maura Reilly, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Co-Curator of Global Feminisms.

Gallery Tours with Student Guides at 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.

**ONGOING**

WORKS ON PAPER
Alechinsky, Amos, Bearden, Brands, Buchanan, Burliuk, Dubuffet, Gerlovin, Jorn, Pedersen, Quick-to-see Smith, Schapiro, Shimomura, STEIN, Weems

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 8, 6-8 pm
Exhibition continues through April 28, 2007

Flomenhaft Gallery
547 West 27th Street, Suite 308
New York, New York 10001
Tel (212) 268-4952
flomenhaftgallery.com
Tuesday-Saturday: 10am to 5pm

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*To celebrate the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, an exhibition and education facility dedicated to feminist art, the Brooklyn Museum is pleased to present four months of lectures, symposia, films, art-making, music, and performing arts.

Friday – March 23 -25, 2007:
BEYOND REVOLUTION OR BEHIND IT? The Politics and Practice of Contemporary Feminism Across Academic and Activist Communities
Stata Center, MIT Campus
Cambridge, MA

Saturday – March 24-25
National Young Women’s Leadership Conference
From Campus to Congress
At the campus of the  
University of the District of Columbia

Friday – March 30 – April 1:
Women, Action & The Media (WAM!2007)
Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge
With Keynote Talks from Helen THOMAS & Thenmozhi SOUNDARARAJAN

Friday – March 30- April 1 :
From Abortion Rights To Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom
Amherst, MA
Hampshire College