Paradigm Shift

Subway: N,R,Q to 49th St. or B,D,F,M to Rockefeller Center

Join us afterwards at Quinn’s, 356 W. 44th St., NYC, with all of the speakers & Mary Kathryn Nagle, Playwright of Sliver of a Full Moon

$12 online, $15 at door
Tickets- Limited Seating / Buy Online!

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CO-SPONSORS

City Headshots, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Author & Clare Coss, Playwright, Electrified Collective, FORCE, The Feminist Press, Incite Pictures, The Monument Quilt, WAM!

PARTNERS: Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, Hollaback!, International Women Artists’ Salon, Jesse Epstein- Filmmaker, Man Question, Manhattan Young Democrats, New York Women In Film and Television, NOW Young Feminists and Allies, Riseup/ NYC Protest Database, See Jane Do, Soapbox Inc., The Women’s Mosaic, Vision Maker Media, WAM!NYC, Women and Hollywood, Women In Media & News, Women Make Movies, Women’s Media Center

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SAMPLE POST: 4/16 “Young Lakota” Documentary Screening with the Filmmakers of “The Education of Shelby Knox” Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt; Shelby Knox, Change.org; Rebecca Nagel, The Monument Quilt. Award-winning doc about a young Lakota woman’s political awakening. Presented by Paradigm Shift NYC  https://www.facebook.com/events/806743352712110

TWEET! 4/16 @YoungLakota Screening w filmmakers, women’s political awakening with @ShelbyKnox @upsettingrape @PShiftNYC http://bit.ly/1FqDdCQ

Young Lakota follows the journey of Sunny Clifford, a young Oglala Lakota woman who returns to the Pine Ridge Reservation with a dream to change the world around her. Her political awakening begins when the tribe’s first female president, Cecelia Fire Thunder, defies a South Dakota law banning abortion by threatening to build a women’s clinic on the reservation. Embroiled in a controversial political season that hinges on reproductive rights and tribal sovereignty, Sunny, her twin sister Serena, and their neighbor Brandon are drawn into a political firestorm that changes the course of their lives.

MARION LIPSCHUTZ & ROSE ROSENBLATT

Producers/Directors:  Partners in Incite Pictures and Cine Qua Non (a not for profit), Marion & Rose produce and direct feature documentaries that entertain, educate and explore critical contemporary issues. Titles include “The Education of Shelby Knox”, “Live Free or Die”, “Fatherhood USA”, “The Abortion Pill” and “Code Blue: New Orleans.”

Their work has been called “unique and memorable,” “pure gold,” and “balanced and truthful,” by the Milwaukee Journal, Hollywood Reporter and The New York Times, respectively. The Washington Post wrote, “their fly-on-the-wall approach fulfills one of the glorious promises of documentary – to put us in the middle of situations we otherwise might never be in.”

Young Lakota is the latest in a series of films that use the dramatic stories of individual women to explore the fraught terrain of reproductive justice. “The Education of Shelby Knox”, their prior project, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005, and opened that year’s POV series. The POV series also showcased “Live Free or Die” in 2000 as a November election special.

Marion and Rose’s work has been broadcast on the CBC’s Passionate Eye in Canada, on PBS’s Point of View, Independent Lens, and many other strands around the world. Their films have won Best Cinematography at The Sundance Film Festival, The Audience Award at SXSW, The Emerging Picture Award at Full Frame, and The Jury Prize for Best Documentary at The Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Personal recognition includes The Full Frame Women in Leadership Award, The Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award, and a nomination for the British Index on Censorship’s Freedom of Expression Award. Though their topics have been specific to the United States, they have durable international appeal, showing in hundreds of festivals, including The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Hot Docs, The Stockholm International Film Festival, The Seoul International Film Festival and The Festival de Rio de Janeiro.

SHELBY KNOX, Senior Campaigner at Change.org & Feminist Revolutionary

As a teenager, Shelby Knox was organizing her Southern Baptist community to fight for comprehensive sex education and gay rights. She became nationally known with the release of the Sundance award-winning film, “The Education of Shelby Knox”, a documentary which chronicled her activism. She’s now a Senior Campaigner at Change.org, where she works on international gender justice campaigns. @ShelbyKnox

REBECCA NAGLE, Co-Founder, The Monument Quilt & FORCE

FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture is an artist/activist effort to change the conversation about rape by mobilizing social media and producing public art events. Force is most widely known for their prank of Victoria’s Secret, pretending the lingerie giant released a line of consent themed slogans on underwear. The spoof created a viral conversation about consent online, and was covered in the New York Times’ annual college edition along with countless other blogs and news outlets.

Force’s most recent project is The Monument Quilt, a crowd-sourced collection of thousands of stories from survivors of rape and abuse. Survivors are writing and stitching their stories onto red squares of fabric, creating and demanding public space to heal. The quilt is creating a new culture where survivors are publicly supported, rather than publicly shamed.

300 quilts were displayed in 13 US cities in August 2014 (read more on CNN and MSNBC), and we will continue to display the quilt via quilt-making workshops, in public displays across the country, until a final, historic display in Washington DC. Blanketing the National Mall, 6,000 fabric squares will ultimately be stitched together to spell “Not Alone.”

MARY KATHRYN NAGLE, Playwright, Sliver of a Full Moon

Sliver of a Full Moon is a portrayal of resistance and celebration. It is the story of a movement that restored the authority of Indian tribes over non-Indian abusers to protect women on tribal lands.

Subway: N,R,Q to 49th St. or B,D,F,M to Rockefeller Center

Join us afterwards at O’Brien’s, 134 W. 46th St., 2^nd Fl.
$12 online, $15 at door – Limited Seating / Buy Online!
Invite Friends on Facebook

CO-SPONSORS

City Headshots, Take The Lead, The Feminist Press, The Women’s Mosaic, WAM! Women, Action, & The Media

PARTNERS: Abiola Abrams- Author & Speaker, Bluestockings, Circle of 6, Electrified Collective, FCW Society, Kelly Hoey- Strategist & Speaker, Hollaback!, In Good Company, Incite Pictures, Jamie Lee- Senior Director Operations at TreSensa & Speaker, Jennifer Silva Coaching, Man Question, Riseup/NYC Protest Calendar, See Jane Do, Soapbox Inc., Trixie Films, Adaora Udoji- CEO of outLoud Inc., WAM!NYC, Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, Women’s Therapy Centre Institute

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SAMPLE POST: 3/19 Gloria Feldt, Feminist Icon “No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power” Presented by Paradigm Shift NYC https://www.facebook.com/events/1385951191719150

TWEET! 3/19 No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power with @GloriaFeldt, @PShiftNYC Presents http://bit.ly/1LnJUXM

GLORIA FELDT

Gloria Feldt is co-founder and president of Take The Lead, the new women’s leadership movement to prepare, develop, inspire and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025. The bestselling author of “No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power,” Gloria is an acclaimed expert on women, power and authentic leadership, and an inspiring keynote speaker, who motivates with heart and humor as a practical activist gives practical “Power Tools” for life and leadership.

People magazine calls her the “voice of experience.” Gloria’s expertise in women, power and leadership comes from a deep well of personal knowledge gained on the front lines. Her journey from teen mom and high school dropout from rural Texas to president and CEO of the world’s largest reproductive health and advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, to best-selling author and visionary leader for women’s equality inspires both men and women. Named by Vanity Fair as one of “America’s Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers,” Glamour’s “Woman of the Year,” and a Women’s eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st century, among other honors. A world changer who helped pave the way for women today, she believes this is women’s moment to achieve parity. Her passion is to remove the last remaining obstacle: women’s learned resistance to embracing their own power.

Author of four books, she teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University. Both a newsmaker and a commentator, Gloria has been widely quoted and published in media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Politico, Salon, The Daily Beast, and Huffington Post, and magazines including More, Glamour, Elle and Ms. She has appeared extensively on television, including CNN, MSNBC, the Today Show, Good Morning America and The Daily Show. Follow her on twitter @GloriaFeldt and connect on Facebook and LinkedIn.

KRISTINA LEONARDI

Kristina Leonardi is a motivational speaker, career/life coach and author who helps men and women make the most of their personal and professional lives, allowing them to recognize, connect to, and fulfill their role in the world at large. She has presented to organizations such as Saatchi and Saatchi, UBS, HR Association of NY, American Women’s Business Association, and New York’s Science, Industry & Business Library.

Kristina offers individual and group coaching privately, as well as in affiliation with New York Women in Communications, and is the founder of The Women’s Mosaic (TWM), a nonprofit organization that has produced over 100 events over 10 years for more than 5000 women to connect to themselves each other and the world around them. Kristina has taught extensively for NYU’s Center for Hospitality, Travel and Tourism and the Center for Career and Life Planning for over 15 years. She was listed as one of Hispanic Magazines Top Latinas of 2004, received Tango Diva’s 2007 Diva Visionary Award, honored by the WNBA’s NY Liberty as part of their 2009 Inspiring Women Night, and has been featured in Forbes.com, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today and The Huffington Post. She is the author of Personal Growth Gab (PGG), Volume One: Thought-provoking, inspirational and entertaining essays to keep you connected with yourself and make sense of this journey called Life (available on Amazon).  Follow her on Twitter @clearlykristina and on Facebook at Personal Growth Gab.

ARPITA MAZUMDAR

Arpita (Arpi) Mazumdar is currently a Vice President at Goldman Sachs where she is the Business Manager in Global Securities Division Management and Strategy, Office of the COO. Ms. Mazumdar comes with over 14 years of experience solely in the financial services sector and has held a variety of roles within Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. She received her BS in Business Administration from the University of Albany- SUNY, is a 2014 Council of Urban Professionals (CUP) Fellow and Executive member, as well as a VIP member of the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW). Ms. Mazumdar is very engaged in Women’s rights and is currently a sponsor for “Women for Women International” – a nonprofit humanitarian organization that provides practical and moral support to women survivors of war. More recently, she joined the Board of Directors at “ A Global Friendship”, an international nonprofit that focuses on poverty alleviation where she looks forward to continue being an agent of change and providing opportunity to women on a global level.

KARA ROTA

Kara Rota is Director of Editorial & Partnerships at Cookstr.com, a Macmillan portfolio company and recipe site whose mission is to digitally organize cookbooks and recipes of all types and make them easily accessible. She is the host of the Clever Cookstr podcast on Quick & Dirty Tips network. Kara has been a featured speaker at numerous venues including Food Book Fair, the Roger Smith Food Conference, and the Brooklyn Food Conference. She is a former board member of Girls in Tech NYC and Angel Alliance member of the Lower East Side Girls Club, and has supported STEM education for girls as a judge for Technovation International.

LIMITED SEATING / Buy Discount Tickets Online!  

Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015
6:00 PM, doors open 5:30 The Tank- 151 W. 46th St. (b/t 6th & 7th Ave) 8th Floor, NYC- elevator/wheelchair access.  Subway: N,R,Q to 49th St. or B,D,F,M to Rockefeller Center.  After the Tank, join us for drinks @ Quinn’s, 356 W. 44th St. 2nd Fl (b/t 8th & 9th)

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CO-SPONSORS Trixie Films    Women Make Movies   City Headshots

PARTNERS:  Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, Body Typed Film Project, Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Sony Brook University, Feministing, GetBullish.com, Incite Pictures, Man Question, Manhattan Young Democrats, New York Women in Film & Television, NOW Young Feminists & Allies, Riseup, Soapbox Inc., The Feminist Press, WAM!, Women’s Therapy Centre Institute

Sample post: 1/15 “How To Lose Your Virginity” Screening/Discussion with Therese Shechter, Filmmaker & Abiola Abrams, Author “The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self Love” https://www.facebook.com/events/365547780297548
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1/15 How to Lose Your Virginity Screening/Discussion, Filmmaker @trixiefilms @abiolatv @PShiftNYC @virginitymovie bit.ly/1B3l1KJ

HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY

What if all we had to lose were our virginity myths?
A trixie films production

It has launched both purity balls and porn franchises, defines a young woman’s morality–but has no medical definition. Enter the magical world of virginity, where a white wedding dress can restore a woman’s innocence and replacement hymens can be purchased online.

This eye-opening and irreverent documentary explores why female virginity is still so valued in our hypersexualized society. Traveling through the worlds of religion, history, pop culture and $30 internet hymens, the film reveals the myths and misogyny behind a rite of passage that everyone thinks about but few truly understand.

Filmmaker Therese Shechter uses her own path out of virginity to explore why our sex-crazed society cherishes this so-called precious gift. Along the way, we meet sex educators, virginity auctioneers, abstinence advocates, and young men and women who bare their tales of doing it—or not doing it.

THERESE SHECHTER (Director/Producer/Writer) deftly fuses humor-spiked, personal narrative with grass roots activism and new media, most recently as the writer and director of the 2013 documentary HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY. The film has appeared on television and in film festivals in the US and all over the world. She also curates the film’s online interactive project, THE V-CARD DIARIES, a crowed-sourced collection of over 200 stories of ‘sexual debuts and deferrals’ which was recently on exhibit at The Kinsey Institute.

Shechter was a panelist at Harvard’s “Rethinking VirginIty” conference, and frequently speaks at college campuses on virginity, feminism and sexuality. Her work has been covered by Elle, Salon, The Atlantic, Feministing, Forbes, The Guardian, The Jakarta Globe and CBC’s Q, among others. She herself has written for the Chicago Tribune, Talking Points Memo, Nerve and IndieWire’s Women & Hollywood.

Shechter’s first feature documentary, the award-winning I WAS A TEENAGE FEMINIST (2005), has screened from Stockholm to Delhi to Rio and at Serbia’s first-ever Women’s Film Festival. Her short documentary HOW I LEARNED TO SPEAK TURKISH (2006) won a Documentary Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival, and her short film #SLUTWALKNYC premiered at the Hampton’s International Film Festival in 2013.

ABIOLA ABRAMS, AUTHOR & SELF LOVE COACH

Abiola Abrams, the author of the award-winning “Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love,” is known for giving bold and empowering advice on networks from MTV to the Discovery Channel. In addition to being an in-demand inspirational speaker, transformational coach, multi-platform author, and ESSENCE advice columnist, Abiola writes and broadcasts about the heart-centered lifestyle, reclaiming your personal power, and answering your calling.

Whether you call her America’s Self-Love Coach, the Midwife for Your Inner Life, or a modern day conjure woman, it’s time to become who we were born to be, and Abiola has the tools to help us get there. Our mothers had Dear Abby and we have Dear Abiola. She’s the Olivia Pope of your personal life. Consider it handled with her personal power process that breaks through fear and the inner voices that keep us playing small.

PARADIGM SHIFT: NYC’S FEMINIST COMMUNITY PRESENTS

“It Was Rape”
A Screening and Discussion with
JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER, Filmmaker & Activist
and a panel of women featured in the film
Trailer

Thursday, April 25th
7:00-9:15 PM
The Feminist District
The Tank- 151 W. 46th St. (b/t 6th & 7th Ave) 8th Floor, NYC 10036
elevator access
Subway: N,R,Q to 49th St. or B,D,F,M to Rockefeller Center

Cost: $12 pre-paid, $15 at door
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FACEBOOK INVITE, Twitter @PShiftNYC, #itwasrape
JENNIFER’S BOOKS ARE THIRD WAVE CLASSICS:
http://www.jenniferbaumgardner.net/fem
Paradigm Shift T-Shirts on sale at event

“If [It Was Rape] starts a conversation, it won’t be a quiet one, which is just what Ms. Baumgardner wants.”—Susan Dominus, New York Times

“It Was Rape” will change the way you think about this most
terrible—and most everyday—of crimes. It’s heartrending, brave, and
important.”—Katha Pollitt, “Subject to Debate” columnist, *The Nation*

Co-Sponsors

Beauty Cares, Blanche Cook– Author & Distinguished Professor at John Jay College, Bluestockings, Clare Coss– Playwright & Activist, Jamia Wilson– Feminist Media Activist, Man Question, Manhattan Young Democrats, Michael Kimmel– PhD & Author, Service Women’s Action Network, Soapbox Inc. Speakers Who Speak Out, The Feminist Press, The Women’s Mosaic, Women & Hollywood, Young Feminists and Allies of National Organization for Women

Partners & Sponsors Welcome
Join as a supporting organization or co-sponsor!
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Rape is wrong, illegal, reprehensible—and yet still tragically common. In this film, eight women tell their diverse personal stories of sexual assault, from a Midwestern teenager trying alcohol for the first time to a Native American woman gradually coming to terms with her abusive childhood. Gripping and emotional, this film is an opportunity to empathize with people—not just absorb faceless statistics—and to puncture the silence and denial that allow sexual assault to thrive. Ultimately, these stories shed light on how this epidemic affects us all.

It Was Rape began screening in December of 2012. This spring it will be part of film festivals, Take Back the Night events and anti-violence programming in Alabama, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Louisiana, Ohio, New York, and Arizona. To schedule a screening in your community or to purchase the film for institutional or advocacy use, please contact itwasrape@gmail.com.
Press: http://www.jenniferbaumgardner.net/press

Jennifer Baumgardner, Filmmaker & Activist
After five years as an editor at the feminist magazine, Ms., Fargo-native Jennifer Baumgardner began writing investigative pieces for Harper’s and The Nation, commentaries for NPR’s All Things Considered, and contributing to magazines such as Real Simple, Glamour, Redbook, Babble, Harper’s Bazaar, Teen Vogue, Marie Claire, and Elle.

Jennifer is the author of five books: Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics, Abortion and Life, F ‘em! Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls, as well as the best-selling books about feminism written with Amy Richards—Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future (FSG, 2000) and Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism (FSG, 2005). In 2002, Jennifer and Amy founded Soapbox, Inc., a speakers’ bureau that also produces week-long Feminist Camps and Intensives, and seeks to connect people hungry for feminism with resources and with one another.

The Commonwealth Club of California honored her in their centennial year as a “Visionary for the 21st Century,” commenting that “in her role as author and activist, [Jennifer has] permanently changed the way people think about feminism…and will shape the next 100 years of politics and culture.” She created and produced the award-winning documentary “I Had an Abortion” in 2005. She directed and produced “It Was Rape,” and is thrilled that Paradigm Shift is supporting this event.