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Come think and discuss at Paradigm Shift’s event on March 30th:

SEX WORK & HUMAN RIGHTS: FEMINIST ADVOCACY STRATEGIES
A Screening of “Sangram: Sex Worker Organizing In India” by Audacia Ray
and Panel Discussion featuring:
AUDACIA RAY
International Women’s Health Coalition & Co-Founder of Sex Work Awareness
MARYSE MITCHELL-BRODY
NYC Anti-Violence Project & Founding Member at Sex Workers Action New York
other panelists to be announced

Moderated by MELISSA GIRA GRANT, Sex & Technology Writer

Portion of the proceeds donated to Sex Workers’ Project
Buy Tickets Now- Limited Seating- This will sell-out- CLICK HERE
Network with your community before & after discussion

When: TUES, March 30th
Time: 7:00-10:00 pm
Where: In the heart of the Feminist District
The Tank- 354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Ave.)
Subway directions: Take the A,C,E to 42nd Street/Time Square. Walk West

Cost: $7 students/pre-paid, $10 at door
But Tickets Now- CLICK HERE- Limited Seating
OR Call The Tank directly for tx 212.563.6269

On April 9-11, 2010, campus and community activists will gather at Hampshire College to unite for reproductive justice. We offer more than 40 workshops and trainings. Conference speakers address reproductive freedom as it relates to a broad range of social justice initiatives including economic justice, health care reform, racial equality, freedom from violence, immigrant rights, climate justice, and LGBTQ rights, just to name a few.

Over the weekend, you will deepen your understanding of issues you already know about, make new connections, and unite with others who are passionate about working for social justice.

Co-sponsored by Paradigm Shift! Check out more info here.

PARADIGM SHIFT: NYC’S FEMINIST COMMUNITY Proudly Presents

SEX WORK & HUMAN RIGHTS: FEMINIST ADVOCACY STRATEGIES
Panel Discussion & Screening Featuring:
SIENNA BASKIN, Esq.
Staff Attorney, Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center
CHRISTINA CICCHELLI
Columnist, $pread magazine
MARYSE MITCHELL-BRODY
NYC Anti-Violence Project & Founding Member at Sex Workers Action New York
AUDACIA RAY
International Women’s Health Coalition & co-founder of Sex Work Awareness
WILL ROCKWELL
Editor, $pread magazine
Screening of “Sangram: Sex Worker Organizing In India” a collaboration between the International Women’s Health Coalition and SANGRAM

moderated by Melissa Gira Grant, External Relations Officer, Third Wave Foundation & freelance writer

Portion of the proceeds donated to Sex Workers’ Project
Buy Tickets Now- Limited Seating- This will sell-out- CLICK HERE
Network with your community before & after discussion

When: TUES, March 30th
Time: 7:00-10:00 pm
Where: In the heart of the Feminist District
The Tank- 354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Ave.)
Subway directions: Take the A,C,E to 42nd Street/Time Square. Walk West

Cost: $7 students/pre-paid, $10 at door
But Tickets Now- CLICK HERE- Limited Seating
OR Call The Tank directly for tx 212.563.6269

PARTNERS INCLUDE:
The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership
Sex Workers’ Project
Manhattan Young Democrats

PARTICIPATE & PARTNER!
Calling all progressives! Promote this event and we’ll promote your organization as a marketing partner.
Email: JWeis@paradigmshiftnyc.com

Facebook Invite

ABOUT

SIENNA BASKIN & SEX WORKERS’ PROJECT: http://www.sexworkersproject.org
CHRISTINA CICCHELLI, WILL ROCKWELL & $PREAD MAGAZINE: http://www.spreadmagazine.org
MARYSE MITCHELL-BRODY & NYC AVP & Sex Workers Action NY: http://www.avp.org, http://swop-nyc.org
AUDACIA RAY, IWHC & SWA: http://www.audaciaray.com, http://www.iwhc.org
MELISSA GIRA GRANT: http://www.melissagira.com

March 11

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Reading and discussion with Amelia Klem Osterud, a tattooed academic librarian from Wisconsin. She has a master’s degree in history from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and writes and lectures on the subject. This is her first book. Visit her author blog at www.tattooedladyhistory.vox.com

RSVP on Facebook (not required)

Living in a time when it was scandalous even to show a bit of ankle, a small number of courageous women covered their bodies in tattoos and traveled the country, performing nearly nude on carnival stages. These gutsy women spun amazing stories for captive audiences about abductions and forced tattooing at the hands of savages, but little has been shared of their real lives. Though they spawned a cultural movement–almost a quarter of Americans now have tattoos–these women have largely faded into history.

The first book of its kind, The Tattooed Lady uncovers the true stories behind these women, bringing them out of the sideshow realm and into their working class realities. Combining thorough research with more than a hundred historical photos, this social history explores tattoo origins, women’s history, and circus lore. A fascinating read, The Tattooed Lady pays tribute to a group of unique and amazing women whose legacy lives on.

Check out Paradigm Shift’s Janice Formichella’s review of the book here!

March 12th –  April 10th  2010 – Opening Show on March 12th 7:00 PM – 10:00PM

Contact: Mia Roman  - artbymamamia@yahoo.com

Curator: Mia Roman

Abrazo Interno Gallery: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center

107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002

About the show:

“Femicide” is defined as the systematic killing of women for various
reasons, usually cultural or domestic. Femicide is seen as a gender
crime. Most of the women were raped before being murdered and some
were mutilated, tortured and dismembered. It is an epidemic of gross
proportions. The mutilation, rape and murder of women along the
US/Mexico border, Congo, Guatemala, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq has
become an annual statistic, with little mainstream media coverage and
even less national outcry. And the worse part of it is that many of
these disappearances are not even investigated, they literally
disappear, vanish and are wiped from legibility.

How can rapes, incest, beatings and mutilations in such places like
the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bosnia, Darfur, Afghanistan and
Haiti go unanswered? Where Femicide, the systematic and planned
destruction of the female population, is being used as a tactic of war
to clear villages, pillage mines and destroy the fabric of Congolese
society.

Art by Mia introduces “Femicide”… bringing it to the forefront through
visual arts, poetry and music. More than thirty works by over ten
emerging and established artists will be on display. They will evoke
emotion, create dialogue and bring the coldest soul to its knees. The
exhibit’s focus is to bring awareness to the atrocity of female
killing all over the world.

About CSV/ Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, Inc.:

The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, Inc. (CSV), a
501 (C) 3 not-for-profit, was founded in 1993. The CSV Cultural Center
is a Puerto Rican/Latino cultural institution that has demonstrated a
broad-minded cultural vision and a collaborative philosophy. While
CSV’s mission is focused on the cultivation, presentation and
preservation of Puerto Rican and Latino culture, it is equally
determined to operate in a multi-cultural and inclusive manner,
housing and promoting artists and performance events that fully
reflect the cultural diversity of the Lower East Side and the city as
a whole.

Art is an expression of the unconscious and is dedicated to the free
expression of

feeling.

“The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in Improving Women’s Lives Around the World”

Join us for this exciting webseminar where representatives from Royal Dutch Shell, General Mills and Unilever will discuss their Corporate Social Responsibility programs and how it is impacting women all across the world.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability and ‘Going Green’ has emerged as a new management paradigm for safeguarding a company’s brand reputation, engaging employees, maintaining customers and driving revenue. Our leadership in the 21st century is increasingly being defined by innovative approaches that integrate sustainability and profitability.

Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, and produce 50 percent of the food, yet earn only 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.

Through CR, companies are empowering women in communities around the world to fulfill their potential by reducing poverty and driving economic growth. They are providing women with access to healthcare, job training, technology advancement and education while boosting their confidence and encouraging them to make social change.

Empowering women is a critical component of CR initiatives and ‘How’ an organization can best develop and incorporate initiatives into their core, everyday business practices.

In honor of International Women’s Day, we will explore how some top companies are changing the world by empowering women, learn more about their innovative programs, and how they are having a global impact on women by engaging in conscious commerce.

The seminar will be moderated by an early pioneer in corporate social responsibility, Samantha Taylor, Founder of Reputation Dynamics, and will feature presenters Josefine van Zanten, Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion from Royal Dutch Shell; Ellen Goldberg Luger, Executive Director General Mills Foundation and Vice President, General Mills and a representative from Unilever.

Josefine van Zanten from Royal Dutch Shell will address:
- A development programme that is specifically designed for women
- How participants benefit including expanded networking and more visible roles
- Improved advancement potential of women
- How these women give back to their communities through more active external participation

Ellen Goldberg Luger from General Mills will discuss:
- General Mills’ women and children hunger initiatives
- Projects that focus on empowering women around agriculture and livelihood
- How they are working in Sub-Saharan Africa to help women start small businesses
- Their great impact on the communities

A representative from Unilever will also discuss their programs in Bangladesh that help women in rural areas by providing courses in entrepreneurship skills, helping them become financially empowered and providing them with scholarships to obtain degrees in different fields of study.

Our web seminars are easy and incredibly convenient. You just need a phone for audio and a separate Internet connection (dial-up is fine) to view slides and presentation materials. It all takes place in real time so you can participate in live Q & A with the presenters without leaving your desk or conference room.

Moderator:
Samantha Taylor, Founder, Reputation Dynamics

Presenters:
Josefine van Zanten, Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion, Royal Dutch Shell
Ellen Goldberg Luger, Executive Director General Mills Foundation and Vice President, General Mills

Who should attend:

•    Specialists in Corporate Social Responsibility
•    Diversity & Inclusion Professional
•    Senior HR Executives
•    Chief Diversity Officers
•    Global Workforce Strategists
•    Recruitment and Retention Specialists
•    Benefits Officers
•    Non-HR Managers who wrestle with Diversity & Inclusion
-    Senior VPs
-    Divisional Managers
-    Line Managers
-    Network Group Leaders/Affinity Group Champions
•   WorkLife Professionals

This is a DBP member benefit and DBP members attend at no charge.

For sponsorship and non-member registration information, please contact your Account Sales Director or email sponsorship@workingmother.com

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.

For more information, visit:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=263172153164&index=1

Help us spread the word as well. info@feministpress.org

A note from Gabrielle David and I am Executive Director of
the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc., a NY-
based nonprofit organization that promotes multicultural
literature and literacy.

I am pleased to announce the launch of our interactive literary
website, phati’tude (www.phatitude.org), a series of literary
programs that uses printed magazine, website, television
programming and events to keep the written word alive. Check
out our feature interview on Nuyorican poet Jesús Papoleto
Meléndez (Papo); a lively interview with Gabrielle David of
phati’tude and Papo on WBAI radio in NY; featured poet Iraqi-
Israeli poet Ronny Someck, as well as video clips, news
announcements, poetry, articles and more!

We’re also announcing the publication of phati’tude Literary
Magazine. Our submission deadline is March 1, 2010 for our
Spring 2010 issue, to debut in April 2010 in time for National
Poetry Month (check out our submission guidelines). One more
thing . . . we’re running a contest on our website at www.
phatitude.org – just fill in our survey and you can win a $100
gift certificate from Amazon.com. The survey helps us to better
serve the writers, artists and constituency we seek to serve.
Please let your members know about our services, I would
appreciate it if you would “catch phati’tude” and pass it on to
your members!

If you have any questions or inquiries, please feel free to
contact me at gdavid@phatitude.org.

phati’tude is a program incentive developed by the
Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), a NY-
based nonprofit organization that promotes multicultural
literature and literacy (www.theiaas.org).

Vagina Monologues

Friday, Feb 26th @ 7pm
Saturday, Feb 27th @ 2pm and 7pm
543 Hunter North, Hunter College
V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery. This year’s beneficiaries for Hunter College include The Audre Lorde Project, Sanctuary for Family, and The New York Asian Women’s Center (NYAWC). Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door or at any VDay table around Hunter.

http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/wgsprogram/events-and-announcements

This series of posts from the community is in preparation for Paradigm
Shift’s next event, “The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women”
A Discussion with JESSICA VALENTI, Author & Feministing.com
Founder/Editor on TUES, FEB. 23rd, 7pm, NYC. We want to hear your
stories. View call for submissions- deadline 2/19- Click here!

by Miriam Rabinovich

- Imagine a world without the concept of virginity and “purity”- what would that look like?

It would be a world without white wedding dresses, and wedding nights without blood-stained sheets, crimson marks that prove purity only through loss. It would be a world without Eve and her daughters, women who can bring the world to its knees by seducing men on theirs; a world without Mary and the cult of female guilt that surrounds the ideal woman – a son’s mother who has never slept with his father. A world without the narrative of children’s innocence might well be a place without pedophiles. A world without “good girls” is a world without snuff films, as the myth of purity perpetuates apathy and aggression toward “loose women.” It would be a world far less invested in the policing of symbolic and embodied boundaries, a world without homophobia, honor killings, eating disorders, and clitorectomies. It would be a world without the sexual hysteria that created the fantasy of the hypersexual black predator out to hunt white virgins cowering in every corner. A world without the concept of virginity and purity is a world without hate.

But perhaps most importantly, it is a world without Edward Cullen. Yes, the un-dead, devastatingly dreamy, adolescent vampire extraordinaire of the Twilight series. Others have noted that the supernatural thriller espouses quotidian views of female purity and encourages abstinence. Bella’s blood is central to the text, it is what Edward and his pale pals sniff for and run from; every look of longing drips with its promise. It’s a story even older than 104 year old Edward, the eternal saga of female “purity,” and the masculine desire to both destroy and preserve. We know this story well and all little girls learn to cross their legs when they play. What interests me, however, is the less explored twin of female purity – male prurience. Fundamentally, what makes a woman sexually pure is her lack of contact with a penis. This is perhaps an obvious point but worth thinking of – for all of the anxiety generally attributed to men when it comes to female sexuality and women’s bodies, how much ambivalence must they have about their own sexuality when it is contact with them that makes women unclean?

Edward’s fear of his impulses is evident in the first film. He warns Bella that he might not be able to control himself around her, evinced early when Bella notices that Edward’s eyes changed color. Uncharacteristically flustered, Edward mumbles something incoherent and rapidly stumbles away from her, ashamed by his lack of control over his body, foreshadowing the constant tension between his dangerous desire for her and his love for her, as though the two can never merge.

The second film is even more apparent in its handling of male sexuality. We now have Jacob vying for Bella’s body as well, but just like Edward he forces her away, fearful of what he might do to her. Jacob is a boy transitioning into a werewolf, coming into his paternalistic legacy, clearly a parable for puberty. He too possesses little control over his bodily impulses. An older werewolf in the film who ripped into his wife’s face in a moment of passion, forever scarring her, acts as the warning of what men can do to women if they aren’t careful.

So we have two adolescent boys in physical flux and for both of them adult male sexuality means lack of physical control and (possible) violence against women. They pass on to Bella what has been taught to them and insist that she be scared of what they can do to her, of the beast that emerges when a kiss lingers a moment too long, of the loss of control when she comes a shade too close, of the danger when she dare desire as much as they. With Twilight we have not only the reinforcement of the female virginity and purity myth, but also the criminalization of male sexuality, both of which work symbiotically to perpetuate distorted views of gender and eroticism. Though much has been made of Bella’s body, critics have been more reticent about the construction of male sexuality – the arguments rarely evolve past the danger these boys pose to Bella’s sanctity. We have to move past this allegedly natural sinister male sexuality and explore the cultural investments in constructing male sexuality as dangerous, impulsive, and ultimately – in Twilight literally - disfiguring to both men and women.

The mutability of the disobedient body, its spontaneous shape-shifting and surprising fluidity, most pronounced during adolescence, seems to me to be a paradigm of the way female bodies have been constructed and described through all of their phases. It is plausible that adolescent boys on the cusp of puberty come closest to the culturally constructed descriptions of female embodiment. While this small space of flux is a site of massive potential for empathy and communal experiences, it currently functions as precisely the opposite. It becomes a time of delineating your borders, summoning your troops to the front line, and defining the male body as hard, strong, stable, and in control. And when it isn’t in control, it must be blamed on the female body that causes his defenses to crumble and rapidly consolidated into sexual aggression. So long as we refuse to create paradigms for the lack of self control that are not negative and weak, instead of say playful, productive, and transformative, men will always hold women culpable for their “weakness,” and thus project on to her the dirt he discovers in himself.

If masculine sexuality were not about possession, then female bodies would not be commodities, decreasing in value as soon as they have been opened. So long as male desire is constructed as criminal and something that – at its most intense – has the power to destroy, eroticism between men and women will always hinge on the palpable possibility of violence, and so a woman who wants is so often a woman who is asking for it.

We must defang male desire and provide adolescent boys with different constructions of masculinity, one that isn’t gnarled with skewed visions of strength and power. If we begin to deconstruct cultural criminalization of male sexuality, we will begin to unsettle the pure/impure dichotomy that has haunted the desiring female body since the time of antiquity. So long as male desire is viewed as a crouching creature always about to pounce, there will always be two types of women in the world – the one who helps him overcome himself and the one to whom he flees when the moon is full and his body howls.

Ultimately, this construction of masculinity is about reaffirming the heterosexual imperative and “traditional” values – the angel in the house will cleanse his sins after he confesses to depravity. Internal strife, inevitable sin, perpetual longing, crippling guilt, cherubic absolution - Edward’s desire for Bella is a biblical anachronism. So many of the distortions and anxieties around sexuality, female purity, and male aggression find their birth in Genesis, and loyally continue their evolution throughout the bible. A world without the concept of virginity and purity is a godless world. Amen to that.

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