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February 9th, 2010Blog, Call for Submissions, EventsFebruary 19, 2010 Call for guest blog, video, and graphic art submissions 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 Buy Tickets Now- click here.Submission Deadline- Extended: 2/21- SundayYou can answer any one of the following questions- submissions of any length welcome, including poetry and graphic art:
- How do you define virginity? Where do you think this definition came from (i.e. society, parents, friends)?
- Imagine a world without the concept of virginity and “purity”- what would that look like?
- How has the concept of virginity and “purity” effected your sex and love life?
- Did you attend abstinence-only classes? What did you think?
- Were you brought up to think of female sexuality as “dirty”? How did it effect you?
- What are some tangible ways we can change the culture of virginity?
Submit responses to blog@paradigmshiftnyc.com Please include how you would like to be credited (name, anonymous etc). Video submissions- please submit YouTube private link. Email subject line: Your Name- Blog post- 2/23 Event.
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January 14th, 2010Events, Paradigm Shift Event
February 23, 2010 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Paradigm Shift: NYC’s Feminist Community Proudly Present
“The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women”
A Discussion withJESSICA VALENTI, Author & Feministing.com Founder/Editor
CRITICS’ PICK- PARADIGM SHIFT HONORED FOR 5TH TIME!
UPDATE- AS OF 2/18- tickets are almost sold out- please buy now!
Portion of the proceeds donated to Willie Mae Rock Camp For Girls
Buy Tickets Now- this event will sell out!
Network with your community before & after discussion“This book is solidly researched, candidly personal, and smartly political. Valenti skewers sexism from abstinence campaigns to pop culture. Every young woman should read The Purity Myth – and it sure as hell would help if every young man read it as well!”
- Robin Morgan, Author and Activist“It’s hard not to love Jessica Valenti. The Brooklyn-based founder of Feministing.com–the uncompromising, balls-out, feminist blog–is brilliant, beautiful, and not even 30 years old.”
-BUST magazineWhen: TUES, FEB. 23rd
Time: 7:00-10:00 pm
Where: In the heart of the Feminist District
The Tank- 354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues).
Subway directions:
Take the A,C,E to 42nd Street/Time Square. Walk West.Cost: $7 students/pre-paid, $10 at door
BUY TICKETS NOW- CLICK HERE
Partners include
Therese Shechter, Director of “How to Lose Your Virginity”
The American Virgin blog
The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership
Chicks Rock, a program of The Women’s Mosaic
NARAL Pro-Choice New York
Planned Parenthood of New York City Activist Council
Bluestockings
NOW NYS YFTF
Manhattan Young Democrats
New Yorkers Against Religion-Based Bigotry
WomenAndHollywood.comABOUT JESSICA VALENTI:
http://jessicavalenti.comBUY “The Purity Myth”- now out in paperback:
Click here to buyABOUT “THE PURITY MYTH”:
The United States is obsessed with virginity from the media to schools to government agencies. The Purity Myth is an important and timely critique of about why this is so, and why it’s problematic for girls and women. Analyzing cultural stereotypes and media messages, Jessica Valenti reveals the overt and hidden ways our society links a woman’s worth to her sexuality rather than to values like honesty, kindness, and altruism. Valenti takes on issues ranging from abstinence-only education to pornography and exposes the legal and social punishments that women who dare to have sex endure. Importantly, she also offers solutions that pave the way for a future without a damaging emphasis on virginity, including a call to rethink male sexuality and reframe the idea of “losing it.” With Valenti’s usual balance of intelligence and wit, The Purity Myth presents a powerful and revolutionary argument that valuing girls and women for their sexuality needs to stop–and outlines a new vision for how it can happen.ABOUT WILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS:
Tags: activism, feminism, feministing.com, jessica valenti, sex, virginity, young women
http://www.williemaerockcamp.org
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls is a non-profit music and mentoring program that empowers girls and women through music education and activities that foster self-respect, leadership skills, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration.
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