on the road

Bitch: It's a Noun, It's a Verb, It's a Magazine, Now it's a Cabaret!
Saturday, October 4, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
WARPhaus Gallery, 818 NW 1st Ave., Gainesville, Florida

Come enjoy artwork about feminism, sex, sexuality, sexism, gender...

 

This is a cathedral!  

 

 

First off, if you live in San Diego, you should get yourself to this benefit concert this weekend! 

I'll be in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Oakland (for the Critical Resistance conference) this week -- please come out for these if you can! And please spread the word...

SAN DIEGO

Monday, September 22, 4:30-6:30

Feminism In/Action: What is your feminism for and why does it matter?

* Free and open to the public

At the home of Pat Washington, 4537 Alamo Drive, San Diego, CA 92115

If you live in Los Angeles, please join the Make/shift Collective, me, and lots of others for a film/video screening followed by a participatory discussion about contemporary feminisms, privilege, power, difference, and so much more...

When: Thursday, September 25, 8pm-10pm

Where:  Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N Alvarado St. (at Sunset)

Please spread the word; it's going to be a great event!

Back to the most recent Bitch fundraising trip...

I'd never been to Salt Lake City before, so I was excited to check it out.  After a long drive in from Denver, I was even more excited to be greeted by a plate of vegan cookies, freshly-baked by our host, Courtney Maguire (thanks, Courtney!). Courtney is one of the folks involved with the Female Empwerment Movement (FEM), a new(ish) feminist group created in response to the high rates of sexual violence in Salt Lake. FEM also helped organize and get the word out of the evening's events, and I'm grateful. 

I'm also grateful to Angela Brown, Meghann Griggs, and the rest of the folks at SLUG magazine, who responded almost immediately to our call for assistance in helping put together the discussion and fundraiser in Salt Lake. SLUG was founded in 1989 and remains Utah's oldest alternative paper. 

 

I'm up in Portland this week, visiting Debbie and hanging out at the Bitch office. I haven't been here in about a year, and it's amazing to see how bustling the office is—with interns and volunteers and new staffers (hi, Brian!)—while maintaining a relatively unfrenzied vibe, even though it's the middle of production on a new issue. This kind of calm, um, was never really achieved when I was working here. I'm going to try not to read anything into that.