Some shameless self-promotion...

I’m speaking at a panel next week on—what else—feminism and blogging. The panel is a lead-up event to the spring issue of Barnard’s The Scholar and Feminist Online, which the lovely Gwen Beetham and I guest edited. If you're interested, all the info is below.

Tuesday, November 14
7pm
Altschul Atrium, Altschul Hall
(Barnard is located between 116th and 120th streets on the west side of Broadway)
Free & open to the public

From the Barnard Center for Research on Women:

Cyberspace . . . will have important effects in encouraging women to participate in designing and implementing models of economic development, constructing stable democracies, ensuring that different cultures can exist side by side without violent conflict and providing the sense of trust, partnership and solidarity that are necessary to any society in which people cooperate for mutual well-being. - Lourdes Arizpe

Of the internet's viability as a tool for political change, we ask, is there a better example than the blog? Young and youthfully minded feminists have learned that blogging allows them to carve out personal and political spaces where their lives, their issues, their analyses of the world can come into sharp focus. Outside the confines of mainstream media, where women are addressed (usually exclusively) as consumers, feminist bloggers have become the cultural producers blazing some of the most radical and rousing paths toward revolutionary social change.

This spring, The Scholar & Feminist Online, will publish issue 5.3 - "Blogging Feminism: (Web)Sites of Resistance." On Tuesday, 14 November, guest editors Gwendolyn Beetham and Jessica Valenti come together with select contributors to discuss how feminists are fulfilling the promise of creating a cybercommunity dedicated to securing a more just and peaceful world. Panelists include Lauren Spees and Michelle Riblett, BC '05 (Hollaback), Liza Sabater (Culture Kitchen), and Alice Marwick (Tiara). Join us for a spirited discussion of feminism in the 21st century.

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November 10, 2006 1:26 PM

[0+|0-]  raeone said:

This sounds amazing. Will they podcast or vlog this? Would be great to have at least audio of this event accessible online. Isn't web as access kind of the point?

Wish I could be there.

-Rae

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November 13, 2006 1:31 AM

[0+|0-]  Badger Hemulen said:

See you there! I'm going to be in NYC (from San Francisco) all week. So at least I can liveblog it though I'm not set up to record/podcast.

- Liz aka badgerbag

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November 13, 2006 2:27 AM

[0+|0-]  Alon Levy said:

Hopefully, Katie and I won't get lost in Barnard College. It tends to be harder to navigate on university campuses than in Brooklyn, and I say this as someone who's yet to go to Brooklyn and not get lost.

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