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CLPP 2011: 30 years of reproductive freedom

This guest post is part of Feministing’s collaboration with the 2011 Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference, From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom. The conference is this weekend and Jos and Lori will be there representing Feministing and posting about the conference here. Stay tuned for more!

Register now for CLPP’s 30th Anniversary conference, From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive freedom, April 8-10, 2011 at ...

By Jos Truitt • 13 years ago

Coming out in the CLPP Reproductive Justice Conference student group

Feministing is again partnering with the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program (CLPP) for their annual reproductive justice conference. This is a cross-post with CLPP’s 30th Anniversary Blog.

CLPP’s focus on memories from the past 30 years has had me thinking about what the the conference meant to me personally. Last year I wrote about how organizing the conference activated me in the reproductive justice movement. I think it’s so important as organizers and activists that we get something personally out of the work we do – we may have a strong connection to the issue but I think for organizing to be sustainable we need to see some benefit in our daily life. This often means ...

Feministing is again partnering with the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program (CLPP) for their annual reproductive justice conference. This is a cross-post with CLPP’s 30th Anniversary Blog.

CLPP’s focus on memories from the ...

By Miriam • 13 years ago

30th Anniversary CLPP Conference: From Abortion Rights to Social Justice

This year, Feministing is again partnering with the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College for their amazing reproductive justice conference.

We’ll be writing a bit about the conference here in advance, and then two Feministing folks will be there liveblogging from the conference itself. The conference is being held April 8-10, 2011 at Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts.

I can’t say enough good things about this conference. I’ve been attending for the last five years and it’s constantly one of most radical and engaging conferences out there on reproductive justice.

It brings together college students and activists in the field to collaborate, share experiences and build around a vast array of reproductive justice issues.

I constantly ...

This year, Feministing is again partnering with the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College for their amazing reproductive justice conference.

We’ll be writing a bit about the conference here in ...

By Miriam • 13 years ago

Creating Change 2011

Next week is the annual National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s annual conference, Creating Change.

This year it’s being hosted in Minneapolis, MN from February 2-6, 2011.

It’s an incredible meet-up of LGBTQAI activists from around the country and I’ll be heading there again this year. The first time I went to the conference, I was simply blown away to be around that many other queer folks, and especially queer activists.

Watch out for a few blog posts from the conference next week.

If you live in Minneapolis and/or are planning to be at the conference, here is one event not to miss:

For the younger folks, Campus Progress is hosting a MasQueerAde Ball on Saturday Night. Awesome performers Kit Yan and Ben ...

Next week is the annual National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s annual conference, Creating Change.

This year it’s being hosted in Minneapolis, MN from February 2-6, 2011.

It’s an incredible meet-up of LGBTQAI activists from around the ...

By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

Canada’s first ever conference on weight-based discrimination

Yesterday in Toronto, doctors, public health policymakers, government representatives, educators and activists gathered for Canada’s first ever conference on weight discrimination. The First Annual Canadian Conference on Weight Bias and Discrimination calls it “the last socially acceptable form of discrimination,” which I do not agree with in the slightest – there are many remaining socially acceptable forms of discrimination – but I do agree that weight-based discrimination is a serious problem, and not just in Canada.

Overweight and obese people are discriminated against in myriad ways, the most notable being in employment and in healthcare. There is no legal statute in Canada that prohibits discrimination based on weight, and as far as I know, there isn’t one in the US, ...

By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

Glamour magazine’s “Love Your Work Life” panel: Lots of sentiment, few solutions

Yesterday I went to the Glamour Love Your Life conference at 92nd Street Y. The conference was a one-day event that coincides with next week’s Glamour Women of the Year Awards, where honorees will include Queen Rania of Jordan, Constance McMillen and women’s rights activist Dr. Hawa Abdi.

The day began with a panel called “Love Your Work Life,” a collection of highly successful professional women at various stages of life, talking about how they juggle the professional and the personal. Unfortunate, the panelists – Arianna Huffington, Bobbi Brown of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, “Top Chef” host Padma Lakshmi, Dylan’s Candy Bar CEO Dylan Lauren and fashion designer Anna Sui – didn’t seem to have many concrete solutions would work for working ...

By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

You know what I love? Curfews for men. Because I’m a feminist.

You know what I love? I love chocolate and cheese and yodeling and neutrality! I also love hanging out with people who feel that gender is a zero-sum game in which gains by women mean losses for men. So I am super sad to have missed last weekend’s anti-feminist conference in Switzerland.

Details about the event that billed itself as the world’s first men’s rights conference were kept under wrap – once organizers got word that feminists were planning to rally in protest outside, they suddenly didn’t want anyone to know where it was happening. Only those who signed up and paid to attend, and journalists who wanted to cover the event, were told where it would be held.

Which is ...

You know what I love? I love chocolate and cheese and yodeling and neutrality! I also love hanging out with people who feel that gender is a zero-sum game in which gains by women mean losses for ...

By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

Guest blog: Mighty modern Aphrodite

Today is the SPARK Summit, a day of discussion and education aimed at ending the sexualization of girls in the media. In the lead up to the summit, we’ve been featuring voices of young women who feel particularly strongly about this issue. It’s my pleasure today to welcome a guest blogger, 17-year-old Juliana Bello from Flemington, NJ. Juliana is an aspiring activist (who, I hope, will start her own blog some time soon!) and a member of Girls Learn International. She has a few things to say about a Powerpoint presentation that you might have heard mentioned around the internet in the last few weeks…

What if Aphrodite had compiled the names of every man and god ...

Today is the SPARK Summit, a day of discussion and education aimed at ending the sexualization of girls in the media. In the lead up to the summit, we’ve been featuring voices of young ...