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Camping out with feminists at Omega’s Women & Power Conference

As you may already know, the Feministing crew is in upstate New York at Omega’s Women & Power conference. We’ll be liveblogging a good deal of the conference’s events and posting pics and videos of the amazing women participating this weekend.
We just finished up dinner (we’re still recovering from the awesome chocolate cake) where we met all of the bad-ass faculty here, and waiting on tonight’s speakers. More to come!

By Vanessa • 14 years ago

Raising a Feminist/Raised a Feminist: A Mother’s and Daughter’s Perspective

As we gear up for Omega’s Women and Power conference next weekend, we find this week’s post in our partnership series on intergenerational feminism is by two women – a mother and daughter – on being raised/raising a feminist. Enjoy!

RAISING A FEMINIST
By Sil Reynolds
In one week my daughter leaves home. My 18-year-old baby turned young woman, Eliza, is packing the car for college: Botticelli posters, red and pink pillows, a desk lamp, closet organizers, a hat stand – nesting things for a nest that I will not be sharing with her. This is our sacred rite, our last great initiation and our milestone together: shopping, packing, planning, and giddy giggling energy. SHE’S LEAVING? ...

By Courtney • 14 years ago

Late to the Table, Ready to Make Up for Lost Time

Here’s another in our series on intergenerational feminism in partnership with the Omega Institute. We’re all getting excited about next month’s conference, Women & Power: Connecting Across the Generations. Check out this reflection on feminism by Essence magazine writer Charreah Jackson.
I stumbled into feminism through the back door. And honestly, I am still finding my footing. Growing up in a Black neighborhood in Atlanta’s suburbs, going to Black schools, having Black ballet teachers and dentists, I was always exposed to women in powerful positions while being educated on the historical struggles of my people. So the thought that I could be denied things for my gender in this day was a slow one.
It was a big ...

By Vanessa • 14 years ago

An Internal Intergenerational Dialog: On Returning to Paris and Finding My Lost Inner Twenty Year Old As I Turn Sixty

Check out this guest post from author and activist Gail Straub, who will be at the Omega Institute’s intergenerational conference that we’ll be at this fall.

This past May in celebration of my sixtieth birthday I returned to Paris where I had studied Marxism at the Sorbonne as a twenty year old college student. I thought I was returning to Paris because I loved everything about the City of Lights including her museums, churches, cafes, concerts, wine, patisseries, parks, and yes, the stubborn proud Parisians too. All this was still true as I fell head over heels in love with Paris just like I had forty years ago. But something else, something unexpected, was ...

By Courtney • 14 years ago

Coloring in the Outlines of our Mothers’ Stories

Check out this interesting guest post by Dr. Ana Nogales, a health and human rights advocate, on the power of women’s stories, as understood through her own mother. This is one more voice to our continued exploration of generational issues, leading up to the conference this fall at the Omega Institute. We are publishing a series of guest posts as a fun way of initiating some of the speakers–who are generally new to blogging–into our exciting online community. Please make them feel welcome.
My mother never told me her whole story. She relayed pieces of it here and there, but I could tell that her pain was much greater than her measured words revealed. After marrying my father in ...

By Courtney • 14 years ago

Reminder: Scholarship for Omega Conference Due Soon

As we’ve posted previously, there are plenty of generous scholarships available to folks for this fall’s Omega conference: Women & Power: Connecting Across the Generations. But you have apply by June 1 (that’s Monday people)!
The feministing crew will be there, live blogging, interviewing some of the keynote speakers, teaching folks how to blog etc. We’d love to meet you!
*To apply to be part of a cross-generational facilitated dialogue, go here.
And speaking of, Check out Katha Pollit’s recent piece on feminism and generational divides.

By Vanessa • 14 years ago

Happy Long Weekend!

As for next week, the Feministing editors will be going to the Omega Institute for a strategic planning retreat where we’ll be discussing and making decisions around various issues concerning the blog as well as benefiting from Omega’s Service Week, in which nearly thirty other amazing organizations and groups will be receiving professional consultation on how to better their work. Among these grantees are organizations we know and love like Girls Write Now, Sadie Nash Leadership Project, and the Amethyst Women’s Project.
Since we’ll be pretty busy retreating and strategizing, our posting from Monday through Wednesday will be extremely limited, with most posts being Feministing-related as we enter each conversation topic during those days. For ...

By Courtney • 14 years ago

Women, Power, and Roller Skates: Connecting Across the Generations

Check out this interesting guest post by Carla Goldstein, the director of the Women’s Institute at Omega, on the feminist progress within her own family. This is one more voice to our continued exploration of generational issues, leading up to the conference this fall at the Omega Institute. We are publishing a series of guest posts as a fun way of initiating some of the speakers–who are generally new to blogging–into our exciting online community. Please make them feel welcome. And don’t forget to turn in your scholarship applications! They’re due June 1st.

My day began with bringing my pouting 8-year-old daughter to school, mad because we were late again. I felt sympathetic, remembering what it was ...