This month's book is The Women's Room by Marilyn French
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T113622Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100114T011500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100114T030000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/classics-book-group URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/classics-book-group SUMMARY:Classics Book Group DESCRIPTION:This month's book is The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T113622Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100117T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100117T040000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/sappho%E2%80%99s-salon URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/sappho%E2%80%99s-salon SUMMARY:Sappho’s Salon Lesbian and Queer Women Survivor Open Mic and Sarah’s Circle canned food drive\, with Deb R. Lewis and DJ Sp DESCRIPTION:Sliding scale $7–$10 includes food and wine
For our January Salon\, we are hosting our first-ever open mic\, featuring the work of lesbian survivors. All lesbian and/or queer identified women who claim the mantle “survivor\,” whether surviving addiction\; sexual\, physical or emotional abuse\; homophobia\; poverty\; racism\; ableism\; or any other facet of survival is invited to bring two pages (double-spaced\, please) of poetry\, journal\, short-short story\, personal essay\, or their instrument and a song\, to share. Tonight’s featured performer is Second Story regular Deb R. Lewis. As usual\, DJ SpinNikki will play an eclectic mix of music between sets. Open Mic sign-up begins at 7\:30\, performances start at 8. Also at tonight’s salon\, we will be collecting canned and non-perishable food donations for Sarah’s Circle\, an uptown shelter serving homeless and at-risk women. Proceeds benefit the featured performers and the Women’s Voices Fund.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T113622Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100120T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100120T033000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/womens-bok-group URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/womens-bok-group SUMMARY:Women's Bok Group DESCRIPTION:This month's book is The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T113622Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100121T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100121T030000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/kathleen-rooney URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/kathleen-rooney SUMMARY:Kathleen Rooney DESCRIPTION:Kathleen Rooney
For You\, for You I Am Trilling These Songs
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In her acclaimed new collection about the life of twenty-somethings in the twenty-first century\, Chicago author Rooney (Live Nude Girl\, Reading with Oprah)\, writes with finesse and fresh insight\, revealing a young woman trying to find her place in an America that rarely manages to live up to Walt Whitman’s dream and making discoveries about life at every turn.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T113622Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100122T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100122T030000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/ben-yoseph-and-deborah-nodler-rosen URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/ben-yoseph-and-deborah-nodler-rosen SUMMARY:Ben-Yoseph and Deborah Nodler Rosen DESCRIPTION:Contributors and editors Miriam Ben-Yoseph and Deborah Nodler Rosen
Where We Find Ourselves\: Jewish Women Around the World Write about Home
Join editors Miriam Ben-Yoseph and Deborah Nodler Rosen\, along with contributors Dina Elenbogen\, Marcelle Levy\, Julie Parson-Nesbitt\, Eva Perkal\, and Sara Schwarzbaum for this remarkable collection of essays\, stories\, and poems by writers from around the world\, offering diverse perspectives of home\; from the places where one is born\; to the communities we create\; to the culmination of memories\, emotions\, and rituals\, combining historical and personal connections.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T113622Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100123T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100123T200000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/buffy-discussion-group-7 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/buffy-discussion-group-7 SUMMARY:Buffy Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Breakups
- they're tough. But in the Buffyverse they can be even more dramatic.
In this discussion we'll examine some of the most compelling breakups
throughout the series and how they affected the characters involved.
We'll discuss how did the breakups change the individuals in the
relationship? Was the breakup fair? Healthy? Destructive? Did the
breakup make sense to the overarching character development of the
participants or was it just a plot device? Specifically we'll deal with
Buffy and Angel's breakup in Season 3\, Buffy and Riley's breakup in
Season 5\, Xander and Anya's breakup in Season 6 and Willow and Tara's
breakup in Season 6.
Required Viewing\:
The Prom\, S3\, E20
Into the Woods S5\, E10
All the Way S6\, E6
Tabula Rasa S6\, E8
Hell's Bells S6\, E16
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T113622Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100124T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100125T000000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/buffy-disscussion-group URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/buffy-disscussion-group SUMMARY:Buffy Disscussion Group DESCRIPTION:General Buffy\: How BtVS Adopts the Language of War in Season 7
Season 4 sets up a clear opposition to the military industrial complex as the Scoobies take on the Adam and the Initiative. But Buffy's inspirational speeches during season 7 echo the language of the times as the US embarked on the war in Iraq. We'll compare episodes from both seasons\, discuss the problems that arise in using military language and the metaphor of war in a feminist show\, and consider how Buffy both uses and subverts the role of "\;general"\;.
Eps to Watch\:
Goodbye Iowa s4ep14
Primeval s4ep21
Bring on the Night s7ep10
Get It Done s7ep15
Dirty Girls s7ep18
Essays to Read\:
Buffy Goes to War\: Military Themes and Images in Buffy the Vampire Slayer\, by
Dennis Showalter
Who's Afraid of Jessica Lynch? or One Girl in All the World? Gendered Heroism and the Iraq War\, by Sara Buttsworth
Margaret Hawkins
A Year of Cats and Dogs
In this dark\, yet hopeful\, unique and wholly original debut novel\, Chicago writer Hawkins combines humor with desperation\, the “real world” with the I-Ching\, the conventions of fiction with food writing\, lists\, good and bad poetry\, and the protagonist’s surprising discovery that she can communicate with animals\, to tell a story of lost love\, new love\, and midlife re-invention unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. Hawkins writes for ARTnews\, and her work has appeared on WBEZ and in the Chicago Sun-Times. She teaches writing at the Art Institute of Chicago.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T113622Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100131T223000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100201T000000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/louise-cainkar URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/louise-cainkar SUMMARY:Louise Cainkar DESCRIPTION:
Louise Cainkar
Homeland Insecurity\: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11
In Homeland Insecurity\, Marquette University professor Cainkar argues that 9/11 did not create anti-Arab or anti-Muslim suspicion\, but rather that socially constructed images and social and political exclusion existed long before these attacks\, creating an environment in which post 9/11 misunderstanding\, hostility\, and racial profiling could thrive. Focusing on the Chicago Metropolitan area\, Cainkar bases her research on of interviews and in-depth oral histories with native-born and immigrant Palestinians\, Egyptians\, Lebanese\, Iraqis\, Yemenis\, Sudanese\, Jordanians\, and others.
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