Women & Children First - Events Feed

Cynthia Kraack

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:56:37 -0500

Start: Sat, 03/13/2010 - 6:00pm

End: Sat, 03/13/2010 - 7:30pm

Saturday, March 13

6:00 p.m.

Cynthia Kraack

Minnesota Cold

Writer Cynthia Kraack’s book, Minnesota Cold, has been called a lovely, haunting tale, firmly grounded in the ways of the heart. Set in 2035, this is the story of Sallie Dodge, a 70-something woman living within the sociological results of the aggressive merger of government and big business, where it’s considered frugal policy to dictate the lifespan of citizens. When Dodge chooses to defy her turn to “pass,” she embarks, instead, on the journey of a lifetime. Guests are invited to join Kraack for a reception at In Fine Spirits at 5420 N Clark directly following this reading.

Goldie Goldbloom

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:07:21 -0500

Start: Sun, 03/14/2010 - 4:30pm

End: Sun, 03/14/2010 - 6:00pm

4:30pm

Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders

Join us for the American release of Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders (published in Australia as The Paperbark Shoe), the award-winning novel by our favorite Australia-Chicago transplant, Goldie Goldbloom. In Toads' Museum,
Gin, an albino, marries to escape the confines of an asylum while Toad,
a little man who wears corsets, marries to prove his manhood. Together
they are feared and ridiculed in the remote farming community where
they live, until the arrival of two Italian POWs brings music,
sensuality and a love that fans the flames of small town bigotry.

Women's Book Group

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:59:33 -0500

Start: Tue, 03/16/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Tue, 03/16/2010 - 9:30pm

This month's book is What Would Jane Say? by Janice Metzger

Women and Children First: Memories and Archives

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:12:10 -0500

Start: Thu, 03/18/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Thu, 03/18/2010 - 9:00pm

Chicago Area Women’s History Council

Women and Children First: Memories and Archives

Relive the excitement of W&CF’s 30th Anniversary Celebration last October as the Chicago Area Women’s History Council presents a premiere showing of the videotaped interviews conducted at the event. CAWHC members will discuss how you can participate in their larger project “Documenting the Women’s Movement in Chicago, 1960s – 1980s,” while Beth Myers from the Women and Leadership Archive at Loyola will share information about this important repository and the W&CF collection there. If you have memories or documents about W&CF, don’t miss this event. If you were part of the feminist movement in Chicago, CAWHC needs your help!

Sappho’s Salon: A Provocative Night of Lesbian Diversions

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:00:43 -0500

Start: Sat, 03/20/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Sat, 03/20/2010 - 9:30pm

Saturday, March 20

7:30 p.m.

Sappho’s Salon: A Provocative Night of Lesbian Diversions

Featuring Jennie Brier and Elana Dykewomon, with special guest host Chelsey Clammer and guest DJ Chandra. Co-sponsored by the Lesbian Leadership Council, Chicago Foundation for Women

$7-$10 sliding fee scale includes food and wine

The latest monthly installment of our popular salon night for lesbians and their friends features writers Jennie Brier and Elana Dykewomon. In her book Infectuous Ideas: U.S. Political Response to the AIDS Crisis, UIC Professor Jennie Brier charts the complex social and political climate of the 1980s and ‘90s through the lens of the AIDS crisis. Elana Dykewomon, formerly editor of the journal Sinister Wisdom, is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning brilliant lesbian classic, Beyond the Pale. Her new novel, Risk, examines the life of Carol Schwartz, a community activist and idealist who routinely puts it all on the line; but when the stakes become too high, will she gamble more than she can afford to lose? This event is co-sponsored by the Lesbian Leadership Council of the Chicago Foundation for Women. Proceeds benefit the artists and the Women’s Voices Fund.

Feminist Book Group

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:30:09 -0500

Start: Sun, 03/21/2010 - 6:00pm

End: Sun, 03/21/2010 - 8:00pm

This month's book is Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness & Liberation by Eli Clare.

Lisa Lutz

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:02:41 -0500

Start: Wed, 03/24/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Wed, 03/24/2010 - 9:00pm

Wednesday, March 24

7:30 p.m.

Lisa Lutz

The Spellmans Strike Again

In the fourth and final volume of her New York Times’ bestselling and addictively entertaining comic mystery series, Lisa Lutz unravels another irresistible caper featuring the irrepressible Isabel Spellman and her off-kilter family of private investigators. In this installment, Rae, Izzy’s ingenious of a little sister, gets involved in the Innocence Project and won’t stop until the rest of the family is equally committed. We’ll be raffling off “Free Schmidt” t-shirts provided by Lutz. The third volume, Revenge of the Spellmans, is now available in paperback, and a film version of The Spellman Files is currently in development with Paramount Pictures. Please join us in what is sure to be a very special evening of laughter and intrigue.

Feminist Buffy Discussion Group

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:25:23 -0500

Start: Sun, 03/28/2010 - 2:00pm

End: Sun, 03/28/2010 - 4:00pm

Duality in the Buffyverse
Xander: Hey, wait till you have an evil twin. See how you handle it.
Willow: I handled it fine.

Episodes to Watch:
Wish- Buffy season 3 episode 9
Doppelgangland - Buffy season 3 episode 16
The Replacement- Buffy season 5 episode 3
Intervention- Buffy season 5 episode 18
Normal Again- Buffy season 6 episode 17

Essays to Read:
“ 'Where’s the fun?': The Comic Apocalypse in “The Wish” by David
Kociemba. Found at: http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage23/Kociemba.htm

"Going Through the Motions: Reading Simulacra in Buffy the Vampire
Slayer" by Bronwen Calvert. Found at: http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage15/Calvert.htm

Peeling, Caitlin and Scanlon, Meaghan. “‘What’s More Real? a Sick Girl
in an Institution… or Some Kind of Supergirl?’: The Question of Madness
in ‘Normal Again,’ a Feminist Reading.” Paper presented at the Slayage
Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, May 2004. Found at:
http://www.alysa316.com/Buffyology/#pub_b

Family of Women Book Group

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:52:35 -0500

Start: Sun, 04/04/2010 - 3:00pm

End: Sun, 04/04/2010 - 6:00pm

This month's book is Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen