This month's book is West with the Night by Beryl Markham
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100415T003000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100415T020000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/sex-survivors URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/sex-survivors SUMMARY:“Sex After Sexual Assault” Workshop DESCRIPTION:In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month\, Rape Victim Advocates presents a workshop geared toward survivors of sexual assault as well as anyone who works with or loves a survivor. Covering the basic facts and myths of sexual assault\, RVA’s workshop will explore the sexual repercussion of victim blaming\, handling triggers\, and positively reintegrating sex into your life. Adult audiences only. Recommended books\: Healing Sex and Yes Means Yes.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100416T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100416T020000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/poetry-reading URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/poetry-reading SUMMARY:Poetry Reading DESCRIPTION:
Full Moon on K Street\: Poems About Washington DC
Featuring Gregg Shapiro\, Toni Asante Lightfoot\, Rebecca Villarreal\, David Trinidad and Deborah Darr
Co-sponsored by Poets &\; Writers Magazine
Join us for a reading by contributors to the new anthology\, Full Moon on K Street. Featuring more than 100 contemporary poems\, this collection captures DC’s unique sense of place\, from the monuments and parks\, to the bus stations\, from go-go music to chili half-smokes\, and the city’s many moods\, from celebratory to angry to fiercely political\; the result comprises a love letter – with all the complexity that love implies – to our nation’s capitol city.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100418T003000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100418T020000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/sapphos-salon-alix-dobkin URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/sapphos-salon-alix-dobkin SUMMARY:Sappho's Salon - Alix Dobkin DESCRIPTION:Sappho’s Salon\: A Provocative Night of Lesbian Diversions
Featuring Alix Dobkin and DJ SpinNikki
$7-10 sliding scale includes food and wine
Before she was a lesbian music legend\, before she was a ground breaking lesbian activist and cultural worker\, Alix Dobkin was a teenaged\, guitar-totin’\, card-carrying comrade in the folk music communities of Philadelphia and Greenwich Village circa the 1950s. In her new memoir\, My Red Blood\, the woman who pioneered lesbian music with her 1972 release\, “Lavender Jane Loves Women” recounts her coming-of-age amidst the lefty politicos and beatniks in the East Coast underground. At tonight’s very special Sappho’s Salon\, Dobkin will share excerpts of her life story while regaling us with song. DJ SpinNikki will play us in and out of tonight’s performance. All proceeds benefit the artists and the Women’s Voices Fund.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100419T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100419T020000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/feminist-book-group-2 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/feminist-book-group-2 SUMMARY:Feminist Book Group DESCRIPTION:This month's book is Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100421T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100421T033000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/womens-book-group-13 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/womens-book-group-13 SUMMARY:Women's Book Group DESCRIPTION:This month's book is Ka-Ching! by Denise Duhamel
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100422T003000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100422T020000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/katy-shonk-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/katy-shonk-0 SUMMARY:Katherine Shonk DESCRIPTION:Happy Now?
Chicago writer Shonk’s new novel looks at love\, grief and recovery through the eyes of Claire Kessler\, a modern young woman living in Evanston who endures a stream of Internet and speed-dating debacles\, until she meets Jay\, almost perfect and truly kind. And then on Valentine’s Day he kills himself. At times both heart breaking and darkly comic\, Shonk’s deftly told tale avoids melodrama. As Rachel Roseblitt wrote in Elle magazine\, “Anyone who has passed up a popcorn car-chase flick in favor of a good indie knows how powerful a simple\, skillfully told\, character-driven story can be. Katherine Shonk does\, and Happy Now?\, her first novel\, is proof…” Shonk’s first book is the critically acclaimed story collection\, The Red Passports.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100424T003000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100424T020000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/lisa-shannon URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/lisa-shannon SUMMARY:Lisa Shannon DESCRIPTION:A Thousand Sisters\: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman
When an episode of Oprah awoke businesswoman Lisa Shannon to the suffering of women in the Congo\, she knew she had to do something. A Thousand Sisters is the moving chronicle of raising money to make a difference for Congolese women\, only to discover that it is she who is profoundly changed by them. Tracing her life from an average American to an unexpected activist and founder of the organization Run for Congo Women\, Shannon’s story is one of adventure\, danger\, hope and healing.
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Fiesta Mexicana
Join us for a special pared-down\, unplugged performance by two-time Grammy-nominated Chicago musical group Sones de Mexico Ensemble\, celebrating their new release\, Fiesta Mexicana. Fiesta Mexicana offers something new to a generation of kids growing up in a globalized world\: a bilingual double-album for the 21st century\, featuring special guests Ella Jenkins and Dan Zanes. All ages welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100425T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100425T230000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/buffy-discussion-group-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/buffy-discussion-group-0 SUMMARY:Buffy Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:April's Feminist Buffy Discussion Group Topic\: The Role of Mothering in Buffy
Episodes to Watch\:
The Witch Season 1 Episode 3
Prophecy Girl Season 1 Episode 12
Band Candy Season 3 Episode 6
Listening to Fear Season 5 Episode 9
Lies My Parents Told Me Season 7 Episode 17
Essays to Read\:
Williams\, J. P. “Choosing Your Own Mother\:
Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Buffy.” Fighting the Forces\: What’s at
Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and ...David
Lavery. Lanham\, MD\: Rowman Littlefield\, 2002. 61-72.
Karras Irene "\;The Third Wave's Final Girl\: Buffy the Vampire Slayer"\; at http\://www.thirdspace.ca/articles/karras.htm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100425T213000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100425T230000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/contributors-pinkham-layug-kast-walker URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/contributors-pinkham-layug-kast-walker SUMMARY:Contributors Pinkham\, Layug\, Kast & Walker DESCRIPTION:Contributors B. E. Pinkham\, Susan T. Layug\, Maggie Kast and Carolyn Walker
Gravity Pulls You In\: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum
Join us for a reading by local and regional contributors to the anthology Gravity Pulls You In. View\, through their eyes\, the universe of autism – its marvels\, chaos\, and life-changing impact. In this collection\, parents raising children on the autism spectrum explore their lives in the context of autism’s own special gravity\, discovering what’s important and what they find centering\, in slice-of-life depictions that are a refreshing departure from the usual diagnosis/grief/acceptance arc of many autism accounts.
Leaving India\: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
In her 2010 Lambda Literary Award finalist-groundbreaking debut\, San Francisco-based queer writer and activist Minal Hajratwala mixes history\, memoir and reportage\, tracing her family’s history from the beginning of the twentieth century and across five continents. Delving into the relationships between the personal choices and historical forces (colonialism\, apartheid\, Gandhi’s Salt March\, American immigration policy) that shaped her family’s experiences\, bringing to light the epic story of the Indian diaspora.
Love Child\: A Memoir of Family Lost &\; Found
After the death of her mother in a freak tragedy\, then four-year-old Allegra Huston was directed into a hotel room with the words “this is your father\,” and hence met\, for the first time\, the acclaimed movie director John Huston. She recounts a childhood shuttled between relatives (including older sister Anjelica who was already an accomplished actress) and across continents. At the age of twelve\, Huston weathered another blow when her stepmother revealed that her biological father was not\, in fact\, Huston\, but British historian John Julius Norwich who\, like Allegra’s mother\, was married at the time of their affair. In her beautifully written\, forensically honest story of a tumultuous childhood\, Allegra Huston weaves the romantic struggle of her mother’s short life into her own story\, a parallel\, though different\, search for love.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100502T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100503T000000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/family-women-book-group-4 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/family-women-book-group-4 SUMMARY:Family of Women Book Group DESCRIPTION:This month's book is Miriam's Kitchen.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T040000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/sister-spit URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/sister-spit SUMMARY:Sister Spit DESCRIPTION:Sister Spit\: The Next Generation\, hosted by Michelle Tea
$10 cover charge
Join us as we welcome the legendary\, raucous\, and rowdy queer traveling variety show! This season's vanload of queertastic brilliance includes literary luminary Michelle Tea\, legendary trans film director Silas Howard (Tribe 8\, By Hook or By Crook)\, graphic novelist and anti-racist activist Elisha Lim\, slam poet and performance artist Lenelle Moise\, trans psychic memoirist Len Plass\, 'zinester/portraitist/graphic novelist Nicole J Georges\, and Power Point–loving shapeshifter Annie Danger. Cover charge benefits the artists.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100509T213000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100509T230000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/amy-peele URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/amy-peele SUMMARY:Amy Peele DESCRIPTION:Aunt Mary's Guide to Raising Children the Old Fashioned Way
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In her new memoir\, Second City alum Amy Peele reflects on her hardscrabble 1960s childhood in Indiana and the laughter and love that kept her large and boisterous Irish-Catholic family together in the wake of her father's abandonment. Bring your mother along\, and join Peele and her own mother for this special event celebrating the bonds of family.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172132Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100513T001500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100513T020000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/classics-book-group-2 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/classics-book-group-2 SUMMARY:Classics Book Group DESCRIPTION:This month's book is Possession by A.S. Byatt
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