Event: Folsom Street Fair

Although this is cutting it close to the deadline, I would recommend that everyone attend for the experience.

Folsom Street Fair located in San Francisco's South of Market district on Folsom Street between 7th and 12th Streets.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
11:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
Suggested $5 admission fee

"Folsom Street Events is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization serving the adult San Francisco alternative communities. Through the production of street fairs, Folsom Street Events promotes diversity within the leather/alternative lifestyle, highlighting entertainment, service and vendors. Proceeds from the production of the fairs are distributed to organizations which promote a sense of community, diversity, cooperation, health and human services."
http://www.folsomstreetfair.com/folsomstreetevents.php

Event: Vietnamese Brides - Are They 'Good Girls' or 'Bad Girls'? The Cultural Boundary of 'Good Women' in Vietnam

ietnamese Brides - Are They 'Good Girls' or 'Bad Girls'? The Cultural Boundary of 'Good Women' in Vietnam

Lecture | September 27 | 12:30 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton), 6F Conference Room | Note change in date

Speaker: Mei-Hsien Lee, National Chi Nan University (Taiwan)

Sponsor: Southeast Asia Studies, Center for

Are the Vietnamese brides who marry Taiwanese men as a way to help their families economically, “good women” or “bad women”? In Vietnam, a girl from a traditional family believes “sacrificing” her own interest in order to help her family is a something that a “good daughter” should do. However, in the eyes of the Vietnamese elites, these Vietnamese brides are “bad women” for they pursue a kind of marriage that is not based on love but rather on economics. They see this kind of cross-border marriage as a “national shame” that should be prohibited by law.

Event Contact: 510-642-3609

Event: Calling All Feminists! Radical Women Meeting

Thursday, September 27, 7:00 pm -9:00pm

WEBSITE DESCRIPTION
Calling all feminists! Are you interested in volunteering or interning with organization that values your ideas and leadership? Then check out Radical Women, a multi-racial, cross-generational revolutionary feminist organization with a commitment to fighting for the rights of women, people of color, queers and workers! With over 40 years of dedicated activism in the movements for social change, Radical Women is a great place to develop your skills and make a difference.

Come early for a hearty dinner, with vegetarian option, available at 6:15 pm for a $7.00 donation. Call 415-864-1278 for more information or to volunteer/intern. Everyone welcome. Wheelchair accessible.

New Valencia Hall
625 Larkin Street, Suite 202, San Francisco, CA 94109
Five blocks from the Civic Center BART station, and on the #19 and #31 Muni bus line
email: rwbayarea [at] yahoo.com * http://www.radicalwomen.org

Susan Faludi and Lakshmi Chaudhry: The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America

Location:

King Middle School, 1781 Rose St, Berkeley

Time: Friday, October 12

8pm-10pm

Website Description:

Susan Faludi will in conversation with Lakshmi Chaudhry and Nora Barrows-Friedman

Lakshmi Chaudhry, a Nation contributing writer and a Puffin Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, senior editor at In These Times and a former senior editor of AlterNet. Previously a staff writer at Wired News, she has written for various publications including Mother Jones, The Village Voice, Bitch, and Ms. Magazine. She is coauthor of AlterNet’s book, The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, the senior producer and co-host of Flashpoints on KPFA/Pacifica Radio. In addition, she is a Middle East correspondent for Inter Press Service based in Europe, and a frequent contributor to ElectronicIntifada.net. She is also a mother, cellist, and writer.

Logistics:
Tickets: $10 at supportive bookstores & on line: http://www.kpfa.org
, $13 door
Information: 510.848.6767x612
Benefit: KPFA Radio 94.1FM

Alice Walker Reads at Books Inc. in the Opera Plaza, SF

Date: Sep 22, 2007 8:59 pm

Message:

Time: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:00 PM
Location: Books Inc. in Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness, SF, 415-776-1111
Meet Poet, Activist and Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker when she reads and discusses her new picture book for children of all ages Why War is Never a Good Idea, a poem about the power and wanton devastation of war. A portion of proceeds from this event will benefit San Francisco School Volunteers.

The Book: Though War is Old

It has not

Become wise.

Poet and activist Alice Walker personifies the power and wanton devastation of war in this evocative poem.

Stefano Vitale’s compelling paintings illustrate this unflinching look at war’s destructive nature and unforeseen consequences.

http://www.booksinc.net/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&eventId=355552

Events

Hi Everyone,

I'm going to post events that come my way on the blog. If you are looking for an event check here. If you come across and interesting event or want to organize a group to go to an event please post it here.

Thanks

Rebekah

Event

Subject: Home Movies: Autobiographical Films by Women

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at the Pacific Film Archive

Introduced by Marilyn Fabe. Part of the Alternative Visions program at the PFA. Total running time: 84 mins

Three works by women present varied approaches to the personal: Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren, founding mother of the American avant-garde; Carolee Schneeman's erotic Fuses; and Sink or Swim, Su Friedrich's exploration of her relationship with her father.

Film as an art form, Maya Deren believed, should convey inner experience, not events that can be witnessed by other persons. This position is evident in her landmark Meshes of the Afternoon, which features herself and was filmed at her home in Los Angeles. Shown in a new preservation print, Carolee Schneemann's Fuses provides a sensual, graphic portrayal of her lovemaking with James Tenney. Erotic rather than pornographic, the film was shot by both Schneemann and Tenney, so that the point of view is fluid and shifting. The very film itself is eroticized by Schneemann's touch—she painted, scratched, and sculpted the film material, even baked the film, creating a true "home" movie. In Sink or Swim, Su Friedrich uses black-and-white home movies, archival footage, and her own cinematography to examine her relationship with her father, who departed from her life when she was a young girl. Friedrich's film is filled with personal, fragile memories.

Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, 1943, Music by Teijo Ito added in 1959, 14 mins, B&W, From UC Berkeley Film Studies).

Fuses (Carolee Schneemann, 1964–67, 22 mins, Silent, Color, From Anthology Film Archives).

Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich, 1990, 48 mins, B&W, From Canyon Cinema)

A question for you about the reading

Hello again,

I'm wondering what most interested you or troubled you about the Sander Gilman article?

I'd like everyone to send in an answer to this question (it can be as short or long as you like and you are also welcome to respond and build on someone else's answer) so that I can do a class count and make sure everyone is signed up on the blog.

Thanks.

Assignment for Sept 24th

Hello Everyone,

Thank you to Maya for setting this up.

I'm sorry I missed class yesterday and hope you all enjoyed a surprise hour of free time.

For next Monday's written assignment:

Imagine that you are writing an exam for this last section "Women, Men and the Rest of Us" and do the following:
1) list two vocabulary terms that you believe essential to this section and give a brief definition of the term;
2) write a brief description of a key concept used/explored by any of the authors of this section;
3) write an essay question that would require/allow the test taker to use three different texts to answer the question. (You don't have to answer this question you just have to design it. A good essay question is not a question that has a yes or no answer but instead provides a prompt that allows the writer to show how they have been thinking about the topics in class and how they have been making sense of the readings.)

Please email these assignments to me by Monday morning Sept 24th. Put "WMST 71 Sept 24th test assignment" in the header. I will compile a subset of your vocabularies, concepts, and questions into one document and hand it out to you as a study aid for the reading exam that follows after our next section "World and the Body".

Thank you all for your hard work and participation in these first weeks of class.
Rebekah