Lots of good stuff happening this week. Unfortunately all of it is on Thursday.
First:
Women, Family Planning and the New Congress
On the heels of the President’s 25% budget cut to family planning allocations, women’s rights activists convene for a panel discussion, free and open to the public, to discuss the implications on women around the world. The event, Women, Family Planning and the New Congress, will take place from 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Thursday April 19th at the Marble Collegiate Church, 1 W. 29th Street, NY. Early registration is available at americansforunfpa.org/events.
Panelists include:
* Anika Rahman, President, Americans for UNFPA, the U.S. support organization for the United Nations Population Fund
* Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund
* Carolyn Makinson, Executive Director, Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children.The event will be moderated by Jessica Valenti, founder and editor of feministing.com.
The panelists will discuss existing legislation, legislative agendas and the potential impact on women, both challenges and opportunities. “Women’s health – reproductive health – is a human right,” says Anika Rahman, President, Americans for UNFPA. “But U.S. policies, both foreign and domestic, are moving backwards rather than recognizing that women’s health is tied to their status in society and to improved economic stability for the whole society.”
It sounds like a great event. I will (hopefully) be liveblogging it if you can’t get there.
Second:
Panel and Film: Women in Hip-Hop: Revered or Reviled?
Thursday, April 19th, 6:30 p.m.
Charities Bldg Rm 4
105 East 22nd St & Park Avenue South
Manhattan
Event is Free
Take 6, N or R to 23rd St.
NOW-NYC 212-627-9895
Hip -hop is one of the most popular forms of music today, yet it portrays women as “hos”, “bitches”, and “baby mamas”. How did we get here? Why do some women embrace it? Radio stations say women call in requesting these songs be played. What role do women have in changing the images of women in hip-hop?
Showing Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a documentary that explores sexism in the hip-hop industry.
With Speakers Kim Osorio, former Editor in Chief of Source Magazine, currently Executive Editor at BET Interactive
Julie Covello, DJ/Mixer and music writer for Bust and Sweet Action
Shante Smalls, Hip-hop performer, music writer
And don’t forget about Barnard/Columbia’s Take Back the Night!
Crap. I already have obligations that night.
It’s times like this I wish I lived in NYC.
Jill, there is also the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault annual SAYSO in Union Square! Information found through link.
Beyond Beats and Rhymes is a superb documentary. If it’s being shown at event nearby, you should really go see it.
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