National Organization for Women-NYC’s Annual Love Your Body Day Bash- October 28, 2009
From NOW-NYC:
Love Your Body Day encourages every woman and girl to embrace her own body on her own terms-not the terms set out by society or the media. Join our celebration of healthy body, mind, sex and soul, and support the critical work of NOW-NYC & the Service Fund of NOW-NYC.
*Mara Altman reads from her hilarious and honest new book Thanks for Coming-One Young Woman’s Quest for an Orgasm. A former staff writer for the Village Voice, she has written for New York Magazine and the New York Times. She is currently an adjunct faculty at Columbia University’s Journalism School.
*Judith Steinhart, sexpert, host of Sexuali-Teas and creator of Hey Jud, answers your anonymous, most personal questions about sex with frankness and humor. Also known as a Clinical Sexologist, Judith Steinhart, EdD, has answered questions about sex for Go Ask Alice!, which she co-created, and for thousands of college students and adults for over 25 years. She believes that knowledge is power.
*Filmakers Kimberly M. Wetherell & Amy Axelson join us in our screening room to show their short documentary, Why We Wax, a hilarious look at modern culture’s obsession with hair removal. With a light touch, through countless interviews with women and men, gay and straight, professional and pornographic , Why We Wax explores the history, fashion, function and not-strictly-feminine fascination with maintaining the hair… “down there.”
*free hors d’oeuvres, wine & spirits, raffle entry, and special giveaways. Check out our website, www.nownyc.org, for tickets and more information. Tickets start at $35. Event will be held at In Good Company Loft Space 16 W 23rd Street.
Mara Altman’s book is wonderful. Damn it all, I meant to write about it on my blog weeks ago. Here’s hoping that this tour goes national, so I can send my students.
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Have one in chicago please!