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09/04/2009 This list represents some upcoming events on women and gender in the Five College area. Please contact the sponsoring department for more information. For a full list of events at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center itself, return to our Events page and click on FCWSRC Events. Three years in the making, THE HERETICS uncovers the inside story of the Second Wave of the Women's Movement for the first time in a feature film. Director Joan Braderman is an award-winning video artist and filmmaker whose work is in such permanent collections as MoMA, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and Tickets are general admission and for students with ID. There will be a question and answer period with Joan Braderman after the screening. Tickets can be purchased at the Academy of Music box office or on line at www.academyofmusictheater.com. The box office is open from 3 to 6 PM from Tuesday through Friday. www.heresiesfilmproject.org 1) New England Film Premiere: Diagnosing Difference Thursday, Nov. 12, 7 p.m. Dr. Shelley Janiczek Woodson, a licensed psychologist and gender therapist, will lead a discussion after the screening. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the UMass Stonewall Center and the Everywoman’s Center. This event is made possible in part by a grant from the UMass Arts Council. ******* 2) New England Film Premiere: Riot Acts--Flaunting Gender Deviance in Musical Performance Tuesday, Nov. 17, 7 p.m. The filmmakers, Madsen Minax and Simon Strikeback, will lead a Sponsored by the UMass Stonewall Center and the Everywoman’s Center. Co-sponsored by the UMass Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Program. This event is made possible in part by a grant from the UMass Arts Council. ******* 3) Pioneer Valley Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial Thursday, November 19, 7 p.m. The annual Day of Remembrance memorializes individuals who have been killed throughout the world in the previous year because of anti-transgender hatred. Since last year’s event, 26 people are known to have been murdered because of their gender identity/expression. Speakers at the Pioneer Valley Transgender Day of Remembrance will include Reverend Alison Wohler, the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst; Rabbi Raquel Kosovske, the rabbi of Beit Ahavah: The Reform Synagogue of Greater Northampton; Rabbi David Dunn Bauer, the rabbi of the Jewish Community of Amherst; Reverend Louis Mitchell, a founder of Recovering the Promise Ministries and a local transgender activist; and Reverend Liza Neal, the minister of the A reception will follow the event. Sponsored by the UMass Stonewall Center, the UMass Everywoman’s Center, the Hampshire College Spiritual Life Office, the Amherst College Rainbow Room, Beit Ahavah, and the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst. ******* 4) A number of Pioneer Valley churches and synagogues will also include transgender people and the Day of Remembrance in their services on the weekend of Nov. 20-22. These include: Beit Ahavah: The Reform Synagogue of Greater Northampton
The Odyssey Bookshop together with the Five College Women's Studies Research Center and the Mount Holyoke College Gender Studies Department invite you to a reading and book-signing with Gail Collins author of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present "An enormously entertaining cultural and social history...Without preaching, Collins shows the sexism that women (and men) once accepted as the norm, and she backs up her often eye-opening stories with hard facts and solid statistics.... Collins can be deadly serious and great fun to read at the same time. A revelatory book for readers of both sexes, and sure to become required reading for any American women's-studies course." -- Kirkus "In a deft and entertaining work of historical synthesis, Ms. Collins draws on the new literature of American women's history to weave a rich narrative." -- New York Times "Collins, a lively narrator of events, works years of scholarly research seamlessly into the text of America's Women, with neither pedantry nor pretension."-- Washington Post Book World For more information, contact the Odyssey Bookshop at Black Poetry of the 1960s and 70s Thursday, November 19, 2009 A panel of distinguished artists featuring: | |