Feminist Men: Increasing Visibility, Wed, 8/19, 7pm

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Paradigm Shift: NYC's Feminist Community Proudly Presents:
Feminist Men: Increasing Visibility

When: Wed, Aug 19th
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: In the heart of the Feminist District
People Lounge, 163 Allen Street, NYC
(Between Stanton and Rivington, F or V Train to 2nd Ave)
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Cost: $7.00 if you RSVP to below email address before Aug 19 @ 1:00 PM
$10 at door. Please include full names and emails of all guests. rsvp@paradigmshiftnyc.com
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Featuring:
VINNIE ANGEL
Feminist & purveyor of social justice consumer products

ROBERT BRANNON
Co-Founder, National Organization for Men Against Sexism

JERIN ALAM
National NOW Young Feminist Task Force & Hunter CollegeWomen's Rights Coalition

BEN SEIGEL
Former VP of Hunter College Women's Rights Coalition

PLUS!
several honored guests from the feminist community, including past PShift speakers!!

PORTION OF PROCEEDS DONATED TO NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MEN AGAINST SEXISM

See Vinnie on Paradigm Shift TV!


Vinnie Angel's Products:

• The famous Vinnie's Tampon Case-
• Cramp Relieving bubble bath-
• Music For Menstruators CD-
• Vinnie's GIANT Roller Coaster Period Chart and Sticker Book-
• Vinnie's Cramp Kicking Remedy Book
  

The Truth About Vinnie's Tampon Case:

Vinnie's Project Goal:
To create an affordable (or free) everyday object that would encourage a positive and non-sexual dialog between guys and girls about a woman's body- in hopes of sparking education that will work towards ending violence against women.

Vinnie's Inspiration: A friend revealed to me her having been kidnapped and raped by a group of strange men when she was in high school. The recurring trauma of her experience compounded by the fact that her family didn't know how to deal with the crime and the fact that the perps were never arrested or brought to justice shook me to my core.

Furious at a society that refuses to develop the tools to deal with such horrific and wide-spread behavior I took it upon myself to attempt to change the environment that allows a college educated male like myself to be willfully ignorant of a woman's well being and safety.

Vinnie's Famous!
Vinnie's Tampon Case has been featured in nearly everywoman's magazine, on countless radio programs, in newspapers across the globe, on TV shows, in documentaries, in books, at the Andy Warhol Museum, offered in stores around the world, given away by Justin Timberlake at his 22nd birthday party, discussed in Harvard classrooms, and, most importantly, discussed by boys and girls on playgrounds.

Robert Brannon
Co-Founder of National Organization for Men Against Sexism
Brannon, Professor, Brooklyn College and NOMAS co-founder. He serves as Men's Studies Association and NOMAS Pornography and Prostitution Task Group leader and is NYS-NOW Task Force Co-Chair on Trafficking, Pornography and Prostitution.The National Organization for Men Against Sexism, founded in 1974, is an activist organization of men and women supporting positive changes for men. NOMAS advocates a perspective that is pro-feminist, gay affirmative, anti-racist, dedicated to enhancing men's lives, and committed to justice on a broad range of social issues including class, age, religion, and physical abilities.

Ben Siegel
Former VP of Hunter College Women's Rights Coalition
Ben helped organize a national women's rights conference, and is a passionate feminist activist.

Jerin Alam
National NOW Young Feminist Task Force
www.now.org/programs/yf/taskforce/index.html
Jerin Alam, originally from Bangladesh, served as President of the Hunter Women's Rights Coalition (HWRC), a group with several male officers, while attending Hunter College from April 2007 to graduation.Along with HWRC, she helped organize a national feminist conference in which Gloria Steinem and Rosie O'Donnell participated. Her recent efforts with HWRC have included lobbying for immigrants' rights, and events to raise awareness and combat eating disorders and body issues, and fight sexual violence. She set up various anti-violence workshops on campus with Men Can Stop Rape and the Bringing in the Bystander Program, where public safety trainers fromCUNY Central - as well as rape crisis counselors from around the city - were trained in violence prevention.Alam was recently accepted into the NOW National Young Feminist Task Force, and was invited to speak at the NOW National Conference and the Men Can Stop Rape conference.

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I will be speaking at the following event about a topic close to my heart: feminist men. Ben Siegel, former VP of Hunter Women's Righhts Coaliiton, will also be on the panel with me.

Sincerely,
Jerin Alam
National NOW Young Feminist Task Force
NOW-NYS Young Feminist Task Force Chair
National Organization for Women (NOW)

Male perspective: The men who kill women - Framingham, MA - The MetroWest Daily News -

The following is a great article by a feminist male friend of mine I had the pleasure to meet at the Men Can Stop Rape Conference in DC in April 2009.

The men who kill women - Framingham, MA - The MetroWest Daily News

By Ben Atherton Zeman/Local columnist
GHS
Posted Aug 09, 2009 @ 12:20 AM

An excerpt:
We may never know why George Sodini killed three women and wounded nine others this week.

George Sodini clearly had anger and contempt for women. He objectified girls and women, seeming to see them only as potential sex partners for him. In his online blog, he called them "hoez," "hottie" and "very edible." He lamented that he was lonely and isolated.

We may never know what caused George Sodini to shoot twelve women at the LA Fitness Gym outside Pittsburg on July 4. But after reading his writings, it comes as no surprise to me. He wrote about how "a man needs a woman for confidence," and lamented that no woman would date him.

On the same day, Barack Obama celebrated his 48th birthday. It was also veteran White House journalist Helen Thomas' 89th birthday. Obama chose to celebrate his birthday by bringing cupcakes to Thomas and singing "Happy Birthday" to her, along with the rest of the White House press corps.

We may never know what caused Barack Obama to give that gift to Helen Thomas. But after reading his writings and hearing him speak, it comes as no surprise to me. Barack Obama clearly has respect, kindness and good humor for women. George Sodini clearly had hatred, self-pity and contempt for women.

Both men were in their late 40s. Both were surely influenced by how their parents raised them, and by their own choices. Both men took their actions based on a set of beliefs built up over their lives.

To my fellow men I ask: which man do you want to emulate?

...Misogyny and men's violence against women need fertile soil in which to grow. That fertile soil is sexism. By respecting women, we can dry up that soil. We can hasten the day when this kind of violence never happens again.

Posted by:
Jerin Alam
National NOW Young Feminist Task Force
National Organization for Women (NOW)