Two great events open to the public: NOW-NYC and Sara Benincasa!

The semester winds down with our last two and awesome events:

Maureen Shaw of NOW-NYC will come and give a presentation on
what's going on with the organization and how we can get involved.

Wednesday, December 9th
2 PM - 4 PM
Facebook Event Page

Comedian Sara Benincasa will come and talk to us,
ask generally uncomfortable questions, bring laughs, thoughts,
and her gorgeous self.

Wednesday, December 16th
1PM - 3 PM
Facebook Event Page



BOTH EVENTS will be at
Thomas Hunter Hall Room 309
on the northwest corner of 68th St. & Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10065

Day of Action against Stupak this Wednesday

[Image via MassArt's Feminist Majority]

Dear members of the Hunter Women's Rights Coalition (Hunter Equality),

This Wednesday we are having an important meeting (with free pizza, naturally) about our upcoming fundraiser for the Ali Forney Center as well as how to take action at home against the Stupak Amendment, which, if passed along with the health care reform bill before the Senate, could leave women worse off than before.

There will, however,be a National Day of Action THIS WEDNESDAY in Washington, D.C. -- we encourage you to attend if you can. I've included the information from Planned Parenthood below:

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
DECEMBER 2, 2009
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Washington, DC

Please join us to lobby the Senate for health care reform that ensures women's access to reproductive health care.

To rsvp click here and email hunterequality@gmail.com

From Planned Parenthood: Join thousands of others to speak with one voice and let our elected officials know that we support health care reform that protects women's health! Real health reform will respect the right of women to purchase private health insurance that covers comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion. We hope to see you there! If you can't make it to DC, stop by our Facebook page for online activities through December 2. www.facebook.com/plannedparenthood

If you can't make it to DC, we will be discussing The Hanger Project during our Wednesday meeting.

If you can't make it to the meeting either, you can help fight Stupak by calling your Senators: Look them up by state

We are incredibly proud to have worked together throughout this semester and we're very excited for the next. Whether it's in DC, in the clubroom, or online -- we hope to see you by our side in pushing for real health care reform that doesn't leave women behind.

With love and in solidarity,
Sabrina

President
Hunter Women's Rights Coalition
Hunter Equality@gmail.com

Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/HunterEquality
Blog: http://hunterequality.blogspot.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/happyfeminist

Ally Week

[10/19/09] Check out our Facebook event page here!

From Monica Carr, our Coalition's Secretary:

Hey Everyone,
Hope you are as happy as I am that this week is over! We have some ambitious goals for next weeks Ally Week (October 19-23rd) and hit our first snag in the process. We were not granted permission to table the dates and times we requested (damn you!) Regardless, the week will still go on. We can still have people take the pledge, hand out pamphlets, pledge cards, stickers, etc. Think of it as a grass roots campaign :) We still need people to sign up for what I'm now calling "lobbying hours." The times we are trying to fill are:

Monday: 10/19/09
1:00-
2:00-
3:00-

Tuesday: 10/20/09
11:00-
12:00-
1:00-
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Wednesday: 10/21/09
3:00-
4:00-
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Thursday: 10/22/09
3:00-
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Friday: 10/23/09
12:00-
1:00-
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Lastly, considering the work load of posters, informative pamphlets (hehe), banners, etc. that still need to be made I'm having another arts and crafts meeting of the sort. I'll be having people over my place tomorrow @ 9pm. I understand this is uber last minute, and no one is obligated to attend, but if you have nothing better to do with your Friday night and feel like spending it with happy feminists and queer activists alike, come make some influential signs! Tempting, isn't it? If this interested you, please text me @ (908) 894-9472 to confirm and I'll send you my address. That's all for now. Thanks for being wonderful <3
Best,

Monica Carr
Secretary of Hunter's Women's Rights Coalition

This Wednesday: Audacia Ray

Audacia Ray: Sex work around the world

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
1 PM - 3 PM
Thomas Hunter Hall 309

Audacia Ray is a media maker and activist who is passionate about sexual rights. Presently, Audacia is the Program Officer for Online Communications and Campaigns at the International Women’s Health Coalition, an adjunct professor of Human Sexuality at Rutgers University, and the co-host of the monthly reading series Sex Worker Literati in New York.

http://www.audaciaray.com/

Audacia will be fresh from her trip to India. On this trip, she will be doing a media exchange between American and Indian sex workers.

She has explored this issue from many angles, and we're excited to have her come in and let us pick at her brain for a while.

The event will be open to the public -- as our doors are open, so we hope your mind will be.

View the facebook event page at facebook.com/HunterEquality

See you there!

Donation Drive for the Ali Forney Center

The Hunter Women's Rights Coalition (HWRC/"Hunter Equality") is collecting donations starting today for The Ali Forney Center. A box is available already in the club room (Thomas Hunter Hall room 309).

Items We Always Need:

* Non-perishable foods
* Toiletries
* Cleaning supplies
* Office supplies
* Twin sheet sets
* Towels and wash cloths
* Socks, underwear and T-shirts
* School supplies and bookbags.

New clothing and new or "gently" used linens are appreciated.
This list from here.

About this organization, from their website:

"New York City can be a brutal place for homeless youth and tragically, many young lives have been destroyed. At AFC, we are making a difference by rescuing kids from the dangers of the streets and placing them into our safe, homelike environments. [...]

Ali Forney was a homeless queer teen who was forced to live on the streets of New York during the 1990s. Ali was dedicated to the safety of other homeless queer youth; he was a committed HIV prevention worker, and aggressively advocated that the NYPD investigate a series of murders of the homeless queer youth he had befriended. Ali was an inspiration to those who knew him.

In December of 1997, Ali was murdered on the streets. His tragic death called attention to the atrocious conditions for homeless LGBT youth in New York. Ali's murderer has never been identified."

Here is a link to our Facebook event. Thank you for any and all donations! Your help is always appreciated!

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

TIMEOUT NY RATES THIS EVENT "CRITIC'S PICK"!!!

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)
Click Here for Hop Stop Directions
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
Participate:Calling All Feminists! help promote and we'll help promote your organization!
Email: JWeis@paradigmshiftnyc.com

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.

MORE VIDEOS ABOUT FEMINIST MEN ON PARADIGM SHIFT TV!
ALSO OUR SEE VIEWER FEEDBACK QUESTIONS we want to hear your thoughts!!

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)

Press about us

We (Women's Rights Coalition) were at the following event Saturday, and our work with the CUNY-wide sexual assault policy is mentioned!

http://who-will-kiss-the-pig.blogspot.com/2009/06/saturday-afternoon-in-tompkins-square.html
A serious moment about a serious subject: sexual assault among college students. Jerin Alam of the Young Feminist Task Force discusses the proposed CUNY sexual assault policy that students at the city university are trying to implement. One out of four women and one out of six men are sexually assaulted in colleges nationwide. For information and help, go to RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network or call 800-621-HOPE.


Posted by:
Jerin Alam
National NOW Young Feminist Task Force
President, Hunter Women’s Rights Coalition (HWRC)