In this town of writerly goodness, every once in a while an event rolls around that I feel I just can’t miss.  Still trying to line up a sitter, but damned if I won’t be there.  If anywhere near NYC this Monday night, I strongly encourage you to hightail it to this panel too — which features members of my awesome authors’ group, and the founder of The OpEd Project, the organization I work with. Here’s the schpiel:

 

New America NYC in collaboration with the Invisible Institute
presents

Navigating the Pink Ghetto

199 LAFAYETTE ST. SUITE 3B, NEW YORK, NY (JUST PAST SPRING AT KENMARE—AND UPSTAIRS FROM LA ESQUINA!) 

JUNE 11, 2012 6:30 – 8:15PM

Topics around gender politics, family issues and women’s health are crucial mainstays of journalism, so why do issues pertaining to women get sidelined? And how can so-called “women’s topics” get an intellectually sound, politically savvy hearing in a media world that often wants a soft focus on hard issues? Hear from tough women journalists spilling red ink on pink topics, and how they manage the gender divide in serious ideas-based reporting.

FEATURING

EMILY BAZELON

Senior editor, Slate
Contributing writer, The New York Times Magazine
Author of a forthcoming book about bullying, Sticks and Stones, to be published early next spring
ANNIE MURPHY PAUL

Author, Origins and Brilliant
Contributing writer, TIME magazine
Contributor, NPR’s MindShift.com

PAMELA PAUL

Author, The Starter Marriage and The Future of Matrimony, Pornified, and Parenting, Inc.
Features editor and children’s book editor, The New York Times Book Review

KATIE ORENSTEIN

Founder and CEO, The OpEd Project

Author, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked

GUARANTEE YOUR PLACE, RSVP NOW

See you there!