Start watching at 7pm ET! And join us for a “chat” in comments, or on the mogulus site itself!
Archive: Wed Nov 2008
Ok Penners, we’re excited to try this newfangled technology out tonight! At 7pm ET tonight, we’ll have a MOGULUS video feed running the live panel of national leaders and feminists discussing what happened on yesterday, Election Day, and where we go from here. The panelists will be in Cambridge, we’ll be here online, chatting it up with each other in the comments section of the post, and posing our own questions to the panel. A few last-minute details:
1. As we watch, we’ll be chatting it up over here in the comments section. But we just learned, if you want to ask questions of folks at the live event, use the MOGULUS CHAT FUNCTION, not our comments thread, because the event has grown and the organizers of the panel (The Center for New Words ladies) can’t monitor all the comments threads. They’ll be monitoring the mogulus chat thread ONLY. Also, if folks are on the mogulus chat thread you can also chat with other readers on all the other blogs – everyone who’s watching the feed.
2. For Bostonians planning to attend the offline panel: The new venue is LESLEY UNIVERSITY AMPITHEATER, 1815 Mass. Ave in Cambridge.
See you online over here in a few hours!
I just can’t resist. Here’s one more, from dear friend of GWP Daphne Uviller:
Yesterday I threw together a ham sandwich, some coffee, and a bag of cookies and grabbed my baby boy and hopped in my car to drive two hours each way to pull the lever in my hometown. Currently in exile in suburbia, with McCain signs on either side of me (lovely people, though, I’ll be the first to say), I needed to go vote at the Gay and Lesbian Center in the West Village, my polling place since the moment I turned 18. The line was around the block; we waited 45 minutes and I loved every second. And can I just add, even more than the racial history we made, I’m thrilled that America elected a brilliant, erudite man, instead of someone they wanted to have a beer with. Perhaps the dumbing down of the this once-great nation can yet be stanched. I love Obama. I feel hope. And I feel proud of this nation again.
On a less sanguine note, Daphne’s and my exuberance is today mixed with heartbreak at the news of setbacks for gay and lesbian rights. The following updates on ballot initiatives come courtesy of Ann from feministing. Writes Ann:
Proposition 8 in California: Passed. This is such a crushing loss. I went to bed last night before the final results were in, and woke up to the news that the people of California actually approved the gay marriage ban. So devastating.
Amendment 2 in Florida: Passed. Yet another gay marriage ban.
Proposition 102 in Arizona: Passed. As Dana noted previously, “Arizona became the first state in the nation to reject an anti-gay marriage amendment in 2006, but they’re likely to pass the measure this year, now that it has been stripped of language that also denied domestic partnership benefits to hetero couples.” Looks like that was the magic change to make bigotry palatable to Arizona voters.
Act 1 in Arkansas: Passed. Now gay couples are unable to adopt or foster-parent children. This from a state with 3700 children in the foster-care system, and only 1000 foster homes. Disgusting.
Steps forward, steps back. We have much work to do from here.
I woke up and turned on the radio to make sure it wasn’t a dream. I am so moved by this moment in our history, and, after eight years of mortification, proud once again to be an American. Can’t wait to confab with all of you tonight, online!
(Thank you for this amazing video, Jackie!)
After an unbelievable night last night, let’s keep the conversation going tonight. We want you to join us online here at Girl with Pen at 7PM TONIGHT to watch the first ever Feminist Town Forum.
The Center for New Words will be hosting a Feminist Town Forum of national leaders and feminists to discuss what happened on Election Day and where we go from here. We will broadcast the town forum here at Girl with Pen, starting at 7PM TONIGHT. In addition, I (Kristen Loveland), Deborah Siegel, and Glorida Feldt will be teaming up to give live commentary on the town hall, and we invite you to add your voices as well. Basically, we will create a post with the live broadcast and hold a discussion in the comments section. Looking forward to seeing you here tonight!
Full Details:
The Day After
A Feminist Town Forum
Wednesday, November 5 @ 7:00PM
Cambridge Family YMCA, 820 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
PARTICIPATE IN PERSON: Cambridge Family YMCA, 820 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
PARTICIPATE ONLINE IN REAL TIME: Participate by logging on 11/5 at 7PM EST to any of our participating blogs, including Feministe, Feministing, Girl with Pen, CrossLeft, WIMN’s Voices, No Cookies for Me, Viva La Feminista, Writes Like She Talks, Heartfeldt Politics, TakePart, The Sanctuary, The Real Deal, or at our mogulus channel.
It’s been a long election season, and now it’s time to come together to figure out what it all means and what’s next.
At this culmination of our This Is What Women Want election project, join us, our panel of national leaders, and feminists around the country to discuss what happened on Election Day, and what we should be thinking about and doing now to fight for equality and justice for all.
This is a first of its kind event convening feminists from around the country live via the blogosphere! Watch live, converse with other audience members around the country and submit your comments and questions in real time.
Panelists will include:
BYLLYE AVERY
Founder of the National Black Women’s Health Project and MacArthur Genius Award Recipient
MICHELLE GOLDBERG
Journalist and author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE
Critic, activist, artist, journalist and author
PAULA RAYMAN
Founding Director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Center
LORETTA ROSS
National Coordinator, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
ANDREA BATISTA SCHLESINGER
Executive Director, Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
Come optimistic, disgruntled, angry, or just exhausted. Come in person or online. But come. We need to hear every voice and idea!
(Facebook users: Click here to RSVP and invite your friends!)
Ok Penners, we’re excited to try this newfangled technology out tonight! At 7pm ET tonight, we’ll have a MOGULUS video feed running the live panel of national leaders and feminists discussing what happened on yesterday, Election Day, and where we go from here. The panelists will be in Cambridge, we’ll be here online, chatting it up with each other in the comments section of the post, and posing our own questions to the panel. A few last-minute details:
1. As we watch, we’ll be chatting it up over here in the comments section. But we just learned, if you want to ask questions of folks at the live event, use the MOGULUS CHAT FUNCTION, not our comments thread, because the event has grown and the organizers of the panel (The Center for New Words ladies) can’t monitor all the comments threads. They’ll be monitoring the mogulus chat thread ONLY. Also, if folks are on the mogulus chat thread you can also chat with other readers on all the other blogs – everyone who’s watching the feed.
2. For Bostonians planning to attend the offline panel: The new venue is LESLEY UNIVERSITY AMPITHEATER, 1815 Mass. Ave in Cambridge.
See you online over here in a few hours!
I just can’t resist. Here’s one more, from dear friend of GWP Daphne Uviller:
Yesterday I threw together a ham sandwich, some coffee, and a bag of cookies and grabbed my baby boy and hopped in my car to drive two hours each way to pull the lever in my hometown. Currently in exile in suburbia, with McCain signs on either side of me (lovely people, though, I’ll be the first to say), I needed to go vote at the Gay and Lesbian Center in the West Village, my polling place since the moment I turned 18. The line was around the block; we waited 45 minutes and I loved every second. And can I just add, even more than the racial history we made, I’m thrilled that America elected a brilliant, erudite man, instead of someone they wanted to have a beer with. Perhaps the dumbing down of the this once-great nation can yet be stanched. I love Obama. I feel hope. And I feel proud of this nation again.
On a less sanguine note, Daphne’s and my exuberance is today mixed with heartbreak at the news of setbacks for gay and lesbian rights. The following updates on ballot initiatives come courtesy of Ann from feministing. Writes Ann:
Proposition 8 in California: Passed. This is such a crushing loss. I went to bed last night before the final results were in, and woke up to the news that the people of California actually approved the gay marriage ban. So devastating.
Amendment 2 in Florida: Passed. Yet another gay marriage ban.
Proposition 102 in Arizona: Passed. As Dana noted previously, “Arizona became the first state in the nation to reject an anti-gay marriage amendment in 2006, but they’re likely to pass the measure this year, now that it has been stripped of language that also denied domestic partnership benefits to hetero couples.” Looks like that was the magic change to make bigotry palatable to Arizona voters.
Act 1 in Arkansas: Passed. Now gay couples are unable to adopt or foster-parent children. This from a state with 3700 children in the foster-care system, and only 1000 foster homes. Disgusting.
Steps forward, steps back. We have much work to do from here.
I woke up and turned on the radio to make sure it wasn’t a dream. I am so moved by this moment in our history, and, after eight years of mortification, proud once again to be an American. Can’t wait to confab with all of you tonight, online!
(Thank you for this amazing video, Jackie!)
After an unbelievable night last night, let’s keep the conversation going tonight. We want you to join us online here at Girl with Pen at 7PM TONIGHT to watch the first ever Feminist Town Forum.
The Center for New Words will be hosting a Feminist Town Forum of national leaders and feminists to discuss what happened on Election Day and where we go from here. We will broadcast the town forum here at Girl with Pen, starting at 7PM TONIGHT. In addition, I (Kristen Loveland), Deborah Siegel, and Glorida Feldt will be teaming up to give live commentary on the town hall, and we invite you to add your voices as well. Basically, we will create a post with the live broadcast and hold a discussion in the comments section. Looking forward to seeing you here tonight!
Full Details:
The Day After
A Feminist Town Forum
Wednesday, November 5 @ 7:00PM
Cambridge Family YMCA, 820 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
PARTICIPATE IN PERSON: Cambridge Family YMCA, 820 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
PARTICIPATE ONLINE IN REAL TIME: Participate by logging on 11/5 at 7PM EST to any of our participating blogs, including Feministe, Feministing, Girl with Pen, CrossLeft, WIMN’s Voices, No Cookies for Me, Viva La Feminista, Writes Like She Talks, Heartfeldt Politics, TakePart, The Sanctuary, The Real Deal, or at our mogulus channel.
It’s been a long election season, and now it’s time to come together to figure out what it all means and what’s next.
At this culmination of our This Is What Women Want election project, join us, our panel of national leaders, and feminists around the country to discuss what happened on Election Day, and what we should be thinking about and doing now to fight for equality and justice for all.
This is a first of its kind event convening feminists from around the country live via the blogosphere! Watch live, converse with other audience members around the country and submit your comments and questions in real time.
Panelists will include:
BYLLYE AVERY
Founder of the National Black Women’s Health Project and MacArthur Genius Award Recipient
MICHELLE GOLDBERG
Journalist and author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE
Critic, activist, artist, journalist and author
PAULA RAYMAN
Founding Director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Center
LORETTA ROSS
National Coordinator, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
ANDREA BATISTA SCHLESINGER
Executive Director, Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
Come optimistic, disgruntled, angry, or just exhausted. Come in person or online. But come. We need to hear every voice and idea!
(Facebook users: Click here to RSVP and invite your friends!)
