On your marks, get set, donate! Today begins the 24-hour period (starts at 3PM Eastern/12PM Pacific today and goes through through 3PM Eastern/12PM Pacific tomorrow) in which Woodhull is asking members of its community and friends to donate $10. To do it, click here.

As part of what I think is a rather brilliant Giving Challenge, Facebook will award money to Causes with the most amount of unique donors. That’s right – not the highest amount of money raised, but the highest number of unique donors. The Cause with the most unique donors in the given period wins $1,000. But there is also a 50-day challenge, where the prize is $50K….Read more about the challenge here.

For those of us left pondering the extent to which women of color are being left out of conversations on race and gender around the 2008 elections, Carol Jenkin’s article “Invisible Woman,” is this week’s must-read from the Women’s Media Center. Writes Jenkins,

[W]hile a white woman and a black man now run for the most powerful position in world, that fact doesn’t yet translate into possibilities for a woman of color. Her disadvantage—money, connections—is too deep. Read more.

For more WMC coverage on the women’s vote and the 2008 election, check out:

-The NH Vote—How Did Hillary Pull It Off? By Peggy Simpson, 1/9/08
-New Hampshire Women Voters Struggle to Make Up Their Minds by Michele Filgate, 1/7/08
-Iowa Voters Reject Front Runners by Peggy Simpson, 1/4/07
-Many Tests Are Posed by the Iowa Caucuses by Peggy Simpson, 1/2/07
-Oprah & Hillary—No Last Names Necessary by Carol Jenkins, 21/10/07
-WMC Reprint: Words Matter—McCain and Politics ’08 by Sara K. Gould, 11/20/07
-Hillary Clinton’s Masculine Communication Style Just Might Win the Prize by Nichola D. Gutgold, 11/13/07
-In Boy Versus Girl, It’s Hillary 1, Media 0 by Carol Jenkins, 11/5/07
-Hillary Evens the Score on the Sunday Morning Circuit by Carol Jenkins, 9/24/07
-Hillary’s Rove Factor by Peggy Simpson, 96/07
-Hillary Gets Down by Kristal Brent Zook, 8/22/07
-Right Candidates, Wrong Question by Gloria Steinem, 3/21/07
-Black Enough? Obama’s Dilemma and Mine by Kristal Brent Zook, 3/8/07

I’m so pleased to post here–soon!–snippets from an interview I did with brilliant marriage and family therapist Esther Perel, whose book Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Domestic and the Erotic, just came out in paperback. The book is currently available in 15 countries and will soon be published in Greece, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Turkey. Not like I’m jealous or anything. Jeesh.

But seriously, Esther’s book is one that I’ve been recommending left and right, and if you haven’t gotten hold of it yet, and are wondering about the paradox laid out in the book’s subtitle, I urge you to run (don’t walk) to your nearest local bookstore in pick it up. And for the partnered among you: get a copy for your mate.

Me, at Marco’s folks’ house in FLA, during the break…That dude’s always catching me at goofy lookin moments I tell ya.

In case you missed it, here’s another chance!

An Afternoon at the Movies
National Council of Jewish Women
See “I Was a Teenage Feminist,” winner of the Ellie Award for Best Film in the 2006 Jewish Women’s Film Festival. Light lunch will be served.

Why is it that young, independent, progressive women feel uncomfortable identifying with the F- word? Armed with a video camera and an irreverent sense of humor, Therese Shechter talks with feminist superstars, rowdy frat boys, liberated Cosmo girls and Radical Cheerleaders, all in her quest to find out whether feminism can still be a source of personal and political power.

Screening in NY January 16th @ 12:30pm

Eleanor Leff Jewish Women’s Resource Center
NCJW NY Section
820 Second Avenue (bet. 43rd & 44th)
New York NY

212-687-5030 x10
info@ncjwny.org
$15/members, $20/non-members

Calling writers near Berkeley! Brooke and Krista are from Seal Press, and I imagine this workshop will be pretty amazing.

CREATIVITY WORKSHOP FOR WRITERS with KRISTA LYONS-GOULD and BROOKE WARNER

Sat., January 26, 2008 10am to 5pm
At Northbrae Church in Berkeley, CA

For more information, click here. To Register: b.warner@earthlink.net.

I am freakishly proud of–and inspired by–my two friends:

Film Premiere!

Praying with Lior, a film by filmmaking genius Ilana Trachtman, opens at Cinema Village in NYC on February 1st. I saw Lior at the Margaret Mead Film Festival in November and, like the rest of the sold-out crowd, was moved to tears. The film has inspired standing ovations, sold out screenings, Audience Awards for Best Documentary, op-eds and rave reviews. Ilana will do Q & A at all evening screenings opening weekend. Cinema Village is at 22 E.12th St. Buy Individual Tickets here. Group tickets: Joe or Minos, CV 212-924-3364.

On January 15, the Jewish Museum will screen Praying with Lior at 3:00 and 6:30. Lior’s parents will do Q & A after the 6:30 show, followed by panel on disability in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Distinguished panelists are William Gaventa, M.Div, Editor of Religion and Disability, Rabbi Dan Grossman, Adath Israel Congregation, and Sarah Lawrence Professor of Islamic Studies Kristin Zahra Sands. NYU”s Professor Faye Ginsburg will moderate. My mom and I will be in the audience too 🙂 Tickets.

Lior is also playing at film festivals around the country–Atlanta, L.A., Minneapolis, Tampa, Denver, San Diego, Houston, Hartford, Ithaca, Seattle, Cherry Hill, West Orange, Westchester, and Boston. And Caracas! Dates and tickets. You can watch the trailer here.

CD Release Party!

Superstar Sarah Ann Corkum will be jamming on tambourine with her band Corduroy Days tonight at R Bar (218 Bowery). The night starts off at 7 with an open bar (until 8pm) and the band goes on around 9. Of course, if not in NYC you can check out the music at their website and get your groove on, too.

In case you missed it here, Virginia Rutter’s guest post, “Who Voted Their Gender in Iowa?” (hint: it wasn’t women) is now up over at AlterNet. Please feel free to go there and comment away!

Ok, so clearly I’m on an image raid this morning. This is the cover of a new collection of short stories that circle around the themes of contemporary masculinity and war, which Courtney reviewed. Says she, these “stories explore domestic violence, rape, thwarted love, miscarriages, familial relationships etc. Basically there isn’t a hot button issue concerning masculinity and violence that this volume doesn’t touch, although always in an artful, complex way.” I think this just became the book I’m reading next. (Thanks, C!)

And while we’re on the topic of images (see post below), this just in, from feministing’s Hillary Sexism Watch. Very original, dudes.