{"id":133,"date":"2007-06-18T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2007-06-18T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T16:14:00","slug":"rock-for-young-women-and-does-my-book-match-my-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/06\/18\/rock-for-young-women-and-does-my-book-match-my-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock for Young Women &#8211; and Does My Book Match My Dress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RnaiFvRQf4I\/AAAAAAAAAMI\/2M37fYmRifg\/s1600-h\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RnaiFvRQf4I\/AAAAAAAAAMI\/2M37fYmRifg\/s200\/images.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I weren&#8217;t going to be in Illinois at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwsaconference.org\/2007\/criticalissues.html\">National Women&#8217;s Studies conference<\/a> on June 29, I&#8217;d be at the Knitting Factory in NYC that night, here:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Rock for Young Women<\/span> will feature musical performances by Bouva, Boyskout, Tamara Fishman, Frank Hoier, and Receptor. Molly Kelleher and Maryann Schaub of Broad Comedy will present &#8220;It&#8217;s Great To Wait,&#8221; written by Katie Goodman. The evening will also include several spoken word performances.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets at the door will be $20 with half of the proceeds going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gems-girls.org\">GEMS<\/a> (an organization that provides preventive and transitional services to young women, ages 12-21 years, who are at risk for or involved in sexual exploitation and violence) and the other half to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ywtf.org\">New York metro chapter of the Younger Women&#8217;s Task Force<\/a> (which does great work on reproductive rights, voter education, and other issues important to young women in New York City).  Doors open at 7 p.m. at the Knitting Factory (74 Leonard Street). Purchase advance tickets from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knittingfactory.com\">Knitting Factory<\/a> for $15. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Patti Binder for passing it on.  And to someone named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanschreiber.com\">Nathan<\/a>, whose graphic (above) I stole.  I&#8217;m very into hot pink today &#8211; I&#8217;m doing my first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordersstores.com\/events\/event_detail.jsp?SEID=158733\">bookstore reading<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/140398204X\">Sisterhood, Interrupted<\/a>, which has a hot pink cover.  Fashion advice needed: Is it tacky to wear a dress that matches your book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I weren&#8217;t going to be in Illinois at the National Women&#8217;s Studies conference on June 29, I&#8217;d be at the Knitting Factory in NYC that night, here: Rock for Young Women will feature musical performances by Bouva, Boyskout, Tamara Fishman, Frank Hoier, and Receptor. Molly Kelleher and Maryann Schaub of Broad Comedy will present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21328,21395],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events","tag-girls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}