[Fwd: Women in Black at Bluestockings, Sat, June 17, 7:00 pm]

[Katha Pollitt <kpollitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI -- for those in New York Area.

>
> Women in Black at Bluestockings
> Saturday, June 17, 7:00pm
> 172 Allen Street, between Stanton and Rivington
> F Train to 2nd Avenue
> Free
>
> Bluestockings Women's Bookstore & Cafe, together with Little Miss Big
> Mouth, present an evening of cross-cultural feminist exchange with Lepa
> Mladjenovic, renowned feminist and lesbian activist from Belgrade, and
> Women in Black.
>
> Started in Israel in 1988 by Israeli and Palestinian women protesting
> the Israeli occupation of
> the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Women in Black stand in silent vigil
> against war and military aggression.
>
> Speaking about her work with Women in Black/Belgrade, the Autonomous
> Women's Center,
> and the lesbian-rights group LABRYS, Ms. Mladjenovic will also comment
> upon situations
> women face today in the former Yugoslavia.
>
> Joining her will be journalist Vesna Kesic, a Zagreb-based writer
> currently in New York completing her master's degree at the New School.
> Ms. Kesic will discuss the gender violence of the war in the Former
> Yugoslavia,
> and its relationship to acts of violence committed against women in
> times of
> peace.
>
> Introducing the evening will be Brooklyn College Prof. Nanette Funk,
> feminist philosopher and active member of the Network of East-West
> Women, a decade-old organization which has forged ties between women in
> the west and women from post-communist countries.
>
> Representing Women in Black/NYC will be scholar and activist Indira
> Kajosevic, a graduate of CUNY who wrote her masters thesis on
> "Understanding Rape in War: Bosnia 1992;" and photojournalist Lisa
> Kahane, whose photos from past Women in Black gatherings in the Balkans
> will be on display at the event.
>
> This presentation is being produced by Sara Valentine, a graduate
> student at the New School and organizer of Little Miss Big Mouth, the
> women-focused performance series held at Meow Mix from Fall - Spring,
> 1997-98, and in Krakow, Poland, Summer, 1998. Originally active in Riot
> Grrrl NYC, Ms. Valentine now performs with the Brooklyn-based Hungry
> March Band.
>
> For more information about Women in Black, please visit
> www.igc.org/balkans/women, or call 212-560-0905.
>
> A selection of books by and about women in the Balkans is now available
> at Bluestockings. Please support New York City's one and only women's
> bookstore.
>
> And lastly, please feel free to pass this info along to your friends.
> Thanks.