Announcement: The Gathering is Free for All

The Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism Gathering is Free.
Registration will be requested.

Via the labor, service, space and financial support of The Center for the Humanities, Center for the Study of Women and Society, Ph. D. Program in English, and Poetics Group (all at CUNY Graduate Center), as well as all the volunteer labor of organizing by the Belladonna Adfempo Collective* we are making this an admission free conference.

But Belladonna Series does need financial support! We encourage you to donate by clicking on support from the home page, or by sending a check or by buying our books.

*Members of this Collective include: Rachel Levitsky, Erica Kaufman, Laura Elrick, Tonya Foster, Laura Jaramillo, Akilah Oliver, Jen Scappettone, Kate Eichhorn, Emily Beall, and Anna Moschovakis. Other members of the General Belladonna Collective include HR Hegnauer (www.hrhegnauer.com) whose fantastic design can be seen at our website and on our books and Adah Gorton, Meghan Johnson, Elizabeth Crawford, Katy Jones, Austin Publicover, (ETC) all of whose labor with the project makes the project.

Good Site for Cheap Hotel List

here.

Three Affordable Downtown Hotels: Add Suggestions Please!

*The Off Soho Suites, Rivington and Chrystie, 800-633-7646 (well designed efficiencies, good for 3)
*The Larchmont Hotel, 11th Street and 6th Ave, (212) 989-9333 (small but pretty and clean)
*The Cosmopolitan, W. B'way and Chambers, (212) 566-1900 (good rates for 2, clean)

Belladonna* Announces: Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism: A Gathering

CUNY Graduate Center, September 24-25, 2009

In celebration of its tenth year, Belladonna* joins The CUNY Graduate Center's Women's Studies Certificate Program, Center for Research on Women and Society, Center for Humanities, English Department, and Poetics Group to present a conference aimed at advancing and broadcasting the life of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetics and Activism today.

The goals for this conference are:

• To support the study of the feminist avant-garde
• To encourage collaboration between radical feminist artists, thinkers, and activists
• To provide a space to think about relevant activism

We at Belladonna* are particularly interested in what's immediate, present, and happening now. We would like this to encourage conversations and new designs for work between genres, into activist communities, and among academic and non-academic discourse. We are looking for evolving modes of knowing, acting, and resisting.

Much more information and a schedule of events is forthcoming.