Just a quick note to remind y’all about a couple of items:

Tonight! 3/8! Book Club! Open to all! Discussing Zoe Whittall’s Bottle Rocket Hearts. Such a great book about so many things: Polyamory, coming out as queer, coming out as Femme, AIDS, hate crimes, feminism, Montreal, Canadian politics… 7:15pm at the Silver Spurs Diner on Houston & Laguardia in Manhattan.

MADAM MEETING! Open to self-identified Femmes. 9pm right after book club.

SPEAKING OF FEMME:
Next week! March 16, 7-9pm at Bluestockings. Open Mic to all self-identified Femmes. If you want to be a featured reader let us know!

FEMME CONFERENCE:

August 20-22, Oakland, CA! The call for submissions for workshops, films, performances, etc… is up at www.femmecollective.com We have a mighty NYC contingency going, join us!

FEMME FAMILY WEBSITE

We’re updating our events and goings on there, so if you ever wonder what we’re up to, check it out! www.femmefamily.com

DO YOU HAVE ACCESS TO CHEAP COPIES?

We’re having a bear of a time trying to do a cheap reprint of the FF Zine #1. If you have access to cheap copies (or know a good online cheap copying service or something, even in the suburbs) please let us know!

Have a manic only in the good ways Monday, y’all!!

xoxoxox,

Bevin
Co-head Madam!

Oakland Marriott City Center
1001 Broadway
Oakland, California 94607
August 20th – 22nd, 2010
www.femmecollective.com

Femme2010: No Restrictions is a multi-threaded conference and forum for those who think about, talk about, and create Femme as a queer gender and identity.

Following our Femme2006 & 2008 conferences in San Francisco & Chicago, where hundreds of femmes and allies gathered for workshops, panels, films, visual art galleries and performances, we again invite community members, artists, academics, homemakers, geeks, techies, activists, femmes of all kinds, and their allies to continue the conversation by participating in Femme 2010 as presenters and participants.

We are invested in having Femme2010 continue to reflect the diversity and complexity of femme gender, identity and contributions. We hope for this conference to be a community building event, as well as an exploration and celebration of what it means to build and live queer femme identities.

Submissions of all kinds are welcome, particularly submissions by femmes. We encourage proposals by and for people of color, working-class people, fat folks, elders, youth and people with disabilities. We encourage submissions that work outside and alongside identity and gender, as well as those reflecting directly upon identity and gender. Femme2010 will continue the community dialogue from Femme2006 & 08. In particular, we hope that the intersections of femme with race, region, class, access, ability, privilege, and marginalization will be talked about, given space, meditated upon, constructed, and deconstructed. Finally, we also encourage submissions based on this year’s theme: No Restrictions.

We began this conference in 2006 out of a desire to see femme explored and discussed from a variety of perspectives. We wanted a conference that held the complexities of Queer Femme as its central focus, while building community. We feel we accomplished that in 2006 & 2008 and in 2010, we want to continue to build femme community and bridges, supporting each other across borders and differences.

We hope to draw participants from across disciplinary, medium, and social boundaries. We encourage submissions from anyone interested, regardless of gender or sexual identity. We do ask that you read our mission statement before submitting.

We are soliciting contributions from anyone interested, including (but not limited to):

> workshops
> panel presentations
> performances
> research presentations
> skill shares
> activist & organizational topics
> visual art
> video or film

Submission deadline is April 15, 2010.

Please submit your proposal through the following links, located at www.femmecollective.com:

Program Submission click here

Performance Submission click here

Film Submission click here

**Please note that the more information we have on your submission, the more likely we will be able to accept your submission and include it in the conference schedule.

To learn more about us, our mission and to contact us with any questions, comments or concerns, please find us at our website: http://www.femmecollective.com