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Femme2010: No Restrictions is in 40 days!

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:19:41 +0000

This is so exciting. FEMME2010: No Restrictions [aka the Femme Conference] is in Oakland in 40 days! Things to know:

If you want to register, please do it NOW for the low cost of $75 because the price goes up to $95 on the 19th.
If you want to get hundreds of femmes to check your organization out, why not advertise in the program? Rates start at $50 and a whole frickin page ad is only $120. We’ll have one…
Oh! And the conference has a blog! So check it out and comment – our voices are *all* crucial!

And – because the Femme Family is hustling so many of us out to beautiful Oakland for the event, we’re throwing one more fun[d]raiser party on July 23: SPEAKEASY OF FEMME! Check back or find us on evil ol facebook for party details…

xo,

D’Luxe

Femme Family Update March 8th

Bevin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:42:48 +0000

Dear Femme Family!

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!

Update on the Femme Conference from the Femme Collective

Bevin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:15:21 +0000

Got this update from the Femme Collective about this August’s Femme Conference. I have to say I am more than a little bummed it won’t be in Atlanta where my heart lives and the Femme Mafia began (our parent chapter), but it is amazing that this event happens and the board works really hard (for free).

xoxox,

Bevin

Dear Community Members,

Finances are tight for all of us these days, particularly for community-supported events requiring travel and lodging, like the Femme Conference. After a great deal of effort and research, we have determined that it is not financially possible for us to hold the 2010 Femme Conference in Atlanta as we had hoped to do. We are incredibly hopeful for our future as an organization, but we believe that Atlanta would be cost prohibitive to both the members of the Steering Committee and to the larger Femme Conference constituency. We realize this is a disappointment for many of us.

However, we have decided that rather than skip a year, we have the resources to hold the Femme Conference in Oakland in 2010. We are tremendously excited at the prospects of holding a conference in the city we had originally chosen for the very first Femme Conference (we ended up in San Francisco as a result of financial considerations, so this feels like a full-circle in some ways)!

We appreciate your understanding and your continued support. All details about hotel, dates and calls for submission will be announced at the beginning of February. We are excited and we hope you are too!

Femme Collective

Stay tuned at www.femmecollective.com for more information!