23/10/2008
17/10/2008
Women On Waves
The Catholic anti-abortion rights groups failed to fulfill their promise to prevent the ship from entering the harbour. At the invitation of more than 30 Spanish organizations, the Women on Waves ship docked in the harbour of Valencia. The major of Valencia, Rita Barberá, denounced the ship?s visit as a provocation. More than 200 people attended the manifestation to celebrate the arrival of the ship even though police imposed a last minute ban on the artistic and musical parts of the manifestation. The Dutch parliamentarian Chantal Gill?ard of the Socialist party and the Spanish actrices Isabel Requena Pallares and Pilar Bardem addressed the crowds.
Tomorrow, Friday, the ship will sail to international waters to give free and legal abortion services to women with unwanted pregnancies.
The ship will stay in Valencia until October 21. PRESS INFORMATION
From October 15-22 phone: +34 610065157
Before and after October 15-22: +31652052561 or +31204650004
Or send an email to press@womenonwaves.org
Spanish women in need of help can call (+34) 600050553
For the program during the ship?s visit please look at http://www.womenonwaves.org/article-1706-en.html?lang=en
15/10/2008
13/10/2008
Catarina Miranda
apresenta
biting songs concert
n' a Sala
Rua do Bonjardim, 235 2º
dia 18 de Outubro às 18h30
ensaio e partilha de experiências sonoras, pautas e músicas em processo ou não.
alguns temas são do Projecto Gentileza e outros de Vocal Jam Game.
na falta de um piano e de pessoas a tocar ao meu lado, uso maioritariamente a voz.
10/10/2008
Femmes of Power
What is femme? French for woman? A feminine lesbian? A queer girl who loves to dress up? Think again! Going beyond identity politics and the pleasures of plumage, Femmes of Power captures a diverse range of queerly feminine subjects whose powerful and intentional redress explodes the meaning of femme for the 21st century.
Femmes of Power features both every-day heroines and many queer feminist icons, including Michelle Tea, Virginie Despentes, Amber Hollibaugh, Itziar Ziga, Lydia Lunch, Kate Bornstein and Valerie Mason-John.
Femmes of Power unsettles the objectifying ”male” gaze on femininity and presents femmes as speaking subjects and high-heeled theorists. Look closer - these powerful, sexy and sincerely ironic feminine figures are larger than life, bravely challenging femininity’s negative connotations and replacing femme invisibility with a fresh new face for femme-inism.
'Femmes of Power weaves interviews, analysis and testimony around a selection of stunning LaGrace portraits. This book glows, sparkles and leaves the reader seduced, tempted and in awe' Jack Halberstam
‘Intimate, audacious, and exploding with interpretative trajectories, these images reach beyond their edges to re-envision projects of queer visual testimony’ Juana Maria Rodriguez
‘An innovative and much-needed literary and visual re-articulation of queer testimonies and an exciting book to anyone thinking creatively about femme-inist community-based activism internationally’ Tiina Rosenberg
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