Flomenhaft Gallery Presents Free Gender Justice Events, 5/30, 6/13 & 16

Have Art: Will Travel (HAWT) and Flomenhaft Gallery's series of free Gender Justice Events continues this Wednesday, May 30.

Wednesday, May 30th, 6-8 pm: Major Activists for Gender Justice

A tour-de-force with high-profile activists who will reveal their modus operandi for changing the world. They each have a different take on how to shout, move, push the world toward gender equity.

Panelists:

Mia Herndon, Moderator, Executive Director at Third Wave Foundation

Charlotte Bunchx, Founding Director and Senior Scholar of Center for Global Leadership, Douglass College, Rutgers University.

Blanche Wiesen Cook, Distinguished Professor of History, John Jay College, CUNY and Author, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vols I and II

Biola Jeje, Founding member of New York Students Rising and student-organizer at Brooklyn College

Dorothy Sander, Board Co-Chair, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission

Also be sure to mark your calendars for these upcoming events:

Wednesday, June 13th, 6-8pm: Dolling Up!

Panelists:

Cleonie White, Ph.D. - A clinical psychologist in private practice in NYC. One of her many areas of interest is the social construction of gender.

Michael Sackler-Berner, singer/guitarist who appears at Joe's Pub, Mercury Lounge, Living Room, Rockwood, Bitter End, Stephen Talkhouse, performs the song he wrote for his girlfriend, now wife, called Don't Let Yourself Go. In this song, Michael asks that she continue to dress up and make up, as she did when they first met.

Alyson Palmer, Amy Ziff, and Elizabeth Ziff are BETTY, an alternative rock group, activist entertainers well-known internationally for their performances at rallies for feminist causes and for their seven TV theme songs, film appearances and commercial jingles, will provide another view with their song, the IT Girl.

This will be a hoot of an evening as the songs sung by Michael and BETTY have loads of feminist ramifications. A discussion follows the singing.

Saturday, June 16th, 1:30-3:30pm: Growing up Female in the 1930s, 50s, 70s, 90s, and Today.

1930s: Claire Reed - Activist who worked with Bella Abzug, Women Strike for Peace, SNCC.

1950s: Clare Coss - Playwright, psychotherapist, activist, author of plays on Emmett Till, Lillian Wald, and Mary White Ovington.

1970s: Lori Sokol - Educational Psychologist, writes and speaks about women's empowerment. She is also a blogger, radio show host and founder/publisher of Work Life Matters magazine.

1990s: Tamara Bullock - Feminist, poet, performer, photographer.

Today: Stephanie Coontz - Director of Research and Public Education at Council on Contemporary Families. Teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State Co. Teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Wrote The Way We Never Were; Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage; and A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s.