We are pleased to share this bulletin from Stop Porn Culture:
Hello everyone,
We have a lot of exciting news here at Stop Porn Culture.
Our new website is up and running. Take a look at www.stoppornculture.org. We have an “Anti-porn News” feature to keep everyone updated on pornography in the news. You can send us news articles for possible inclusion, including news about activism against pornography.
We had a wonderful slideshow training in Bellingham this month, with 30 committed and amazing participants. It looks like our first local chapter has formed–SPC Bellingham. We encourage you all to try something similar where you live. None of us can do this work alone. Guidelines for local chapters will be up on our website soon.
We are also planning our next conference, which will take place in June.
Stop Porn Culture: An International Feminist Anti-Pornography Conference
June 12-13, 2010
Wheelock College, Boston MA
Our second national conference will bring together activists, researchers, survivors, parents, and other concerned community members to continue developing our anti-pornography analysis and building our resistance movement. Come and join us for two days of keynotes, workshops, and discussion. Speakers include Wendy Maltz, Gail Dines, Chyng Sun, Rebecca Whisnant, Jane Caputi, Sharon Cooper, Robert Jensen, and Carolyn West.
Presentations and workshops include:
For more information, or to register, go to http://stoppornculture.org/conference/. Feel free to post this announcement anywhere that you go on the web.
- The pornification of our culture
- Racism in pop culture and pornography
- Local, national, and international organizing
- Porn and capitalism
- Legal strategies against porn
- The sexualization of children
- Compulsive pornography use
- Hooking up: the porn culture on campus
As ever, we’re happy to bring the slideshow training to anyone who can host us. Drop me a line here and I’ll tell you what’s involved.
We hope to see you all in June!
Lierre for SPC
See also:
A Film by Chyng Sun – The Price of Pleasure
Chyng Sun: Rejecting Porn’s Hatred of Women Does Not Mean Embracing Government Repression of “Obscenity”
Video Presentation: A Content Analysis of 50 of Today’s Top Selling Porn Films (explicit language)
Gail Dines Presents: Pornography and Pop Culture (explicit)
Rebecca Whisnant: “Not Your Father’s Playboy, Not Your Mother’s Feminist Movement” (explicit language)
Robert Jensen: “Just a prude? Feminism, pornography, and men’s responsibility”