October 21-23: Anti-Pornography Conference at University of New Hampshire

The University of New Hampshire Womyn’s Club is organizing an anti-pornography conference this October. The conference will take place in Durham, NH and is free to all. See this website for more details.

We have asked ourselves: what does an effective community response to sexual violence look like?

When a community decides to come together to meet in the middle for an open dialogue, answers will begin to present themselves and problems will begin to be solved. This is why members of the Womyn’s Club are working tirelessly with Women’s Studies to ignite a positive, campus-wide conversation about the widespread prevalence of sexual violence on college campuses and in college culture.

The UNH Womyn’s Club is planning a feminist movement-building month for October of 2010.

We invite all community members to participate in the conference as well as other events, which will be free. The month’s events will be rooted in defining and stopping all forms of sexual violence. It is time for to create a forum that will provide UNH students, staff and faculty the opportunity to build a foundation of awareness and activism focused on ending sexual violence in a White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy.

Along with the conference, throughout the month of October, there will be films, demonstrations, protests, Womyn’s Club meetings and gatherings for community building, networking and support. As well as various workshops, art projects with recycled/destroyed porn, seminars, movement building groups, and healing circles, all centered around spreading awareness and moving forward, as a community that doesn’t not accept violence.

Finalized speakers thus far:

Bob Jensen, is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. In his research, Jensen draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and power. Much of his work has focused on pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality and men’s violence, and he also has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism.
Lierre Keith, lives in California where she writes books, grows her own food, and dreams of revolution. She is also heavily involved with the Stop Porn Culture organization co-founded by Gail Dines.
Gail Dines, is a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston (www.gaildines.com).