HER GIRL FRIDAY: HELLO, WORLD

Flier by Anna Karingal

Her Girl Friday is dedicated to empowering women in journalism and other related fields by creating opportunities for learning, networking, collaboration, mentorship, skill share, and the production and showcasing of meaningful nonfiction projects in a variety of media.

I am beyond excited about the group of organizers involved in Her Girl Friday: nonfiction writers, social media experts, filmmakers, a video artist, a comedian, and a radio engineer! I feel super lucky to be involved. Our inaugural networking mixer is TONIGHT at Brooklyn Winery! Brokelyn gave us a sweet writeup today, too (personally, I'm a fan of the Lois Lane panel).

We also just launched our official website at hergirlfriday.net!

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DON'T YOU STOP, WE WON'T STOP

or "My Night with Le Tigre"

Kerthy Fix, Johanna Fateman, Kathleen Hanna, & Carmine Covelli doing a Q&A session after MoMA's premiere of "Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour."

If you squint, you can see my name rolling during the credits!

& after the show it's the after party...

Kate wrote a sweet post about the DVD and the premiere, too. We met through Kathleen!

& my sister came to town to celebrate!

Thank you friends for sharing this special night with me, and thanks to Kathleen for mentioning the International Girl Gang Underground zine at MoMA!  I think my mantra for 2011 should be something about dreams coming true.

HERSTORY REPEATS

photo by You Don't Dream

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Kathleen Hanna recently did a presentation called Herstory Repeats at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.  She used the term "feminist continuum" to discuss where she sees herself in feminist history, which is obviously exciting to me; but perhaps even more exciting, is that she mentioned the International Girl Gang Underground zine.

Thankfully, someone who was at the presentation grabbed a snapshot of Ms. Hanna and some audio of the lecture and their great Q&A section.

…They started this thing called the International Girl Gang Underground. They just put out this fanzine, I just got it last week, and it has sections like 'histories and critiques.' But what they're doing is they're looking through the stuff that we did and they're analyzing it. They're saying what they think sucks about it and what they think is cool. They're trying to take over what we did and make it make sense to them, and that just makes me feel, even when they say I'm a jerk, it makes me feel totally loved and respected to not just have people collect the CDs or stickers or something like that, but to actually participate in the work, and take it into the future and make it into something much better than it was.

I am endlessly grateful.

>> photo and audio from You Don't Dream on tumblr <<

4/5/2011: A video of the talk has surfaced, courtesy of TheLOUniverse on YouTube.