Feminist Pride Day 2012

EMMA | 100. Weltfrauentag: Feministisches Coming-Out

We appreciate all the love that we’re getting from abroad! Especially the interest our event is generating in Germany. We were on Mädchenblog recently, and last week, we published an essay on feminism written in German. And we just discovered that EMMA, which is essentially the German Ms.*, gave us a shout-out in their web edition on Thursday.Sehr toll.

Keep the international submissions coming! As our campaign expands, we hope that it can offer a more global portrait of feminism today.

* EMMA was started in 1977 by Alice Schwarzer. Germany’s counterpart to Gloria Steinem? You tell us.

Let’s start Women’s History Month Right with Feminist Coming Out Day! | The Daily Femme

We’re looking forward to hosting Cherie Hannouche at our feminist blogosphere panel at Harvard next week. She founded the website The Daily Femme, which “features news about women and interviews of professional women at different stages of their career paths and from a variety of backgrounds and experiences in order to provide perspectives that are often missing in mainstream media”. The subjects of the website include “researchers, educators, artists, writers, philanthropists and activists” who “help women access leadership positions; fight gender discrimination, racism, sexual harassment, homophobia and violence against women; address sexism in the media; or advocate  for reproductive rights.” Cherie interviewed Feminist Coming Out Day co-founder Lena Chen in January. Next Thursday, they’ll be speaking in the same room!

This awesome feminist discussion is happening on March 10th at Ticknor Lounge. Are you a Boston area feminist? RSVP on Facebook to confirm your attendance, and check out the March 8th event (a coffeehouse and feminist portrait gallery) taking place in the same space.

Persephone Magazine | Feminist Coming Out Day

A big thank you to Sneha at Persephone Magazine for helping us promote this project. Persephone is “a daily blog focused on topics of interest for modern, intelligent, clever women” and “[strives] to give a voice to more women from a variety of backgrounds and with diverse interests”.

Feministing.com | Feminist Coming Out Day

Thanks for the shout-out, Feministing! The Feminist Coming Out Day team at Harvard is looking forward to hosting Feministing bloggers Lori Adelman and Chloe Angyal on March 10th for our panel on the feminist blogosphere :)

Here’s a very exciting development that I wanted to share with all our supporters: IndieGoGo (our fundraising platform) has just featured our campaign on their front page! And it’s all because of your efforts to share our project with fellow feminist friends, colleagues, and family members. Thanks guys!

Want to know how you can spread the word? Just click here.

Lip Magazine: What Does a Feminist Look Like?

Rebecca Howden at Lip Magazine writes about the Feminist Portrait Project/Feminist Coming Out Day. As she says, our campaign seeks to “showcase the multiplicity of the faces and voices of feminism, hopefully encouraging pride and openness and even helping to dismantle some stereotypes.” Here’s an excerpt from the article:

“I’m not sure when exactly it happened, but somewhere along the line, being a feminist became a really ugly label, one that apparently means you’re an angry, humourless, hairy-legged man-hater. No one wants to be associated with that image … A lot of us are too embarrassed to call ourselves feminists, or to voice our opinions on gendered issues for fear of how we will be perceived … Somehow, we need to change the public perception of what a ‘feminist’ is, to create an understanding that there is no rigidly prescribed image or set of beliefs that make up all feminists. No woman speaks for all women, and no feminist speaks for all feminists- just as no person speaks for all people.”

Lena Chen on Feminist Wednesday | Vocalo.org 89.5 FM

This morning, Lena was on Feminist Wednesday with Molly Adams and Brian Babylon on 89.5 FM in Chicago/Northwest Indiana. We talked about Feminist Coming Out Day, gender expectations, and the intersection between feminism and queer equality. If you missed it, here’s a link to the recording of our chat.

ALSO! Local listeners can win a “This Is What A Feminist Looks Like” t-shirt by becoming a fan of Vocalo.org and Feminist Coming Out Day on Facebook and tagging both our pages in an status update (by adding the @ symbol in front of our names).

Danke, Maedchenblog!

Our favorite German feminist blog featured Feminist Coming Out Day in a recent entry. A shout-out to all our German readers! We’d love to have some international submissions for our Feminist Portrait Project :)

Check out Feminist Coming Out Day co-founder, Lena Chen, tonight in New York as she chats with other young fems at the 92YTribeca:

Naomi Wolf with Feminism’s New Young Leaders.

Where are all the young feminists? That’s the frequently asked—and loaded—question that inspired More editor-in-chief Lesley Jane Seymour to feature 14 young feminists in her November issue (on newsstands Oct 26). Bestselling author Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth) joins Seymour and panelists Lena Chen, Allison Kasic, Shelby Knox and Jessica Valenti [Ed. note: Jessica will not be attending] for a provocative discussion: How do the young leaders define feminism? Is blogging the new march on Washington? What do the conservative feminists believe? And will the intergenerational clash ever end?

(via 92y)

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