March 22 – 31, 2012
Do you care about creating gender justice in media? Want to connect with folks in your area who share your concerns, and join an international community of activists, journalists, academics, artists and media-makers, all taking action at the same time? Then you want WAM! It Yourself, a decentralized version of our annual Women, Action & the Media (WAM!) conference. This year, instead of everyone who cares about gender justice in media gathering in one place for WAM!, WAM! is happening exactly where you are.
Check back soon : more events coming!
Check out the WAM! It Yourself schedule day-by-day!
Th 3/22 / F 3/23/ Sat 2/4 / Sun 3/25 / Tu 3/27 / W 3/28 / Th 3/29 /F 3/30 /
Sat 3/31 / M 4/2
Check out the WAM! It Yourself events happening in these cities:
Boston / Chicago / Detroit / Los Angeles / NYC / Vancouver
and these online events:
Women Write Wikipedia: A How-To Webinar
Is It A Boy or a Girl? Improving Media Coverage Beyond the Binary
Calendar of Events
NYC: A League of their Own, 20 Years Later: 7 p.m. ET at 92Y Tribeca. Join New York-area WAM!mers for a screening of the film, introduced by discussion with author and baseball historian Sue Macy and original All American Girls Professional Baseball League player Eileen “Ginger” Gascon, moderated by Nona Willis Aronowitz. The event hashtag is #dirtintheskirt, for those live-tweeting or following at home! Buy tickets here.
Detroit Happy Hour: Come meet other Detroit-area WAM!mers at Woodbridge Pub from 6 to 8 p.m.
L.A. Conference: The Feminist Possibilities of Documentary Film: 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. PT. These documentaries are by women and about women. The filmmakers themselves will present. RSVP on Facebook to reserve your seat!
Boston Film Festival: WAM!Boston presents a unique lineup of films made by women, and about women, from up-and-coming filmmakers, many from the Boston area. Q&A with the filmmakers or film subjects will follow each screening. Advance ticket sales available online and in person soon via the Brattle Theater box office. Tickets also available at the door as supplies last. Passes for entry to all films will be available for $20.
Detroit // Tell the Story: Drop-in Mentoring: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET. Get one-on-one feedback on how to tell the stories that need to be told — as a journalist, or as someone who gets the attention of journalists.
L.A. Social Networking Potluck: 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. PT. Keri Smith Esguia, Co-Founder and Comedy Manager at Whitesmith Entertainment, will be hosting a social networking potluck at her home in Culver City, CA. Please email your RSVP, including the total number of guests planning to attend and your contribution to the potluck, to info@whitesmithent.com. Please include “WAM! LA Mixer RSVP” in the subject line.
Is It A Boy or a Girl? Improving Media Coverage Beyond the Binary: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET. Join us for a radio-style program on how the media covers non-binary and non-conforming gender and what we can do to make that coverage better. Hosted by Avory Faucette of QueerFeminism.com and Radically Queer, and featuring guests with expertise in gender-neutral parenting, non-binary identities, and media coverage of transgender issues, we’ll be looking closely at some misunderstandings the media makes and how feminists can take action to educate and improve coverage. Arwyn Daemyir, Marilyn Roxie, Gunner Scott & Nat Titman will guest on the program.
New York: Wiki Women’s History Month at Barnard College: 6pm ET. Wikipedia is often the first stop when people are looking to learn about a new topic, but around 85% of Wikipedia editors are men, and it’s sorely lacking in women’s history and representations. In honor of women’s history month, we’ll gather and learn how to edit Wikipedia articles and work together on creating and improving articles related to women’s history.
Detroit: Celebrating Women in Hip-Hop: 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Every Tuesday, the 5e Gallery hosts The Foundation, a series featuring the hottest female performers and producers in hip-hop. Black Maria and Rated M take the stage on the 27th, and WAM!Detroit participants are invited to the show. Live-streaming at http://liquidflowradio.com
New York // Perfecting your Pitch: How to Get Noticed by Your Favorite Publications: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. You have a totally unique and interesting idea for an article, but you just aren’t getting any bites. Sound familiar? Because we know how hard it can be in the rough and tumble world of freelance journalism, Sadie Magazine wants to help you craft the perfect pitch for magazines, journals, and newspapers. Editors are looking for that ah-hah moment, that moment where something new comes across the desk, either a new angle on a well worn topic, or a new topic all together. Join us for a workshop on Perfecting Your Pitch and discover your own ah-ha moment.
Chicago: Language, Sexual Violence & Tools for Better Media Coverage: 5:30 to 8 p.m. An event produced by the Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls and Young Women and Chicago’s Rape Victim Advocates, where we will be talking about our upcoming media toolkit on covering issues around sexual violence. Dialogue will follow around how to better the toolkit. We see this as an opportunity to engage the community and to reframe the discussion around the issues of knowledge, language, and gender-based violence in the media. The event will be at DePaul University - exact location TBA.
New York Dinner Party: 6:30pm to 9:30pm. We will have dinner at a private home, with food provided by a local lady food purveyor. For location, please register for the conference. You will then be asked to RSVP for this event.
Vancouver 2nd Annual Conference: 10a.m. to 4p.m. PT. The theme of this year’s conference is Uprising, focusing on the media’s coverage of various important “uprisings” that have taken place in the past year – SlutWalk, the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and others – and discuss how the media helps to shape popular perception and opinion of revolutionary movements such as these. For more information and registration, e-mail the organizers.
New York Conference for Feminist Media Makers: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET. Are you feminist journalist or media activist? Love feminist media? Want to learn more tools, strategies and ideas to do your work better, and meet other print, online, multimedia journalists and activists doing awesome work?
Women Write Wikipedia: A How-To Webinar : 2pm to 3pm ET. In this hour-long online workshop, WAM!Bassador of Technology Deanna Zandt will teach you the basics of editing a Wikipedia page, as well as the cultural norms that you’ll need to know to be a good Wikipedian.
