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We would like to wish our fearless leader/facilitator Penelope Boyer a Happy Birthday and a holiday filled w cheer. Much love and respect.

These are photos from the final FemTechNet ¡Taller! From left to right in right photo is Laura Varela, Lisa Cortez Walden, Ph.D., Sandra Torres, Lauren Browning and Penelope Boyer, Ph.D. We're holding holiday cookie cutters in homage to or as avatars of the early female technology of oven cooking. We are standing in front of an outline of Gloria Anzaldua's seven-stepped transformation theory of conocimiento or self-realization as presented by Dr. Lisa Cortez Walden (preparing the presentation in photo at left). Fin.

Hope to see everyone tonight, Tuesday December 3, at Geekdom for the final FemTechNet ¡Taller! Bring a potluck dish, dessert or a digital gift to share--or just bring your embodied self and ideas to share--free parking in Weston Centre garage, 112 East Pecan Street...

If you have a chance, here's one last article to read to prepare for tonight's theme: TRANSFORMATION

http://www.unc.edu/~aparicio/WAN/AnzalduaNowLetusShift.pdf

http://www.unc.edu/~aparicio/WAN/AnzalduaNowLetusShift.pdf

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/dec/01/hollywood-women-inequality-film-industry

The naked truth: Hollywood still treats its women as second class citizens Research shows female stars are paid less, have fewer lines and spend more time with their clothes off than men

Madonna has graciously joined thousands of others from around the world to be part of our campaign – standing in solidarity with LGBT people in Russia. http://shop.hrc.org/love-conquers-hate-collection/love-conquers-hate-russian-t-shirt.html?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Madonna-liftnote&utm_campaign=SUPPORTRUSSIA

Her inspiring note is below. If you're looking for a way to provide badly needed support for the LGBT community in Russia, please consider purchasing the Russian version of our iconic Love Conquers Hate t-shirt. All net proceeds support LGBT advocates in Russia.

– Chad Griffin, President of HRC




Dear fellow equality supporter,

"Love conquers hate." It's an iconic message that the Human Rights Campaign's members and supporters have spread to millions around the United States.

But right now in Russia, LGBT people and our allies who support basic fairness and dignity face a different reality. They are being targeted by hateful new laws that outlaw support for LGBT equality. Even with the 2014 Sochi Olympics just a few months away, fair-minded Russians are facing fines, harassment, and violence at the hands of thugs.

At this dangerous moment in Russian history, we as advocates have a responsibility to speak up and take our hopeful message global. That's why I'm joining HRC's Love Conquers Hate campaign, in hopes that more and more fair-minded people around the world will stand up and fight against the Russian government's campaign of hate.

Right now, you can send that message directly to the Russian people and provide much-needed support to LGBT advocates in Russia by purchasing the Russian-language Love Conquers Hate t-shirt. And once you have your t-shirt, share a picture of yourself wearing it on social media using . With your help, we can make this simple message go global.

Make no mistake about it: the goal of these hateful laws is to leave LGBT Russians feeling isolated. Worthless. Completely alone.
Together, we can send a message to LGBT Russians that the world is on their side, and that those who seek to support them aren't alone in this fundamental fight for fairness.

It's time for love to conquer hate everywhere, for everyone. I hope you'll stand with me in this fight.

Sincerely,


Madonna Ciccone

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Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for December 2013 is now available on the Fembot website. In this BAD interview Kate Page-Lippsmeyer (Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California) talks with Alisa Freedman (Associate Professor, University of Oregon), co-editor of Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013). You can listen to this interview at: http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2013/12/01/books-arent-dead-modern-girls-on-the-go/.

Both the podcast and the transcript for this interview (as well as BAD’s past interviews) will be available for download in the near future. BAD is Fembot’s series of monthly interviews with feminist authors of recent books on media, science, and technology. For those who are interested in participating in the ongoing BAD project please contact the BAD editor, Hye Jin Lee ([email protected]), or Carol Stabile ([email protected]).

About Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan (Description from Stanford University Press website):
This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of "modern girls" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course of the last century.

Here we encounter Japanese women inhabiting the most modern of spaces, in newly created professions, moving upward and outward, claiming the public life as their own: shop girls, elevator girls, dance hall dancers, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, international beauty queens, overseas teachers, corporate soccer players, and even female members of the Self-Defense Forces. Directly linking gender, mobility, and labor in 20th and 21st century Japan, this collection brings to life the ways in which these modern girls—historically and contemporaneously—have influenced social roles, patterns of daily life, and Japan's global image. It is an ideal guidebook for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

About the Author:

Alisa Freedman is an Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Film at the University of Oregon. Much of her interdisciplinary work investigates the ways the modern urban experience has shaped human subjectivity, cultural production, and gender roles. She strives to show how literature and visual media can provide a deeper understanding of society, politics, and economics. Alisa has published widely on Japanese modernism, urban studies, contemporary youth culture, media discourses about gender norms, humor as social critique, and the intersection of literature and digital media. Her work in progress include books about Sesame Street in Japan and changing images of working women on Japanese television and a series of articles on popular culture representation of Japan's lost generation. Additionally, Alisa is engaged in a research and teaching project on the future of the book using Japanese literature as an example and is involved in several literary translation projects. Alisa has served as Resident Director of OUS study abroad programs in Tokyo and is currently Undergraduate Advisor for the Japanese Culture Major.

Laura Miller is the Ei'ichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Christine R. Yano is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

About the Interviewer:

Kate Page-Lippsmeyer is a Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. Her work focuses on modern Japanese fiction, particularly science fiction, gender studies, posthumanism, feminist writing, and new media. Her dissertation, titled “The Emergence of Gendered Posthumans in Japanese Science Fiction” is an interdisciplinary literary, visual studies, and new media studies investigation of the contradictions within the aesthetic space created by the longest running Japanese science fiction magazine’s cover illustrators and how those inconsistencies affected the function and articulation of the “posthuman” in feminist science fiction. By tracing these spectacles the study redefines the cyborg’s subversive potential and challenges utopic thinking about the dissolution of gender in the posthuman to propose a new model of distributed authorship for the digital age rooted in the relationship between fan and genre.
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Books Aren't Dead: Modern Girls on the Go In this BAD interview Kate Page-Lippsmeyer (Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California) talks with Alisa Freedman (Associate Professor, University of Oregon), co-editor of Modern Girls o...

Racial P**nographics: A Special Issue of P**n Studies
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> Here at Antenna we are most thankful for all of our contributors, and hope that you will continue to be involved during what we know is a busy Holiday season. It is time for our monthly editors to rotate and Kyra Hunting will now be editing throughout December. I have provided a quick list of topics below that might spark your interest and inspire a post but as always we are always happy to have posts about any topic that you are interested in. We hope you will get in touch with us at [email protected] if you are willing to contribute this month.
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> GoldieBlox and Copyright Controversies
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> Black Friday as a media phenomenon through YouTube and News coverage
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> The Pope’s use of new media to redefine the Papal Image
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http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/amelie-von-wulffen/

Amelie von Wulffen | e-flux Portikus is presenting an exhibition by Amelie von Wulffen, showing recent paintings, a slideshow of her latest comic, and a group of painted chairs. It has only happened on rare occasions that this variety of media, which is deeply rooted in von Wulffen’s practice, has been exhibited in this way. T...

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/26/vivian-maier-self-portraits-book/

Mysterious Street Photographer Vivian Maier’s Self-Portraits How a remarkable woman, at once mythical and legendary, saw herself. In 2007, 26-year-old amateur historian and collector John Maloof wan