May 11: Women Writers: Inspired by Life

Saturday, May 11, 2013, 10:00 a.m. – noon
Feminist Majority Building, 433 S. Beverly Blvd., Beverly Hills

The Huntington Women’s Studies Seminars Steering Committee
in collaboration with the Feminist Majority Foundation presents:

Women Writers:  Writing Inspired By Life

Michele Kort
Senior editor, Ms. Magazine, author of Soul Picnic:  The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro,
The End of Innocence:  A Memoir (co-written with Chastity Bono) and Dinah!  Three Decades of Sex, Golf and Rock & Roll, and co-editor of Here Come the Brides:  Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage

Lynne Thompson
Poet and author of the poetry collection Beg No Pardon
and the chapbooks We Arrive By Accumulation and Through a Window

Felicia Luna Lemus
Author of the novel Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties and Like Son

May-lee Chai
Author of the novels My Lucky Face, Dragon Chica, the short story collection Glamorous Asians,
and the memoirs Hapa Girl and The Girl From Purple Mountain


Introductions:  Wendy Smith, Elline Lipkin, and Karon Jolna


Karon Jolna will announce the new Ms. Magazine “Reading Circles” book club.
Our guest writers will have books available for purchase and signing.

THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THE SEMINAR AND NO RESERVATION IS REQUIRED.
Please come early, as space is limited. Metered parking available on Beverly Drive;
limited free parking behind building (enter on Beverwil).

March 9: Forty Years after Roe v. Wade: Reproductive Rights and Justice Today

Please join us at a new location for:

Forty Years After Roe v. Wade:
Reproductive Rights and Justice Today

Saturday, March 9, 2013
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Feminist Majority Foundation
433 S. Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, CA   90212
 (between Olympic and Pico Boulevards)

Speakers:

Fetal Personhood:  A Moral and Legal Quagmire
Jean Schroedel
Professor of Politics & Policy, Claremont Graduate University

Race, Class and Reproductive Justice After Roe v Wade
Dionne Bensonsmith, PhD
Independent Scholar

Challenging Access: Lawmaking and Activism in Kansas and Mississippi
duVergne Gaines
Legal Coordinator, National Clinic Access Project, Feminist Majority Foundation

Unearthing Latin@ Voices on Abortion
Myra Duran
Policy Coordinator, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice

THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THE SEMINAR AND NO RESERVATION IS REQUIRED. 
Please come early, as space is limited.
Metered parking available on Beverly Dr.; limited free parking behind building (enter on Beverwil Dr.).