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Speaking of Feminist Symposium!

The Cornell College Third Wave Resource Group would like to invite faculty, staff, students, and any interested persons to the Sixth Feminist Symposium on Saturday, March 10 2012. The symposium is an academic conference that places an emphasis on women’s*, feminist, and gender issues. You may present your research and/or paper, or come as an active audience member.

Jessica Valenti is scheduled as our keynote speaker. Called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world by The Guardian – she is also the author of three books: Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters, He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut…and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know, and The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women which has been made into a documentary by the Media Education Foundation.  She is the editor of the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, which was named one of Publishers Weekly‘s Top 100 Books of 2009.

Jessica is also the founder of Feministing.com, which Columbia Journalism Review calls “head and shoulders above almost any writing on women’s issues in mainstream media.” Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian (UK), The American Prospect, Ms. magazine, Salon and Bitch magazine. She has won a Choice USA Generation award and the 2011 Hillman Journalism Prize for her work with Feministing. She has appeared on The Colbert Report and the Today show, among others, and was profiled in The New York Times Magazine under the headline “Fourth Wave Feminism.”

Please let us know if you will be attending by Friday February 24, 2012. If you are interested in presenting, please submit a proposal form. Proposal submission guidelines and submission form are available from jcastillorivera14 and may be submitted electronically in either Microsoft Word or PDF file format using the form provided to jcastillorivera14.

The Third Wave Resource Group would be pleased if your work were to be presented at the Sixth Feminist Symposium. Please contact me with any questions, concerns, and replies.