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2010 Conference Schedule

FEMME2010: No Restrictions

Official Conference Schedule*

FRIDAY AUGUST 20th

To see descriptions of workshops and bios of the presenters here.

Childcare Services will be in OCC 205.  For more info about childcare click here.

           
  OCC EAST HALL (350) OCC 201 OCC 202 OCC 203 OCC 204
           
9am-10:15am Session 1
FEMBODY
Flash Mob Movement Workshop
Amelia Mae Paradise

Session 2

FREE SESSION

Session 3
Non-Violent Communication
Bettina Stuecher

Session 4

FREE Session

Session 5

Free Session

           
10:30am-11:45am

Session 6
TechFemme: Femme Blogging & Social Media

Aja Jones Aguirre

Session 7
Read Between the Lines: A Hands-On Guide to Sexy Sign Language (SSL)

Lillith Grey
Session 8
PolyFemmory: Living, Loving, and Fucking as Poly and Femme
Rachel Shiff, Amanda Harris

Session 9

FREE Session

Session 10

FREE Session

12:00pm-1:00pm LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
1:15pm-2:30pm Session 11
Country-Western Two-Step Workshop

Chiara Manodori and Haley Ausserer
Session 12
Wild Geese: Femme Surviviors Write

Jen Cross
Session 13 May I Kiss You?: Sexual Communication & Consent
Dulce Garcia
Session 14
Red Hots Burlesque School of Shimmy

Dottie Lux

Session 15

My Kind of Crazy: Femmes confront the stigma and stereotypes at the intersections of queer femininity, mental illness, & other marginalized identities
Tasha Fierce

           
2:45pm-4:00pm Session 16
Quit Fucking Taking Us For Granted: How to Survive the Movement as a Femme

Savanna Kilner
Session 17
How Fat Women of Color Queer Femme

Patricia Valladolid, Virgie Tovar
Session 18 Singing as Social Justice Nomy Lamm Session 19
Our Power Is Larger Than Our Size: Making Visible Queer Femme Disordered Eating

Marisa Hackett

Session 20

FREE Session

4:15pm-5:15pm OPENING REMARKS        
6:00pm-9:00pm

Welcome Reception

Femmes on Fire: Spoken Word & Stand Up Performances

 City Center Grill

       
           
9:00pm-12:30pm

OFFSITE

Friday Night Lights: Line Dancing, Music & a Risque Cabaret!

Oakland Metro Opera House, 630 3rd St, Oakland

       


Oneg Shabbat
Co-sponsored by the fabulous JQ International
August 20th
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Oakland Room 3rd Floor
Oakland Marriott City Center

Come light candles, say kiddush, and engage in the mitzvah of cruising each other's footwear! This oneg is open to all self-identified Jews nd those on the path of giyur. It's not going to be Orthodox, but we won't be, like, serving bacon-topped challah either.



 

 

SATURDAY AUGUST 21st

  OCC EAST HALL (350) OCC 201 OCC 202 OCC 203 OCC 204
           
9:00am-10:15am

Session 21
Starting the Revolution from Within: How to Use Meditation to Heal and Fuck Shit Up!

Meliza Banales

SESSION 22
Embodying Dialogue: A Creative Exploration of Femme

Heather M. Acs
Session 23
Talk Back! Responding to Anti-Femme and Anti-Butch Comments Within LGBTQ Communities

Paige Kruza, Sophia Lanza-Weil
Session 24
RAW DIVINE! - Honoring Your Femme Spirit! - sacred space workshop-
Monica Anderson

Session 25

FREE Session

           
10:30am-11:45am Session 26
Enabling What?- Femmes talk about Disability, Gender and Sexuality: poetry, and conversation with members of Fabled Asp (Fabulous/Activist Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities: A Storytelling Project
Dr. Laura Rifkin and Dominika Bednarska
Session 27
Femmes & Aging
Sj Kahn and Jewelle Gomez
Session 28
Pastie Making

Vagina Jenkins
Session 29 Queer Femme Porn Panel
Dylan Ryan, Courtney Trouble
Session 30 Positively Lovely
Lady Monster
12:00pm-1:00pm
LUNCH
Femmes Over 40 Caucus Femmes of Color Caucus Femme Trans Women Caucus  BDSM Femmes Poor/Working Class Femmes Caucus
1:15pm-2:30pm KEYNOTE
Kate Bornstein
       
           
2:45pm-4:00pm

Session 31
Featured Film
Diagnosing Difference
64 min


Filmmaker, Annalise Ophelian

Also in Attendance:
Miss Major
Adela Vazquez
Shawna Virago
Cecilia Chung
Jeanna Eichenbaum

Session 32 Creating Women of Color Spaces: Ownership and Intentionality/The Color of Femme
Christine De La Rosa/Norma Sanchez, Amy Adams

Session 33
The Money is Out There for the Femme Revolution: Grassroots Fundraising for Work and Play
Dara Silverman
Session 6 Femme Mamas
Celestina Pearl/Dana Rosenberg
Session 35
Femme Kings: Performing Maleness Onstage

Brock Cocker
Charleston Chu Leslie Einhorn
Jay Walker
Bethany Lockhart
           
4:15pm-5:30pm

Session 36
Sexual (R)Evolution: Exploring the Interconnectedness of Race, Sex, Violence and Pleasure for Queer Women of Color

Amy Saucier/Mayra Mendoza

Session 37
How-to for entrepreneurial femmes

Spring Opara
Session 38
Film Panel- Filmmaker
Annalise Ophelian
Miss Major
Adela Vazquez
Shawna Virago
Cecilia Chung
Jeanna Eichenbaum 
Session 39 Fairies, Dandies and Fancy Boys: Variations on Femme
Mason Munson, Aster Wolfe
Session 40 BITCH, I wanna Fuck You!
Shar Rednour/Caitlin Sweet
           
8:00pm-11:00pm

Glitterati: An Evening of Fierce Femme Sparkling Entertainment!

Oakland Metro Opera House, 630 3rd St, Oakland

       

 

SUNDAY AUGUST 22nd

  OCC EAST HALL (350) OCC 201 OCC 202 OCC 203 OCC 204
           
9:30am-11:00am

Session41
Femme2010 Short Film Festival

Click here for a list of films and info.

We are proud to present to you some of the newest and most exciting voices in independent cinema. We have selected 19 short films by femmes, for femmes, and/or about femme identity that examine various experiences of family, loss, relationships, sex, dating, remembrance, music and song. Our hope is that these films will conjure up a whole range of emotional experiences and in the end you'll have extraordinary insights into the possibilities of short filmmaking. 

       
           
11:15am-12:30pm

Session 41
Film Festival Panel

Filmmakers in attendance (subject to change): Catherine Murty, Michelle Miguelez, Celestina Pearl, Indira Allegra, So Yung Kim, Joey Cupcake, KB TuffNStuff, Jenna Riot, Courtney Trouble, April and Allegra Hirschman, Mary Guzmán, Ruth Vilasenor, Maria Breaux, Tina D’Elia, and Nicky Click. 

 

  Session 43
Minding the Cleavage: A Cross Generational Dialog

Keiko Lane, SJ Kahn
Session 44
White Privilege

Meredith Fenton & Krista Smith
Session 45
Community Accountability Approaches to Violence Against Femmes

Juliet November and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
12:30pm-1:30pm LUNCH   LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
1:30pm-2:30pm KEYNOTE        
           
2:45pm-4:00pm Session 46
Tough Girls: A Celebration of Tomboys, Rough Girls & Gender-Queer Femmes/The GenderFucked Femme
Meliza Banales/JAC Stringer
Session 47 Dress and Express: Exploring Body Image and Self-expression Through Fashion
Sarah Astarte
Session 48
SELF-IDENTIFICATION BEGINS IN THE WOMB
Queen Hollins
Session 49
Tips for a World Class Marriage/Relationship
Molly McKay, Davina Kotulski
 
           
4:15pm-5:15pm CLOSING PLENARY        

 *Subject to Change