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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 Also in Attendance: | Session 32 Creating Women of Color Spaces: Ownership and Intentionality/The Color of Femme | 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 | 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 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 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