Saturday, January 28, 2006

Come to the WAM Media Conference in Boston I'm stealing from our friend EJ Graff here, but she's summed up why we LOVE the annual WAM conference (Women, Action & Media) coming up March 31 - April 2.  Best annual conference I've ever been to -- energizing, inspiring, great contacts. But the early registration discount deadline is Feb. 1. So sign up now! Here's what EJ says: For a few years now I've been involved with WAM! (Women, Action, & Media), a conference of progressive women journalists, authors, advocates, academics, bloggers, students, and fed-up TV-viewers. I've been involved for one reason: I was tired of sitting alone in my room fuming about how few progressive women I saw in the media: op-ed bylines, expert sources, you name it, we weren't there. So we (by "we," I mean the Center for New Words--I've brainstormed but they do the work!) launched a thrilling series of conferences. WAMmers are developing into a lively community (online and off) of media-concerned and -involved women bothered by our country's direction. It's better to be mad with friends than mad alone. This year, our third year, has an amazing lineup: keynoters and panelists include Maria Hinojosa, Farai Chideya, Caryl Rivers, Lakshmi Chaudhry, Rebecca Traister, Cynthia Enloe, Liza Featherstone, Betsy Reed, Robin Herman, Jill Nelson, Julianne Malveaux, Jessica Valenti--basically, it rocks. Come. The early registration fee expires Tuesday. Sign up now. See you there. I'll see you there too! (It's at the very cool/askew Stata Center by Frank Gehry at MIT) -RH              image nimbustier.net   12:17:38 PM    comment []

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