Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Mama Salon: An evening of readings from mama/mami writers:

Kerry Cohen is the author of Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity, as well as four young adult novels. Her essays have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Babble.com, and Portland Monthly, and are forthcoming in Best Sex Writing 2010, Brevity, and of course My Baby Rides the Short Bus. She lives in Portland , Oregon with her family.

Victoria Law is a writer, mother, and photographer. Since 2002, she has worked with women incarcerated nationwide to produce Tenacious: Art and Writings from Women in Prison. Her writings have appeared in Hip Mama, off our backs, make/shift magazine and Left Turn. Her book, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women is the culmination of 8 years of research, writing and listening to the stories of women incarcerated nationwide.

Maegan “la Mamita Mala” Ortiz is a Queens born and bred Nuyorican mami, Espanglish poeta, freelance writer, blogger, and all around rabble rouser. Her words and opinions have been featured in the Washington Post, Latina Magazine, The New York Daily News, National Public Radio and VivirLatino, where she is a Managing Editor.

Jennifer Silverman is a recovering journalist, mama of two rambunctious sons, agitator and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology My Baby Rides the Short Bus (PM Press, 2009). Her writing about mothering her son with autism has appeared in Hip Mama and off our backs, and the ‘zine version of Short Bus, among others. She resides in Queens, New York .

Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington
1 block south of Houston and 1st Avenue
bluestockings.com

By train: F train to 2nd Ave, exit at 1st Ave, and walk one block south.

By car: If you take the Houston exit off of the FDR, then turn left onto Essex (a.k.a. Avenue A), then right on Rivington, and finally right on Allen, you will be very, very close.

AND AFTERWARDS...
Join me and other prison activists and abolitionists (and Chaplin fans) for
Charlie Chaplin Beer & Movie Night!!
a benefit for Books Through Bars NYC

only a few short blocks from Bluestockings

8:00pm - The Gold Rush (1925)
10:00pm - Modern Times (1936)
Midnight - Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Don't miss it: Must-see Chaplin films... cheap beer ... and an opportunity to support Books Through Bars, NYC's all-volunteer free books-to-prisoners group.

ABC No Rio: 156 Rivington Street, btw Clinton & Suffolk Streets

http://www.abcnorio.org/affiliated/btb.html
212.254.3697 ext. 26

All ages welcome! 21+ to drink