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1916 Mabel Normand Peace Day

Mabel had a day of Peace here is the link if the “olive” doesn’t link to the article, just use the address below… http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/peaceday1916.htm

Update on MULTICULTURAL AMERICA class multimedia site!

Hi everyone, when last we left our ongoing adventures in technology and education, my Multicultural America‘s final class project, a multimedia “archive” for our community partner, Kids Matter, Inc. had just emerged from Google limbo.     I wanted to update folks on how things were going.    We might have a few more tweaks […]

Making Your Media Matter Conference, Center for Social Media, Feb 12-13, 2009

The Center for Social Media at American University is having its 5th annual Making Your Media Matter Conference, Feb 12-13, 2009. It has a great focus on the connections between ethics, aesthetics, and funding for media makers — an important issue for all of us working in media during these tough economic times. The conference […]

New Podcast with Sharon Sekhon, Studio for Southern California History

Hey everyone:As promised, my interview with Sharon Sekhon discussing her work with The Studio for Southern California History can be found on the podcast part of the feminism 3.0 site:

Archives of Empowerment

Tucked between an electronics store and an employment agency in LA’s Chinatown is the wonderful, Studio for Southern California History, a community based cultural history museum, which focuses on overlooked histories/stories of the region. I first had the good fortune to visit the museum as part of the Imagining America conference in October 2008, when, […]

Site to Check Out: Institute for Interdisciplinary Art and Creative Intelligence

Here’s a cool new site to check out, the Institute for Interdisciplinary Art and Creative Intelligence that is very much in spirit with our feminism 3.0 mission of connecting the creative and critical, or as noted on the site a commitment to engage “the intuitive and the intellectual in simultaneity.”   The Institute’s Director is the […]

Adventures in Praxis

Coming down the homestretch for the semester here at UWM and my Multicultural Amercia class was given the ultimate challenge as they were working on their final projects — an online archive devoted to the child’s advocacy group, Kids Matter Inc. . Using the fairly new and usually nifty app, Google Site, somehow the class […]

Foto.Synthesis — Social Justice Film Showcase!

Hey all — From our friends at University of Arizona we have news of Foto-Synthesis, a student run film showcase dedicated to issues of social justice. The festival is open to undergrad, grad, community college students. The deadline is February 16, 2009. Here are some details: REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSIONS:• Topic must focus around an issue […]

Upcoming Events

Hi everyone — Vicki Callahan signing on this Saturday morning. I have been a bit MIA here as I have been working on other parts of the fem 3.0 website: the live blog, a podcast with the artist Cecelia Condit (check it out, a really wonderful insight into her artistic process). I will be posting […]

Women and Silent Screen V, Stockholm University June 2008

A belated and partial report from the always inspiring Women and Silent Screen conference. This biennial event, which began in Utrecht in 1999, is for me one of best academic conferences around on topic of cinema history. Not only is the conference small enough that it has almost a family get together sort of feeling, […]