Events

On the 2nd of February, we're expecting more than 200 women to descend on George Washington University for a one day conference on women, feminism and technology.

This is the beginning of a conversation started between different people about the tide of change happening to all kinds of activism, especially in the feminist front. Blogs have become one of the most powerful points of discussion and organizing among a not just a new age of feminists but a new technological tribe of feminists that cross ages, ethnicity, race, ability and even gender itself.

I was in the middle of some of these conversations about the present, past and future of feminism and felt that there was a need to get the veterans and the noobs, the geeks and nerds, the men and women and all the different "tranches" of what we today call "Feminism" in the United States, throw them in a room and just have them shake hands and start conversations, collaborations or debates.

It is my hope that Feminism 2.0 is the first of annual meetings where feminists of all kind can come together to celebrate and air, vent and dream, rinse and repeat

It's why we need your help to spread the word. We need media partners : People who will advertise the event on their blogs, spread the word on their mailing lists, twitter the hell out of what happening, make it a thing on Facebook and MySpace.

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In a few minutes I will be at Chelsea Piers here in New York City convening with 400 other women for the Second Annual "Reinvention Convention" organized by MORE Magazine. The kind people at MORE have invited me to witness this all day event for women over the age of 40 on such things as work, finances, health, beauty and fashion.

I can't wait.

Today I'll get to meet the likes of Isaac Mizrahi, Vanessa Williams, Cybill Shepherd, and, oh my blog, the always mind-blowing Carly Fiorina. I can't wait to see close-up one of the women who could have been the VP to John McCain, if only he had a clue.

March is an insane month for the amount of political events you can go to. The proof is in the amount of political heavy hitters DL21C was able to wrangle during that month : Jon Kerry, Wesley Clark, John Tester, John Edwards, Bill Richardson. It is also an insane month for the amount of technology and media conferences you can get invited to, the most important (at least for me) being SXSW --but there's eTech and IDPI as well.

I missed almost all the events involving presidential candidates because of the amount of conferences I was involved in during the month of March. Once I was done with my last one, ARC's national conference on "Facing Race", I was free to enjoy a candidate or two by the end of the month. I wasn't able to make it to the John Edwards event (I was having some fun at a party with Nancy Pelosi).

So 3/26 was Bill Richardson's lucky number.

The week started in Philadelphia on Saturday. I went to the launch of Impeach For Change at, of all places, Constitution Hall. I was there to discuss with other bloggers the importance of keeping the matter of George Bush's impeachment on the table. Not for political vendetta but as a matter of constitutional crisis.

Then on Tuesday on to Barnard College, where with 5 other feminist bloggers we discussed the state of the feminist blogosphere and what opportunities and obstacles lie ahead.

Hours later I hopped on a train to go down to Washington DC. I was slated to give a workshop on blogging with Chris Rabb of Afro-netizen, Bill Densmore of Media Giraffe and Faiz Shakir of Think Progress. I swear, an hour and a half is just not enough for tackling all the questions of concerned of people who want to use new media tools like blogs but just don't know how.

Let's say I am DYING to follow up on all these conference. Give me until tomorrow. I'm running out to pick up my kids at school. Also, the week is not over yet. I still have Rootscamp to attend.