The amazing folks at National Advocates for Pregnant Women.
The phrase that best summarizes this past weekend’s conference for me: hot damn.
I can honestly say that NAPW organized the best feminist conference that I’ve ever been to. And I like me some feminist conferences, so that’s saying something.
Why so fabulous? Well, first of all I got to hang out with some of the most amazing women ever. Just to name a few of the lovely ladies I got a chance to talk with this weekend: Bloggers Brownfemipower, Bean, BitchPhD, and Shark Fu (I love a bitch); and organizational mavens Aimee Thorne-Thomsen (Pro-Choice Public Education Project), Lauren Brannon (Soapbox), Miriam Zoila Perez (National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health), Priscilla Huang (National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum) and SO many others.
But it was more than the great attendees—it was the incredible energy at the conference, the remarkable panelists, and the oh-so-important (and ambitious) vision for reproductive justice that the conference put forward. I mean, damn, just look at the program and you'll see what I mean.
The weekend gave me a ton to think about and process, too much for me to ever write here. So here's what I'm thinking--I’m going to try to get a bunch of the conference participants to guest post here. Soon. (If you’re reading and you were a presenter at the conference, email me!) There were so many important things discussed that it feels like I would be doing the women who work on these issues a disservice by trying to cover it all myself, and in just a couple of posts. So be on the lookout for future guest posts by the women who participated in the conference.
Oh, and a huge thanks to Nancy Goldstein, Communications Rock Star, who ran around like a maniac all weekend making sure us lowly bloggers were well taken care of.
Some more pics (all courtesy of NAPW) after the jump.
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I can honestly say that NAPW organized the best feminist conference that I’ve ever been to.
This all sounds fantastic, and I look forward to reading some of the guest bloggers. You should add NAPW to your blogroll!
Hot damn for real! Yes, please on the guest bloggers - what a perfect way to represent what happened at the conference. LL
Couldn't the money that was spent on renting a fancy conference center like the Atlanta Airport Hilton's be better spent on other things?
Such as supporting said pregnant women?
Image is important. If an extra $2,500 in accommodations means an extra $2,501 comes in to help pregnant women, it's worthwhile.
Cheers,
TH
FFF--don't you think building alliances and raising awareness is a HUGE part of helping women? Come on now.
"And in all we do, we must remember that the best health care decisions are made not by government and insurance companies, but by patients and their doctors." Bush, 2007 SOTU
wouldn't it be nice if this wasn't just fluff :(
I have to agree with Jessica (and everyone else besides FFF) on this one. The connections forged at the NAPW conference, though important to securing women's autonomy, were not necessarily going to happen organically. They needed a bit of a push. And the conference provided that. And in a pretty damn cost-effective fashion.
You may be interested in Jessica Arons’ guest blog at RH Reality Check. She wrote about NAPW’s conference and the connections between the pro-choice & maternal rights communities.
www.rhrealitycheck.org/node/2144