You can download a printable map of the conference area/oakland and of the venue.
Download a one-page schedule here.
We are so excited to see you all in THREE DAYS!!!
jen valles, our Accessibility and Awareness Chair, did an interview with Velvet Park you can read here.
And our Executive Chairs Jessica Eve Humphrey and Christine de la Rosa had an interview on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles, too!
We are working on a map for you all, so out of town folks can be oriented and have access to everything they need while in Oakland for the conference:
- Link to FEMME2010 Google Map of Oakland | View Femme2010 in a larger map.
- Also, this map of downtown Oakland was helpful
- Lastly, mass transit is good: [the bay area train] BART | [the oakland bus] AC Transit
“The makeout parties at the Femme Conference are the best,” says Cherry Poppins, Media Co-Chair of Femme2010. “That counts as community building, right?”
Because we are often told we are “too much.” What’ll happen if we all get in one room? Will our heads explode?
Because we keep hearing our fellow femmes say they want to tear down the walls that keep femmes apart, that they want a femme family, that they are hungry.
Because Kate Bornstein rocks our world, and ze’s a 2010 keynote!
Because Moki Macias is an incredible activist and she’s a 2010 Keynote!
Because there is a film & video festival on Sunday!
Come out August 1st and party for a great cause! WETbar and the Femme Collective are doing a fundraiser for the Femme Conference coming to the Oakland Marriott August 20th-22nd.
WETbar – Femme Conference Fundraiser
Bench and Bar
510 17th Street, Oakland
August 1st
$5-$10 Sliding Scale
7pm – Doors Open
8pm – Performance Showcase Begins
9pm – DJs Olga T and Rockaway droppin’ the hottest beats on the dancefloor
Scheduled to Perform: Amy Adams, Brock, Cocker, Celestina Pearl, Chan Dynasty, Cherry Galette, Kentucy Fried Woman, King McQueen, Rubenesque Burlesque with your MC Mona Webb!
All Proceeds go to the Femme Conference so come out for a night of great performance and hot dancing. Help us spread the word!
Flyer by Olivia Levins Holden
Femme Conference 2010 is excited to announce that this year we will be offering childcare and kid-oriented programming during the conference! The Femme Conference Kids Working Group is hard at work organizing a dynamic, fun, and safe space where kids can have their own femme conference, as well as space to play and learn. Parents and caregivers are welcome to leave kids for the day while they are attending workshops, or can join us for a weekend of radical gender coloring books, games, queer sing-a-longs, and glitter. We will do our best to accommodate kids of different ages, needs, and abilities. More info on registering kids for childcare will be available soon at www.femmecollective.com
In addition, the Kids Working Group is looking for people to volunteer in the childcare space and create cool kid-oriented programing. Queer space is too often inaccessible to parents and caregivers, and we want to make this year’s conference a place where everyone can participate. Want to support femme parents? Get involved with the kid’s space! Want to lead a drag workshop? Paint faces? Teach about bodies? We need your help to make the kids’ space exciting, femme, and fun! We can be reached at femme@riseup.net
Help us get the word out! Post this on your blog or parents list. Forward this to parent and caregivers!
We’re still counting down the days to Femme2010 – only 34 days left!
Because of shoes, shoes, shoes!
Because we must create spaces to celebrate, discuss, learn about, teach, share and feed each other as femmes, queers, allies, genderphiles and revolutionary warriors! - Krista Smith, Femme2010 Performance Co-Chair
Because amazing femme performance artists are coming from Germany, England, Canada, New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon & Los Angeles to join their Bay Area Counterparts for two evenings of the most amazing queer performance art you will EVER see at FemmeCon 2010! – Krista Smith, Femme2010 Performance Co-Chair
Because Femmes need community, not competition.
Moki Macias is a queer femme activist in Atlanta.
Moki Macías is a queer femme organizer and community planner in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally from New Mexico, Moki found her way to Atlanta, Georgia after her mother and sister moved there from New Orleans post-Katrina. She received her education in southern history and the criminal justice system while working at the Southern Center for Human Rights, a public interest law firm challenging mass incarceration and the death penalty in the southern states.
While at SCHR, Moki co-founded BLOCS – Building Locally to Organize for Community Safety – a grassroots organization dedicated to building the leadership and power of those most affected by Atlanta’s police and prison system by fighting for police accountability and developing effective strategies to create just and peaceful communities.
In 2009, Moki entered a Master’s program in City & Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is writing her thesis on public safety rhetoric, the intersection of planning and criminalization tactics, and creative responses at the neighborhood-level.
For the last three years, Moki has lived with and parented her teenage sister Nandi, with the support of her partner LB, an incredible queer family, and unstoppable love from their boxer/pitt Stanford. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College and is a 2010-2011 Davis- Putter Scholarship Fund grantee.
Because we have so much to teach and learn from each other, and there are at least 40 workshops, panels, discussions, and skillshares at Femme2010.
Because in 2008 the Femme Conference in Chicago inspired me to be more impossible than I already am! – Sarah Deragon, Femme2010 Film Chair
Because we love glitter!!
Because the 2008 Femme Conference rocked the foundation of my identity – in amazing ways – and radically changed my life. –Cherry Poppins, Femme2010 Media Co-Chair
Because we can do femme however we like. Femininity: we take what feels good about it, what we have fun with, what empowers us as individual femmes – and we leave the rest behind.