wam!

I’m soon headed to Boston for Women, Action, & the Media. Hosted by the Center for New Words, the conference is a gathering of feminist activists and journalists.

This year, in addition to the regular sessions, WAM! is hosting a series of briefings for journalists on new trends impacting women. I’ll be giving one of these:

DEMYSTIFYING “GENDER RESPONSIVE PRISONS”

WHEN: Friday, March 30, 2007 at 4 pm EST

WHERE: Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge (Room TBA)

WHO: Justice Now, a human rights organization that partners with women in prison and local communities to build end violence against women and stop imprisonment.

WHY: There is a dangerous national policy trend threatening to radically expand the reach of imprisonment and its harms on women and transgender people from communities of color and low-income communities. In a political climate where public opinion increasingly is opposed to prison construction and spending, this trend exploits the needs of people in women’s prisons by using a theory of “gender responsiveness” purportedly aimed at improving women’s lives to foster public support for prison expansion via mini prisons spun to the public as “community-based” and “alternatives to incarceration.”

PHOTO OP: 34 foot long scroll containing signatures of over 3,300 people in women’s prisons opposing this policy trend in California.

Hope to see you there.

i wear my sunglasses at night

Apparently this Sacramento craziness is in my stars:

Daily Career for March 12, 2007

Provided by Astrology.com

If you feel as if you’re working in a Lewis Carroll dream world of madness, with distracting apparitions appearing and disappearing like the Cheshire cat, pull out your sunglasses to disguise your wide-eyed and alarmed gaze.