Women's Month Activism Guide

-- NYC, March 2018 --

As about a third of people know, March is International Women’s Month! Besides celebrating all the amazing women in your life (thanks Mom and the barista who gives me free day-old bakery items), take a look at some of these women-led events coming up around the city! NYC has an amazing calendar of art exhibitions, workshops, screenings, and more for you to appreciate, support, and even contribute to the work of women across the world.

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• March 24th (9am-8pm) - The Rind: Making Workplace Herstory

An all-day event with different classes/workshops and talks led by women business leaders in the creative and wellness worlds. Some highlights:

• A workout from the boxing/yoga studio, Box + Flow
• Success from Self Love, with the founders of the Egg Shop, Maha Rose Center for Healing
• Why Create a Women’s Workplace, with the founders of Refinery29, the Welcome Home Studio, YOLA Mezcal
• Where: Moxy Times Square Hotel
• Price: Tickets are as cheap as $10

• March 25th (1pm-5:30pm) - A City Made By Women: A Symposium, and Feminist Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

At 1pm, join Teen Vogue’s Executive Editor Samhita Mukhopadhyay in her discussion on how Generation Z’s women are changing activism in the modern age.

Then at 3pm, hop in on the museum’s Wikipedia Edit-a-thon! Who knew that only 10% of Wikipedia entries are written by women? Go change that and edit some Wikipedia entries with other ladies.

• Where: Museum of the City of New York
• Price: $15 for the Symposium, Free for the Edit-a-thon!

• March 27th (11am-1pm) - Screening of “Daughters of the Dust”

See the film that broke the glass ceiling for Ava Duvernay. “Daughters of the Dust” is best known as the first movie distributed across the country that was directed by a black women. However, it’s also a stunning tale of three generations of female St. Helena Island natives in 1902, and their quest to migrate north to America.

• Where: Brownsville Recreation Center, Brooklyn
• Price: Free!

• April 13th-July 22nd - Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985

Somehow both surprising and completely expected, this is the first art exhibit to exclusively feature contemporary art by Latina artists. The pieces, ranging from painting to sculpture to performance, all focus on the female body and its connection to Latin American social activism.

• Where: The Brooklyn Museum of Art
• Price: $16

ONGOING

• Until March 31st - Jock-Gems - a Female Athletics Movie Marathon Month

Catch some of the best sports-ball-kicking women characters on the big screen this month at the Alamo Drafthouse. Movies include:

• Bend It Like Beckham
• Whip It
• Love & Basketball
• Where: Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown Brooklyn
• Price: $10

• Until April 15th - NSFW: Female Gaze

Want to imagine a world with less catcalls and more sex-positivity? 25 female artists are featured in the Museum of Sex’s exhibit that reverses the objectifying male gaze on women and sexuality.

• Where: Museum of Sex
• Price: $17.50 for Museum Admission

• Until August 5th - Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics

Still mad about the loss of a certain female candidate? Check out an exhibit on women’s role in NYC politics. A collage of documents, artifacts, audio/visual materials, and political paraphernalia, this exhibit “traces women’s political activism in New York City from the struggle to win the vote, through the 20th century, and into our own times”.

• Where: Museum of the City of New York
• Price: $12 for Students, $18 for Adults

• Until TBD - Badass Bitches of the Met. Tours

Ever noticed that 94% of art in the Met is made by men? Me neither! Time to appreciate the few female creative voices that have stood the test of time there.

• Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Price: Tickets are $59

-LM

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