Public Information Office

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: January 24, 2006
CONTACT: Donna Myers, 206.546.4717

Can I be a feminist and shave, eat meat, be religious?
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards lecture
at Shoreline Community College

Shoreline, WA — The Robert E. Colbert Lecture Series at Shoreline Community College brings feminist authors and activists, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards to campus at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 9th in the gymnasium. They have lectured at Vanderbilt University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government as well as many other venues. General admission is $12, $10 for seniors and students, and $6 for children 14 and younger and SCC students with College ID. Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance by calling 206.546.4606.

The two are best known for Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, a book they co-authored about the state of the women's movement. The book, which garnered national acclaim, has served as the platform for a national speaking tour since 2000 and brought praise from the likes of other activists including Gloria Steinem, Eve Ensler and Naomi Wolf.

The speaking tour and other experiences prompted the two to found Soapbox Inc. Speakers Who Speak Out. In 2005, they released a new book about everyday activism called Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism.

Joint writings by Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner can be found in The Nation and several anthologies, including the new book about everyday activism called Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism. Richards and Baumgardner have worked together on various projects since they met at Ms. Magazine.

They moderated several panels at the 2000 Rockrgrl Conference in Seattle, gave a keynote address in the 2001 D.C. Visions in Feminism Conference, presented at the Unitarian Universalist Annual Conference, and delivered a number of speeches on the future of pro-choice advocacy for Planned Parenthood's regional and national meetings. Baumgardner and Richards also presented at the 2001 Women's Studies Conference, a rarity for non-academics, discussing how to connect women's studies to young feminist activism.

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