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  • The new issue of Utne Reader recognizes “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World”—and three of them are regular contributors to make/shift! Coeditor/copublisher Jessica Hoffmann, writer brownfemipower, and columnist/reviews editor Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore all made the list.
  • EVENT: MAYRA SIRIAS: LEARNING FROM NICARAGUA, Saturday, November 1, 2008, 2 p.m, Southern California Library

    Mayra Sirias of La Red de Mujeres Contra Violencia is in Southern California for just a few events. In her only L.A. event, she will speak about Nicaraguan women’s work to end violence, reproductive justice, grassroots feminisms, and more. This is a bilingual (Spanish/English) … FREE event … cosponsored by make/shift and INCITE! LA.

  • The latest issue of make/shift magazine features “Without You Who Understand: Letters from Radical Women of Color” (a special section guest-edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs); a multi-article spread on feminist/cooperative economics; an excerpt from Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s new novel, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly; notes on solidarity among queers and feminists in the U.S. and Nicaragua; report-backs from the WOC Lockdown at the University of Michigan and the gender-justice convening in Oakland; and much, much more.
    ISSUE 4, FALL/WINTER 2008/09:


    COLUMNS

    ROCKSLINGA
    By Randa Jarrar

    CENTRALLY LOCATED
    By Erin Aubry Kaplan

    DEAR NOMY
    By Nomy Lamm

    NOBODY PASSES
    By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

    SPECIAL TO ISSUE FOUR

    RIVER
    Personal essay by Davka

    WOMEN’S LIBERATION PROJECT
    Photography by Oriana K. Riley

    LETTERS FROM RADICAL WOMEN OF COLOR
    Letters by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Lisa Factora-Borchers, Lailan Huen, and Kameelah Rasheed

    LET’S IMAGINE JUST, SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES
    Irina Contreras and Anna Clark on Sharing Resources
    Chelsey Clammer on Feminist Bookstores
    Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on Publishing
    Keidra Chaney on welfareQueens
    Jessica Hoffmann and Irina Contreras on Giving Circles

    NICARAGUAN FEMINISM AND WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE
    Reportage by Emily K. Hobson

    EXCERPT: SO MANY WAYS TO SLEEP BADLY
    Fiction by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

    ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES FOR ADDRESSING “GRAY” RAPE
    Essay by Julia Glassman

    Plus: Poetry by Megan Buchanan and Cara Wood, Novice Theory, WOC Lockdown, New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic, fat-positive blogs, state violence against women in Thailand, visions of gender justice in a world without prisons, Wise Fool New Mexico, Toronto News Girls, community responses to sexual assault, lots of reviews, the make/shift crossword puzzle (electoral-politics edition!), and more.

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