Past CNW Events
Friday, May 9 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
An Open Mic for Open Minds
Thursday, May 8 @ 7:00PM
Nadejda Marques
Born Subversive: A Memoir of Survival
Central Square Library, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, May 6 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: How to Advocate for Your Own Health Care
Wednesday, April 30 @ 7:00PM
hattie gossett
the immigrant suite: hey xenophobe who you calling a foreigner?
Kotzen Meeting Center, in Lefavour Hall at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Thursday, April 24 @ 7:00PM
Rage to the Page
A Creative Workshop with Sabrina Chapadjiev
CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, April 22 @ 7:00PM
Hot Buffet
A Workshop Reading with Big Moves
Kotzen Meeting Center in Lefavour Hall at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Friday, April 11 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
An Open Mic for Open Minds
Wednesday, April 2 @ 6:00PM
Reading: Class
A New Kind of Book Group
CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, April 1 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Fat is Still a Feminist Issue
Friday, March 28 @ 8:00PM
Helen Thomas
Keynote Address for WAM!2008
MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Friday, March 28 @ 12:00PM
Women, Action and the Media 2008
WAM!2008: A Conference for Journalists, Activists & Everyone
MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Monday, March 24 @ 1:00PM
The "Grimke" Sisters Return to the State House
The “Grimke” Sisters Return to the State House
Nurses Hall- Massachusetts State House
Wednesday, March 19 @ 6:00PM
The Politics of Women's Health
A Panel Discussion of Current Issues regarding Women’s Health
University Hall Amphitheater at Lesley College, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Friday, March 14 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
An Open Mic for Open Minds
Thursday, March 13 @ 7:00PM
Nancy Polikoff
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law
Kotzen Meeting Center, in Lefavour Hall at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Friday, March 7 @ 7:00PM
Janice Erlbaum
Have You Found Her: A Memoir
CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, March 4 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Safe Cosmetics
Thursday, February 14 @ 7:00PM
Women We Love Reading What They Love
Spend Valentine’s with Local Sheroes
Central Square Library, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge
Friday, February 8 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
Mouthful: An Open Mic for Open Minds
Tuesday, February 5 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: SuperTuesday!
Wednesday, January 30 @ 7:00PM
Carol Gilligan
Kyra: A Novel
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Friday, January 11 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
Mouthful: An Open Mic for Open Minds
Thursday, January 3 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Fat Is Still A Feminist Issue
Friday, December 14 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
An Open Mic for Open Minds
Tuesday, December 11 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Not Buying It: American Consumerism
Thursday, November 15 @ 7:00PM
Amy Hoffman
An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News
Central Square Library, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge
Saturday, November 10 @ 5:00PM
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity
Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Avenue, Boston
Friday, November 9 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
An Open Mic for Open Minds
Tuesday, November 6 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: All About Hillary (Clinton, that is)
Sunday, November 4 @ 4:00PM
Jennifer Camper, Howard Cruse & Diane DiMassa
Juicy Mother 2: How They Met
CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Thursday, November 1 @ 7:00PM
Karolyn Smardz Frost
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
At Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Tuesday, October 23 @ 7:00PM
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism
At Simmons College, Linda K. Paresky Conference Center, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Monday, October 15 @ 7:00PM
Vandana Shiva, ed.
Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed
At the Cambridge Family YMCA, 820 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
Friday, October 12 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
An Open Mic for Open Minds
Thursday, October 4 @ 7:00PM
Ana Castillo
The Guardians
At the Central Square Library, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, October 2 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Domestic Violence: What You Can Do About It
Monday, October 1 @ 7:00PM
Katha Pollitt
Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Saturday, September 29 @ 12:00PM
A Workshop for the Reluctant Writer
Writing Poetry, Realizing Your Voice
Friday, September 28 @ 7:00PM
Mikhaela Reid & Masheka Wood
Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela
CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Thursday, September 20 @ 7:00PM
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting
Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women
Linda K. Paresky Conference Center, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Tuesday, September 18 @ 7:00PM
Amy Bloom
Away
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge.
Friday, September 14 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
An Open Mic for Open Minds
Tuesday, September 4 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: The “F” Word: Feminism. What Does It Really Mean?
Thursday, August 16 @ 7:00PM
Julia Serano
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
At Simmons College, Linda K. Paresky Conference Center, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Tuesday, August 7 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: The Politics of Clothes
Wednesday, August 1 @ 6:00PM
Reading Race
A New Kind of Book Group
CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Thursday, July 12 @ 8:00PM
lost & found @ Queer Soup
A Night at the Theater Benefitting CNW!
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre at 949 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA
Tuesday, July 3 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Book Swap!
Friday, June 8 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
with this month’s feature JG HAYES
Thursday, June 7 @ 7:00PM
Audacia Ray
Naked on the Internet
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline
Tuesday, June 5 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Boston Feminisms Then & Now
Wednesday, May 16 @ 6:30PM
Pat Gozemba, Karen Kahn & Marilyn Humprhies
Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America’s First Legal Same-Sex Marriages
Tuesday, May 15 @ 7:30PM
Ivan Coyote & S. Bear Bergman
The Endangered Species Tour
Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain
Monday, May 14 @ 7:00PM
Jessica Valenti
Full Frontal Feminism
Simmons College Main Building, Linda Paresky Conference Center (3rd Floor), 300 The Fenway, Boston
Friday, May 11 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
with this month’s feature RISHI REDDI
Tuesday, May 1 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: What Now? After the Supreme Court Decision on “Partial Birth” Abortion
Sunday, April 29 @ 3:00PM
Bettina Aptheker
Intimate Politics
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Friday, April 27 @ 6:30PM
Hanne Blank
Virgin: The Untouched History
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
Tuesday, April 17 @ 7:30PM
Surviving the Nian
A Night at the Theater (Offensive) with CNW!
Roberts Theatre at the Stanford Calderwood Pa vilion, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston
Sunday, April 15 @ 3:00PM
Nadje Al-Ali
Iraqi Women between Dictatorships, War, Sanctions and Occupation
MIT Building E51-095, 2 Amherst St., Cambridge (between Main and Memorial Drive. 2 short blocks from Kendall T)
Friday, April 13 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
with this month’s feature DAWN PAUL
Wednesday, April 11 @ 6:30PM
Irshad Manji
Faith Without Fear
C103, Main College Building at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Tuesday, April 10 @ 6:30PM
Jennifer Baumgardner
Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Wednesday, April 4 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Self Defense
Sunday, April 1 @ 7:00PM
Gina Athena Ulysse
Haitian-American spoken word artist
The Lyric Stage, 140 Clarendon St., Boston
Sunday, April 1 @ 9:00AM
Women, Action & the Media 2007 (Day 2)
A Conference for Activists, Journalists & Everyone
MIT’s Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Saturday, March 31 @ 8:30AM
Women, Action & the Media 2007 (Day 1)
A Conference for Activists, Journalists & Everyone
MIT’s Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Friday, March 30 @ 8:00PM
Ellen Goodman
WAM!2007 Kickoff Keynote
MIT’s Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Friday, March 30 @ 12:00PM
Women, Action & the Media 2007
Friday Intensive Pre-Conference
MIT’s Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, March 20 @ 7:00PM
Pagan Kennedy
The First Man-Made Man
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline
Friday, March 9 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
with this month’s feature ARDEN HILL
Thursday, February 22 @ 7:00PM
Marge Piercy
Pesach For the Rest of Us: How To Make the Passover Seder Your Own
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline
Friday, February 9 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
with this month’s feature JG HAYES
Tuesday, February 6 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Sex Work
Friday, January 12 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
with this month’s feature JENN GUPTIL
Thursday, January 11 @ 7:00PM
Annalee Newitz & Charlie Anders
She’s Such a Geek
At CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, January 2 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Trans/Feminism
Friday, December 8 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
with this month’s feature MARILYN MCLATCHEY
Tuesday, December 5 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Feminism & Women’s Spirituality
Tuesday, December 5 @ 6:00PM
THE CNW ONLINE CELEBRITY AUCTION!
Bid on items and experiences you can’t buy anywhere else...
Thursday, November 16 @ 7:00PM
Sonali Kolhatkar & James Ingalls
Bleeding Afghanistan
Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain
Sunday, November 12 @ 4:15PM
Film: THE TRIBE
with a Live Performance by the “Hebrew Mamita,” Spoken Word Artist Vanessa Hidary
Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Saturday, November 11 @ 1:00PM
Women Veterans Speak Out on Iraq
CANCELLED
Friday, November 10 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
An Open Mic for Open Minds
Thursday, November 9 @ 7:00PM
Heather Rogers
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, November 7 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Transracial Adoption
Thursday, November 2 @ 7:00PM
Patricia Hill Collins & Imani Perry
Feminism, Racism & the Politics of Hip Hop
Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Thursday, October 26 @ 7:00PM
Swanee Hunt
Half-Life of a Zealot
Cambridge College, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Thursday, October 19 @ 7:00PM
Katherine Min
Secondhand World
CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Wednesday, October 18 @ 7:00PM
Judy Norsigian, Lenore Pomerance & other contributors
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
YWCA Boston, 2nd Floor Library, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston
Tuesday, October 17 @ 7:00PM
In Spite of Hyde
Women Fight to Access Abortion
Cambridge Public Library, 45 Pearl Street, Cambridge
Friday, October 13 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
Featuring Susan Rich
Thursday, October 12 @ 7:00PM
Susan Eisenberg
Blind Spot
CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, October 10 @ 7:00PM
Inga Muscio
Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil
Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Thursday, October 5 @ 7:00PM
Robin Morgan
Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right
Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain
Tuesday, October 3 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: Gender-Defying Coloring Book-Making Workshop!
Tuesday, September 26 @ 6:30PM
Lisa Jervis, Andi Zeisler and Lynn Peril
POP Goes the Feminist
Harvard Hillel, Beren Hall, 52 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge
Monday, September 25 @ 7:00PM
Bitches on Pitches
How to Pitch Articles that Get Published
with Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler
Center for New Words, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Thursday, September 21 @ 7:00PM
Martha Southgate
Third Girl from the Left
CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Wednesday, September 20 @ 7:00PM
Kim McLarin
Jump at the Sun
CNW, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge
Friday, September 8 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
Featuring the 2006 Poetry Contest Winners
Tuesday, September 5 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Feminism & Dessert: The F-Word
Thursday, June 29 @ 7:00PM
Katha Pollitt
Virginity or Death!
At the Cambridge Family YMCA, 820 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
Wednesday, June 28 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
Bring Your Favorite Poem!
Friday, June 23 @ 7:00PM
Alison Bechdel
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
At Simmons College, Alumnae Hall, behind 321Brookline Ave., Boston
Wednesday, June 21 @ 5:30PM
New Words: On Air
Thursday, June 15 @ 7:00PM
Jane: An Abortion Service
Film screening and discussion with Judith Arcana
Simmons College, Special Functions Room (1st Floor), 300 The Fenway, Boston
Tuesday, June 6 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It for Social Change
Sunday, May 28 @ 2:00PM
Lisa King Remembered
Memorial for a Poet Warrior
At the Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
Wednesday, May 24 @ 7:30PM
Mouthful
Featuring Christina Strong
Saturday, May 20 @ 1:15PM
Fingersmith (the movie!)
Co-presented as part of the Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival
At the Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston.
Thursday, May 18 @ 7:00PM
Alicia Goranson & Peggy Munson
Project Queerlit Winners
Wednesday, May 17 @ 5:30PM
New Words: On Air
Thursday, May 11 @ 7:30PM
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna- Samarasinha
Consensual Genocide
At Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain.
Wednesday, May 10 @ 7:45PM
Left Lane: On the Road With Alix Olson
Co-presented as part of the Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival
At the Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston.
Tuesday, May 2 @ 7:00PM
Feminism & Dessert
The Trouble Between Us: The Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement
