We host events nearly every night. And as always, you will not be turned away from an event at Bluestockings for having empty pockets. Our events are also listed at  www.myspace.com/bluestockingsnyc, so if you're a friend of Bluestockings, then come be our friend on MySpace.

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Thursday, May 1st @ 7PM - $5 Suggested
Presentation: Jenna Allard & Michael Menser "Solidarity Economics"
Amongst the participants of the World Social Forum, there are discussions and efforts to synthesize the wisdom of decades of progressive movements to produce a solidarity economy. Please join Jenna Allard and Michael Menser in a discussion on participatory budgeting and organizing in the United States.

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Friday, May 2nd @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Will Allen "The War on Bugs"
In "The War on Bugs," Will Allen reveals how advertisers, scientists, agro-businesses, and government agencies act to convince farmers to use deadly chemicals, hormones, and genetically modified organisms. Will Allen has been an organic farmer since 1972, and is currently a co-chair of Farms Not Arms.

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Saturday, May 3rd @ 7PM – $1 to $3 Suggested
Presentation: Mickey Z "Myth America"
Come out for a presentation and discussion with Mickey Z about the war, the anti-war movement, the U.S. elections, and the American way of life. Mickey Z is the author of "The Seven Deadly Spins" and "50 American Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know," and is a contributor to Counter Punch and VegNews.

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Sunday May 4th @ 2:30PM - Free
Feminist Book Club: "Bedside Companion To The History Of Western Art"
The feminist book club reads and discusses feminism. We make no claim about what feminism is or whom it serves, and are not a forum for any particular feminist platform. Rather, we rely on feminism(s). We read theoretical texts, literature and primary works. We welcome all genders, political persuasions, and levels of familiarity. We meet on the 1st Sunday of each month. Contact feministbookclub@bluestockings.com for more information.

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Sunday, May 4th @ 7PM – Free
Reading: Paula Doress-Worters "Mistress of Herself"
Unique among the founders of the women's rights movement was Ernestine Rose (1810-1892), a Polish immigrant of Jewish heritage and a long time resident of the Lower East Side. Rose's life and oratory linked the women's movement, the abolitionists, and religious freedom (atheism). Join Paula Doress-Worters for a reading of "Mistress of Herself: Speeches and Letters of Ernestine Rose."

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Monday, May 5th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Creative Writers from Mary Louis Academy
Join four fearless, fabulous and talented young women from The Mary Louis Academy Preparatory School, each of whom will be reading original poetry and fiction developed during an intensive creative writing workshop. With spring blooming, come out and welcome the next generation of Bluestockings.

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Tuesday, May 6th @ 7PM – $1 to $3 Suggested
Discussion: Kristian Williams "The Politics of State Violence"
As the author of "American Methods: Torture and of Logic of Domination" and of "Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America," Kristian Williams has made considerable contributions to the understanding of the history of state violence. Please join him in an informed and important discussion. Williams is a member of Rose City Copwatch and has written for Clamor, Counterpunch, and Dissent.

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Wednesday, May 7th @ 7PM - $5 Suggested
Performance: Tony Palmieri "Three Plays by Dario Fo"
As a writer of satirical comedies, Dario Fo was the enemy of pomp, ceremony, and the material aspects of religion, and through his writing, Fo shined up his love for humanity, truth, and working class people. Come watch Tony Palmieri deliver this shine in a one-man show. Since his spinal cord injury, Palmieri has performed "Shakespeare on Wheels" and Howard Zinn's "Marx in Soho."

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Thursday, May 8th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Lila Karp "The Queen is in the Garbage"
Shifting through time, consciousness and dreams, "The Queen is in the Garbage" explores the conflicted psyche of Harriet Battenberg as she inventories her life during fourteen hours of labor, and as she struggles to answer how her womanhood has produced crisis. Lila Karp's wit and distinct literary style make her voice unique among writers from the 1960s U.S. feminist movement, a voice that still fights to deconstruct womanhood, autonomy, and the essence of human existence.

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Friday, May 9th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Patty Kelly "Lydia's Open Door"
In her book, "Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel," anthropologist and author Patty Kelly tells of the year she spent in a legal brothel in Chiapas, Mexico. Over time, Kelly developed remarkable familiarity with the brothel's workers and families, as well as it's clients and it's managing government officials. Please come for the reading and join in a discussion about sex work and decriminalization of prostitution.

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Saturday, May 10th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Marnia Lazreg "Torture and the Twilight of Empire"
Marnia Lazreg demystifies the politics behind the use of torture in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo in her new book, "Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad." She draws upon the record of the occupation and de-colonization during the Algerian War in the 1950's, as well as reviewing the actions of other occupying imperial powers.

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Monday, May 12th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Caroline Murphy "Murder of a Medici Princess"
Caroline Murphy's book, "Murder of a Medici Princess," tells the true story of 16th Century society girl Isabella de'Medici, Renaissance Florence's most accomplished and flamboyant woman. Granted freedoms that few women of the day enjoyed, de'Medici was an extraordinary woman who paid the ultimate price for flouting her era's traditional gender roles.

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Tuesday, May 13th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Liza Bear "Beyond the Frame"
Liza Bear's "Beyond the Frame: Dialogues with World Filmmakers," provides insights into some of the most intriguing figures of world cinema from the recent past, among them: Gillian Armstrong, Milos Forman, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-wai, and Agnes Varda. This original collection contains edgy dialogues with more than 50 filmmakers from 23 countries.

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Wednesday, May 14th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Chris Carlsson "Nowtopia"
A book about a new politics of work, "Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today" profiles tinkerers, inventors, and improvisational spirits who bring creative approaches to tasks that are often ignored by market society. Come hear Carlsson discuss the emerging practices that thread together self-emancipatory class politics beyond those usually linked to wage-labor relations.

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Thursday, May 15th @ 7PM - $5 Suggested
Through the Lens Series
Screening: Doan Hoang "Oh, Saigon" (2007, 60 minutes)
Come for a screening and discussion with Doan Hoang of "Oh, Saigon," her documentary telling the story of her family's return to to Vietnam after decades of exile. The reunion brings together three brothers: one a major for the Southern Republican Army, another a communist, and the third a pacifist. Hoang tries to reconcile with her half sister, who was mistakenly separated from the family during the escape.

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Friday, May 16th @ 8PM - $5 Suggested
Performance: Mahina Movement "Speak the Fire!"
Let's celebrate the release of the Mahina Movement's debut album "Speak the Fire," which offers words that encapsulate courage and the state of the nation, which tunes up harmonies that twist with passion and fight, which alights melodies tied to flesh and dug from the earth. Mahina Movement's songs and poems are a mix of folk, rock and rhymes in English, Spanish, and Tongan simmered with indigenous roots.

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Sunday, May 18th @ 4PM - Free
Knitting: Dyke Knitting Circle
Come in and knit, make new friends, drink some tea, and learn a craft at a self-help and member-led group event. The Dyke Knitting Circle is open to all levels of experience and meets each third Sunday of the month. Bring yarn and needles. Contact dykeknitting@bluestockings.com for more information.

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Monday, May 19th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Andrea Askowitz "My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy"
With Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner
Knowing that misery loves company, please consider this offer of camaraderie and an evening of readings on motherhood, politics, and sexuality. Andrea Askowitz's memoir, "My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy," is a funny and all-too-real adventure in maternity. Accompanying her will be Amy Richards (author of "Opting In") and Jennifer Baumgardner (author of "Look Both Ways") who co-wrote the contemporary feminist gem "Manifesta" and the activist handbook "Grassroots."

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Wednesday, May 21st @ 7PM - $5 Suggested
Where Have You Been? Conversations on Travel
New Yorkers go all over the world, but the city has a way of swallowing their homecomings. At "Where Have You Been?" three intrepids share stories with those of us who don't get out much. Hosted by Jeff Stark, gorgeous slideshows, tightly edited and mercifully short.

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Thursday, May 22nd @ 7PM - $5 Suggested
Indigenous Voices Series
Screening: Christopher McLeod "In the Light of Reverence" (2001, 90 minutes)
Ancient, sacred lands have been claimed and reshaped by American industry and society. McLeod's "In the Light of Reverence" documents the cultural and spiritual clashes between Native Americans and non-native users (such as rock climbers, new age practitioners, mining companies) over these lands. Hosted by WBAI's Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Indigenous Voices is a monthly series about ethnic identity, sovereignty, and the possibilities for Indigenous peoples to direct their own destinies.

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Friday, May 23rd @ 7PM - $5 Suggested
Discussion: In the Middle of a Whirlwind
Come for a discussion between organizers about their application of various frameworks for guiding processes in polical movements. Speaking frankly about their experiences will be Alex Samets (The Icarus Project), Esteban Kelly (Philly Stands Up), Harmony Goldberg (Right to the City), Ben Shepard (RTS, ACT-UP), and Malav Kanuga (Bluestockings). This event coincides with the launch of the online journal "In the Middle of a Whirlwind," a collaboration with the Team Colors Collective and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest.

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Saturday, May 24th @ 7PM - Free
Reading: Rob Kutner "Apocalypse How"
Meet The Daily Show Writer Rob Kutner and author of "Apocalypse How: Turn the End-Times into the Best of Times," a how-to-guide to living on high after judgment day. Written using the techniques of the very best lifestyle guides, the book instructs one on fending off zombie attacks, on forging for non-radioactive food, and on joyfully living inside a lead-shielded, ape-proof bunker. And remember Benjamin Franklin's imploration "By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail" for zombies!

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Sunday, May 25th @ 2:30PM - Free
Planners Network Book Club: Robert Bullard "Highway Robbery"
The Planners Book Club discusses built environments, urban history and planning. Its members deliberate New York City's political, economic and physical infrastructures. All interested persons are welcome. The club meets every 4th Sunday of the month. This month's book (available at Bluestockings) is "Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity" edited by Robert Bullard. Contact plannersbookclub@bluestockings.com for more information.

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Monday, May 26th @ 7PM - $1 to $3 Suggested
Discussion: Jacoby Ballard "Building A Community Clinic"
Access to health services in the U.S. is filtered through class, race, gender and geography, rather than through a reasoned and humane criterion, such as, um, need. Brooklyn-based community organizer Jacoby Ballard is opening Taproot, a community health clinic in Flatbush. Come meet and discuss putting social justice into practice within a community health clinic to provide holistic, accessible, and anti-oppressive health care.

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Tuesday, May 27th @ 7PM - $5 Suggested
Women's / Trans' Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Featuring: Michelle Valladares & Elaine Sexton
Michelle Valladares writes mesmerizing and thoughtful persona poems, and will read from her book "First Map of the New World." Elaine Sexton's poems are insistent struggles against cynicism, and tell of gritless love of the filial, romantic and spiritual varieties. The jam is hosted by Vittoria Repetto, the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the Lower East Side. Deliver (up to) 8 minutes of your poetry, prose, songs and spoken word.

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Thursday, May 29th @ 7PM - $1 to $5 Suggested
Zine Open Mike: All Things Never Meant To Be
Come out for a reading from "We'll Never Have Paris," a female run DIY zine edited by Andrea Alefhi, and then join in the fun by reading your own stuff themed on (or against) all the things never meant to be. Make it fiction, non-fiction, or rely on quasi-set theory where objective truth is markedly indistinguishable, and then offer up to 6 minutes of your very best words.

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