Location: Hilton San Francisco Financial District
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Please note that registration has closed.
“a wonderful and intimate experience”
“informative and inspirational”
“an infusion of feminist oxygen into my system”
Last year, this gathering of radical feminists focused on reigniting the Women’s Liberation Movement. This year, we will reconvene to accelerate it! Join us from September 15-17 in San Francisco, California.
With a keynote by Mary Lou Singleton
Other confirmed speakers include: Meghan Murphy, Kara Dansky, Suzanne Forbes-Vierling, and more!
Schedule (subject to minor change):
Friday September 15
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., Registration
5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., Meet & greet with the WDI USA board in the hotel bar
6:00 p.m. – 6:50 p.m., Dinner
6:20 p.m. – 6:40 p.m., Informal panel – Meet the WDI USA board
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Plenary panel: Radical Feminist Tactics
Facilitator: Austin DeVille
Speakers: Lauren Levey (Consciousness Raising); Lierre Keith (Nonviolent Direct Action); Kara Dansky (Legal/Legislative Advocacy)
Saturday September 16
8:00 a.m. – 8:50 a.m., Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 9:50 a.m., Plenary panel: Women’s Academic Studies
Facilitator: Katherine Kinney
Speakers: Karla Mantilla and Donna Hughes
10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m., Breakout sessions
Panel: Misogynoir Pt. 2
Speakers: Lorraine Nowlin and Suzanne Forbes-Vierling
Panel: Desisted Women
Facilitator: K. Yang
Speakers: Elizabeth Chesak, Anna Dutton, Emily Faye
11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m., Breakout sessions
Lesbian-Only Space
Facilitator: Marian Rutigliano
Consciousness Raising Session #1: Dignity
Facilitator: Lauren Levey
12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m., Lunch
Keynote – Reproductive Technology as a Threat to the Women’s Liberation Movement
Speaker: Mary Lou Singleton
1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m., Plenary panel: The Debate Over Working with the Right
Facilitator: Kara Dansky
Speakers: Mary Lou Singleton, Meghan Murphy, Ann Menasche, and Fran Luck
2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m., Breakout sessions
Panel: Feminist Publications
Facilitator: Katherine Kinney
Speaker: Karla Mantilla
Discussion: De-Transition Q&A; Reclaiming Womanhood
Speaker: Laura Becker
3:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m., Breakout sessions
Workshop: Radical feminist language
Facilitator: Austin DeVille
Speaker: Exulansic
Consciousness raising session #2: Mothers and Daughters
Facilitator: TBD
4:00 p.m. – 5:20 p.m., Plenary panel: Lesbians and the Women’s Liberation Movement
Facilitator: Zinetta Hope
Speakers: Dana Stanley, Katherine Kinney, Marian Rutigliano, Arla Hile, Heather Scalzi, and Lauren Levey
5:20 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., Break
6:00 p.m. – 6:50 p.m., Dinner
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Optional Art Exhibit Opening: A Nasty Piece of Work: The Art of Dissident Feminists
Sunday September 17
8:00 a.m. – 8:50 a.m., Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m., Plenary talk: A New Form of Patriarchy
Speaker: Suzanne Forbes-Vierling
9:55 a.m. – 11:10 a.m., Plenary panel: Intersectionality and Bridging the Gap
Facilitator: Lorraine Nowlin
Speakers: Suzanne Forbes-Vierling, Saba Malik, Kara Dansky, Lauren Levey, and K. Yang
11:20 a.m. – 11:50 a.m, Structured participant speak-out
Noon – 12:30, Final board remarks and close
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After the final board remarks and close there will be a separate training session on Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA) tactics, to be followed by a direct action the following day (to be determined). If you wish to participate in the action, you must attend the training. It is distinct from the convention itself, though convention participants are welcome to attend. You can read more about nonviolent direct action here and here.
12:40 pm – 1:50 pm, Lunch on own
2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., NVDA Training
Dinner on own
Monday September 18
Nonviolent Direct Action
Event Information
Last day to buy tickets
08/15/2023, Midnight, (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
About event
Join WDI USA from September 15-17 in San Francisco, CA, for our second national women’s political convention. Last year, this gathering of radical feminists focused on reigniting the Women’s Liberation Movement. This year, we will reconvene to accelerate it.
Please note: this is a women-only event.
On registration rates:
- We have reserved a limited number of complimentary registrations for confirmed convention speakers only. Any registrations made in this category by attendees who are not scheduled speakers will be canceled.
- We have also set aside a limited number of registrations at a hardship rate. Please reserve one of these only if you truly would not be able to attend the convention at the Expected rate.
- The Appreciated rate does not confer any extra attendee benefits: it represents an additional contribution toward the costs of the event, which ticket sales alone cannot cover. We are grateful to each registrant able and willing to subsidize the attendance of women with fewer resources.
- Registration (at every level) includes dinner on Friday, all three meals on Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday.
- Please note that this is a private event and WDI USA reserves the right to cancel and refund any registration at any time for any reason.
Hotel booking:
To book your room at the hotel, please click here. Our current contract with the hotel gives us the room block at the agreed rate for Friday and Saturday nights only. The hotel will honor requests to book Sunday night at the same rate for participants who want to stay on Sunday night in order to attend the Sunday afternoon nonviolent direct action training and the Monday event.
WDI USA, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, has notified the IRS of its intent to operate as a 501(c)(4) organization. Convention registrations are not tax-deductible. WDI USA reserves the right to cancel and refund the ticket of any registrant, for any reason, at any time.
