With the new year comes so many exciting events, and we will be tabling at a few of them. Mark your calendars! Hope to see you there!
ANTI-VALENTINES DAY RIOT GRRRL COVER BAND SHOW – February 14th
@ Death By Audio (49 S. 2nd St., Brooklyn)
Cover bands playing this year will be Babes in Toyland, Hole, X, [...]

[ December 6, 2011; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] We’re sponsoring a zine reading next Monday at The New School with Cindy Crabb, Cynthia Schemmer and Max Steele!

We’ve been carrying Cindy’s “Support” zine (on preventing sexual assault and supporting survivors) as well as “Learning Good Consent”.  Her well-known autobiographical feminist zine “Doris” is really worth checking out, if you haven’t already.

See below for more [...]

[ December 6, 2011; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Save the date! We are co-sponsoring a zine reading by Cindy Crabb and more TBA!

December 6 @ The New School
6 E 16th St, Room 1107
8PM // Open to the Public // Donations!
brought to you by MFA Collective Works and The For The Birds Collective

Cindy Crabb is the author of the long running, autobiographical feminist zine [...]

For the past few years, For the Birds has curated music compilations of our favorite women-fronted and feminist-positive bands from across the country, and even around the world.  We’re pleased to announce the release of this year’s compilation CD / Cassette titled “Flock Rock”, our fifth release.  It features 14 tracks (some of which are [...]

A few months ago we participated in a panel at the Women’s Caucus for Art hosted by A Feminist Tea Party at the annual CAA conference.  Katie Haegele followed up on the day’s events with a great piece in the summer issue of Bitch Magazine. She spoke with yours truly about For The Birds, among other [...]

Announcing For The Birds’ first zine!

So You Want To Start A Feminist Collective: A Flight Plan For Newly-Hatching Flocks
For the Birds’ first zine! Encouraging other people to start their own collectives and projects, For the Birds answers questions about how we started and how we continue to operate as a group.  We address problems we’ve [...]

[ February 6, 2011; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] We have a couple items to post this morning, one of which is that Hollaback! launches their site in ten cities today at ihollaback.org. Hollaback! combats street harassment via mobile technology and now has blogs for multiple cities all on their website.  They are currently recruiting more activists for the next launch in April.  Check [...]

Below are a selection of relevant zine calls for submissions that we’ve found recently.  A couple of them were also found on the site Compilation Station, which regularly posts compilation call-outs.  It’s a great resource for all you zinesters if you haven’t seen it already.  Please check out the links on each zine for more [...]

Bluestockings recently hosted a presentation entitled Women’s Radical Research, by Kate Angell and Jenna Freedman.  A reference librarian at Sarah Lawrence College and a research librarian at Barnard College respectively, the pair reviewed a useful list of reference resources for activists, independent journalists, students and beyond.  Angell and Freedman are also members of Radical Reference, [...]

Tomorrow evening, Thursday, November 4, there will be a reading at STOREFRONT Gallery in Brooklyn, curated by FTB member Cynthia.  The event features four graduate students (3 nonfictionist from Sarah Lawrence and 1 social worker from Hunter College) and is part of Literary Thursdays, a series at STOREFRONT highlighting the work of emerging writers and [...]