Femina Potens

Stand Up For Queer Visibility In the Media, Call to Action TONIGHT!

Join us tonight at Femina Potens

Fighting for Queer Representation in the media!

For the past month HBO has been filming Madison Young and Femina Potens for an episode of Real Sex.  This has entailed scenes from Madison Young’s Production company ‘Madison Young Productions’ as well as at her feminist, queer Art Gallery Femina Potens.

After filming Madison feels as though her and her queer, sex-positive community were  left feeling exploited and disempowered by a main stream entity.  HBO has decided against queer visibility in their Real Sex program. Fighting discrimination and exclusion is fundamental to what Madison’s work and art represents.

We can’t hide. And we can’t be exploited. So we must stand up for who we are and what we believe in.  Tonight at 6:30 pm HBO will be filming a reception at the gallery. Please join us. We want to hear from our community. This gallery is your space. It is our space. It is an honest reflection of who we are uncensored. I encourage you all to make your voices heard. Organize protests outside the gallery, crash the party, show up and be yourself, bring signs, wear buttons. Let’s create queer viability in the media!  And use this situation as a catalyst for dialogue and action about queer main stream representation.

Femina Potens will be organizing several dialogues around Queer Visibility in mainstream media.  More information will be coming soon.

Please pass this email along to all community members.

TONIGHT June 4, 2009 @6:30 pm

Femina Potens Art Gallery

2199 Market Street

San Francisco, CA 94141

www.feminapotens.org

“As a queer feminist pornographer and artist who considers my craft and career to be much more than a day/night job but an extension of who I am, my politics and the movement that I am a part of, I was hugely offended by HBO’s politics that descended upon Madison Young Productions.”

-Madison Young

For more information or questions contact feminapotenspress@gmail.com