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Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival

The big, gorgeous kahuna. michfest.com

Camp Trans

A trans-inclusive response to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival’s trans-exclusion
policy. Camp Trans happens during the second weekend in August, just off the property
of the MWMF. camptrans.cjb.net.

Hip Hop Congress

An annual national conference connecting music, communities and social movements.
Music is only one aspect of the hip hop movement, and the essays, science section,
interviews and calls for action illustrate this quite clearly. hiphopcongress.com.

womensfestival.com

A global listing of women’s festivals all over the world.

ladyfest. org

Links to those lively Ladyfests all over the country.

Mujerfest

Held in South Texas. chicanastuff.com/mujerfest.

gogirlsmusic.com

“Cuz chicks rock.” An online community of indie women musicians.

gogirlsmusicfest.com

A U.S. tour with bands varying from city to city.

insound.com

The best online store for indie CDs.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls

They have a sliding scale from $50.00 to $1,000.00.
No girl is turned away for lack of funds
. P.O. Box 86633, Portland, OR 97286-0633, (503) 771-4789, girlsrockcamp.org.

Freedom Fighter

The first compilation album put out by this label,
Shame the Devil: Hip Hop Tells the Truth about the Prison-Industrial Complex
, has eleven songs and interviews with anti-corporate prison organizers. Revolutionary
music for these times of duress. freedomfighter.ws.

Garment District

An online store with a fairly comprehensive listing of a bunch of (mostly eastern
seaboard) independent record labels, including Villa Villakula Records. garment-district.com/store/music.

Higher Octave Music

Puts out an astounding amount of world, Latin and cross-cultural music. higheroctave.com.

Heartcore Records

heartcorerecords.net.

Chainsaw Records

chainsaw.com.

Kill Rock Stars

killrockstars.com.

Righteous Babe Records

righteousbabe.com.

Mr. Lady Records & Video

mrlady.com.

papayarecords.com

This is where to get
Cuban Hip-Hop Allstars
,
Vol. I
. The history of Cuban rap is fascinating and teaches Americans a lot about our consumer
habits. Look for Instinto, Cuba’s number-one all-women hip-hop group.

rapstation.com

It would be nice if this site featured more women artists, but the site is still pretty
cool. They’re connected to a bunch of indie hip-hop labels, and have radio shows,
news and many other such life-affirming things.

Madness Factor Music Collective

A not-for-profit resource network for women seeking careers in the music biz. One
of the many cool organizations found on Home Alive’s website. (206) 675-9948, homealive.org/arts.htm.

It’s wonderful to announce that women- and trans-positive sex stores are popping up
everywhere. Even some bookstores (like Book Garden, in Denver, Colorado, and Common
Language in Ann Arbor, Michigan) have little sex areas discreetly tucked away.

Good Vibrations

The grandmother of all sex shops. Now there’s two. San Francisco: 1210 Valencia Street,
San Francisco, CA 94110, (415) 974-8980. Berkeley: 2504 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley,
CA 94702, (510) 841-8987. (800) 289-8423, goodvibes.com.

Toys in Babeland

With winsome public relation tactics like the Masturbate-A-Thon, the women at Babeland
have great senses of humor. They put everyone at ease. Seattle: 707 E Pike Street,
Seattle, WA 98122, (206) 328-2914. New York: 94 Rivington Street, (212) 375-1701.
(800) 658-9119, babeland.com.

It’s My Pleasure

This store moved right after the first edition of
Cunt
came out, so their address was wrong for a long time. One of the most beautiful sex
shops in the country. 3106 NE 64th Avenue, Portland, OR 97213, (503) 280-8080.

A Woman’s Touch

600 Williamson Street, Madison, WI 53703-4509, (888) 621-8880, (608) 250-1928, a-womans-touch.com.

Grand Opening!

Kim Airs, the owner of this august establishment, is a goddamn miracle worker. She
has singlehandedly increased the sexual openness and awareness in her legendarily
puritanical neighborhood. When I went there for a reading, she saw Mike Dukakis and
got him to give me his autograph. 318 Harvard Street, Suite 32, Brookline, MA 02446,
(617) 731-2626, grandopening.com.

Eve’s Garden

119 W 57th Street, Suite 1201, New York, NY, 10019, (800) 848-3837, evesgarden.com.

Ruby’s Pearl

13 S Linn Street #3, Iowa City, IA 52240, (319) 248-0032.

Boston Women’s Health Book Collective

Publisher of
Our Bodies
,
Ourselves
and its Spanish translation,
Nuestros Cuerpos
,
Nuestras Vidas
. BWHBC also facilitated translation of the book into seventeen other languages.

P.O. Box 192, Somerville, MA 02144, (617) 414-1230,
ourbodiesourselves.org.

Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations

AAPCHO works to provide low-cost heath care to everyone in Asian-Pacific communities.
aapcho.org.

sexuality.org

This is a huge, sprawling site dedicated to human sexuality. They’ve got links to
almost every cool sex store in the country, an antique vibrator museum, sex toy guides
and a nationwide calendar of events. They publish books and a magazine, and they have
amazing educational programs. The all-around best sex site I know of. Part of the
sex education web circle.

The Coalition for Positive Sexuality

The coalition asserts that all teenagers have the right to complete and honest sex
education. CPS is a grassroots, not-for-profit activist organization that provides
sex education, resources and support for youth of all races, genders, sexualities
and ethnicities. P.O. Box 77212, Washington, DC 20013-7212, (773) 604-1654, positive.org.

scarleteen.com

“Sex Education for the Real World.” Another really wonderful, inclusive site that
supports and educates teens who want to know more about sex, birth control, AIDS and
more.

survivorproject.org

A nonprofit dedicated to addressing the needs of intersex and trans survivors of domestic
and sexual violence through “caring action, education and expanding access to resources.”
See also transfeminism.org in the Kickass Revolutionary Organizations section.

The Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center

Your all-around extensive resource and education site for Native and First Nation
women. You can support NAWHERC by purchasing T-shirts, postcards, Dakota language
books and tapes, and works by community artists. P.O. Box 572, Lake Andes, SD 57356-0572,
nativeshop.org/nawherc.html.

geocities. com/capitolhill/9118/mike, html

This site documents NAWHERC’s report on coerced sterilization of Native American women
carried out by the Indian “Health” Services, Job Corps and other agencies. The site
also includes a bookstore, search engine and comprehensive bibliography.

ultimatebirthcontrol. com

Extensive links to information about birth control.

National Black Women’s Health Project

NBWHP provides wellness education, services, health information and advocacy. Lots
of wonderful links, and cool positive affirmations like “I have the power within me
to contribute to my personal healing.” 600 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Suite 310, Washington,
DC 20003, (202) 543-9311,

.

Feminist Women’s Health Center

FWHC has regional offices in a number of locations, mostly on the west coast, and
is a massive resource for information about women’s health. Did you know, for instance,
that every man, woman and teenager can get free birth control in Washington state?
Not through the humiliating DSHS, either. Site is in English and Español. fwhc.org.

National Asian Women’s Health Organization

Founded in 1993 to achieve health equity for Asian woman and their families. The site
features a huge listing of health resources. nawho.org.

The Blood Sisters Project

As ever, the most wonderful menstrual activism group for everyone. Blood Sisters is
based in Montreal. They offer zines, links, pads and other wonderful “urban armor”
menstrual gear. bloodsisters.org.

Lunapads

More Canadians hard at work improving the quality of life for bleeders and the planet.
Lunapads come from a clothing designer who got sick of the way we poison our bodies
with the toxins commonly found in disposable pads and tampons. Lunapads are by far
my favorite pad. lunapads.com.

GladRags

Comfortable, well-designed cloth pads and other goodies. They also have a great little
book called
Passage: A Girl’s Guide
, written for the newly bleeding. I highly recommend this book for any parent or school
that wants to give their girls a chance to see periods in a positive way from the
get-go. gladrags.com.

thekeeper.com

The site explains all the virtues of this ingenious little device.

adiosbarbie.com

A body image site á la that mortal genius, Ophira Edut.

GINE Web

Site en Español for online health and well-being information. Serves as a hub for
hundreds of links and resources. unizar.es/gine/hola.htm.

Center for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD)

This is more of a research resource than a practical, hands-on site. But it has extensive
information on sexuality, reproductive health, chronic conditions, mental health,
alternative medicine, surviving sex abuse, getting access to health care, and community
living. 3440 Richmond Avenue, Suite B, Houston, TX 77046, (800) 44-CROWD, (713) 960-0505,
bcm.tmc.edu/crowd.

annelawrence. com

Really good and informative medical site for trans-women, by Anne Lawrence, MD, Ph.D.

Barbara Robertson’s Women and Disability Resources

For all women with disabilities. Information about economics, sexuality and general
resources. According to the site, “Looking at disability through the lens of a feminist,
and at feminism from a disability perspective, enriches both feminism and disability
studies with fresh insights.” .

National Abortion Referral Federation

On Home Alive’s site. In fact, the links and resources on Home Alive’s site should
be accessed by all. (800) 772-9100, homealive.org/resources.htm.

fight4choice. com

This NARAL site keeps watch on the Bush administration, Congress and the courts. Send
letters to state representatives, sign petitions, donate, and get involved locally.
Includes previous advocacy results and one hundred ways to fight for choice.