So, I am in Boston right now at the Seaport Hotel, where the National Conference for Media Reform is being held. My primary reason for being here is that my lovely friend Risa has been shipped here by the University of Hawaii to attend the conference, which I was very excited to hear when I learned of it a few weeks ago. It's very strange to think that almost a year has passed since we saw each other, and it's a funny thing to see someone out of the context from which you know them. It's been really nice to see each other and catch up. We treated ourselves to a fancy dinner last night (mostly because we didn't want to venture out of the hotel) and popped into the dance party that a lot of people from the conference were attending.
I was planning on bumming around Boston during the day while Risa goes to sessions, but she mentioned to me yesterday that I can probably just go with her. I may be a super-dork, but this makes me super excited- there are some panels that sound really interesting about women in media that she had scoped out to attend: Media Policy is a Women's Issue, Keeping it Unreal: Decoding Gender, Race and Reality TV- A Media Literacy Workshop, and Taking Sexy Back: Why and How to End the Media's Sexualization of Girls. Jean Kilbourne is at this conference, and is screening Killing Us Softly 4 and taking part in the last panel that we will go to today. That also makes me dork out a little after watching those films for the past four years. Mmmmmm, Women's Studies.
More to come later on adventures with Risa! I just have to buy some stupid batteries for my stupid camera that keeps eating the stupid batteries every two days.
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