Lesbian Peace Activist Organizing in Israel; and 4th Annual Queer NY International Arts Festival

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Israeli Lesbian, Feminist, Peace Activist Daliah Sachs

Lesbian Peace Activist Organizing in Israel, is a conversation between lesbian activists. Includes Hannah Safran, Dalia Sachs and Illith Rosenbloom (former ACT UP women's caucus member). They discuss their work with Women in Black. Women in Black is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence.

Among the topics discussed are

Dalia Sachs discusses the complexities of being a lesbian feminist peace activist in Israel. She addresses the tragic homophobic attack against a lesbian woman at this years LGBT Pride celebration. She finds the gay community is split around issues of occupation and peace. She also finds the progressive community is not progressive on all issues, including LGBT issues. Hanna Safran discusses the maginialization of lesbians in Women in Black and the struggles of young to define themselves.

Israeli Lesbian, Feminist, Peace Activist Hannah Safran

Illith Rosenbloom notes the de-polititization of the left in Isreal in the last 30 years. But the women discuss how splits in the new feminist movement over those seeing themselves primarily being a feminist and sometimes a lesbian and those with a strong position opposiing the occupation and those that see the connections between feminism and the occupation. The split occurred early on and prefrigures the current situation.

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Annie Sprinkle

Fourth Annual Queer New York International Arts Festival September 16–26, 2015.
 
The 2015 lineup at the festival includes Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens (U.S.) with two works born from their SexEcology research; EcoSex Walking Tour of Central Park, and Goodbye Gauley Mountain, both will be in the studio on Tuesday for a live interview about their work and the  NY Int. Arts Festival.
Beth Stephens
In addition Zvonimir Dobrovic, the curator of the Festival will be in the studio to talk about the scope of the Festival.
Zvonimir Dobrovic
Zvonimir Dobrovic is the founder and program director of the Queer Zagreb festival, which has been taking place in Croatia since 2003. Queer Zagreb has presented more than 150 artists and performing companies from all over the world. In 2009 Dobrović created the Perforations Festival, a network of organizations and producers from the Balkans region with the goal of initiating and promoting regional cooperation, and creating local and international opportunities for young and emerging artists. The new commissions and productions are presented at the annual Perforations Festival that takes place in Zagreb, Rijeka, and Dubrovnik, programming more than 20 new works by artists from Central and Eastern Europe. Dobrović co-founded the Queer New York International Arts Festival with the late André von Ah (1987–2013) in 2012.

Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954) is an American sex educator, former prostitute,[1][2] feminist stripper, pornographic actress, cable television host, porn magazine editor, writer and sex film producer. She received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1986 and earned a doctorate in human sexuality from the unaccredited Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco in 1992.[3] Currently, Sprinkle works as a performance artist and sex educator. Sprinkle, who describes herself as "ecosexual",[4] married her long-time partner, Beth Stephens, in Canada on January 14, 2007.[5]