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Get Bloody at Little Red Book Night with Jennifer Baumgardner, Ellen Devine, Lily Gottshalk, Margaret Whitton, Marianne Bernstein and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff. Tuesday, March 3, 7PM

18-year-old Kauder Nalebuff presents MY LITTLE RED BOOK, a very different manifesto from Mao’s: an anthology that she hopes will help bring menstruation “into the arena of acceptable discourse.” Ranging in age from teens to seniors, the international contributors speak about their first periods in entries that lead into broader questions of family life, social structure, gender politics, and self image.

Ellen Devine is a writer and an English teacher (the cool kind) at Choate Rosemary Hall where she also coaches the girls crew and basketball team and advises girls in her dorm.

Jennifer Baumgardner is the author of Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics and Abortion & Life as well as the co-author of Manifesta and Grassroots. She produced the documentary “I Had an Abortion” and is currently at work on a multi-media rape awareness project called “I Was Raped.” She lives in Brooklyn.

Lily Gottshalk is a high school senior. She is plays the harp, writes sea shanties, and is an an editor of The Lit, her school’s literary magazine.

Margaret Whitton is a stage and screen actress whose credits include Major League, Man Without a Face, Mr. Baseball, and The Tempest (at the Delacorte Theater/Shakespeare in the Park ). In addition, she is a theater director, one of the founders of the independent film production company Tashtego Films, and an authority on baseball

Marianne Bernstein is a photographer, filmmaker, teacher and arts activist. She directed the documentary “From Philadelphia to the Front” about Jewish American Soldiers in WWII and is currently at work producing portraits for a forthcoming photography book Tatted, to appear September 2009.

Rachel Kauder Nalebuff is a recent graduate of Choate Rosemary Hall and is currently on a gap year before starting college at Yale. She is spending her gap year pursuing her love of food, feminism, and writing.  My Little Red Book is her first published work.

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