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A Conversation about Sex with Joani Blank and Rosie's Daughters
Rosie's Daughters meets on a monthly basis for conversations with inspiring Bay Area women.
Join us on November 13th, for our 10th conversation of 2014 with Good Vibrations founder Joanie Blank. You'll also have a chance to get to know a great group of professionals, entrepreneurs, artists, mothers, sisters, daughters, wives, friends - we're leaders in our communities who are committed to supporting one another through sharing our stories.
This month's conversation is focused on the theme of Sex, and we'll be hearing from sex educator, entrepreneur, and activist Joani Blank.
About Joani
Joani Blank is an entrepreneur, editor, writer, videographer, educator, cohousing enthusiast and adviser, philanthropist and inventor in the field of sexuality. After moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1971, she was one of the first volunteers at San Francisco Sex Information, and trained and worked in the Sex Counseling Program at UCSF for several years. In 1975, she founded Down There Press, a publisher of sex-related books. Two years later she opened Good Vibrations, the second feminist sex toy business in the United States. In 1992 she converted Good Vibrations and Down There Press into a worker cooperative. The company continued as a cooperative until 2006, when the current owners voters to abandon the cooperative ownership structure in favor of a more conventional corporate structure to attract outside investors. In 2008, the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality granted Joani an honorary Doctor of Arts degree for her more than 30 years of work in the sex field; in the spring of the same year, Joani was designated "Champion of the Movement" by the Cohousing Association of the United States, who recognized her for "fifteen years of vision and leadership." She lives in Swan's Market Cohousing in Oakland, California, where she volunteers her time to social justice issues such as prison reform and economic equality, and the Cohousing Association of the United States. She remains active in the field of sexuality, and many of her old books and videos are available through her Web site. Joani has one daughter, Amika, and three grandchildren.
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LocationRoom A, The Women's Building (View)
3543 18th St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
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