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November 6, 2007 12:05 pm
There aren’t many occasions where the height of fashion is a hat signed by Bella Abzug. But last night at New York’s Tavern on the Green, two wide-brimmed straw numbers up for auction were getting rave reviews from the assembled crowd, all of them there to toast the 37th anniversary of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York. The evening occasioned much musing on the current state of feminist affairs, what with Hillary Clinton front-running for the White House (on the one hand) and Paris Hilton role-modeling from the tabloids (on the other.) Executive director Gloria Jacobs summed up the generally positive outlook. “We’re the oldest feminist publisher around,” she reported. “Times have changed since the Press was founded. But I look around this room and see multiple generations standing here, and standing together.” Pop star Cyndi Lauper echoed the sentiment, in her own singular style. One of the gala’s two honorees (alongside playwright Eve Ensler), Lauper said she felt humbled to be in the presence of “such great ladies.” “But you know,” she added, “I had a dream once, and the dream told me this: Deep roots bring many trees.” Which, if slightly baffling, sounds deep to us.
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