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Times Past:

Wrong is Not My Name: Transforming Survival Into Autonomous Media

A Zine Making Workshop at

the 9th Annual Multicultural Gathering of the Communities Against Rape Initiative

May 7th

Carmel, Indiana

We B(e)lo(n)g: Womyn of Color and Online Feminism
Lisa Factora-Borchers, Sydette Harry, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Nadia Ann Abou-Karr

a part of

the womyn of color experience

is being convinced

you’re always thisclose

to some catastrophe

and you are alone in it

-Sydette
What are the needs of radical womyn of color? How do we create a safe space to talk about our on and offline needs? We invite womyn of color, especially young minds, to discuss the role of blogging and new media in building community and connections, and supporting the many movements within feminism.

we just started writing blogs

we didn’t do it to become leaders

but actually it has put us into that position

-Nadia

Saturday, March 29th 2:00pm-3:30pm:Cambridge, MA

7 Temple Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Black Power, Black Feminism: Black Women’s Activism and Development of Womanist / Feminist Consciousness in the Era Black Power.

Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Friday–Saturday March 7-8, 2008

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Check out SpiritHouse’s interactive poetic workshop…

Roundtable Discussion: 1:30-3pm March 8th 2008

For Assata: The Power of Intergenerational Black Feminist Practice

Ebony Golden, New York University

Nia (Nancy) Wilson, Spirit House

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Duke University

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

December 17th, 2007

Charis Books and More Atlanta, Georgia: 7:00-8:30pm
December 17th is the 5th annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. This event was created to call attention to hate crimes committed against sex workers all over the globe. Please join us as we celebrate this important day of action with a sex worker open mic, a few brief video screenings and inspiring conversation on the movement for sex workers rights, dignity and de-criminalization! This event is free and open to everyone, however to participate as a performer in the open mic, the organizers request that you be a current or former sex worker. For more information, please visit: www.swopusa.org/dec17 and www.myspace.com

Participate or host your own online/at home reflection, film screening, writing session with the intention on ending violence against sex workers NOW.

Summer 2007:

Did you miss out on the BrokenBeautiful Behavior at SisterSong the Allied Media Conference and the US Social Forum? Fear not!

SisterSong Report Back: Click here to check out a new REPORT-BACK from the SISTERSONG conference in the Kitchen Table: Women of Color Pressed to Express space!

Allied Media Madness Making:

Read a talk from the ‘Hijacking the Master’s Tools” in the upcoming anthology from Liquid Words Productions “What We Think”.
download the Outlaw Vision ‘zine created in the UBUNTU/Brokenbeautiful Press “Wrong is Not My Name” workshop here

United States Social Forum:

read “Poem About How Much I Want You” presented at the Building a Queer Left pre-forum meeting right here

read “Brown and Blue” presented at the Art of Community Healing Workshop here

read “Already: Presencing a Feminist Future” presented at the Feminisms: Gender, Race and Class panel here