International Women's Week In Resistance Presented by the Evergreen Women of Color Coalition with Free Events and an Audio Interview

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MP3 File and Podcast Interview Found by Clicking here.


Dear friends, compañeras, allies, and friends who I will come to know soon who are working for a better world,

There are several awesome free events taking place over the next five days as part of the International Women's Week in Resistance. The Freeschool and the blackman f.l.u.f.f. podcast and radio show has an MP3 podcast (online radio episode) with an interview of Mao and Alejeandra, member of the Women of Color Coalition, that you can find at the above link.

It is an interview with two amazing women of color, Mao and Alejandra, just a few minutes ago on the Evergreen Campus who are part of the Women of Color Coalition at Evergreen and have free events as part of the International Women's Week - Women in Resistance.

They have some really awesome events and could really use some extra publicity so please circulate this information.

In the interview they give very exciting details about their events that are detailed below and happen over the next 4 days so you could play it on the Media Island radio anytime over the next 4 days and it will still be very relevant and timely.

The Evergreen Women of Color Coalition accepts Evergreen students and Non-Evergreen students women of color into their group. In regards to the events people of all genders, races and backgrounds are welcome at their events so everyone should feel welcome.

Even if you don't listen to the interview, please be sure to check out the Women Of Color Coalition's new Twitter page that the Freeschool helped to set up which gives details about the WOCC upcoming events found here:
http://twitter.com/evergreenwocc

You can also check out the Freeschool's Twitter page at
http://twitter.com/lovepeaceandjoy


Keep up all the great work, everyone!

Love for the people,

-T. Love
http://www.blackmanfluff.org

Member of the The Freeschool Community Collective

To learn more about the Freeschool Community please visit: http://www.freeschoolunity.org

The Freeschool Community is a member of the PeaceCommunities Progressive Coalition.
http://www.PeaceCommunities.org

"....a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it and within it is no struggle at all.”

-Arundhati Roy, Quoted from her speech: '2004 Sydney Peace Prize
Lecture' (The entire speech is available online, search for the title)


p.s.

All these below events are free.

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An Intergenerational Exploration of Matrilineal history

Claiming and Reclaiming our Mother’s lived experience

Unveiling an Identity rooted in the past while grounded in the preset

Join us for an evening of story and community healing

Friday March 6th

7:00pm

Lecture Hall 1



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Resista’s: Claiming our experience in Resistance

Join us for a night of spoken word performance and community dialogue

Learn about the various struggles that we face as a community and how expressing our experience strengthens our ability to create change.

Tuesday March 10th

6:00pm

Lecture Hall 2


B-Girl Be

Flm Screening of Women in Hip Hop

Sponsored by Hip Hop Congress

Monday March 9th

6:00pm

Lecture Hall 2

FREE



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Michele (Shelly) Vendiola (Swinomish/Lummi/Filipina) gaave a workshop on Thursday night

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Hima B.

A queer South Asian and an independent writer/director/producer whose works explore the intersections of race, gender, sexual orientation, labor, & economics, especially as they impact LGBT people and women/girls.

Saturday, March 7th

Sem II D1105 from 1:00 – 3:00

The lecture will include two short films and a media training workshop:

And I Do Survive

This cinema verite documentary chronicles Michelle Lopez, a Trinidadian lesbian who pursues the American Dream & a green card in a country that denies her citizenship because she is an HIV+ immigrant. While juggling life as a single mom & devoted religious follower, she organizes to reverse this discriminatory law & other practices that infringe on the quality of life for HIV+ people. As the gay marriage becomes debated nationally, Michelle’s partner requests a commitment and their relationship mirrors the divide within LGBT, AIDS, & immigrant communities.

Sistahs Survive & Thrive:

Ten short videos portraits of Black and Latina women bring us into their worlds and reveal how they live with HIV/AIDS. The collection of videos are the launch of an interactive web-based project—a living AIDS quilt comprised of auto-biographical and biographical vignettes that reflects the feminized impact of HIV/AIDS and will include a range of women and girls from diverse ethnicities, ages, socio-economic class.

Media Training:

Learn how to use your own digital camera (and other devices) to create a documentary-style short film yourself!

Bring your digital still camera, videocam or cell phone so you can contribute your story or AIDS tips to the Quilt!

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Broadcast 1 - Five-Minutes-of-Fascinating Feminist Friday News and Reviews Podcast and Online Radio Show

The short URL direct permanent link for this page is http://tinyurl.com/cf477l

Click here for MP3 Podcast Episode File

It's the "Five-Minutes-of-Fascinating Feminist Friday News and Reviews" Podcast and Online Radio episode! :)

Every Friday I will post this info on my blog and podcast, and also on the Peace Communities Solidarity blog (where comments and feedback are happily accepted), and in the Peace Communities Online Feminist News Forum (where comments and feedback are also happily accepted) and then send out a Twitter Announcement on it, collectively reaching hundreds of readers who care about feminist concerns within just the first few minutes....and reaching thousands of readers who will eventually learn about the things that we all desire to share.
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@ sign means is the twitter ID and username of the person who submitted the article for this podcast edpisode

incl. = includes

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Thanks
@melsil

Hollywood from a feminist perspective - http://is.gd/m7G2

incl. Interviw

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Thanks
@ehollingsworth,

'The real cost of tomatoes in March'. - http://tinyurl.com/cykuu5 -

Article written by The Nation
incl. update on Coalition of Immokalee Workers,

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Thanks
@WomenWhoTechOn

my nptech radar - Integrated Comm Workshop, a nonprofit, doing a special feature on women in honor of International Women's Day -. http://www.frogloop.com/radar2

incl. "Panelists include Courtney O'Callaghan, IT Director at Feminist Majority Foundation at (feminist.org)"

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Thanks
Teardrops 4 Katelynn

America: 75% Of Batterers Get Custody Of The Children
http://peacecommunities.ning.com/profiles/blogs/america-75-of-batterers-get

incl. The Wellesley Battered Mothers' Testimony Project
and many amazing fact and statistics

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Remember, Every Friday there will be a Feminist Friday News, Reviews Podcast and Online Radio episode. If you want your news broadcasted next week, just go to http://www.tinyurl.com/feministnews


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Towards an end to institutionalized patriarchy...within our lifetime.

Divided we are weak... united we are strong.

el amor,

Love for the people,

-T. Love

black man f.l.u.f.f.


"....a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it,
below it and within it is no struggle at all.”

-Arundhati Roy, Quoted from her speech: '2004 Sydney Peace Prize
Lecture' (The entire speech is available online, search for the title)

New Aboriginal News Group! Check it Out Please!

Again, The best news of the day was hearing about the Aboriginal News Groups! I encourage you to go click here and check it out! I love to see marginalized people get organized!

WOOOOooooooOOoooHOOOooo! Thats exciting!

Aboriginal spirituality as determined by the Dreaming

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This full comment left on the below blog post titled: Looking at Fem2pt0 and the Feminist Web

Oyeronke Oyewumi, author of

• "Multiculturalism or multibodism: On the impossible intersections of race and gender in the American White feminist and Black nationalist discourses. Western Journal of Black Studies."

• African Gender Studies: Conceptual Issues/ Theoretical Questions (edited). Palgrave /Macmillan: New York (forthcoming 2005)

• African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood, edited. Africa World Press, Trenton: New Jersey (2003).

• The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis: Minnesota (1997).

In her award-winning book The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), Oyeronke Oyewumi makes the case that the narrative of gendered corporeality that dominates the Western interpretation of the social world is a cultural discourse and cannot be assumed uncritically for other cultures. She concludes that gender is not only socially constructed but is also historical. Furthermore, she points out that the current deployment of gender as a universal and timeless social category cannot be divorced from either the dominance of Euro/American cultures in the global system or the ideology of biological determinism which underpins Western systems of knowledge.

Born in Nigeria and educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of California at Berkeley, Oyewumi has been widely recognized for her work. The monograph Invention won the 1998 Distinguished Book Award of the American Sociological Association and was a finalist for the Herskovitts Prize of the African Studies Association in the same year.

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The below post is actually my full comment that I left today on the below blog post titled: "Looking at Fem2pt0 and the Feminist Web."   I originally posted it on the comment section of the Blog Womanist-Musings that I highly recommend to everyone.  You can find the below post by clicking here.

Love for the people,

-T

p.s.

Be sure to read the below post first to understand the comments are below.

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First, I want to apologize for the long post, but I feel it is extremely important regarding how people of color feminist blogs may (or may not) be recognized or linked to by others. Someone said:

"If anyone should be on the list however it is you Renee, for me it was a relief to find you this past year, whether I agree with you or not, you have more to offer than feminism 101, a pretty boring discourse for me, you offer a larger view and I appreciate it. Here is to hoping you crop up on many lists in the future."

I echo the above sentiments, 10,000 percent.

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I do not, however, agree with the below statement:

"First, feminism is not an entity or a body; it's an ideological orientation to the world and our participation in/with it. So "feminism" cannot omit anyone from the conversation. And any women's studies program that I know of does NO SUCH THING as you claim.

"As a Ph.D. candidate with a secondary area in Women, Gender, Body, and Race Studies, I would be very interested to know some current scholarship on this claim.""

I don't agree with that statement but since a request was made for some scholarship I thought I'd provide a few (especially for all those who might stumble across the request on this blog)

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Hamer, J., & Neville, H. (1998). Revolutionary Black feminism: Toward a theory of unity and liberation. Black Scholar

hooks, b. (1991). Ain't I a woman: Black Women and Feminism. Boston, MA: South End Press. hooks, b. (1991). Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem. Boston, MA: South End Press. Hudson-Weems, C. (1995) Africana Racism: Reclaiming Ourselves (3rd ed.), Michigan: Bedford Publishers.

Hull, G. T., Bell-Scott, P. & Smith, B. (eds.). (1982). All the women are White, All the Blacks are men, but some of us are brave. Black Women's Studies. New York: Feminist Studies.

Mansbridge, J., & Smith, B. (2000). How did feminism get to be "All White?" A conversation between Jane Mansbridge and Barbara Smith. American Prospect

Nadasen, P. (2002). Expanding the boundaries of the women's movement: Black feminism and the struggle for welfare rights. Feminist Studies

Oyewumi, O. (1999). Multiculturalism or multibodism: On the impossible intersections of race and gender in the American White feminist and Black nationalist discourses. Western Journal of Black Studies

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You can start there. If you want more just do what I did and type in "feminism excludes Black women" in a search engine and you'll come up with wonderful articles with titles such as "African-American women's feelings on alienation from third-wave feminism: a conversation with my sisters."

That article was written by Aretha Faye Marbley, an Associate Professor and Director of Community Counseling in Counselor Education at Texas Tech University and Regional Six Director and President for the Texas Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education. So, I guess you could consider that scholarship. *happy laughter*

I also agree with the statement "feminism has a history of silencing women of color." And I am a Black male feminist person of color, who took a major in Philosophy, and a minor in Women's studies and co-founded the Radical Feminist Distro, and I go around the country giving workshops at conferences such as Z Media Institute (founders of Z Magazine) on ending Patriarchy and currently helping with the Radical Feminist Library at the Freeschool Community... and in my opinion feminism has a history of also silencing Black male feminist persons of color as well. Many of the reasons for that are understandable, but also very divisive to the movement for ending patriarchy.

I also started a feminist blog and I did it only after I was part of a conversation on a popular feminist community blog and several people had a lot of surprisingly racist comments when I spoke up for the fact that Nike oppresses women, children and people of color worldwide, and then they (along with the owner of the blog) tried to defend Nike. Today I went to that same feminist blog and someone said they might become a "fan" of Bill Gates after one of his latest publicity stunts, and someone else on the same feminist blog said he is a personal hero. Actually used the word “hero.”  And when I spoke up about it some of the exact people attacked me about the Bill Gates issue who attacked me the first time about the Nike issue.  I even gave links to prove everything I said but that didn't help.

I actually love that feminist blog because it was the first place I found out about the Oscar Grant murder which in turn led me to research other unarmed people being killed by police worldwide but when I see the world's largest oppressors of people of color like Nike and Bill Gates being promoted or called a Hero it confirms that we desperately need more people of color feminist blogs and I would very much like to see more feminist people of color individual and community blogs and I am very glad to see that Renee was recognized. It could not have happened to a better feminist.

Sorry for the long post, everyone. I thought it was immensely noble of Renee to start this discussion (especially after having won the award which is usually when people stop questioning award selction procedures and racism like Will Smith! *happy laughter*) because it is painfully needed.

Frederick Douglass, who helped to organize the Seneca Falls Conference for Women's rights in 1848 along with other feminists once said: ."If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will."

Keep up the great work, Renee... and all those who support her blog. You are bringing the thunder and lightning and because of it you are making progress not only for the people of color feminist movement, but for the movement to end patriarchy that ultimately benefits everyone and it is beautiful to behold.

Love for the people,

-T

“Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman." -- Andrea Dworkin