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Friday, March 6, 2009

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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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Women of Color Need To Be Recognized

Dear friends,

There is a crisis of Women of Color Being ignored who Need To Be Recognized. And there are not enough men speaking up about this crisis. Well, I am a male and I want everyone to know what I have to say. I have already spoken about this issue once in vivid detail on this blog, and I have spoken about the need for a boycott in even more vivid detail spoke about it on other feminist blogs in the comment section. Below is my full comment left for Renee at Womanist-Musings in regards to her wonderful post titled: 'Dear Black People WOC Feminists/Womanists Do Exist' found here:
http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/02/dear-black-people-woc.html

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Dear Renee, As always, a great post on your part. As you know I am a Black male feminist, and I help with the Peace Communities Solidarity Blog. We currently have two women of color RSS feeds (including yours) on the right side of our page that give people the titles to your latest articles and we also have women of color members in our Peace Communities who contribute articles. You mentioned "Instead of spending so much time railing against white women for their obvious racism, some time needs to be devoted to celebrating the large body of work produced by WOC." Yes, I agree. I think perhaps that you and several other Women of Color should start a website to give out annual awards to Women of Color, and if you want, you could include other Marginalized People. Your blog, and the blog of other women of color are certainly high profile enough that it could actually make a great difference. I've posted about this before in the comment section of feministing when I heard you and SharkFu speak about who determines what is relevant and I've posted about it on my blog. I have also posted on similar conversations elsewhere but I have heard no response from anyone. People say they don't like awards, but every year blog award websites gain a higher rate of traffic and notoriety and direct thousands of new readers to their websites who otherwise would have never looked their way. For example, The Weblog Awards has a niche category for best gossip, best diarist, best fashion...but not WOC? That's crazy and has racist and sexist implications as well regarding their lack of (or misguided) priorities. Their website said that on January 8th they had 95,000 visitors to their website since their awards began and 250,000 came on that one day alone. If you don't like the idea of creating a WOC annual blog awards I would like to encourage you to help spearhead a boycott for the year 2009 of all the major blog awards (name their names like the Webbies and the Weblog Awards ) until they create a separate niche category for Women of Color and Marginalized people. My belief is that they would agree very, very quickly but they just haven't had a unified group of people make the request for such equality in representation. It is my belief there are many bloggers who would place a badge or widget (that you create) on their website and blogs (including me) in solidarity with the need to boycott those blog awards and website awards until they create a separate niche category for WOC.

I think there are some folks who come to your site who might read this and like the idea. I would start it myself, but it is definitely an organizing effort that should be lead by women.

It is long past over due for WOC to gain recognition for their writing... which will open the door to other overlooked WOC crisis issues that we see multiplying during this period of economic crisis.

Keep up the great work.

Love for the people,

-T. Love