Writing Womxn of Color into Wikipedia

Patricia Fancher and Gina Barukh

Wikipedia has long had a gender and race problem: editors are predominantly white and male. Womxn and people of color have not been included in sufficient detail and depth. In addition, when womxn and POC are included, the editors have at times included sexist and racists language choices. This problem in Wikipedia is, “Due to such policing, an image of womxn of color has been born without our consent, therefore disallowing for the complexities of the multitude of identities that we embody.” This workshop will teach womxn to write the multiples of identities that WOC embody back into Wikipedia with technical aspects of editing Wikipedia and providing research materials to lead participants as we actively revise and expand the Wikipedia page of a few womxn of color.

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Emotional Labor: A Chapina’s Perspective

Carla Osorio Veliz

The workshop will introduce to participants what is emotional labor using an intersectional and intergenetarional approach by connecting ourselves to our family's stories. Participants will be invited to share their stories to heal and also as a collective we will create solutions and discuss how to build skills using transformative justice methods to avoid having womxn of color continue performing emotional labor.

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Decolonize Your Intuition: Listening to Your Gut is Revolutionary

Leah Garza

Your intuition is your most important and powerful ally in this lifetime and being able to access your innate guidance system is your birthright. However, many of us have lost our connection to it. As members of a society built on patriarchy, white supremacy, and social and legal oppression, our intuition has been colonized. The dominant culture has set up shop in the last possible frontier- our hearts, minds, and intuition. When we trust ourselves over the narrative employed by the patriarchy, we are always led in the right direction, even when that path challenges us, or poses obstacles. In the end, our intuition has our best interests at heart. Now is the time to decolonize our most intimate and trustworthy ally. In this workshop you will learn how the structures of the dominant culture participate in colonizing our intuition, how to use mediation to reconnect with yourself, and how to use muscle testing as a way to listen to your body.

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Womxn of Color in Government Jobs

Yaneli Gutierrez

During the workshop, presenters will cover the following: Reflecting on personal experiences of womxn of color in government jobs; Providing guidance on writing resumes and submitting application; Offering a variety of resources and possible career paths to attract a more diverse audience and in doing so, retain the most qualified workforce; Reporting how the agency is addressing the lack of diversity and working to find and eliminate sites of hiring and workplace discrimination;, as well as how the agency and individuals are working to fill the gaps seen in representation and diversity.

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Own Your Own: Creating Security through Your Insecurities

Ciara Wong

Attendees will be able to write an insecurity on part of their body and be photographed with the caption of how that insecurity does not define them. They will then be able to write a statement about how that insecurity has contributed to their self growth and how their insecurities have actually empowered them to embrace their identities and to be proud of oneself. These photos will be posted on COSWB's Facebook page and hopefully, the Womxn of Color Conference event page, with your permission.

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Politics of Love and Desire

Lyra Kim

In our society, where ideals of beauty are based on Eurocentric standards, how do womxn of color navigate desire and love? Our identities themselves and our most personal decisions hold political connotations whether we like it or not. For our workshop, we will be exploring and discussing the complex process of choosing who to love, who to be loved by, and how we are loved.

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Body Image in the Light of Appropriation

Courtney Carlson

This workshop explores the effects of cultural appropriation on the body image of womxn of color, and the toll that it takes on this population. The messages sent to womxn of color tell them that they cannot be beautiful, that they are commodities, and that their features are only attractive on white bodies. These messages are wrong and detrimental; this is an affirming space that seeks to counter negative messages and to celebrate bodies of color.

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Practicing Collective Self-Care and Radical Self-Love in the Time of Neo-Fascism: A Case Study

Skylar Perez-Grogan

AF3IRM, in conjunction with the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, and in partnership with People’s Yoga Los Angeles, launched the first-ever School of Youth Activism by AF3IRM LA (SOYA LA).

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SOYA LA is a free, holistic three-part program for high-school-aged girl-identified youth. Over the course of eight weeks, participants participated in trauma-informed yoga, sensory strategies, and transnational feminist workshops. This unique program is the first of its kind in Los Angeles and is designed to provide youth with the knowledge and tools to not only cope and survive our daily oppression, but to heal, organize, and dream.

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“Decolonizing our Llantos: Women of Color and Vulnerability in Academia”

Krizia Puig

The workshop is aimed to create a space of freedom to bravely explore our experiences regarding how we, as womxn of color, are expected to police and suppress our knowledges, experiences, feelings and insecurities within Academia (including Women/Gender/Sexuality/Feminist Studies departments). In our experience, academic institutions tend to “coddle” white egos and center white fragility at their core. We will focus on making our collective wisdom heard through creative, contemplative, and spiritual activist practices. We will develop a list of demands that seeks to decolonize the cartesian subject within the academy, and a set of tools and insights to cope with, survive, and thrive as women of color creating knowledge in a space that was not built for us.

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Food, Sustainability and Environmental Justice

Sebastianne Kent

This workshop seeks to elaborate on the issue of sustainability in diet, how veganism achieves sustainability, and how issues of nutrition and accessibility are an environmental justice concern that tends to effect womxn of color. Recipes will be provided!

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Bodily Integrity and the State

Naia Al-Anbar

#HandsOffOurPussies has been a major topic of discussion in recent weeks after an audio clip of Donald Trump was released a few weeks prior to the election. In the time since then, these disgusting remarks have set off discussion across the country about how we, as a society, should confront this kind of behavior, especially from those in positions of power. QAF seeks to further unpack that particular hashtag and open the discussion on the myriad of ways the State puts their "hands on our pussies". From altercations with TSA to the fights for reproductive justice, Queers Against Fascism is dedicated to providing the tools for people with vaginas to protect their bodily autonomy.

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Targeting Womxn of Color as Smokers

Navpreet Khabra

This workshop will center around how tobacco industries use store advertisements as a way to capture womxn into purchasing tobacco products. Understanding the targeting and methodology of the tobacco industry will leave participants leaving empowered to take action in their lives.

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Womxn of Color in Leadership 

Michelle Macrohon