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Session A
11:10Am-12:25PM
Revolutionary Motherhood and growing up in the movement: Two generations of transnational feminists
We tell our story on two levels. One of a filipina activist mother raising a child in the movement and another of a bi-racial daughter organizing with AF3IRM and in the transnational feminst movement here and now in the US. Not only our family love but the sisterhood of a continuing movement.
Presented by Hazel and Fe
OPEn Space
EOP Conference Room
Self Love and Visionary Fiction as tools for liberation, justice and autonomy
Presented by Cristina and Carla
Closed Space: Femme of Color only
Multi-Purpose Room
In this workshop cristina and carla will share personal stories about loving themselves as a revolutionary practice. carla is a community organizer from Solidarity House of the South in South Central and cristina works with CopWatch Santa Ana. Beyond their political work, they believe in the healing and transformative power of love. they are guided by the belief that learning to love yourself in a society that intentionally is killing black and brown bodies is revolutionary. Using an intersectional lense they will discuss self-love and healing. Participants will be introduced to Visionary Fiction as a framework to envision realities beyond our current oppressive conditions. Beyond a social justice based genre of literature inspired by Ms. Octavia Butler, Visionary Fiction allows us to envision and develop self-care practices that includes loving ourselves as the foundation to healing and wellness. they seek to create self-care practices that value health over profit and reclaim ancestral healing knowledge and holistic approaches to wellness. Lastly, they will share how self-love teaches us about preservation and resilience in our daily lives and community organizing work. their objective is for participants to be introduced to the practice of Self Love and Visionary Fiction as tools for liberation, justice and autonomy.
Total Liberation: The Politics of Meat & Dairy
Presented by Unique and CJ
OPEN Space
1st floor conference room
When you think of the animal agriculture industry, issues of feminism, bodily autonomy, and reproductive exploitation probably do not come straight to mind. But in this workshop we shed a critical lens on how sexism, speciesism, and other forms of oppression intersect in the commodification of an industry completely based on total domination of other animal bodies. How this not only affects the trillions born into the industry every year but also environmental and food justice. Do rights stop at the human/animal divide?
WOC Mental Health Healing Workshop
Presented by Jeanette and Edith
OPEN Space
American Indian Cultural Resource Center
Our workshop promotes a healing and supportive environment where we openly discuss how culture and society impact our overall well-being as womxn of color. We will introduce how we’ve created a mental health healing circle designed for WOC that demonstrates how utilizing non-traditional models can help heal our community. We will engage our participants in a platica focused around topics that have affected WOC, and provide tools to help empower themselves and others.
Writing In Time of Displacement
Presented by Marilynn
OPEN Space
African Diasporic Cultural Resource Center
Gentrification and displacement widely affects low-income people of color across all areas. Our communities narratives are crucially important to exist especially when it comes to displacement and gentrification. This creative writing workshop will focus on documenting and reclaiming our narratives to highlight housing issues, displacement and conditions of our communities. Writing supplies will be provided.
Immigrant Cultures, Domestic Violence, and Support Services
Presented by Erica, Anne and Carolyne
OPEN Space
Asian Resource Center
Description of how coming from an immigrant culture can lead to domestic violence or limit a immigrant victim's access to support services. Presenters share personal experiences. Explanation of how victim advocacy can help stop and prevent violence. Explanation of the services Access Inc offers to immigrant victims of domestic violence and non-intimate partner violence.
Discovering my Career Identity
Presented by Monique
OPEN Space
2nd floor Conference Room
In this workshop we touch on why your passion can lead to your purpose as well as your Career Identity... we go over various indicators that help you identify who you are in your career and how that aligns with your destiny. We focus on job applications job strategies linkedin sourcing identifying intel and formatting your resumes.
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Navigating the Airwaves: Muxeres en Radio
Presented by Cecilia/Radio Xicana
OPEN but limited Space (10)
KCSB
This workshop seeks to highlight how radio is used as a tool to disseminate herstories through music. Radio Xicana is a local radio show on KCSB-FM that serves as a political platform for womxn of color to amplify their voices by sharing experiences that are traditionally excluded from mainstream media. The radio program essentially embodies our learned and lived experiences as products of two cultures and, therefore, uses music in Español and English to highlight historical and contemporary social injustices. The workshop will open with a quick demo on how radio operations work (workshop participants can dj). Shortly followed by songs that focus on speaking out against homophobia, racism, sexism, and multiple oppressive isms that exist today and a discussion on the music chosen. I hope to raise discussions on how womxn of color in music, musicians, and djs are a form of empowerment in a world that attempts to erase our existences and how various people from different communities can harness the power of local radio for movimiento. Our existence is resistance.
Self Care as Resistance
Presented by Kaela
OPEN
Women's Center Conference Room
Often times when self-care is mentioned, it is discussed in terms of replenishing ourselves so that we may be available and ready to help and serve others. This workshop will redefine commonplace thinking about the role and purpose of self-care. What if we looked at self-care not as something to do so that we can continue our work but instead as an active, engaged, and crucial part of that very resistance? This workshop will begin by exploring representations of self-care by prominent womxn of color like Audre Lorde, Zora Neal Hurston and Janet Mock as well as examine different representations of self care in popular media. We will then think through the pieces of these ideas that do and do not serve as us as individuals in order to help us create our own personal self-care frameworks. Participants will also leave with different practical ways to track the basics of self care when depression, school, or life in general feel like too much.
a [real] grad school workshop
Presented by Idalia
Have you ever wondered about grad school, but avoid all the stuffy and unwelcoming panels offered by your school? Are you worried that professionalization is just another word for white supremacy? If so, this workshop is for you! This workshop will be a casual conversation about grad school, the application process, and the skills that will help you survive and thrive. All questions are welcome, and all answers will be honest. Please be my classmate!
OPEN Space
Chicanx and Latinx Cultural Resource Center
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