Miscellaneous
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence New Orleans Chapter and the New Orleans Women’s Health & Justice Initiative Seeks Books by Women of Color authors for a Radical Women of Color Lending Library Project
The New Orleans Women of Color Resource & Organizing Center (a joint project of the WHJI and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence – New Orleans) will serve as a resource and organizing hub to nurture grassroots organizing and activism to end violence against women of color, linking struggles against the violence of poverty, incarceration, environmental racism, housing discrimination, economic exploitation, and medical experimentation and forced sterilization. The Center will provide a host of movement building and leadership development programs, activities, and resources to end violence againstwomen of color; the Center will also house a radical women of color lending library, a cluster of computers for community use, meeting space, and a comfortable environment for women and girls to hangout. We are currently in the process of establishing a radical women of color lending library.
They are seeking donations of books by women of color authors across genres, topics, interests, and subjects including but not limited to: African Social Movements/Activism-Organizing/ Anti-Oppression/ Arab Feminist Organizing/ Arab Social Movements/ Art & Culture/ Asian Feminist Organizing/ Asian Social Movements / Autonomous Movements/ Black/African Feminist Organizing/ Caribbean Social Movements/ Chicana Feminist Organizing/ Civil/Human Rights/ Colonization/ Community Accountability/ Re-Constructing Masculinity/ Disability Organizing/Rights/ Disasters and Vulnerabilities/ Diaspora Organizing/ Identity/Domestic Workers Organizing/ Economic Justice/ Education/ Radical Teaching/ Environment/Ecological Justice/ Erotic Autonomy/ Feminism/ Gender Theory & Identity/ Gender Justice/ Gender-based Violence/ Genocide/ Globalization/ Healthcare (Access & Disparities)/ Health Justice/ Health & Alternative Therapies/ HIV/AIDS Organizing/ Prevention Justice/ Housing & Community Development/ Human Rights/ Human Trafficking/ Immigrant & Refugee Rights/ Imperialism/ Intersex Identity and Organizing/ Just Sustainabilities and Development/ Juvenile Justice/ Labor Organizing/ Latina Feminist Organizing/ Latin American Social Movements/ Media Justice/ Mental Health and Wellness/ Middle East Organizing/Solidarity/Justice/ Militarism/ Music/ Native American Feminist Organizing/ Native American Social Movements/ Neoliberalism/ Palestine Organizing/Right of Return/ Pan-Asian Organizing/ Policing/ Law Enforcement Violence/ Population & Development/Poverty/Welfare Rights/ Prison Industrial Complex/ Prison Abolition & Prisoners Rights/ Queer Theory/Identity/ Racial Justice/ Radical Parenting/ Radical Women of Color Organizing/ Refugee/ Internally Displaced Persons/ Reproductive Health & Justice/ Sex Work Organizing/Street Economies/ Sexual Health/ Slavery/ Sovereignty & Self Determination/ Spirituality/Healing/ Spoken Word/Performance Poetry/ Trans Justice/ Transnational Organizing/ U.S. Black Social Movements/ War/ War on Drugs/Racial Profiling/ Welfare Reform/ Policies/ Women and War/ Women’s Health & Healing/ Worker’s Rights/ Youth Organizing
All books are welcome—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, zines, articles, resource books, anthologies, photo-documentaries, etc. Videos, documentaries, and music are also welcomed. We are specifically interested in books by African, Arab, Asian, Black, Caribbean, Chicana, Indigenous, Native, and Latina authors. Donations should be mailed to the: New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic c/o WHJI 1406 Esplanade Ave. New Orleans, LA 70116. For more information, please contact them at whji_info@yahoo.com or by phone at 504-524-8626.
Wisconsin Women and Economic Opportunity report was released recently by the Women's Council and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS). It was developed following a report released earlier this year by the Institute for Women's Policy Research on the "Best and Worst State Economies for Women". IWPR urged their research partners in states to develop state specific reports and use them to update information on the economic status of women locally and to spread the word about the national findings of the IWPR report.
WWC/COWS report: http://womenscouncil.wi.gov/docview.asp?docid=10734&locid=2
IWPR Report: http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/R334_BWStateEconomies2006.pdf
International Women’s Studies Institute
Travel/study program in Guatemala.
January 10 to 19, 2009
Stay at San Marcos, a village on the shores of Lake Atitlan. The fee of $1,500 (not including airfare
Workshops:
- Women Changing the World: will look at the changing theory and practice of women and development, the lives of Guatemalan women, and the work of women in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who are seeking to empower Guatemalan women and girls. Participants will meet and interact with women in several NGOs in the Antigua and Lake Atitlan areas.
- Sketching Your Travels: aimed at capturing the colors and beauty of Guatemala, does not require experience or talent. We will learn to sketch our travels to better revisit them once we’re back home.
- Women in Community: How We Change the World : is a workshop in which participants are asked to share, in a 10-minute presentation, some way in which they have worked to change the world.
Workshop Center -- workshops will be held at Casa Azul, a yoga center that offers yoga, massage and other healing treatments (small extra charge for services), beautiful grounds and delicious vegetarian meals. We will have breakfast and dinner at Casa Azul– lunch is free time in the village. See www.casa-azul-ecoresort.com. For more information on the program and to register, please go to www.iwsi.org, or call Ellen Boneparth at 707 523-4547 or Lily Cincone at 650 323-2013
PST. RESERVATION AND DEPOSIT: Registration forms are at www.iwsi.org under “
Box 1067, Palo Alto, CA 94302. Fee is refundable if cancellation is made before
October 1, 2008.
Media Madness: The Impact if Sex, Violence and Commercial Culture on adults, Children, and Society A Summer Institute for Educators, Students, Human Service Professionals, Activists and Parents
July 8-11, 2008, Wheelock College, Boston.
For the 14th consecutive year, Wheelock College is offering a very popular summer institute on the role that the media (television, magazines, advertising, pornography, video games and music videos) plays in shaping our gender identity, our intimate relationships, our children’s lives, and ultimately our culture. The institute is taught by Dr Gail Dines, author of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality, and Dr. Diane Levin, author of the forthcoming book, So Sexy So Soon.
Participants in both tracks will learn:
• How media violence affects behavior and contributes to violence in society
• How media images perpetuate and legitimize sexism, racism, consumerism and economic inequality
• How political and economic forces shape the media
• How media affects children’s ideas about sexual behavior and relationships with others
• How to critically deconstruct media images and develop media literacy skills
• How to become active in advocacy, community building and grass roots organizing
As a way to accommodate the needs of the participants, this year two days of the institute will be split into the following tracks:
1. Fighting the porn culture: how to think about and organize against the increasing pornification of our society. Led by Dr. Gail Dines.
2. Combating the hazards of media culture with children, families and the community. Led by Dr. Diane Levin. Credit Hours: The institute is available as a 3 credit graduate course or a non-credit course. Scholarships are available. For more information, please contact Gail Dines at gdines@wheelock.edu
Tutorials for Change: Gender Schemas and Science Careers
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/tutorials.htm
Coordinated by Dr. Virginia Valian is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and co-director of the Hunter College Gender Equity Project and funded by NSF. Faculty and students interested in using the materials as supplements in their courses can join an "Affiliations" component.
Gender Tutorial 1: Data on sex disparities in rank and salary http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/tutorials.htm#tut1
Gender Tutorial 1 presents data on sex disparities in rank and salary in four professions – sciences, humanities, medicine, and law. The data show that there are only small rank or salary differences between men and women early in their careers in all the disciplines. Gaps emerge, however, as careers progress. Tutorial 1 reviews empirical data in a range of disciplines, demonstrating that sex disparities in advancement and salary exist even when credentials are equivalent for men and women. The tutorial concludes that gender inequities remain despite the improvements in recent years. The notions of "gender schemas" and "accumulation of advantage" are presented as key concepts to understanding the cause of the persisting sex disparities.
Gender Tutorial 2: Gender schemas and evaluations of others http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/tutorials.htm#tut2
Gender Tutorial 2 concentrates on the reasons for the sex disparities presented in Tutorial 1, using two key concepts: gender schemas and the accumulation of advantage. Gender schemas are conceptual generalizations about men and women that lead to an unintentional underestimation of women’s professional abilities and to a similar overestimation of men's. The tutorial presents evidence that gender schemas influence both men and women to the same degree when they evaluate others. The many small examples of undervaluation of women accumulate over time to produce sex disparities in achievement and recognition.
Gender Tutorial 3: Gender schemas and our evaluations of ourselves http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/tutorials.htm#tut3
Gender Tutorial 3 demonstrates that gender schemas affect not only our evaluations of others but our evaluations of ourselves. Others' expectations of us – formed in part by gender schemas – affect our own expectations of ourselves and our behavior. One consequence is that males act more entitled than females. Empirical data demonstrate the effects of gender schemas on the self.
Gender Tutorial 4: Remedies: What you can do http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/tutorials.htm#tut4
Gender Tutorial 4 offers remedies for the sex disparities discussed in the previous tutorials. The tutorial proposes that the information on how gender schemas and the accumulation of advantage work can be used to predict where problems will occur and to plan preventive actions. In a college setting, for example, gender can influence the evaluation of instructors, the quality of letters of recommendation, the likelihood of invitations to present colloquia and talks, and so on. The tutorial offers suggestions for solving those problems.
The Feminist Majority Foundation has a listing of Global Women's Studies Programs:
http://www.feminist.org/Global/globalwst.asp
Their listing of Global Women's Studies Programs with the information in local languages can be found at: http://www.feminist.org/global/wstlocal.asp
The Grant Institute: Certificate in Professional Program Development and Grant Communication
Northwestern University,
July 9 - 13, 2007
Interested development professionals, researchers, faculty, and graduate students should register as soon as possible, as demand means that seats will fill up quickly. All participants will receive certification in professional grant writing from the Institute, as well as 3.5 CEU units. For more information call (888) 824 - 4424 or visit The Grant Institute at http://www.thegrantinstitute.com
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