2020 WOMXN OF COLOR CONFERENCE
A.S. Womxn’s Commission presents to you our annual WOMXN OF COLOR CONFERENCE happening February 8th, 2020 at the Student Resource Building.
“Reclaiming our Spaces, Reclaiming our Voices,” is this year’s theme as we all work together to promote activism in its many forms.
This conference is completely FREE with food and gear provided but we unfortunately cannot provide housing or childcare. If you would like to, you are more than welcome to bring along your dependents. This event is open to the community!
2018 WOMXN OF COLOR CONFERENCE
All are welcome! Please know that this is intended to be not only a safe, but an empowering space for those who identify as womxn of color and community guidelines will be enforced accordingly. Allies welcome, but please be conscious of the space that you take up!
When is the conference?
The conference is on Saturday, February 3rd, 2018. Registration opens at 9, there will be breakfast served from 9-10 and the conference begins at 10!
Where is the conference?
Student Resource Building, UCSB
Key Note Speaker
Zahira Kelly-Cabrera
Aka @Bad_Dominicana is an AfroDominicana mami, writer, artist (some may say ‘social media personality’), mujerista, award-winning sociocultural critic, and international speaker. Born in NYC and raised between Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic and the Bronx, by her mother and auntie who are both creative renaissance women.
Check out our website to read more about her! https://womynofcolorucsb.wixsite.com/2018wocc/speaker-s
Some of Our Workshops
Self Love and Visionary Fiction as Tools for Liberation, Justice and Autonomy
Date: February 3rd
Time: 11:10 AM- 12:25 PM
Location: TBA
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.
Total Liberation: The Politics of Meat and Dairy
Date: February 3rd
Time: 11:00 AM- 12:25 PM
Location: TBA
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?
Men in Organizing Spaces: Get Yo Shit Together
Date: February 3rd
Time: 1:35 PM- 2:45 PM
Location: TBA
Discussion on gender dynamics and political ideologies in organizing spaces and how men often marginalize Queer/Trans/Femme voices of color, de-Center their experiences, remove their agency, and alienate them from their own struggles for liberation.
For more of our workshops and schedule: https://womynofcolorucsb.wixsite.com/2018wocc/session-b