- see you 2day at 11 e adams st. suite 902 4-7pm! and register for the social justice expo… Chicago Youth Initiating Change http://www.cyicexpo.org #
- Meetings every Wednesday 4-7pm 11 E Adams #902. We've merged our twenty somethings Brown/Black feminisms study with our teenage action team! #
- Meetings every Wednesday 4-7pm 11 E Adams #902. We've merged our twenty somethings Brown/Black feminisms study with our teenage action team! #
• Youth Healer-Organizer Basics, a workshop on how we build power and create change in our city while we make ourselves more whole. We break down one of our successful campaigns, and we share our model for connecting political education and analysis, skills and leadership development, healing, arts and media creation, outreach, and campaign organizing.
• Deconstructing Media, a workshop on understanding how women and genderqueer people, especially those of color, are portrayed in the media, and thinking about how we can re-imagine ourselves. We pore over magazine images in popular hip-hop magazines, describe them, and analyze the hidden messaging about who we are as young women of color (and how invisible or stigmatized gender variance/creativity can be).
• Supporting a Survivor of Violence, including the development of small booklets that the young women and genderqueer youth can slip in their pockets, where we fill in information about who we can turn to, who our potential allies are, identify locations where we can seek safety or resources. As part of the workshop, the group learns about community accountability and brainstorms ways to engage communities in ending violence. The first time we did the workshop in October 2008, FUFA developed an art piece with all of our ideas and presented it at a citywide women of color anti-violence event.
• We Rep Ourselves: Time for Media Justice, a workshop to rap about media justice, representation and community change. Because our brown, black, girl, genderqueer, working-class bodies & minds are under fire; because lies are being told about our communities; & because it is better to speak, we rep ourselves. With games, zines, and discussion, we break down “media justice.” We share tools and help participants think about accessible ways to take the story-telling back to their own communities. We created this workshop for the Education for Liberation conference in Houston.
• Harnessing the Hype, a workshop on how to seize on big wack media stories as opportunities to change the discourse. Day after day, we hear lies about our people and our communities on the television or on the radio. In “Harnessing the Hype”, we share how we took one celebrity gossip story and developed “Beyond Chris Brown and Rihanna”, a piece that repped our feminists-of-color anti-violence perspective and helped shift the national conversation. We created this workshop for the Allied Media Conference in Detroit.
Email us at femalesunited@gmail.com to find out how to bring our youth-led, adult-supported workshops to your space.
- "I just stood against hate by donating $10 for water to march against terror in Arizona. will you?" Please retweet: http://ndlon.org/water/ #
- "I just stood against hate by donating $10 for water to march against terror in Arizona. will you?" Please retweet: http://ndlon.org/water/ #
- kicked off the year right with a great action team meeting. looking for new members. know any badass teenage girls or genderqueers of color? #
- kicked off the year right with a great action team meeting. looking for new members. know any badass teenage girls or genderqueers of color? #
- Town Hall: Youth Issues 11/15/09! 2:30–4:30pm Dyett High School, 555 E. 51st St, Chi… RIP Derrion Albert & Martel Barrett… Pls retweet! #
Friends and fam, it’s here! Our Youth Town Hall is this Sunday at Dyett High! Please spread the word to your peeps.
LIFE rally
Illinois Youth Town Hall
Date: Sunday, November 15, 2009
Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Place: Dyett High School, 555 E 51st St, Chicago
Who: Youth from Albany Park Neighborhood Council, Enlace Chicago, Females United for Action, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, MAGIC, Organization of the Northeast & Southwest Organizing Project, Brighton Park Neighborhood Council and YOU!
Holla if you want to help us make signs and artwork and stuff on Saturday night: femalesunited{at}gmail.com
