Monthly Archives: July 2009
More Notes from Detroit : Via Hermana Resist, Have you not seen/read/been transformed by the work of my sisters?
Noemi “Capital 2″ shares her experience from the Women’s Equity Media Summit. By knitting together a fabric of our many kinds of media into a warp and woofed whole we automatically strengthen the feminist public sphere. Our words will be … Continue reading
Mami Artistas in the Midwest : MIDWESTERN VOICES AND VISIONS
The program seeks to promote artists of color working in any visual, literary, and/or performance-based media, who display artistic excellence, are committed to an artistic career, and are under-served, under-recognized or under-represented in the mainstream. Must be permanent residents of … Continue reading
How Can Mami Movements Move Forward and be Resourced
This is a continuation of this post, based on conversations had at the Women’s Equity Media Summit with Noemi and BFP. In all honesty, I don’t even quite remember the questions we were answering pero I know that BFP primarily … Continue reading
Mujeres are Talking : Cripchick on Ableism
Post the Allied Media Conference there is alot of thinking, questioning and conversation happening. It’s one of the reasons I value the space so much because it puts me in that frame of mind. Already based on yesterday’s post, I … Continue reading
What Do Mami Movements Need?
One of the first spaces I wa in in Detroit was at the Women’s Equity Media Summit. To say that it was an uncomfortable space would be too simple. There was a sense among many of the women of color … Continue reading
Radical Women of Color/GenderQueer Media Makers : We Want to Hear from You
In preparation for work that will be done at the upcoming Allied Media Conference and beyond, a team of radical women of color media makers (myself included) created. If you are planning on being at the AMC in the coming … Continue reading
Going, Going…..
It’s been a while since I have written in this space and not because there is a lack of things to write. I have poetry fragments, real life ruminations on mami’hood and other matters. Pero honestly I have been fighting … Continue reading