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FOCS2010 Keynote Speakers
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Deon Haywood is the Executive Director of Women With A Vision, Inc. – a community- based grassroots organization of Black women
CREATING WOMEN OF COLOR SPACES Christine De La Rosa is a transplanted Tejana living the Bay Area who has been creating spaces for the LGBT community for over ten years both online and in real life. One of the founding members of the Femme Collective, co-founder of Movement Productions which produces BLISS – An Oasis for Women of Color in the Desert, WETbar, Good Times, among other events, co-host of Real Talk with Kiki and Miz Chris on KPFA radio, founder of MizChris.com and the Yay! Area Events Newsletter and owner of Butch-Femme.com, Christine is committed to creating intentional space for Women of Color within a larger lesbian community context. Her passion is bringing together diverse groups of women to mix, mingle, talk, argue, engage, converse and generally bring about change through conferences, events, gatherings and salons where ideas are sparked and exchanged. She believes that through this dialogue, we can create change, together. |
Call for Submissions
Please distribute widely our call for submissions. We know FOCS2010 is going to be an amazing experience and we hope you will join us!
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Call for Workshops, Papers, Performance, and Art
Femme of Color Symposium (FOCS) 2010: Celebrations and Reflections
March 26-28, 2009
Astor Crowne Plaza
739 Canal Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
www.focs2010.com
FOCS2010: Celebrations and Reflections, the inaugural symposium by and for self-identified FEMMES of COLOR, will create the opportunity—through workshops, community building/social activities, presentations, panels, and/or performances—to uncover and discover our similarities, our differences, our needs and how to build the bridges that will allow us to support each other in all ofwho we are. It will serve as a launch point for a real-time and virtual nation-wide network of diverse individuals, prompt dialogue, and empower us to cultivate, sustain, and celebrate the vibrant connections we have made and will make among femmes of color.
We invite femmes of color from all over the map—community members, artists, academics, homemakers, activists, etc.—to participate in FOCS2010 as presenters and participants.
Submissions of all kinds are welcome. In particular, we hope that the intersections of femme with race, region, class, faith, access, ability, privilege, and marginalization will be talked about, given space, meditated upon, constructed, and deconstructed.
We hope to draw participants from across discipline, medium, and social boundaries. We encourage submissions from anyone interested, regardless of sexual identity (lesbian/gay, bisexual, etc.). We do ask that you read our mission statement before submitting. Though we would not be able to live, love and/or laugh without our many allies, this conference is for elf-identified
femmes of color only.
We are soliciting contributions from any woman who is interested, including (but not limited to):
- Workshops
- Performances
- research presentations
- skill shares
- activist & organizational topics
- visual art
- video or film
Submission deadline is January 31, 2010.
To submit a proposal, please submit the following to Krysia Villon at klvillon at aol dot com. Please put “FOCS Proposal” in the subjectheader.
*For research presentations, send a 300 word abstract
*For workshop and skillshare proposals, send a 300 word description of your workshop or skillshare ideas
*Visual artists should send samples of work and a 300 word description of their artistic vision
*Performers, filmmakers and other creative artists should contact us for more information
To learn more about us, our mission and to contact us with any questions, comments or concerns, please find us at our website:
www.focs2010.com