AF3IRM NATIONAL: This year, AF3IRM Summer Schools across the country have gone virtual. The schools will look at the gendered character of the struggle to contain the pandemic: from the front lines of health care to the nurture lines of the home to the support lines of groceries and supermarkets. For young people, the uncertainty of whether schools … Continue Reading ››
Category Archives: Summer School of Women’s Activism
SUMMER SCHOOL OF WOMEN’S ACTIVISM DAY 3: Militarism and the Assault on Land and Women
New York -- From Puerto Rico to Hawaii, women are placing their bodies in the line of fire to resist colonization and protect the sacredness of the land. More than 120 years after the United States stole these lands, state-sanctioned violence continues. In San Juan 100,000 people rise up against an imperial puppet governor and his corruption, homophobia, … Continue Reading ››
SUMMER SCHOOL OF WOMEN’S ACTIVISM DAY 2: Refeudalization and Decolonizing Transnational Women of Color’s ‘Work’
New York -- It’s no wonder that, “Let’s get this bread,” has become a rallying call for sleep-deprived, hungry, under-paid, and overworked working women. Transnational women of color are “married to the hustle,” shackled to exploitation.
AF3IRM coined the term refeudalization in 2008 to explain the … Continue Reading ››
SUMMER SCHOOL OF WOMEN’S ACTIVISM DAY 1: History of Women’s Struggle & Decolonizing Gender
New York -- Since birth, infants are wrapped in pink or blue and pushed into a binary gender system that dictates our lives into adulthood. It traps us into one of two boxes we check on forms asking for our identity. It … Continue Reading ››
AF3IRM Orange County and AF3IRM South Bay collaborate to present the 2016 Summer School for Women’s Activism
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Priscilla Moreno, AF3IRM Orange County &
Angel Bartolome AF3IRM South Bay
323-543-5872
[email protected]
[email protected]
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA--The AF3IRM chapters of Orange County and South Bay will be co-hosting the 2016 Summer School for Women’s Activism (SSoWA) in southern California. On four consecutive Saturdays, the school will be held from 9am to 12pm, with the first two in Carson and the last two … Continue Reading ››