In the upcoming election, "Change" has been thrown around as a bit of a buzzword among the Democrats. This “change” promises to restore hope in government and address the neglect of citizens of the United States by the current dictatorship. For generations, the right wing has used divide-and-conquer tactics to impede liberation for women, people of color, trans & queer people, immigrants, youth, poor and low-income people, and countless others. For too long, this imposed division has prevented our movements from recognizing the points at which we intersect. At organizing at the InterSEXtions, we hope to focus and build upon these points of intersection – for example: educational inequality, gentrification, legislation that diminishes both the rights of LGBTQ people and immigrants (ie. Marriage rights and the REAL ID act), HIV/Aids as a health, socio-economic and political epidemic, and the war on Iraq. The SEX in interSEXtions is a commentary to copulate the issues, to rub our activisms and identities against each other, to grind together, to flirt with other political discourses, and to make love to the movement! 

InterSEXtions is on a mission to create a “state” where NYC activists, students, and movement leaders of tomorrow come together from their distinctive backgrounds, with their diverse perspectives and skills, to investigate social injustices at the intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality, “citizenship” and ability and learn tools for grassroots organizing to develop a vision to further their activism. A central tenet to this conference is to build a network and solidarity among activists and students involved in intersectional social change. organizing at the InterSEXtions will be invigorating, critical, multilogical, and groundbreaking for movement building in NYC.

This conference will be held on April 19^th and 20^th, and will be a part of the larger "Building the Movement Weekend," working in solidarity with ARKestra: Arts for Advocacy and Social Change and Zami, Like Me: Queer Womyn of Color CipHER. 

 

Saturday

8:30-10am: Registration: Conference Resource Center, Lang Cafeteria 

9am: Breakfast, Invocation and Libation: Julia Rhee, Leadership Academy Fellow with Young People For (YP4), Jamila Thompson, ARKestra and Women of Color Organization, Educator and Healer in training.

10a – 12:30p: Session 1

a. "Everyday Sexism and Modes of Resistance.", Jamila Thompson, Women of Color Organization, ARKestra, Arts for Advocacy and Social Change. 

b. "The Unexamined Whiteness of Teaching: The Challenge to Social Justice Education", Bree Picower, Assistant Professor/ Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Teaching & Learning, Steindhart School of Culture, Education and Human Development, NYU., Core Member, NYCoRE.

c. "Afro-Asian Relations: Hip-Hop as a Platform*", Julia Rhee,  Leadership Academy Fellow with Young People For (YP4)

d. "Uses of the Erotic: In Activism and Scholarship," Aih Djehuti Herukhuti Khepera Ra Temu Seti Amen, Ph.D., Executive Director, Black Funk: The Center for Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality.

12:30-2 p:

Lunch

and

Keynote: Kaila Story, Ph.D. The Audre Lorde Chair in Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, Assistant Professor Women's and Gender Studies and Pan-African Studies, University of Louisville

and

Reflection and Harmonization: Jenn Ghost Bear

2p-4:30p: Session 2

a. "Taking Back the Lens: Critical Literacy & Youth Activism Through Documentary.", Educational Video Center.

b. "First, Class: Economic Justice and Class Issues in the LGBT Movement*.", Kenyon Farrow, Board Co-Chair, Queers for Economic Justice, New York, NY

c. "Moving from Prevention to Intervention: HIV/AIDS Activism among Changing Times", Michael Roberson, Executive Director, People of Color in Crisis (POCC), Frank Leon Roberts, Doctoral Student, New York University & Research Fellow, P.O.C.C..

d. Local Anti-War Movement Building: Students for a Democratic Society

4:45-5:45pm: Organizing Mixer: A meet and greet, mocktail hour for conference attendees. 

6p-9p: Zami Like Me: Queer Womyn of Color CipHER

*Tentative workshop title/subject to change

Sunday

11a-12:30p: Roundtable Discussion: "Academic Justice: A conversation with folks who seek it and fight for it."  Aih Djehuti Herukhuti Khepera Ra Temu Seti Amen, Ph.D., Jan Clausen, Greg Tewksbury

12:30-2p: Lunch

1p-2p: "Love=Peace: Spirituality and Social Justice.", Maya Hatch and Kumiko Endo, Love=Peace Project 

2p-4:30p: Session 1

a. "We know what we're "against" but what are we "for"? Defining our vision for a progressive future.", Dennis Chin, Program Associate, Movement Vision Lab, Center for Community Change, New York, NY

b. "Using Independent Media to Support Grassroots Organizing: Eugene Lang and Beyond.", Eleanor Whitney, Lang Alumni, co-founding editor of New School Press Press (formerly Inprint), co-editor of riffrag.org, museum educator and freelance journalist,  Irene Villasenor, youth organizer with P.O.V./American Documentary, Vani Natarajan, young adult librarian with the Brooklyn Public Library and member of Radical Reference.

c. "SPEAC Up: Building Community-based Schools in NYC.", Amita Swadhin, Sunset Park Education In Action Community (SPEAC) Collective

d. "Queer Diaspora: How might the cartography of a queer diaspora offer alternative narratives of globalization and its effects on subjectivity, culture, and kinship?", Sadat Iqbal, Queer Union, NYU

5p: Closing Ceremony, Julia Rhee, Jenn Ghost Bear, Jamila Thompson, Maya Hatch 

6p-9p: Zami Like Me: Queer Womyn of Color CipHER

*Tentative workshop title/subject to change

 

questions? email us at intersextions@gmail.com

conference produced by Joaquin Sanchez Jr and Harper Keenan,

the women of color organization, New School's OPEN, Lang Student Union, Lang Dept of Education Studies, Lang Office of Community Activism and Participatory Citizenship

illustrations: Martin J. Fitzpatrick

 

Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 09:00 AM
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 05:00 PM (ET)

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