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Berkeley, California 94720
United StatesBERKELEY, CALIF. – In its 24th year of providing powerful and dynamic experiences, the Empowering Women of Color Conference returns to embrace voice, knowledge, music, dance and art dedicated to revolutionary love. This year’s theme explores the foundations of self-love, from which we connect mind, body and spirit, and discover ourselves. From a place of self-knowledge, we are able to extend ourselves to progressively more inclusive spheres beginning with friends, parents, romantic partners, children, and broadening to community, and the nation. The conference focuses on love as a healing process that inspires personal growth and resistance to oppression, exposing and exploring the ways in which institutions shape our perception of love. We challenge resistance and activism to begin inwardly, evolving our own reality and then progressing outward as we confront the intersections of poverty, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, militarism and imperialism. We consider the ways in which women of color can be politically active in their everyday choices while embracing their familial roles and working towards egalitarian relationships.
We hope to inspire and highlight the work and philosophies of women of color who share their personal, political and professional voices. These women continuously put their effort towards building a world in which their work is foregrounded and esteemed. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
The purpose of the Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC) is to build bridges between academic and community women of color in an effort to assist them in sharing resources, strategies, and visions that will empower them at all levels of society. The Conference also strives to build networks among different generations, ethnic and racial groups, socioeconomic levels, sexual orientations, and physical abilities. Few forums exist wherein women of color are provided the space to dialogue about the issues that matter most to them.
EWOCC provides such a forum.
Favorite Books: Gloria Anzaldua
Cherrie Moraga
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