The Women of Color Policy Network
Presents
Race and Identity Series
The Constructions of Race and Identity in America Series will focus on the dynamic nature of race and identity and critique the narrow constructions that often marginalize groups. This series aims to highlight the complexity of the definitions and understand emerging political identities.
Part 1.
Racism by Omission: Armenian Women and Women of Color
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
6 to 8pm
295 Lafayette St,
3rd Fl Mulberry Conference Room
Take the 6 train to Bleecker St; B,D,F, V to Broadway-Lafayette or W,R to Prince St.
Armenian activist Anoush Ter Taulian will talk about being an indigenous, light skinned women of color resisting assimilation. She will discuss the need to include Near/Middle Eastern women in women of color groups. She will also discuss the Turkish denial of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and her nine years volunteering in the Artsakh (Armenian) army. Through video and pictures, she show some of the Armenian women soldiers who are dodging snipers and mines to defend the Artsakh borders from Azeri attack and discuss how the blockade of Armenia by Turkey and Azerbaijan is currently affecting Armenian women.Anoush is a multimedia artist depicting Armenian women's struggles through video, photography, painting and poetry. She draws upon ancient matriarchal energy and currently she is organizing a show about Violence Against Lesbians of Color and the Love that Empowers Us.
Part II. Latino Identity and Brazilian Immigrants
Date and Time TBA
The Women's HIV Collaborative of New York
and
The Women of Color Policy Network
Present
ANNUAL LEGISLATIVE BREAKFAST
Presentation of the results generated from our Director's Breakfast. The Breakfast will feature several NYC Council Members as panelist to respond to these findings and focus on issues relating to women's and girls and HIV/AIDS in New York City.
Tuesday, April 15th
9am to 11am
295 Lafayette St, 2nd Fl
RSVP to info@womenscollaborative.com
Asian Pacific American Institute at NYU and the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, cosponsored with the Women of Color Policy Network
Present a film screening of
NEVER PERFECT
"Never Perfect" is a feature-length documentary that explores the popularity of cosmetic surgery, the historical, cultural and social issues that influence body image and self-perception, and one woman's complex journey of self-discovery that shifts not only how she defines herself as an Asian American woman, but as a human being. More specifically, "Never Perfect" explores the complex journey of a young Vietnamese American woman's struggle with popular perceptions of beauty and body image as she fights the stigma of racial self-hatred in her decision to undergo cosmetic surgery.
Following the film will be a debrief and small discussion about your impressions.
NOTE: Please be aware that the film includes graphic scenes of surgical procedures.
Tuesday, April 15th
6pm to 8pm
NYU Cantor Film Center Theater 101
36 East 8th St
RSVP to apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or 212-992-9653
Elevating the Struggle:
Organizing Women of Color for Human Rights
52nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
Please come and join NYC activists who recently went to the UNited Nations in Geneva to participate in a review of the US Government's obligation under the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for an update on the process and plans to use the process for higher standards for women of color.
Panelists:
Ejim Dike, Director of the Human Rights Project, Urban Justice Center
Diana Salas, Associate Director, Women of Color Policy Network
Aishia Glasford, Senior Policy Analyst, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Thursday, February 28, 2008
3:30 to 5pm
Church Center, 777 UN Plaza, (44th st & 1st Ave)
Grumman room, 8th fl
Please RSVP to Julia Yang at Jyang@urbanjustice.org
Women of Color Policy Network
and
Human Rights Project, Urban Justice Center
Present
Organizing for Racial Justice: A Report Back from Geneva
Join us for a screening of the UN CERD Committee review of United States. As a signator to the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) the US is under obligation to comply with the provisions outlined in the treaty. NYC activists will also join us to discuss the review process and how it can be used to implement human rights obligations locally.
Thursday March 6, 2008
6 to 8pm
295 Lafayette St, Rudin Center Conference Room 2nd Fl
RSVP http://wagner.nyu.edu/events/ICERD.php
Women of Color Policy Network
