Femmes of Color Conference 2010

Please Re Post!

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 27-28, 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 of who 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 disciplinary, medium, and social boundaries. We encourage submissions from anyone interested, regardless of sexual identity. 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 self-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 December 7, 2009.

To submit a proposal, please submit the following to us at

http://www.focs2010.com/index.php/the-program

*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:

http://www.focs2010.com

*reference Femme2006 Call for Submissions

Update

I can't even promise that I'll do a 'regular' post anytime soon. I just got promoted (woot woot..but a TON of work)and life is crazy (holidays are coming up...) so I'm sorry to all of my handful of readers. If you have a blog and you're on my google reader (most of you are) know that I'm following your life and send you all big *fab femme kisses*

I hope you all are having a happy fall. I just spent the most glorious weekend in St. Louis, MO (I surprised my gf at her doorstep last Friday)

so I'm sorry for the lack of posts but please know that I'm good and of course FIERCELY and FABULOUSLY in LOVE. (this is a pic of us last weekend at Novacks (a gay club in STL)