Eighth Annual Southern Girls Convention.
June 23-35, 2006.
Houston, Texas.
WWW: http://southerngirlsconvention.org/2006/
WHAT IS SOUTHERN GIRLS CONVENTION?
The Southern Girls Convention is an annual grassroots meeting for
networking, organizing, educating, agitating, and activism, devoted to
empowering women, girls, and transfolks in the South, and to furthering the
struggle for social justice. Each year’s convention is hosted by a different
Southern community and facilitated by local organizers. Past conventions
have brought together hundreds of folks in Memphis, Tennessee; Louisville,
Kentucky; Auburn, Alabama; Athens, Georgia; Asheville, North Carolina; and
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
This year, Southern Girls Convention invites activists from across the
country to meet in HOUSTON, TEXAS on the weekend of June 23-25, 2006.
Hundreds of activists will meet for discussion, action, and entertainment
devoted to building a feminist community in the South.
WHAT CAN I DO THERE?
Southern Girls Convention is based around discussions, workshops, and
presentations which give participants the opportunity to share skills, share
ideas, discuss important issues, organize campaigns, and have fun as a
ommunity. All workshops are organized and facilitated by the participants
themselves–that means you! (Have a great idea for a workshop? Fill out our
online form.)
Other events will include an arts and craft fair, nightly music shows,
and tables for participants and organizations to display information, zines,
art, and things they have made.
SGC also allows hundreds of activists from across the country to meet,
network, strategize, and organize in their efforts on behalf of social
justice. Feel free to bring video projects, zines, writing, and anything you
are interested in sharing to the convention.
Childcare will be available at the convention space. Housing will be
provided for those who register in advance.
Past workshops at SGC have included:

* Group discussions on fatphobia, abortion rights and access,
radical parenting, “100 Years of Revolutionary Wimmin,” the criminalization
of women, “Queer and Trans Youth in the South,” gender bias in schools,
sexism in the activist community, “Marginalization and Tokenization within
the Grrrl Movement,” roles and strategies for boys in the struggle against
male supremacy, and “Radical, Southern, and All Fired Up–Where Do We Go From
Here?”
* Skill-sharing on radical cheerleading, community access
television, gun safety and self-defense, workplace union organizing, screen
printing, sexercises, Internet organizing, and how to start a
consciousness-raising group.
* Organizing meetings for campaigns from Amnesty International, the
Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and Planned Parenthood, and state-by-state
caucuses for people to meet fellow organizers in their own area.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

* Website: http://southerngirlsconvention.org/2006/
* E-mail: organizers@...

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be sent from our website at:Southern Girls Convention 2006: Spread the Word!
Thank you, and we hope to see you there!
Southern Girls Convention 2006 Organizers,
Houston, Texas

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