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07.08.05 04:50 PM
the road to blogher
Still on the schedule and still planning to attend and to lead this session:
Feminist hip-hop bloggers: Negotiating a space dominated by men - much like the music.
I've got three ladies who'd love to go on the road with me.
Julianne Shepherd
Rachel Ramist
Miranda Jane
Only problem is - we need a little funding as blogher is a non-profit event and doesn't cover cost. I can get my company to back me no problem, but these other ladies are freelance writers, filmmakers, graduate students and a sponsor would help us out quite a bit. blogher can cover conference fees for those who volunteer to live blog and receive a bloghership, but I suppose there is still the matter of travel and lodging costs.
If you have any information that can help us make this session a reality - with more voices other than just my own, please send me an email.
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Previous posts on blogher:
There's A Blogher Conference Going On
Well I Spoke and Blogher Listened
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any leads on any funds to go to blogher? i think we should also think about how to do this panels in other venues. i think we need to put this together as a one-sheet and get us booked for some colleges. we could do a presentation, panel, poetry & i could screen some video. do a women in hip hop speak truth to our power type tour. i think it's time to put our energies forward, collab and show others the models for to create some positive things - online, on screen, in print...
and the academy is a crazy, stifling and stressful place but if you create the right communtity and energy around u, u can make something positive happen. i've set up a feminist media center (a computer lab where people can create media, write, do research, edit video...) and i'm assembling a supportive committee to work with (like gwen pough).... like boal says (quoting freire) - it's about the pockets of hope (and i believe, about the spaces and places that we build).
blessings.
posted by rae one | July 9, 2005 11:21 AM #