Workshops
Ailecia is maintaining an up-to-date list of confirmed workshops. Check it out to see some of what will be going on at the Convention!
We have finalized the workshop schedule and are no longer accepting new reservations for workshops in convention space. However, if something you would like to see is not being covered, and you are interested in facilitating or helping with a workshop, we encourage you to organize guerilla workshops in unreserved workshop spaces or any number of free locations around Foy Union. We will set up a bulletin board at the convention site for guerilla workshop organizers to post the descriptions, locations, and times of their workshops.
General themes
- Issues facing women in the South
- Women and movements in the South
- Southern women's history
- History of feminist movements, "waves of feminism"
- Southern women's art & music (including exhibitions)
- Empowering all our sisters; movement building across race lines
- Building coalitions between liberal and radical feminists
- Building coalitions between feminism and other liberation struggles
- Women, money, and entrepreneurship
- Fighting rape and violence against women
- Pro-choice activism, protecting access to abortion
- DIY, activism, direct action
- Women's health
- Diverse sexualities, queer politics, trans issues
- Men in the women's movement
Specific Issues / Discussions
- The realities of same-sex partner rape
- Biases against the South and Southern women; reclaiming Southern pride from bigots
- Clinic escorting (discussion only, unfortunately; the nearest clinics are in Birmingham)
- Exposing CPCs and fake "clinics"
- Microfinance, women in entrepreneurship
- Body image, body hair, fatphobia, eating disorders, the cosmetic-industrial complex
- Pornography and male-centric "sexual liberation"
- Effects of feminism on male/female relationships
- Sorority Sisters are our sisters too
- Women's spirituality, spiritual activism
- Men and Sexism: Refusing male privilege, attacking male domination
- In what parts of the women's movement can men participate? In what parts must they not?
- Marginalization of feminism by the "male Left," raising feminist visibility in broad Left coalitions
- Building aninternational feminist movement that is multiculturally sensitive
- What is the relationship between feminism and other Left-wing / liberation struggles?
- Feminism and globalization
- How can a feminist perspective illuminate and impact the anti-globalization Left?
- Women in sweatshops and the anti-sweatshop struggle
- Trafficking of women and "sex tourism"
- Women and the WTO, IMF/World Bank, School of the Americas, FTAA, TABD, etc.
- Fighting racism, classism, homophobia
- Radical parenting and educating, youth liberation, education reform, student rights
- Labor issues: union organizing, women and labor, anti-jobbing
- Women prisoners, prisoner's rights, anti-death penalty organizing, freeing political prisoners
Skill-sharing
Skill-sharing is one of the most important and empowering parts of SGC! If you have experience with one or more of these topics, please help us out!
- Consciousness-raising groups
- Tactics for accomplishing change on college campuses
- Organizing demonstrations
- Holding press conferences, writing press releases
- Computer/Internet literacy
- Using the Internet for organizing
- Starting a small business (this can be broken up into many workshops or discussions as needed)
- Screen printing
- Indymedia, guerilla media, low-power FM and community access television
- Billboard liberation, street propaganda, guerilla theater, sulture jamming, pranks
- Activism through art, writing, dance, puppets...
- Healthy living for women, women's sexual health
- Women's Self-Defense, gun safety
- Living communally, dumpster diving, cheap/free travel
- Men and sexism: peer education and ending violence against women
- Any other how-to classes, ex: bike repair, basic car repair, zine-making, etc.
This is only a partial list; we are open to many suggestions. Please fill out the form below if you would like to run or help out with a workshop on one of these topics (or any other topic!):