Help out

Southern Girls Convention is a participatory space, not a traditional top-down conference. It's your convention! You run the show, you put on workshops, you meet and network with each other, and you help to organize next year's convention! You can help your convention run as smoothly as possible by volunteering to help out with needed tasks, including childcare, security, clean-up, and publicity. Be sure to register for SGC and indicate if there is anything in particular you would like to help out with.

Covering Costs

There's no required fee for registration at SGC2002. However, we need your help to make this event happen, and keep it grassroots-funded and supported. A small contribution can help us cover the cost of booking speakers, workshop space, facilities, and other expenses. Any amount is welcome, and any left-over funds will go toward next year's SGC and local women's groups. You can contribute online by Visa, MasterCard, or your PayPal account, or offline by sending checks, money orders, or well-concealed cash to our P.O. Box:

Southern Girls Convention

P.O. Box 1661

Athens, GA 30603

Spread the Word

In addition to telling friends by e-mail, there are other things that you can do offline and online to help spread the word about Southern Girls Convention.

To help spread the word about Southern Girls Convention in your community, you can post SGC'02 flyers around your hometown. We have flyers available from this website in PDF format. All you need to do is print it out, write your own contact info at the bottom to help folks in your town get in touch about transportation to the event, and post it anywhere and everywhere that people might see them.
1. Flyer with fancy layout
2. Flyer with lots of information (for places where people will stand to read it)
3. More flyers should be available soon!
Add an announcement to your e-mail signature. Every time you write an e-mail, more people can find out about SGC!
If you have a website, download a copy of the SGC2002 banner and place it where people can see it.
We also have a SGC supporters webring that you can join, which increases awareness of the event, drives traffic to your own website, and builds community between participants, by linking together the webpages of the many different people who support SGC.

July 19^th-21^st, 2002

Athens, Georgia (UGA campus)

Press Information

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With your help, we can spread the word in a totally ground-up, word-of-mouth campaign. If you know anyone who would be interested in SGC, just fill in the form to spread the word!

Fourth Annual Southern Girls Convention

July 19 - 21, 2002

Athens, Georgia.

http://www.southerngirlsconvention.com/2002/

WHAT IS SOUTHERN GIRLS CONVENTION?

The Southern Girls Convention is an annual grassroots meeting of social

justice activists devoted to empowering women and girls in the South, and

discussing Southern culture, views and stereotypes of the South, and the

struggle for social justice. Each year's convention is hosted by a

different Southern community and facilitated by local organizers. Past

conventions were held in Memphis, Tennessee, Louisville, Kentucky, and

Auburn, Alabama. Last year's convention in Auburn drew over 500

participants from all over the South and beyond.

This year's SGC invites activists from across the country to meet in

ATHENS, GEORGIA on the weekend of July 19-21. Hundreds of activists will

meet for a weekend of discussion, action, and entertainment devoted to

building pro-woman 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 community. All workshops are organized and facilitated by the

participants themselves. Other events will include an "un-shop" swap meet,

Southern women's art show, nightly music shows, 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.

Past workshops 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," peer education for men and ending violence against women,

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://www.southerngirlsconvention.com/2002/

E-mail: SGC2002 Organizers <organizers@southerngirlsconvention.com>

PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL FAR AND WIDE! Send it to friends, list servers,

post it on your website or bulletin board... we are counting on YOU to help

us spread the word. A fresh copy of the e-mail can be sent from our website

at http://www.southerngirlsconvention.com/2002/support.html#tellafriend

Thank you and hope to see you there!

Southern Girls Convention 2002 Organizers

Athens, GA

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