Southern Girls Convention News

Workshops at Southern Girls Convention are proposed and facilitated by the folks participating in the convention–that means you! This year in Gainesville, we’re hoping to have workshops on topics including:

• Language workshop
• Women’s Health
• Disabled women’s reproductive rights
• Race
• Enviroment -Women and Homelessness
• LGBTQ adoption
• International Feminism
• Edible Plants
• Dance
• Yoga
• Consent and Sexual Assault
• Radical Parenting
• Midwifery
• Crafting
• Zines
• Abortion
• Radical Mental Health
• Bicycle Repair
• Radical Cheerleading
• Infoshops
• Radical Marching Board
• ableism
• tampaction
• massage
• alternative transportation
• queer theory
• poetry
• self defense

If you are interested in facilitating one of these workshops, or if you would like to propose another workshop, please contact the organizers for a registration form.

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; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Tallahassee, Florida. This year, Southern Girls Convention invites activists from across the country to meet in Gainesville, Florida in July of 2008. Hundreds of activists will meet for a weekend of discussion, action, and entertainment devoted to building a feminist community in the South. Gainesville badly needs feminists who are interested in helping organize the 2008 convention.

If you would like to be a part of organizing Southern Girls, contact .

For those in Gainesville, planning meetings are held every Sunday at 7:00pm.

• WHEN: Every Sunday @ 7pm
• WHERE: Civic Media Center, 1021 W. University Ave

More information will be coming soon. Watch this space!