Southern Girls Convention News

Hey SGCers!

You knew that SGC would be in Houston, Texas this year. Now we’re proud to let you know where in Houston. Friday night’s events (and registration) will be held at The Artery art space, on 5401 Jackson, and Saturday and Sunday’s events will be held in the University Center Underground at the University of Houston. For more information on the locations and how to get to them, be sure to see Getting There.

Hey folks!

If you know friends, family, or other folks that might be interested in this year’s Southern Girls Convention in Houston, spread the word about it by forwarding an e-mail to them. You can also let a lot of interested folks know about it by forwarding the note to the e-mail lists of any groups or networks you’re a part of, or by putting up a post about it on your favorite blog or bulletin board. Here’s the announcement we’re sending out; please forward it far and wide!

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@southerngirlsconvention.org

PLEASE FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT FAR AND WIDE! Send it to friends and e-mail lists, post it on your website, blog, 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:Southern Girls Convention 2006: Spread the Word!

Thank you, and we hope to see you there!

Southern Girls Convention 2006 Organizers, Houston, Texas You can use our online “Spread the Word” form to send a copy of the announcement to your e-mail inbox, or directly to your friends.

Hey all.

The Southern Girls Convention website is getting a bit of an overhaul to get out the word on Southern Girls Convention 2006 in Houston, Texas. We’ll be posting updates here, and you can get lots more information at the Houston 2006 event page. Keep your eyes peeled — there’ll be more to come very soon.

Thanks to all the wonderful, awesome people who came out to participate in SGC 2005. Overall, we had 150 people attend from all over the south, as far as Maryland, North Carolina, D.C, and as close as New Orleans and Lafayette.

The sessions were provoking and informative, and the networking was engaging and entertaining. We think it was a real success overall.

We are excited to announce that SGC 2006 will be held in Houston, Texas next summer. Continue to check this site for updates as the 2006 organizers begin their planning.

See ya in Houston!!

SGCers!!

Try this link to access the schedule of events and sessions.