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Subject: Fwd: Call for Submissions: Young Women of Color Anthology




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>Date: 11 Mar 2001 19:07:34 -0500
>From: <womynproject-AT-gurlmail.com>

>Subject: Call for Submissions: Young Women of Color Anthology
>
>
>Please help spread the word!
>
>Young Women of Color Anthology:
>Call for Submissions
>
>Deadline: September 1, 2001
>Contact: Wendy M. Thompson
>PO Box 11764
>Santa Barbara, CA. 93107 
>Email: womynproject-AT-gurlmail.com
>
>Listen up ladies, here’s the agenda! New nonfiction writings by women 
of color
>between
>the ages of 13 and 30 are needed for an upcoming anthology. It has been 
proven
>time
>and time again that voices of young women of color are neatly packaged 
away
>and
>marginalized by the voices of mainstream American (read: 
straight/white) girls
>and women.
>This anthology is being put out in hopes of allowing young women of 
color to
>speak and
>document their own lives and experiences for themselves. 
>
>The idea for this collection of writing and visual art came up when a 
young
>Afro-Asian
>American college student attended a leadership retreat for young women 
sponsored
>by
>WILD for Human Rights, a San Francisco based organization, and was 
assigned a
>documentation project. She felt compelled to write her own story apart 
from what
>TV and
>the radio and magazines are saying about young women of color. Tired of 
being
>idealized
>and sexualized because of gender or stigmatized because of race, she 
decided to
>make
>this an open project in which young women would be able to lend their 
minds and
>voices
>in order to create a dialogue in which racism, sexism, violence, 
sexuality,
>and
>marginalization could be discussed along with various other issues. 
Thus, the
>anthology
>was born!
>
>Now is the time to send your rants, feelings, and views by way of 
journal
>entries, personal
>essays, spoken word/poetry, prose, and visual art about topics such 
as:
>
>* culture and ethnic identity
>* violence and street culture
>* family and community
>* pop culture, representations, and the mass media
>* sex, love, and sexuality
>* politics, feminism, and activism
>* spoken word and the creative process 
>
>Please keep in mind that writings other than poetry/prose should be 
kept within
>a 10 page
>limit and to include your name, address, phone number, and bio along 
with your
>submission(s). All further inquiries should be sent to:
>womynproject-AT-gurlmail.com.
>
>Wendy M. Thompson, 
>Editor
>
>
>
>
419-372-0528

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