Anti-Sexists and Feminists United Collective/Meetings/2011.12.06

= Meeting Information =


 * Place: FPH faculty lounge
 * Date: Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
 * Time: 5:00PM&lt;span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); " /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); " /&gt;

Hey feminists! Please forward this to your relevant listservs!  Anti-Sexists &amp; Feminists United Collective (ASFUC) and the Center for Feminisms (CFF) cordially invite feminist students, faculty and staff to collaborate intergenerationally on feminist agendas at Hampshire and beyond.  Want to shmooze a potential committee members? Or just put a face to feminism at Hampshire? Come show us your feminist fangs! Drop by and hear what feminist faculty have to say, followed by mingling with luminaries such as Marlene Fried, Falguni Sheth, Margret Cerullo, Lise Sanders, Susan Tracy, Jaclyn Pryor, Uditi Sen, representatives from CLPP and PopDev, and many more fabulous feminist people.  21+ to drink, sweet tooth to dessert. Co-sponsored by the Center For Feminisms and Anti-Sexists and Feminists United Collective.  = Post-mortem =

Summary
We must run more of these!

Proceedings
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 * Feminist Agenda
 * Safety Response
 * Griot

Poster Responses
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 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Hampshire feminist collaborative project suggestion: an open letter to administration, the president &amp; campus police outlining community discussion of: (1) incident/event (2) the larger problem indicated by each incident/event (3) action steps/suggested solutions in response to incident &amp; problem (1 &amp; 2)
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Question: does the committee next spring involve students? (because it absolutely needs to)
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Public demonstrations for educating public (not for protest always)
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Numerous open mics and forums-- more time for everybody to talk!
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Producing print (zines, posters, art) for students to use to educate themselves.
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Public announcements (not speeches)
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Focus groups/discussions and publishing of summaries of each one in an accessible format for all community to read.
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Reach out to women's studies/feminist faculty
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Involve community by offering a way to participate (that do not necessarily involve organizing/planning): posters for dorm rooms buttons, contribute to zine
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Draw on connections across 5 colleged?
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Set up a event/day where students can use the Human Microphone
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Looking at hoe the community review board operates-- particularly around sexual assault.
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Keep up the meet-and-greets/regular community discussions. Also, create organized contact sheers for students, profs, and groups regularly and accessibly -&gt; Hampedia?
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Focus on feminism and transgender identities -&gt; how anti-sexism can be a uniting force!
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">What is the oppression of cis-gendered men that is silenced and how do we create a language around that without discounting the reality of male privilege (especially white and/or cisgendered male privileged)
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Trainings on effective strategies for dialoguing about oppression with consideration of different identities and educational backgrounds.
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Promote feminism as a way of thinking about/looking at multiple many endless social justice issues, how feminism can be anti-racist/homophobic/transphobic/imperialist/violence/biphobic/classist/ableist/etc!
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Deconstruct feminism as a white woman's thing, teach about why feminism is still perceived this way.
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Require professors to examine how their material does or does not include feminism.
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Cross-post lists/announcements/etc.
 * <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: auto;">Start/sustain dialogues on cis-gendered men and feminism/feminist agendas. They must take part in creating and participating in feminist programming in order to create safer and more feminist space on campus.