Women's Creative Collective for Change
Our craft as storytellers and image-makers rewrites the culture’s master narrative through listening and sharing undertold stories.
Our priority is to create a venue for people from different communities to gather, vocalize under-told or untold stories, and bear witness to the similarities within their struggle and experience. Through this common story, people can unite to create change within their own communities.
WCC has become an international network of amazing contingents. Currently, WCC Los Angeles and WCC New York are actively engaged in workshops, events, and various creative projects. We are in the process of bringing WCC to San Francisco and East Bay, California as well as Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Shahrzad Changalvaee, The Wall (2006)
“For us the best word to describe her work is “TRANSLATION”, she explores typography and poetry in very graphical and poetical way completed by her own ancestral Persian heritage.”
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A Lovely Day documents nine youth from Oakland, California immersed in a six month Hip Hop music therapy workshop. The film chronicles the youth as they set out to make music that not only expresses their thoughts, but also builds a stronger community through widespread change and hope. The resiliency upheld by these teens’ voices shows that they cannot be dismissed, that they are in fact some of our most important educators in a critical time of change.
A Lovely Day is almost finished!! After six years of fundraising, shooting and editing, completion is right around the corner! We need these last funds to complete the final edits for our Oakland premiere. The Oakland premiere is scheduled for October 11, 2012 at the Grand Lake Theater. Please support us by donating funds and if we make our goal, come join us on October 11 at the theater!
- Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/1735206701/a-lovely-day
- Website: www.alovelydaythefilm.com
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/alovelydaythefilm
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Yeah awesome! Someone already made our patch idea and it looks rad! yay trans brain esp!
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Photographer: Maxim Vakhovskiy
Photographer: Maxim Vakhovskiy
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Inspired by the frenzy around femme flagging, on June 17, FUSE teamed up with Nouveau Riche Vintage to bring Toronto a queer manicure party. We drew on ceepolk’s finger meanings to make up the following chart, and everyone who got a manicure had a consultation to pick out colours, based in part on the queer hanky code, but also including gems like gold sparkles = born again gold star and traffic lights = consent. The femme flagging blog was a great place for people to draw inspiration too! This was just one experiment in systematizing which fingers we use to flag with. You can choose one or two fingers to flag with, or go for them all. There are still sooo many variables the you basically have to ask people what they’re flagging anyway, but isn’t there something nice about femme flagging as a conversation starter?
One thing we’re trying out here that we haven’t seen anywhere else is using the thumb as a cruising finger; while the other fingers can all be used for sexual practices, desires, preferences, relationship statues, or things about our own identities or those of our future partners, we thought it might be good to have one finger that approches hanky flagging a little more closely. So, if you’re flagging “Spank Me” on your thumb, it means you want it now, it’s like, “meet me in 10 minutes in the bathroom and let’s get down to it,” whereas flagging on the other fingers is more subtle and involves conversation. This, of course, keeping in mind the first rule of flagging (flagging does not equal consent).What do y’all think?
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- Merikens, a Facebook page chronicling and exploring the complex ethnocultural her-stories of enslaved Africans brought to the Americas during and after the war of 1812
- Huggin’s Hearty Healthy Foods, a website teaching food literacy and self-healing
- ArtPost Trinidad, an art-based content and communications company for marketing, branding and public educational purposes
- Women Inspired, a “women’s crusade to save women and children of this planet”
You can keep up with Maven’s work and projects on her personal blog, Question Everything (http://questioneverythngevenyourself.blogspot.com/).
If you’d like your art highlighted on the WCC Tumblr & Twitter, send us a message with a link to your work and we’ll check it out!
If you’ve ever been looking to get into transfeminism, whether from a feminist perspective of from that of a trans* person, I would strongly recommend this book. It has wonderful discussions of feminist issues from the perspective of trans* rights and goes into great detail about both traditional and oppositional sexism and their effect on society at large.
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Hey internet folks, I’m helping plan this fabulous camp that will be in Olympia, Wa this August! It would be awesome to get the word out and maybe even get a few applications in… last year we had folks from across the country join us. Applications can be found here.
Stonewall Activism Summer School (SASS) is a free three-day camp which seeks to support young queers and their allies (ages 21 and under) in exchanging skills to be become more effective activists in their communities, and stand in solidarity with the movements that surround us. It is intended to be a space that not only fosters learning and the exchange of ideas, but also encourages networking and collaboration between activists in the Pacific Northwest who are both actively engaged in community work and seek to participate in new organization.
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