(Name-mce) ListServ Women of Color Conference 3-3-07 Berkeley CA

[Anselmo Villanueva]

22nd Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference

March 3, 2007  UC Berkeley, California

Information: http://ewocc.berkeley.edu/home.php

The purpose of the Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC) is to
build bridges between graduate academic and community women of color,
to assist them in sharing resources, strategies and visions that will
empower them at all levels of society. The conference also strives to
build networks among different generations, ethnic and racial groups,
socioeconomic levels, sexual orientations, gender identities, and
physical abilities. Few forums exist wherein women of color are
provided the space to dialogue about the issues that matter most to
them. EWOCC provides such a forum.

EWOCC's 22nd annual conference!

Our Bodies, Our Souls: Sistahood, Health and Healing

Spirituality, wellness, and solidarity among women of color are
critical elements of social change, and of making our communities a
place in which that change can flourish.. This year's conference seeks
to explore the themes of health and wellness as they pertain to women
of color and our communities. Healthy minds, bodies and spirits enable
us to come together to heal, and build a world in which our work is
sustained. EWOCC embraces a vision of health that promotes the
empowerment of women of color to continue our legacies as social
change-makers.

This year's conference will feature a health fair on March 2nd, a
women of color film festival, a community health panel, vendors,
cultural performances, workshops on a variety of health and
spirituality-related topics, and keynote speaker Mililani Trask, a
renowned leader of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and an
internationally acclaimed political speaker and attorney.

Our vision of spirituality and wellness means movement toward:

- an understanding of health that connects mind, body and spirit
spiritualities as resistance to oppression
- a unity among women of color that allows for identity difference
exposing and exploring the ways in which institutions shape our access
to health care listening to and advocating for the health needs of
queer, intersex and transgender people
- alternative/community/non-western health and medicines research and
scholarship on health issues that are particularly significant for
women of color holistic health care for differently-abled people
- individual and community models of healing from systemic violence and trauma
understanding institutional and individual violence with a health lens
- valuing harm reduction models
- respecting the spiritual beliefs of those receiving medical treatment
- understanding the intersections among issues of health, poverty,
sexism, racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, militarism and
imperialism