"R-E-S-P-E-C-T"
Defining Our Image
Defending Our Rights
YOUTH MEDIA EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM
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Greetings!
The Women of Color Media Justice Initiative Presents: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Defining Our Image, Defending Our Rights" on Thursday, June 4th from 9:30am-2:00pm.
Students from Crenshaw, Dorsey, King-Drew, Gardena, Horace Mann, and Audubon High Schools will participate in this Youth Media Education Symposium. It will feature D'Anthony Allen of Peace Over Violence, Songstress Nailah Porter, riKu Matsuda of KPFK's "The Morning Review with riKu Matsuda" and the L.A. County Commission on Human Relations, and many other special guest presenters.
Registration begins at 9:30am and sessions begin promptly at 10:00am. For more information, please contact Sikivu Hutchinson of the Women's Leadership Project at 323-304-9578.
In Service,
Shaunelle Curry
Executive Director
Mother's Day Radio
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"R-E-S-P-E-C-T"
JUNE
4, 2009
9:30
a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
LOKER STUDENT
UNION
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY
DOMINGUEZ HILLS
1000
E. VICTORIA STREET
CARSON, CA 90747
With generous funding from the Women's
Foundation of California
and the Gardena High School Healthy Start Collaborative
Contact info: Sikivu Hutchinson, 323-304-9578
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Women of Color Media Justice
During
the spring semester of 2009 the Women of Color Media Justice Initiative
(WCMJI) has partnered with Gardena High School (GHS) and two other high
schools to train students on media literacy and media advocacy with an
emphasis on gender politics.
February-March trainings featured students
from GHS Life Skills, Peer Health and Government classes in addition to
King-Drew Medical Magnet's media literacy and advocacy after school
class. Mother's Day Radio and
WCMJI recruited and trained Cal State Los Angeles students to work with
its high schools on deconstructing racism and sexism in the media,
challenging mainstream media-influenced gender roles and examining the
gender/racial politics of hip hop representation.
Students who
participate in the program will be involved in letter writing, drafting
editorials and contacting music industry corporations and media outlets
to advocate for socially responsible images in hip hop, rap and other
music genres.
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About Us The Women of Color Media Justice Initiative is a tool for countering
the marginalization and dehumanization of young women of color in
mainstream media representations and venues by providing these young
women with the resources and training to think critically about the
images that pervade TV, film, music and print media. Young women of
color are empowered to act as advocates for community-based projects
that directly impact the quality of their lives and the lives of their
peers.
The Women of Color Media Justice Initiative (WCMJI) is a
collaboration of the Los Angeles City Commission on the Status of Women
(CSW), the Ida B. Wells Institute, Mother's Day Radio (MDR) and the
Women's Leadership Project (WLP).
Visit our blog at www.womenofcolormediajustice.blogspot.com
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