Mid-August 2012
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Volunteer Needs 
 
What you can do to help:
  • Office reception help - Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-5 (2 and 3 hour shifts available!)
  • Political advocacy
  • Event planning and marketing
  • Data entry
  • Tabling and outreach
  • Medical records and filing
  • Cleaning cabinets
  • Lawn beautification
  • Social Media
Email Betty to get involved!

Thank You to Our Awesome Summer Volunteers!  

 

 

We have been really fortunate this summer to have an awesome team of volunteers! Big Thanks to Sara G., Jill D., Lauren M., Harper, Ruthie, and others for all your amazing help so far this summer. Special shout-outs to Molly P. and April for the massive amounts of help you provided - we will miss you! 

 

Our Volunteers of the Month included superstar activists Diana F. in May,Yhoselin in June and Wallis in July. You all rock the casbah!

 

To join the ranks of these outstanding volunteers, email Betty to discuss your volunteer plan!

Deadline Extended and New Marketing Positions for Fall Internships!  

  
FWHC seeks two more interns for August-December 2012 to assist with Marketing and Grassroots Organizing. If you enjoy working with people, public speaking, and working in collaborative teams, this internship is for you! 

 

The Grassroots Organizing Intern will assist the Volunteer Coordinator with managing the volunteer program, help conduct our special event "An Unruly Night of Political Misbehavin'" on October 25, and help to develop volunteer policies and procedures.  We need some strong candidates for this position - deadline extended to August 17!

 

Our Marketing and Communications Manager is now seeking interns in three areas: Web Development & Communications, Research & Communications, and Marketing & Communications are three positions that will be available in the fall 2012 and spring 2013 sessions. Please visit the website  for more details on these positions!

 

To apply, please visit the website and carefully read the internship overview. Download the application and submit all materials by Friday, August 17.

 

Please email Betty or call 404-248-5445 for more information.

Happenings 
Job & Career Corner
 
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Job Hunting Resources

 

Visit the new Workforce Development Resource Center

 

  The Adamsville Workforce Development Resource Center is now open to assist job seekers!

 

Jobs - Many New Postings!

  

Program Coordinator for Leadership Development GALEO

 

Campaign Director for Civic Engagement and Voter Registration 

Asian American Legal Advocacy Center, Inc. 

 

Senior Education Policy Analyst 

Georgia Budget and Policy Institute 

 

 Legal Assistant 

Lambda Legal, Southern Regional Office, Atlanta


Southeast Regional Director Black Alliance for Just Immigration 

 

Atlanta Project Director 

National Domestic Workers Alliance

 

Managing Director - Part-time 

Health Students Taking Action Together (HealthSTAT)

 

MomsRising Fellowship Announcement

 

Multiple Positions

Georgia State University

 

Special: Job Training for Veterans

  Writer, National Plan of Action 

US Human Rights Network

 

Internships! 

 

Southern Center for Human Rights

 

US Human Rights Network

 

Political and Grassroots Organizing Internships beginning August 2012

Feminist Women's Health Center - that's us! 

 

Fellowship

 

21st Century Fellowship for LGBT People of Color

Pipeline Project

Greetings!

Fall is so close we can almost taste it! With the summer winding down and election season gearing up, we are keeping close eyes on reproductive health, rights and justice issues. Our big outreach season starts with Grant Park's Summer Shade on August 25-26, and with it comes a big need for YOU and other volunteers who help us educate the public on our issues, programs and services. Help us to lead, educate and advocate this fall by becoming a volunteer or amping up your involvement!

Feminist Women's Health Center is proud to be a leader in the reproductive justice movement in the southeast - but we can't do it without our volunteers. Here are just a few ways you can get involved in making a difference.
Now is a more important time than ever to get involved with reproductive health, rights and justice. Get involved today and make a difference - call 404.248.5445 or email Betty to get started!

Thanks for all you do,

Feminist Women's Health Center
Black Power Mixtape Screening at the Feminist Film Forum at FWHC on Thursday, August 16 from 7-9pm! 

 

To secure a spot, RSVP today. You can also email Jane or call 404-248-5445 for more information.

Make a Difference Doing Outreach for Reproductive Health and Rights at Atlanta-area Festivals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Atlanta has so many festivals and fairs, we can hardly keep count! One of the easiest and most fun ways to make a difference is by doing outreach at the Feminist Women's Health Center's festival tables. We will have a table at Grant Park's Summer Shade on Saturday, August 25 and Sunday, August 26 and are looking forward to providing information about the Feminist Women's Health Center's services and programs - as well as meeting excited people who would like to volunteer! Other upcoming festivals include Reynoldstown Wheelbarrow Fest on September 8, East Atlanta Strut on September 17, and of course Atlanta Pride on October 13-14! Our final festival of the season will be Rainbow Wedding on November 4. It takes a small army of volunteers to help us do outreach, so please sign up today!

 

Tabling and outreach is a good opportunity for any volunteers who wish to learn about outreach within the community! If this is you please email Betty, or call 404-248-5445 for more information. You can also RSVP to join us for our Tabling and Outreach Training on Tuesday, August 28 from 6-8:30pm. See you there!

Let's Get Political! With the Voice Beyond Choice Campaign

"Get physical" screenshot courtesy of whatculture.com
Are you frustrated with politics these days? Would you like to talk about legislative issues with your friends in a relaxed environment? If so, host a Voice Beyond Choice house party! These fun, informal parties engage the public in casual discussion about reproductive issues and related politics in the community. At the party, Voice Beyond Choice speakers present a short power-point to facilitate conversation that moves beyond the limiting "pro-choice, pro-life" dichotomy. Hosting a party is no hassle. All one needs is a safe space, a few friends to invite, and cheap wine. Parties are typically 10-15 people in size, ensuring a cozy evening of friends, food, and lively discussion. Contact Betty to set one up!

 

Another way to get political is by Influencing a legislator during the summer - it can be as easy as setting up an appointment with your elected official. While Feminist Women's Health Center cannot endorse candidates or a

Voice Beyond Choice
particular party, the organization strives to maintain a strong presence in the community by visiting legislators in their residing districts throughout the summer and making sure reproductive justice is on their agenda.  FWHC activists perform an in-district check
by making an appointment with a legislator and briefly discussing the issues that matter most: maintaining an individual's bodily autonomy by ensuring reproductive health and rights are truly available for all. These in-district checks serve as a constant reminder to local officials that reproductive justice is an issue in the community year-round. The legislative session may be out, but FWHC activists are diligent in making reproductive justice a reality!  

 

If you're interested in hosting a VBC House Party or doing an In-district Check in your area then email Betty or call 404-248-5445.

FEATURED ARTICLE ~  

Faking a Hate Crime: What It Means to the LGBTQ Community and Its Supporters

 
By Volunteer Melissa Cruz

His lips still lined with dried blood, a deep cut displayed high on the cheek bone, 22 year old Joseph Baken snapped a photograph of himself that would soon go viral as the current symbol in the struggle for the LGBTQ movement.  It would then only take a matter of days, coupled with a telling video shot of Baken mishandling a backflip and crashing face first into sidewalk near the club where the hate crime allegedly took place, to learn that the story was fake.  Those originally outraged at the perpetrator then had to turn their feelings towards Baken, a momentary rally around the man instead forming into a mob spread by disheartened, and in many cases plainly disgusted, online commentators. 

 

Many fear that Baken's false report will make it more difficult to distinguish the validity of a hate crime case against the LGBTQ community.  If this individual can lie about his injuries, why believe the others? 

 

However, as members and supporters of the community, we need to approach the answer differently.  We first need to address the culture in which this could exist, and consequently what it is about our culture that has grown so comfortable and passive about the revolting treatment of homosexuality that it is easily believed, if not practically permissible. 

Statistically, it can be trying to keep up with the numbers.  2011 had the highest number of anti-gay murders ever recorded by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs.  Specifically, those belonging to a minority group and transgendered women were most likely to be targeted.  In 2009, the FBI reported that there were 1,254 sexual orientation driven hate crimes committed in the United States alone.  Many, however, go unreported.

 

We have become accustomed to inactively digesting snippets of information regarding hate crimes at all hours of the day- it has turned into a horrific piece of society that we can all but ignore by turning off our televisions and closing our newspapers. 

What we must be aware of is that we need a cultural revision, a reawakening that not only addresses the facts but also replaces the statistic with a human being.  We can't comfortably use someone as a martyr for our cause; likewise, we have to understand the culture in which unjustly labeling yourself as one seems like it would not and should not create a backlash.  We must garner our support for all people, not just ones that fit our standards for a figurehead of the movement.  Consequently, we must be aware of our actions and have respect for those who have been the victims of hate crimes.  Both the boy that cried wolf and the village that responded - or ultimately ignores -- must be held accountable.  

   

The Feminist Women's Health Center must react similarly to our own issues, as they are often in alignment with those faced by the LGBTQ community.  Dealing with intolerance perpetuated by a negative mentality on sexual orientation is similar to the stigma received by those fighting for reproductive justice.  Members in each movement push for the basic human rights often denied them for a variety of unjust factors - looking at this case in its essence, therefore, leaves us in related struggles.  Likewise, we have to be cognizant of our own place in the movement.  In times of trouble we cannot use our bodies as an internally weak symbol of pure martyrdom.  Instead, they must become a vessel to perpetuate strength and justification for the reproductive justice movement at large.  


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