[Badgirlz-list] FYI: contact email address change for Toronto Reading & Discussion Series -- In Her Own Words

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FYI: a small typo has been brought to my attention and there=92s been a
change to the contact email address for this reading/discussion
series...
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PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY AND FREELY...PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY AND
FREELY...PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY AND FREELY...
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Given that academic studies become less and less linked to struggles for
change even as economically these environments become prohibitively
expensive, thereby excluding those who might wish to seek knowledge
within the walls of the ivory tower...
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Given that literary elitism and cliquishness often function as
deterrents, intimidating those who could most benefit from being able to
access words of consciousness and resistance...
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Given that wisdom and resistance knowing should be rendered accessible
to all and should be pursued for their own sake not for the sake of
societal validation, access to power [over] or professional
accreditation...
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Given that the passing on of wisdom and resistance knowing has never
been/was never meant to be exclusively the domain of the middle/upper
classes or those with access to various kinds of privilege who often
disdain knowledge gained from hands-on living...
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How does this sharing, this passing on of understanding bypass or defy
dominant educational/social structures and become transparent, open to
all/any/as many who desire it?
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R/EVOLUTION WORKSHOPS FOR CHANGE PRESENTS...
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In Her Own Words:
8 Seminars Resonating with Speaking, Power, Resistance Culture and
Consciousness
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This 8 segment, 8 month series draws from the works of writer/rogue
scholar/workshop facilitator and multi-media creatrix T.J. Bryan aka
Tenacious.
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Dates:                Second Thursday of every month
Begins June 2004 [break during December], running through to February
2005
Time:                  7pm-10pm
Location:           Toronto
Accessible Venue TBA
This is a critical reading and facilitated discussion series that will
be useful for young[er] queers [especially for younger queers of
colour], queer artists/activists, feminist workers, university students,
career academics, paid community organizers/agency workers and
grassroots activists but with wider applications for anyone wanting to
make more political links in their own lives as they seek to develop a
more layered and complex understanding of:
1.    Social Justice
2.    Black Consciousness
3.    Racism
4.    Critical Black Feminism
5.    White supremacy culture
6.    Queer Culture
7.    Diasporas on First Nations=92 Land
8.    Black Consciousness and S/M
9.    Empowered Consciousness and The Colonized/Oppressed
10.    Immigrant Children
11.    The 2nd and 3rd Wave Feminist Political Divide
12.    Perspectives on Black Queer Youth in the Mid & Late 90=92s
13.    Poverty, Poor Bashing and Classism
14.    Caribbean immigrant experience in Canada
15.    Caribbean queer/wimmin living in Canada
16.    Radical Femme[ininity] and Gender
17.    Bi Sexualities
18.    People of colour and [sexual] decolonization
19.    Black wimmin and mothering
20.    Radical mothering
21.    Racialized Desire
22.    Queer mothering
23.    Languages of Resistance
24.    Erotophobia
25.    Homophobia and Heterocentrism
26.    Memory
27.    Hybrid culture
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1. Once Upon a Time... My Herstorical Black Lesbian Feminist Identity
Reading and Discussion Material:   "Pure"  =A9 1994 [Fireweed: A =
Feminist
Quarterly of Writing, Politics, Art & Culture, Da Juice!, Issue# 49 &
Anthologized in Does Your Mama Know?, Redbone Black Lesbian Press]
This 3 hour seminar includes a reading of the writer=92s exploration of
what it meant for her to define as a Black lesbian. This reading charts
the space between first wave Black lesbian feminists and the
presence/rise of 2nd wave feminism.
2. Re-visioning interracial Lesbian of Colour Relationship Dynamics
Reading and Discussion Material: "Walking the Razor=92s Edge: An Open
Letter To My Honey/Of Chocolate Queens and Rice Queens"  =A9 1995 [Fuse,
DIY Issue & Queering Absinthe, Vol. 9, Issue 1]
This 3 hour seminar incorporates the writer=92s experience with doing
relationship across two very different people of colour cultures, ways
of speaking, sharing and across historical, social divides.
3. Compartmentalization, Childhood Resistance Tactics and the
Development of A Defiant Psyche
Reading and Discussion Material:  "Mighty Morphin Woman: A Self-Portrait
In Perpetual Progress"  =A9 1996 [Matriart =96 Building Facades Vol. =
6:4]
How does the identity rely on division, denial and forgetfulness to
survive the pain of oppression and attempted subjugation? This 3 hr
seminar explores the writer=92s deconstruction of her own boxed and
divided childhood/adult identities.
4. The Claiming of A Black Conscious, Pro S/M, Queer Identity
Reading and Discussion Material: "Melting My Iron Maiden"  =A9 1996
[Anthologized in Maka =96 Diasporic Juks: Contemporary Writings by =
Queers
of African Descent & Tessera, Contemporary Feminist Baroque, Vol. 24]
How do African descended queer wimmin/people continue to grow and become
more of our sexual selves in the face of intense racial, homophobic,
misogynist oppression? This 3 hour seminar poses a pivotal question: How
do we reckon with the psychological residue of colonization even as this
by-product of the Middle Passage is the very thing limiting our
abilities to make conscious choices for pleasure and exploration
grounded in a liberational politic?
5. Lipsticked Defiance: Black Conscious Femme[ininities]
Reading and Discussion Material:  "It Takes Ballz: Reflections of An
Attitudinal, Black Atlantic, Femme Vixen In Tha Makin=92"  =A9 1999
[Anthologized in Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity, Arsenal Pulp Press]
Femme[ininity] as defined [un]consciously by white, European culture
dominated queer community leaves little space for expressions that
foreground an experience of Black beauty and Diasporic Africanness. This
3 hour seminar charts this territory, offering up insights into one
Black femme=92s resistance to artificially imposed norms that effect
everything from clothing to expressions of desire.
6. Body Issues, PhatPhobia and Politicized, Historicized Resistance
Reading and Discussion Material:  "The Perfect Fit?"  =A9 1999 =
[Fireweed:
A Feminist Quarterly of Writing, Politics, Art & Culture -- The Fat
Issue]
Reflecting fat and body through a glass darkly, This 3 hour seminar
poses some integral questions about a fat grrrl revolution which has
been defined by whiteness. How does a Black conscious good-sized gyal
spread the movement at its seams, stretching consciousness of fat until
she fits?=20
7. Pushing Tha Envelope...Darkly: Desiring Sex Positive Change Beyond
Repression and Thought Control
Reading and Discussion Material:  "Un/CUT: One Diasporic Pervert
Challenges Erotophobia and Censorship"  =A9 2002 [Fireweed: A Feminist
Quarterly of Writing, Politics, Art & Culture, In Visible, Issue # &
Tessera -- Baroque Feminisms, Vol. 24]
Nudging the boundaries of what it means to decolonize oneself fully,
this 3 hour seminar explores possible modes of defiance as a means to
transcend oppressive social/sexual taboos internalized in African
Diaspora.
8. In Her Own Words: Reclaiming Motherhood as a Radically Black
Conscious, Queer, Feminist Practice
Reading and Discussion Material:  "MamaWORK: Transgressing Toward The
Future"  =A9 2002 [Keynote address from MamaWORK: A One Day Symposium on
Mothering Against the Grain]
The words and mamawork of mothers who are systemically oppressed often
end up being absorbed into the academic writings and studies of
middle-class, white feminist theoreticians who gain privilege, status
and wisdom through the experiences of others. This 3 hour seminar
repositions mamawork as a sphere of expertise defined by race,
sexuality, gender and political radicality, through conscious
interrogation of traditional mothering practices.
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Cost $40 per seminar or $280 [a saving of $40] for the whole series.
Please note that sliding scale right down to $0 is available for those
who are systemically oppressed/dominated by class stratification and
economic hierarchies. This means that if you want to attend but you
don=92t have the money because of poverty, please still email. We can =
find
a way to make it work. For example, attempts will be made to establish
community-based partnerships between funded organizations and cash poor
community members interested in attending this series. This also means
that if you cannot [verrrry different than choose NOT to] afford to pay
fully or at all, you will still be admitted without shame, guilt, or the
usual trappings of class [un]consciousness. Most importantly this means
that if you know you can afford to pay the higher scale, please do so as
this will consciously support the attendance of those who may not have
otherwise been able to afford this type of learning situation.=20
About the speaker and discussion facilitator:
T.J. Bryan aka Tenacious is 36 year old, deviant, Bajan-born, working
class, dark daughta, out queer femme and militant mama who lives, loves,
works and struggles here on first nations=92 land. A radical third wave
feminist and ethnical slut, T.J. is a non-unionized, freelance,
grassroots community worker who has been sharing her ideas and wisdom
since she came out as a Black queer youth 14 years ago. A rogue
scholar/theoretician and political mercenary T.J.=92s wordskillz are her
weapons of choice. She is an outspoken, uncontrollable lyric-smith whose
work has been published in Canada, the US and in Europe, including
Canadian Woman Studies, Fireweed, Fuse, Now Magazine, This Magazine,
Tessera, Thamyris, Mix Magazine and On Our Backs, to name a few. Her
writings have been in twelve (and counting) black/young
women's/lesbian/queer/feminist/erotic book length anthologies including
Does Your Mama Know? (Redbone Press), Maka =96 Diasporic Juks: Writings =
by
Queers of African Descent (Sister Vision Press), Queer View Mirror I&II
(Arsenal Pulp Press),  Hot & Bothered I,II&III, Eye Wuz Here (Douglas &
McIntyre), Turbo Chicks (Sumach Press), Brazen Femme (Arsenal Pulp
Press) and The Best of On Our Backs (HAF Publishing). She is a former
Fireweed collective member and one of the co-founders of the now defunct
Black lesbian production house -- De Poonani Posse who co-created Da
Juice!. T.J. has been reading and performing her work over the past 14
years at events and Festivals such as Pussy Pen [PolyVISIONS], Frenzied,
Clit Lit, Power Femme, When Sistas Speak, Sugar & Spice,  Aat In
Revolution, Strange Sisters, Mayworks, Groundswell, Cheap Queers, Desh
Pardesh, Photo Fetish, Pussy Palace and the UofT Reading Series.
For more information on the seminar series or to register for In Her Own
Words email  <mailto:r/evolutionworkshops@???>
r_evolutionworkshops@???.
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About R/evolution Workshops for Change
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R/evolution Workshops is the brainchild of T.J. Bryan aka Tenacious, a
working class resistah bent making her way through this life by doing
what bell hooks refers to as =91right work=92.
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T.J.=92s definition of RIGHT WORK:
A chosen activity or task that feeds the spirit, heart, mind and body
while contributing something to the collective well-being as it allows
room for growth on all fronts.
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T.J. does right work when she puts her intelligence, her education, her
creativity and her power at the service of her political consciousness
and her life ethic. For T.J. right work is about exerting copious
amounts of will and energy to directly challenge dominant power
structures in and outside communities of resistance. This work makes
life worth living.
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R/evolution Workshops, her proposed site of relentlessly and politically
conscious resistance and transformation through accessible grassroots
education, purposefully positions itself outside the constrictions and
limitations of funded, community organization focused activism. Working
from without instead of within, R/evolution Workshops offers empathic,
thought provoking, critical, non-judgmental workshops grounded in
everyday analysis and the collective knowing as opposed to being rooted
in academic and elitist notions of intelligence which prop up outmoded
ideas about wisdom being the domain of those with power.
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T.J.=92s vision for R/evolution Workshops privileges a peer interaction
model where all are welcome and where those who come empower themselves
by molding the learning environment to suit the needs of their
consciousness raising goals. R/evolution Workshops discourages the
artificial, power-based client/professional, consumer/service provider
dynamics that have so become the hallmark of funded/paid social service,
community organizing work and activism at this moment in time.
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Workshops can be tailored to women of all gendered identities,
intersexed people and men of all gendered identities who are of of First
Nations and/or of (Diasporic) / (Continental) African, (South)/(East)
Asian, Arab, Middle Eastern, Latino, Hispanic, Chicano, Jewish, Pacific
Islander, Metis, Mestiza, Mixed Race, Biracial, Mixed Heritage or of
European descent and of all/any sexualities and/or sexual persuasions.
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These workshops, presentations and facilitated discussions aim to convey
a greater grasp of the sexism and patriarchy, racism and white
supremacy, heterosexism and homophobia, gender and trans oppressions,
erotophobia and conservatism, linguistic and elitist oppression,
imperialism, colonialism, globalization, capitalism, consumerism,
classism, ableism, fatphobia and lookism in the surrounding society
while urging participants to focus on developing critiques of
oppression, privilege, power and dominance at personal, community,
organizational and societal levels.
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R/evolution Workshops also offers consultations to community groups,
organizations and agencies seeking greater accountability in communities
of resistance increasingly defined by market concerns and
corporate-style agency structurings. Independent group discussion-based
workshops challenge paid activist professionals to link their political
beliefs to their lived realities in ways that re-affirm a revolutionary
politic grounded in social change. Speaks and gatherings offer freelance
and paid workers opportunities to re-commit to the ethics of doing right
community work from a place of alliance instead of competition and
through realigning organizational mandates and day-to-day workings in
such a way as to remain reflective of liberation politics for social
justice and change.=20
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As a grassroots consultation and education organization with a mandate
grounded not just in the political and the social, but also in a
powerful ethic, R/evolution Workshops stridently resists state and
dominant power co-optation. As a result, financially speaking,
R/evolution Workshops for Change functions on the outskirts of the
Matrix.
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It is not a registered charity with the Canada Customs & Revenue Agency.
It does not receive funding from any capitalist corporation or from any
foundation set up by those who have benefited from exploitative,
capitalist pursuits in the corporate world.
It is not supported by the United Way or by any of the larger [not] at
arms length public sector granting or funding bodies whose support comes
at so high a price to the mandates and agendas of the organizations they
oversee from a distance.
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Funds to maintain the autonomy of R/evolution Workshops come from
sliding scale fees-for-service at a rate of pay that falls significantly
far beneath the living wage of most unionized, paid community
workers/activists/organizers.
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T.J. wishes she didn=92t have to charge at all. However, R/evolution
Workshops is currently supported in this capitalist environment %100
through sliding scale fee-for-service work. R/evolution Workshops for
Change strives to make all workshops, speaking engagements and
gatherings as economically accessible as possible. Barter for services
is always an option to be explored. Scholarships in the form of
subsidization via full payment by economically privileged attendees is
an ongoing struggle. If you need a portion of the course covered in
scholarship via sliding scale please ask. R/evolution Workshops is
committed to establishing partnerships between economically challenged
participants who will be supported to seek assistance from their
workplaces, community agencies or from institutions where they
volunteer. If you and/or your institution can afford the higher rate, it
will help T.J. through R/evolution Workshops to continue this valuable,
frontline, consciousness-raising work.
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For more information about R/evolution Workshops for Change, to find out
more about speaking engagements, organization trainings or group
workshops or to find out how you can support this grassroots endeavour
email  <mailto:r/evolutionworkshops@???>
r_evolutionworkshops@???.
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[last updated February 5, 2004]
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FYI:
a small typo has been brought to my attention and there’s been a =
change
to the contact email address for this reading/discussion =
series...<o:p></o:p>

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ont>

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY AND
FREELY...PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY AND FREELY...PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY AND =
FREELY...<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></f=
ont>

Given that academic =
studies
become less and less linked to struggles for change even as economically =
these
environments become prohibitively expensive, thereby excluding those who =
might
wish to seek knowledge within the walls of the ivory =
tower...<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></f=
ont>

Given that literary =
elitism and
cliquishness often function as deterrents, intimidating those who could =
most
benefit from being able to access words of consciousness and =
resistance...<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></f=
ont>

Given that wisdom and =
resistance
knowing should be rendered accessible to all and should be pursued for =
their
own sake not for the sake of societal validation, access to power [over] =
or
professional accreditation...<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></f=
ont>

Given that the passing on =
of
wisdom and resistance knowing has never been/was never meant to be =
exclusively
the domain of the middle/upper classes or those with access to various =
kinds of
privilege who often disdain knowledge gained from hands-on =
living...<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></f=
ont>

How does this sharing, =
this
passing on of understanding bypass or defy dominant educational/social
structures and become transparent, open to all/any/as many who desire =
it?<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

R/EVOLUTION WORKSHOPS FOR CHANGE =
PRESENTS...<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></fo=
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In Her Own Words:<o:p></o:p>

8 Seminars Resonating with Speaking, Power, Resistance Culture =
and
Consciousness<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

This 8 segment, 8 month =
series draws
from the works of writer/rogue scholar/workshop facilitator and =
multi-media creatrix T.J. Bryan aka
Tenacious.<o:p></o:p>

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Dates: =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =
Second
Thursday of every month<o:p></o:p>

Begins =
June 2004
[break during December], running through to February =
2005<o:p></o:p>

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<st1:City><st1:place>Toronto</st1:p=
lace></st1:City><o:p></o:p></p=
>

Accessible Venue
TBA<o:p></o:p>

This is a critical reading =
and
facilitated discussion series that will be useful for young[er]
queers [especially for younger queers of colour],
queer artists/activists, feminist workers, university students, career
academics, paid community organizers/agency workers and grassroots =
activists
but with wider applications for anyone wanting to make more political =
links in
their own lives as they seek to develop a more layered and complex
understanding of:<o:p></o:p>

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.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Social
     Justice<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Black
     Consciousness<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Racism<o:p></o:p></span></fo=
nt></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Critical
     Black Feminism<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>White
     supremacy culture<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Queer
     Culture<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Diasporas
     on First Nations&#8217; Land<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Black
     Consciousness and S/M<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Empowered
     Consciousness and The =
Colonized/Oppressed<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Immigrant
     Children<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The 2<sup>nd</sup>
     and 3<sup>rd</sup> Wave Feminist Political =
Divide<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Perspectives
     on Black Queer Youth in the Mid & Late =
90&#8217;s<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Poverty,
     Poor Bashing and <span =
class=3DSpellE>Classism</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><st1:place><font
      size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Caribbean</span></font></st1=
:place><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
     immigrant experience in =
</span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
       size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Canada</span></font></st1:pl=
ace></st1:country-region><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></l=
i>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><st1:place><font
      size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Caribbean</span></font></st1=
:place><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> queer/<span
     class=3DSpellE>wimmin</span> living in =
</span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
       size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Canada</span></font></st1:pl=
ace></st1:country-region><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></l=
i>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Radical
     Femme[<span class=3DSpellE>ininity</span>] and =
Gender<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bi
     Sexualities<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>People
     of <span class=3DSpellE>colour</span> and [sexual] =
decolonization<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Black <span
     class=3DSpellE>wimmin</span> and =
mothering<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Radical
     mothering<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><span
     class=3DSpellE><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
     font-family:Arial'>Racialized</span></font></span><font size=3D2 =
face=3DArial><span
     style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> =
Desire<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Queer
     mothering<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Languages
     of Resistance<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><span
     class=3DSpellE><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
     font-family:Arial'>Erotophobia</span></font></span><font size=3D2
     face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></l=
i>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Homophobia
     and <span =
class=3DSpellE>Heterocentrism</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Memory<o:p></o:p></span></fo=
nt></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list =
.5in'><font
     size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hybrid
     culture<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ol>

<o:p> </o:p></f=
ont>

1. =
=
Once
Upon a Time... My Herstorical Black Lesbian =
Feminist
Identity<o:p></o:p>

<st1:City><st1:place>Reading=
</st1:place></st1:City> and Discussion Material:   "Pure" 
=A9 =
1994 [Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly of =
Writing,
Politics, Art & Culture, Da =
Juice!, Issue#
49 & Anthologized in Does Your Mama Know?, Redbone Black Lesbian =
Press]<o:p></o:p>

This 3 hour seminar =
includes a
reading of the writer’s exploration of what it meant for her to =
define as
a Black lesbian. This reading charts the space between first wave Black =
lesbian
feminists and the presence/rise of 2nd wave =
feminism.<o:p></o:p>

2. =
=
Re-visioning
interracial Lesbian of Colour Relationship =
Dynamics<o:p></o:p></p=
>

<st1:City><st1:place>Reading=
</st1:place></st1:City> and Discussion Material: "Walking the
Razor’s Edge: An Open Letter To My Honey/Of Chocolate =
<st1:place>Queens</em=
></st1:place><font
size=3D2 face=3DArial> and Rice =
<st1:place>Queens</em=
></st1:place><font
size=3D2 face=3DArial>"  =A9<font=

size=3D2 face=3DArial> 1995 [Fuse,
DIY Issue & Queering Absinthe, Vol. 9, Issue =
1]<o:p></o:p>

This 3 hour seminar =
incorporates the
writer’s experience with doing relationship across two very =
different
people of colour cultures, ways of speaking, =
sharing
and across historical, social divides.<o:p></o:p>

3. =
=
Compartmentalization,
Childhood Resistance Tactics and the Development of A
Defiant Psyche<o:p></o:p>

<st1:City><st1:place>Reading=
</st1:place></st1:City> and Discussion Material:  "=
Mighty Morphin
Woman: A Self-Portrait In Perpetual Progress"  =A9 =
1996 [Matriart – Building Facades Vol. =
6:4]<o:p></o:p>

How does the identity rely =
on
division, denial and forgetfulness to survive the pain of oppression and
attempted subjugation? This 3 hr seminar explores the writer’s
deconstruction of her own boxed and divided childhood/adult =
identities.<o:p></o:p>

4. =
=
The
Claiming of A Black Conscious, Pro S/M, Queer =
Identity<o:p></o:p></p=
>

<st1:City><st1:place>Reading=
</st1:place></st1:City> and Discussion Material: "Melting My
Iron Maiden"  =
=A9 1996
[Anthologized in Maka – Diasporic =
Juks: Contemporary Writings by Queers of African =
Descent
& Tessera, Contemporary Feminist =
Baroque, Vol.
24]<o:p></o:p>

How do African descended =
queer wimmin/people continue to grow and become more of =
our
sexual selves in the face of intense racial, homophobic, misogynist =
oppression?
This 3 hour seminar poses a pivotal question: How do we reckon with the
psychological residue of colonization even as this by-product of the =
Middle
Passage is the very thing limiting our abilities to make conscious =
choices for
pleasure and exploration grounded in a liberational
politic?<o:p></o:p>

5. =
Lipsticked =
<st1:City><st1:place>=
Defiance</st1:place></st1:City>=
: Black
Conscious Femme[ininities]<o:p></o:p></p=
>

<st1:City><st1:place>Reading=
</st1:place></st1:City> and Discussion =
Material:  "It
Takes Ballz: Reflections of An Attitudinal, =
Black <st1:place>Atlantic</=
em></st1:place>, Femme
Vixen In Tha Makin’"  =A9<font=
size=3D2
face=3DArial> 1999 =
[Anthologized
in Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity, Arsenal Pulp Press]<o:p></o:p>=


Femme[<=
span
class=3DSpellE>ininity] as defined =
[un]consciously by
white, European culture dominated queer community leaves little space =
for
expressions that foreground an experience of Black beauty and Diasporic =
Africanness. This 3 hour seminar charts this =
territory,
offering up insights into one Black femme’s resistance to =
artificially
imposed norms that effect everything from =
clothing to
expressions of desire.<o:p></o:p>

6. =
=
Body
Issues, PhatPhobia and Politicized, =
Historicized
Resistance<o:p></o:p>

<st1:City><st1:place>Reading=
</st1:place></st1:City> and Discussion Material:  "The Perfect Fit?"  =
=A9 1999 [Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly of =
Writing,
Politics, Art & Culture -- The Fat =
Issue]<o:p></o:p>

Reflecting fat and body =
through a
glass darkly, This 3 hour seminar poses some integral questions about a =
fat
grrrl revolution which has been defined by whiteness. How does a Black
conscious good-sized gyal spread the =
movement at its
seams, stretching consciousness of fat until she fits? =
<o:p></o:p>

7. =
=
Pushing Tha Envelope...Darkly: Desiring Sex Positive =
Change Beyond Repression and Thought =
Control<o:p></o:p></p=
>

Reading and Discussion =
Material:  "Un/CUT: =
One Diasporic
Pervert Challenges Erotophobia and
Censorship"  =A9 2002 [Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly of Writing, Politics, Art & =
Culture,
In Visible, Issue # & Tessera -- Baroque
Feminisms, Vol. 24]<o:p></o:p>

Nudging the boundaries of =
what it
means to decolonize oneself fully, this 3 hour seminar explores possible =
modes
of defiance as a means to transcend oppressive social/sexual taboos
internalized in African Diaspora.<o:p></o:p>

8. =
In Her Own Words: Reclaiming
Motherhood as a Radically Black Conscious, Queer, Feminist =
Practice<o:p></o:p></p=
>

<st1:City><st1:place>Reading=
</st1:place></st1:City> and Discussion =
Material:  "MamaWORK: Transgressing Toward The =
Future"  =A9<font=

size=3D2 face=3DArial> 2002
[Keynote address from MamaWORK: A One Day =
Symposium
on Mothering Against the Grain]<o:p></o:p>=


The words and mamawork
of mothers who are systemically oppressed often end up being absorbed =
into the
academic writings and studies of middle-class, white feminist =
theoreticians who
gain privilege, status and wisdom through the experiences of others. =
This 3
hour seminar repositions mamawork as a =
sphere of
expertise defined by race, sexuality, gender and political radicality,
through conscious interrogation of traditional mothering =
practices.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></fo=
nt>

Cost $40 per seminar or =
$280 [a
saving of $40] for the whole series. Please note that sliding
scale right down to $0 is available for those who are =
systemically oppressed/dominated by class stratification and =
economic
hierarchies. This means that if you want to attend but you don’t =
have the
money because of poverty, please still email. We can find a way to make =
it
work. For example, attempts will be made to establish community-based
partnerships between funded organizations and cash poor community =
members
interested in attending this series. This also means that if you cannot =
[verrrry different than choose NOT to] afford to =
pay fully
or at all, you will still be admitted without shame, guilt, or the usual
trappings of class [un]consciousness. Most =
importantly
this means that if you know you can afford to pay the higher scale, =
please do
so as this will consciously support the attendance of those who may not =
have otherwise
been able to afford this type of learning situation. =
<o:p></o:p>

About the speaker and discussion =
facilitator:<o:p></o:p>

T.J. Bryan aka =
Tenacious is 36 year
old, deviant, Bajan-born, working class, =
dark daughta, out queer femme and militant mama who =
lives,
loves, works and struggles here on first nations’ land. A radical =
third
wave feminist and ethnical slut, T.J. is a non-unionized, freelance, =
grassroots
community worker who has been sharing her ideas and wisdom since she =
came out
as a Black queer youth 14 years ago. A rogue scholar/theoretician and =
political
mercenary T.J.’s wordskillz
are her weapons of choice. She is an outspoken, uncontrollable =
lyric-smith
whose work has been published in Canada, the US and in Europe, including
Canadian Woman Studies, Fireweed, Fuse, Now Magazine, This Magazine, =
Tessera, Thamyris, Mix =
Magazine
and On Our Backs, to name a few. Her writings have been in twelve (and
counting) black/young women's/lesbian/queer/feminist/erotic book length
anthologies including Does Your Mama Know? (Redbone Press), Maka
– Diasporic Juks: Writings by Queers =
of African
Descent (Sister Vision Press), Queer View Mirror I&II=A0 (Arsenal Pulp Press),=A0 Hot & Bothered I,II&III, =
Eye Wuz Here (Douglas & McIntyre), Turbo Chicks =
(Sumach Press), Brazen Femme (Arsenal Pulp Press) =
and The
Best of On Our Backs (HAF Publishing). She is a former Fireweed =
collective
member and one of the co-founders of the now defunct Black lesbian =
production
house -- De Poonani Posse who co-created =
Da Juice!. T.J. has =
been reading
and performing her work over the past 14 years at events and Festivals =
such as
Pussy Pen [PolyVISIONS], Frenzied, Clit Lit, =
Power
Femme, When Sistas Speak, Sugar & =
Spice,=A0 Aat In =
Revolution,
Strange Sisters, Mayworks, Groundswell, =
Cheap Queers,
Desh Pardesh, =
Photo Fetish,
<st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Pussy</st1:Pla=
ceName> =
<st1:PlaceType>Palace</st1:Pl=
aceType></st1:place> and the UofT Reading Series.<o:p></o:p>

For more information on the =
seminar
series or to register for In Her Own Words email <a
href=3D"mailto:r/evolutionworkshops@???">r_evolutionworkshops@???</a>.<o:p>=
</o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></fo=
nt>

<o:p> </o:p></f=
ont>

***************************=
***<o:p></o:p>

About R/evolution =
Workshops for
Change<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></fo=
nt>

R/evolution Workshops is =
the
brainchild of T.J. Bryan aka Tenacious, a =
working
class resistah bent making her way through =
this life
by doing what bell hooks refers to as ‘right =
work’.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></fo=
nt>

T.J.’s</=
span> definition
of RIGHT WORK:<o:p></o:p>

A chosen activity or task =
that feeds
the spirit, heart, mind and body while contributing something to the =
collective
well-being as it allows room for growth on all =
fronts.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></fo=
nt>

T.J. does right work when =
she puts
her intelligence, her education, her creativity and her power at the =
service of
her political consciousness and her life ethic. For T.J. right work is =
about
exerting copious amounts of will and energy to directly challenge =
dominant
power structures in and outside communities of resistance. This work =
makes life
worth living.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></fo=
nt>

R/evolution Workshops, her =
proposed
site of relentlessly and politically conscious resistance and =
transformation
through accessible grassroots education, purposefully positions itself =
outside
the constrictions and limitations of funded, community organization =
focused
activism. Working from without instead of within, R/evolution Workshops =
offers empathic, thought provoking, critical, =
non-judgmental
workshops grounded in everyday analysis and the collective knowing as =
opposed
to being rooted in academic and elitist notions of intelligence which =
prop up
outmoded ideas about wisdom being the domain of those with =
power.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></fo=
nt>

T.J.’s</=
span> vision for
R/evolution Workshops privileges a peer interaction model where all are =
welcome
and where those who come empower themselves by molding the learning =
environment
to suit the needs of their consciousness raising goals. R/evolution =
Workshops
discourages the artificial, power-based client/professional, =
consumer/service
provider dynamics that have so become the hallmark of funded/paid social
service, community organizing work and activism at this moment in =
time.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></fo=
nt>

Workshops can be tailored =
to women
of all gendered identities, intersexed =
people and men
of all gendered identities who are of of =
First
Nations and/or of (Diasporic) / (Continental) African, (South)/(East) Asian, Arab, Middle Eastern, Latino, =
Hispanic,
Chicano, Jewish, Pacific Islander, Metis, =
Mestiza, Mixed Race, Biracial, Mixed Heritage or =
of
European descent and of all/any sexualities and/or sexual =
persuasions.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></fo=
nt>

These workshops, =
presentations and
facilitated discussions aim to convey a greater grasp of the sexism and
patriarchy, racism and white supremacy, heterosexism and homophobia, =
gender and
trans oppressions, erotophobia and =
conservatism,
linguistic and elitist oppression, imperialism, colonialism, =
globalization,
capitalism, consumerism, classism, ableism, fatphobia and =
lookism in the surrounding society while urging
participants to focus on developing critiques of oppression, privilege, =
power
and dominance at personal, community, organizational and societal =
levels.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></fo=
nt>

R/evolution Workshops also =
offers
consultations to community groups, organizations and agencies seeking =
greater
accountability in communities of resistance increasingly defined by =
market
concerns and corporate-style agency structurings.
Independent group discussion-based workshops challenge paid activist
professionals to link their political beliefs to their lived realities =
in ways
that re-affirm a revolutionary politic grounded in social change. Speaks =
and
gatherings offer freelance and paid workers opportunities to re-commit =
to the
ethics of doing right community work from a place of alliance instead of
competition and through realigning organizational mandates and =
day-to-day
workings in such a way as to remain reflective of liberation politics =
for
social justice and change. <o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p></fo=
nt>

As a grassroots =
consultation and
education organization with a mandate grounded not just in the political =
and
the social, but also in a powerful ethic, R/evolution Workshops =
stridently
resists state and dominant power co-optation. As a result, financially
speaking, R/evolution Workshops for Change functions on the outskirts of =
the
Matrix.<o:p></o:p>

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nt>

It is not a registered =
charity with
the Canada Customs & Revenue Agency.<o:p></o:p>

It does not receive funding =
from any
capitalist corporation or from any foundation set up by those who have
benefited from exploitative, capitalist pursuits in the corporate =
world.<o:p></o:p>

It is not supported by the =
<st1:Street><st1:address>United =
Way</st1:address></st1:Street> or by any
of the larger [not] at arms length public sector granting or funding =
bodies
whose support comes at so high a price to the mandates and agendas of =
the
organizations they oversee from a distance.<o:p></o:p>

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Funds to maintain the =
autonomy of
R/evolution Workshops come from sliding scale fees-for-service at a rate =
of pay
that falls significantly far beneath the living wage of most unionized, =
paid
community workers/activists/organizers.<o:p></o:p>

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nt>

T.J. wishes she =
didn’t have to
charge at all. However, R/evolution Workshops is currently supported in =
this capitalist
environment %100 through sliding scale fee-for-service work. R/evolution
Workshops for Change strives to make all workshops, speaking engagements =
and
gatherings as economically accessible as possible. Barter for services =
is
always an option to be explored. Scholarships in the =
form of
subsidization via full payment by economically privileged attendees =
is
an ongoing struggle. If you need a portion of the course covered in =
scholarship
via sliding scale please ask. R/evolution Workshops is committed to
establishing partnerships between economically challenged participants =
who will
be supported to seek assistance from their workplaces, community =
agencies or
from institutions where they volunteer. If you and/or your institution =
can
afford the higher rate, it will help T.J. through R/evolution Workshops =
to
continue this valuable, frontline, consciousness-raising =
work.<o:p></o:p>

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For more information about
R/evolution Workshops for Change, to find out more about speaking =
engagements,
organization trainings or group workshops or to find out how you can =
support
this grassroots endeavour email <a
href=3D"mailto:r/evolutionworkshops@???">r_evolutionworkshops@???</a>.=
<o:p></o:p>

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[last updated =
<st1:date
Month=3D"2" Day=3D"5" Year=3D"2004">February 5, =
2004</st1:date>]<o:p></o:p>

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