[Wamvan] Help please! Tips/resources needed for BWSS blog campaign to promote media literacy and awareness of rape culture in the media!

Tue Apr 10 08:48:19 PDT 2012

Hi Joanna,

I'm part of an editorial collective for a zine (we're called Margins) for
and by self-identified Indigeneous women, women of color and gender-queer
and trans women. As such, I'm connected to many amazing self-identified
women of color activists/media makers - if you wanted to talk to a specific
'kind' of media maker/activist, I can try to connect you with them.

- Syah

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Joanna Chiu <chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the great advice and resources! Hope you won't mind me
> sending out private emails with follow-up questions.
>
> If people come across other resources this week, please keep sending them
> along! And if you have suggestions on media makers/activists I could
> interview, please let me know, too!
>
> Right now, I'm especially looking to talk to: self-identified women of
> colour media makers/activists, Indigenous activists/media makers, survivors
> of sexual assault and allies who resist against rape culture by creating
> their own media, and women with disabilities who raise awareness about how
> women with disabilities face disproportionate levels of violence.
>
> I'll send out the blog posts starting Sunday, and feel free to reblog them
> anywhere and to provide critical feedback.
>
> Joanna
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Frieda Werden <frieda.werden at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Don't forget to mention opportunities to appear on community radio
>> stations such as CJSF-FM in Burnaby, Vancouver Coop Radio in downtown
>> Vancouver, and CITR at UBC.  You can usually get an opportunity to discuss
>> your issue in depth and reach a broad, general audience as well as devotees
>> of feminist programs like Intra-Venus and The F Word.  These stations also
>> broadcast short public service announcements and will work with you to
>> produce them and tailor them to your needs.  The announcements (and
>> interviews) can be linked to websites and offered to other radio outlets,
>> too.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Joanna Chiu <chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> Next week, from April 15-21, I will be guest-blogging for Battered
>>>> Women's Support Service <http://www.bwss.org/>s during Prevention of
>>>> Violence Against Women week. My goal is to provide a wealth of information
>>>> and inspiration about how to harness the power of the media to end violence
>>>> against women and girls, and to spread awareness about how rape culture is
>>>> perpetuated in the media.
>>>>
>>>> The name of the campaign is "How Does She Resist?: Resisting Media
>>>> Representations to End Violence Against Girls and Women" (Promotional
>>>> poster attached)
>>>>
>>>> Blog topics will include how to identify and resist against oppressive
>>>> media representations of Indigenous women, women of color, women with
>>>> disabilities, survivors of domestic and sexual violence...and women and
>>>> girls in general.
>>>>
>>>> Last year, the BWSS' anti-violence blog campaign reached tens of
>>>> thousands of new readers, so I want to do my best to take advantage of this
>>>> opportunity. The resources I discuss need to be as accessible as
>>>> possible in order to reach readers who may not identify as feminist or who
>>>> may not have experience creating media or doing media analysis.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that I am struggling to find simple, accessible
>>>> information on terms like "rape culture" and "anti-oppression," and
>>>> progressive-minded resources/tutorials on writing op-eds, blogging, making
>>>> zines, starting petitions, writing letters to the editor, etc.
>>>>
>>>> If WAMmers can please send me links to your favorite resources and
>>>> teaching materials, I would really appreciate it!
>>>>
>>>> I am also looking to quote a variety of media makers and media
>>>> activists in my blog posts, so if you would like to share your personalized
>>>> insights and tips with me, that would be great! We could talk over email or
>>>> on the phone.
>>>>
>>>> And lastly, the BWSS would welcome any cross-postings or linking to the
>>>> blog posts to help us reach a wider audience. I'll send out my blog
>>>> posts to the WAM! Vancouver list next week, so please feel free to
>>>> redistribute them in full, with credit and a link back to BWSS blog<http://www.bwss.org/>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> If you have any questions or would like to chat on the phone, my
>>>> number's 917 767 6145.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Joanna
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Joanna Chiu
>>>>
>>>> www.joannachiu.com <http://www.joannachiu.com%20>
>>>> twitter.com/joannachiu
>>>> Ph: 917 767 6145
>>>> WAM! Vancouver <http://www.wamvancouver.wordpress.com%20>
>>>> <http://twitter.com/joannachiu>
>>>>
>>>>
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>> Frieda Werden, Series Producer
>> WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service www.wings.org
>> <http://www.wings.org>
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> Joanna Chiu
>
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> twitter.com/joannachiu
> Ph: 917 767 6145
> WAM! Vancouver <http://www.wamvancouver.wordpress.com%20>
> <http://twitter.com/joannachiu>
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-- 
Syahidah Ismail

B.A. Psychology
B.A. Women and Gender Studies

University of British Columbia (Class of 2011)
Vancouver B.C., Canada
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