[Wamvan] unconference in Oregon this Thursday and Friday: Fembot collective

[Joanna Chiu]

Thanks for sharing Nadine! Are you planning to attend? If anyone goes to
this or to other cool events like this, please report back to us :) You can
also write a blog summarizing the event for our website, too, if you're so
inclined. http://www.womenactionmedia.org/

Joanna



On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Nadine Chambers <n.d.chambers at gmail.com>wrote:

> http://fembotcollective.org/
>
> Hi everyone:
>
> I happened to meet one of the organizers at a free Feminist conference in
> England - Sorry for the late posting on this I just looked at it!
>
> The first day is about pushing past basic standpoints and I am thinking
> about something that Joanna said about the goal of WAM! to be gender and
> other intersections where others are minorities or marginalized. I think
> reading between the line in my opinion is that this is to be addressed in
> the conference.....
>
> The second day with a hack-a-thon looks really interesting as well!
>
> They know I have sent this late but please do send this out to your
> networks here and abroad - Perhaps others you know interested in this work
> would be able to be there.
>
> I am hoping to get the time to go. Anyone else interested please PM me -
> humble travel by bus if I do.
>
>
> Fembot Unconference: Multiplying Standpoints and Participatory Feminism
>
> July 18-19, 2013
>
> White Stag, Portland, Oregon
>
> This event is free and open to UO faculty members, students, as well as
> the general public.
>
>
>
> The Fembot Collective, and its peer-reviewed journal *Ada*, value and
> feature intersectionality in terms of content, membership, editorial
> practices, and organizational structure. This unconference addresses issues
> related to our networks and their geographical and institutional
> limitations at a critical juncture in Fembot’s history. In order to ensure
> that our politics are mirrored in our practices, we have invited four
> consultants (see below) with demonstrated expertise in participatory media
> theory and production to provide guidance in thinking about these issues.
>
>
>
> Day one will initiate a series of discussions organized around questions
> of accessibility, participation, strategies of inclusion, editorial bias,
> and the crafting of *Ada* Issue Four which will address these issues in
> journal form. Day two will be dedicated to a hack-a-thon — a full-day
> session that will convene a group of technologically proficient programmers
> and designers to collaborate on building a digital tool that emerges from
> the previous day’s conversations. The hack-a-thon in particular will allow
> us to build beyond the humanities and social sciences to feminists working
> in computer science and high-tech industries.
>
>
>
> Consultants
>
> Brittney Cooper (Rutgers)
>
> Michelle Habell-Pallán (U of Washington)
>
> Margaret Rhee (UC Berkeley)
>
> Kristen Warner (U of Alabama)
>
> To find out more or register to attend, please email Bryce at
> bpeake at uoregon.edu.
>
> Sponsored by: The Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of
> Oregon in Portland, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of
> Journalism and Communication, and UO Libraries
>
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