[Wamvan] #FierceVoices: Say What? Reflecting on women and girls in media.

[Jarrah]

Thanks for sharing this.

The other speaker for the evening has just been announced and it's Jen
Sookfong Lee:

Jen Sookfong Lee writes, talks on the radio and loves her slow cooker.
Jen's third novel for adults, *The Conjoined*, will be published by ECW
Press in September 2016.

A popular radio personality, Jen was the writing columnist for CBC Radio
One's On the Coast and All Points West for three years. She appears
regularly as a columnist on The Next Chapter and Definitely Not the Opera,
and is a frequent co-host of the Studio One Book Club. Jen is a member of
the writing group SPiN and is represented by the Carolyn Swayze Literary
Agency. You can learn more about her at http://sookfong.com/

Hope to see lots of you there and we can WAM-it-Yourself together!

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Natalie Hill <nhill10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for sending Alex!
>
> Yes, this will likely be a great event. PLUS this is happening during
> 'WAM!-it-Yourself Week'! This is the week when WAM!mers and
> would-be-WAM!mers gather in cities all over North America to take
> constructive action or engage in productive dialogues about gender justice
> and the media.
>
> This year it is from March 21-29. It's a designated time of year for
> established WAM! chapters to host or participate in cool events, and for
> new chapters to emerge by assembling for the first time. WAM! Vancouver was
> created out of a WAM!-it-Yourself week in 2011 :)
>
> all of this to say....
>
> come to this event and celebrate WAM! it Yourself!
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Frieda Werden <frieda.werden at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Anyone recording this event?
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Alexandra Tse <alex_tse at sfu.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Our own Jarrah will be speaking at this event!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> Weds, March 25th 7-9pm
>>> Heartwood Community Cafe 317 East Broadway Vancouver
>>>
>>> Join #FierceVoices <https://www.facebook.com/events/417814018392446/>,
>>> a community series organized by rabble.ca and Women Transforming Cities
>>> <http://womentransformingcities.org/>.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 25th, come on out to an evening of speakers, glue &
>>> glitter, a little bit of running with scissors, and a whole bunch of
>>> discussion about claiming space for women and girls in media. This first
>>> event in the series looks at critically examining media using an
>>> anti-oppressive lens (and glue--there will be glue).
>>>
>>> Speakers:
>>> Jarrah Hodge
>>> Jarrah Hodge is the founder and editor of gender-focus.com
>>> <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgender-focus.com%2F&h=ZAQG9ZJnG&enc=AZMZhftTHSfBzmcNsbZ18fHjw2_tRUrd8SjrxIYpISYtWrUol0NfBu6iqto3tRozkBk&s=1>,
>>> named Best Political Blog and Best Social Justice/Activism Blog in the 2014
>>> Canadian Weblog Awards. She has also blogged for Bitch Magazine, the
>>> Huffington Post, the Vancouver Observer and The Mary Sue. She is an
>>> organizer for Women, Action & The Media (WAM!) Vancouver and a former
>>> member of the City of Vancouver Women's Advisory Committee. You can
>>> find her on Twitter @jarrahpenguin.
>>>
>>> More Speakers TBD!
>>>
>>> This event takes place on Unceded Coast Salish Territory.
>>>
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
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>>> Contributing Editor, rabble.ca.
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>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Frieda Werden, Series Producer
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http://gender-focus.com
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