Womxn's Creative Industries Meet Up is an interactive event focused on intergenerational resource-sharing between media makers, centered on young womxn of color. We use "womxn" with an "x" to signify inclusivity of all womxn who identify along the gender identity spectrum, including trans and genderqueer womxn, and all intersecting identities.
Media arts can be used as a means of creative resistance. Our featured presenters are local artivists who have crafted specific social justice narratives and movements within their communities. There will be time for you to engage in dialogue with presenters and other attendees to gain meaningful insight, connections, and mentorship relationships that last beyond the event.
We will have a resource area where arts organizations and all attendees can leave promotional materials and contribute to the resource wall, where you can identify your requests or offerings for support and leave contact info to connect with others on projects. These collective resources are digitized and shared with participants so you have a network of resources to explore after leaving the event.
We believe that centering the voices of the most underrepresented identities in creative industries (folks who identify as womxn of color, black, indigenous, queer, disabled, immigrant, refugee, low-income) will lead to the dismantling of systemic oppression and the liberation of people of all identities. Our event welcomes folks of all ages and identities to join the conversation.
Tiana Noll: Race, Revolution, and Revival around Sex Work
Black womxn will discuss their lives and experiences as sex workers, why black sex work is artistic and revolutionary, and how they are owning their own narratives in a society that shames and vilifies the sex industry.
Little Bear Schwarz: My Face is Your Business - the Ignored Subversiveness of Bearded Women
Intersectionality is gaining momentum in Artist & Activist circles but Bearded Women are still ignored, a curiosity, or swept under the rug as "miscellaneous misogyny & gender policing." I want to talk about why we're our OWN entity, with our OWN History and our OWN narrative.
Rachel Miyazaki: Back to the Future: Traditional Art as Contemporary Resistance
The quest for identity can be difficult, especially with colonial influences infiltrating the world around us. We will see examples of womxn resisting colonization through various mediums to empower themselves and future generations.
