11.20.11 5pm – 8pm A WOMEN’S WRITING & CREATIVE WORKSHOP A ROOM OF OUR OWN MARK YOUR CALENDARS! This is your personal invite to “A Room of Our Own: A Women’s Writing & Creative Workshop.” Facilitator: kholi (http://kholioli.com/)Topic: Finding, Developing, and Using My Voice for More – The workshop series will be 1/2 theory and [...]
Topic:Finding, Developing, and Using My Voice for More – The workshop series will be 1/2 theory and 1/2 practice. Mixing literary texts with mainstream community and cultural work, we will share and study inspirational women’s literature in order to create and cultivate our own unique and powerful voices for artistic and everyday use. What to [...]
This is actually two separate blogs … but somehow … in my head … they’re related. As they all are. Yesterday marked the first “A Room of Our Own.“ And it was REALLY FANTASTIC! Like … everything I hoped and imagined it would be: an open space, freedom of speech, honesty … so much more. [...]
On Friday, October 21, 2011, join GoodGirlPR (www.goodgirlpr.com) and Celebrity Hair Stylist Nadia Vassell (www.nadiavassell.com) at the first edition of the “Celebrity Treatment,” an event geared towards overall beauty, including a showcase of fall up-dos and complimentary mini manicures with Kelly Barber and OPI, makeovers with Lamik, Leblon cocktails, and I Am Cupcakes treats. Nadia [...]
“All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point — a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write …” – Virginia Woolf “I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. [...]
October 7, 2011 marks the opening night of Elements Organization’s 3rd Annual Womyn of Color Conference. I’m pretty excited about it! Sonia Sanchez is the keynote speaker on Saturday … in addition to multiple workshops intended to build and heal members of our community, Friday boasts an incredibly powerful multimedia night of arts, and Sunday [...]
I want to share so much about WEAR HOUSE BOUTIQUE! However, I think I’ve decided to save a moment of going through each and every piece I photographed until AFTER the grand opening tonight! I will, however, share the Instagram pics I got yesterday! [...]
Bumming Cigarettes OPEN CASTING CALL #1-Short Film DATE: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 LOCATION: Tabu Lounge & Sports Bar 200 South 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107 TIME: 6pm-9pm Bumming Cigarettes is a short film about a brief and intimate meeting between a young Black lesbian woman who is in the process of taking an HIV test [...]
Admit it. When you think dinner party, the first thought after the first thought of “Great! Fun, food, and friends!” is usually “Great. How much time is this going to take? What is it going to cost me? Can we just make a reservation …” I understand. We’re busy. Honestly, sometimes planning a relaxing evening [...]
Think back to June of 2009, you there yet?! No! No worries … I’ll help. Remember a post I shared being all excited that @blaktivist had had a huge revelation about identity because she’d watched Pariah? No? You say that post never existed. No worries … her post did: CLICK HERE TO READ IT. Well [...]
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