Category — Friends of WOMS news

Challenging Power and Privilege in Schools:
Un Encuentro in Applied Chicana/o Studies
Featuring the Work of MAS Graduate Students at SJSU

Monday, December 14, 2009  -  6pm
Cultural Heritage Center ­ Room 525
MLK Library (5th Floor) -  San José State University

This event is the culmination of the Applied Seminar in Chicana/o Studies in the SJSU Master¹s Program in Mexican American Studies.  The students in this class will share our efforts to bring Chicana/o Studies to life in our communities.  In several distinct projects, we focused on developing Chicana/o Studies Methods for Social Justice.  We will share our preliminary insights from individual projects, as well as the collective lessons we have developed together.  Our goals are to share specific strategies that may be applied to other communities and issues, and to dialog about what this work means and where it can go next.  You are invited to join us for the presentations and to share in the dialog.

Students in the class and their projects include:

• Lupe M. Allen, ­ Finding Voice & Creating Safe Spaces: An Analysis of the Experiences of Undocumented University Students
• Elizabeth Caldera, ­ The Impact of Teacher Expectations on the Academic Achievement of Latina/o Students
• Alicia Casas, ­ Understanding the School Disengagement of Fifth Grade Chicano Boys
• Claire González, ­ Latina/o Student Voices: High School Students¹ Insights on the Latina/o Achievement Gap
• Yanira I. Madrigal, ­ Responding to the Internalization and Normalization of Violence in Oakland: Listening to the Voices of Chicana/o Youth
• Margarita Ortiz, ­ Where is Osvaldo?: Confronting the Absence of Latinas/os in US History Textbooks
• Robert Unzueta, ­ Debunking Meritocracy: Understanding Intergenerational Chicano School Experiences

El PAIS, the Queer Latino student organization on campus, is cordially inviting you to attend our panel on the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Transexual) Latin American Community on campus.

WHEN: The panel will be on Monday, November 23rd
from 5:30 to 6:30 in the Pacifica Room (top level of the Student Union).

El PAIS stands for “Estudiantes Latinos y el Proyecto Arco Iris,” which translates to “Latino Students and Project Rainbow.” Our Mission Statement is, “To unite the LGBTQQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Questioning, Intersexed, Ally) Latino community at SJSU and to spread awareness of Queer Latino identities to the campus community, including awareness of the issues that affect LGBTQQIA Latinos.” We will be hosting this event in order to inform the campus community of the diverse experiences of LGBT Latino students, whose lives and identities are often affected by a web of gender, class, and ethnic norms. Most importantly, we want to share how Latino Students on the campus embrace their LGBT identity.

So come support us! We welcome faculty, staff, and students who identify with the LGBT community, support the community as allies, or want to know more about LGBT Latino identities and issues. Please spread the word and let anybody know who may be interested.

“From this day forward, I promise never to commit, condone, or remain silent about violence against women, sexual violence, and dating/intimate partner violence.”

Tuesday thru Thursday, 11/17-11/19

The White Ribbon Campaign is rallying all male-identified students of SJSU to come and sign the pledge to be aware and be a part of the solution.

Pick up your ribbon and sign the pledge at the Campaign table from 10am-2pm on 11/17, 11/18, and 11/19 outside the Student Union in the Art Quad as well as from 5pm-8pm on 11/17 in the Dining Commons!

You can also come to the Office of Student Conduct & Ethical Development at any time from 8am-5pm M-F to get a pledge card and pick up your ribbon!

97% of violence are committed by men.
97% OF MEN ARE NOT ASSAILANTS.
A minority are responsible for the problem.
THE MAJORITY CAN STOP IT.

Sponsored by SJSU Men Creating Change,
Office of Student Conduct, and cool guys everywhere

Don’t miss the upcoming photo exhibit “Mujeres y el Fruto de su Trabajo” / “Women & the Fruit of their Labor”, Friday, November 13 from 7-8:30 at the Biblioteca Latino Americano at 920 S. First Street.  Organized by a local Mexican womyn’s group named Cihuatl Tlatocan, the exhibit is the first part of their new “Hungry for Justice Campaign” focusing on women’s vulnerability in the current economic situation.

The group is also accepting applications for a new scholarship for survivors of gender violence, and seeking submissions for an upcoming zine publication.   For more info, contact cihuatl.tlatocan@gmail.com or call 408.250.9245.  Cihuatl Tlatocan is a member organization of the MAIZ Alliance (Movimiento de Accion, Inspirando Servicio).

In 2006, US Congress passed a law to build a 700 mile fence on the Mexican Border…

THE WALL

They didn’t plan for human nature.

Morris Dailey Hall
Thursday, October 15, 2009
4-6pm

Meet director Ricardo Martinez
Viva Zapata Productions
See attached flyer

Cosponsored by Mexican American Studies, Cesar Chavez Community action Center and the Culture Heritage Center of MLK Library

Tomorrow! 7pm Wednesday in MLK 550

Prof. Catherine Ramirez of UCSC American Studies will do a reading and discussion of her book, _The Woman in the Zoot Suit_!  This is exciting work in gender, ethnic, and American studies that explores the meaning of this historic conflict at home in the shadow of WWII.

Are you a Latina between 18 and 35 years of age?
Do you like reading popular fiction novels?
If you answered YES to these questions,
you may be eligible to participate in this book club research study.

The purpose of this research is to gain an understanding of how Latina women connect with “chica lit,” a genre of women’s popular fiction aimed at Latina readers.  Participants will read 6 books from September 2009 to May 2010 and will meet 7 times to discuss each novel as a group.  All books will be read in English.  Book club meetings will last approximately 1 hour and will be held in the 5th floor conference room at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose.  Participants may not directly benefit from this research study, but it is hoped that they will enjoy the process of reading and discussing books as a group.  Participants will receive all of the books to keep and will receive a $25 book store gift card at the completion of this study.

More details below…. [Read more →]

The first of four panel discussions, “Community Based Organizing in the Movimiento, Then and Now,” will be held from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Roosevelt Community Center near downtown San Jose. Admission is free.

Event #1: Wed. September 16, 2009: Community Based Organizing en el Movimiento, moderated by Maribel Martinez, SJSU Cesar Chavez Community Action Center, Program Director

Since 1969, community-based organizing has played a profound role in empowering San José’s diverse Latino community. Rallying around issues of quality education, police brutality, immigrant and labor rights, groups have employed militancy, culture and history as key organizing tools. Newer generations have also worked to strengthen the voices of mujeres and the LGBT community. Listen and share on the impact of the movimiento through the people that shaped it and continue its legacy. [Read more →]

Today, at 12:30 pm on Thursday, August 6, the United States Senate voted 68-31 to confirm President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.   Sotomayor is the first Latina justice, and just the third woman to serve.

Yeehaw!

Check out this new video by Chicago’s Young Women’s Action Team.

The Young Women’s Action Team in Chicago led a project against sexual harassment and violence on the CTA (trains and buses). This film was shot and edited by student producers from Free Spirit Media about YWAT’s public forum. Learn more about this amazing group of young women at http://www.youngwomensactionteam.org

You can also read “In Our Own Words: What the YWAT Is All About” in Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence Against Women (Seal Press, 2007) edited by Maria Ochoa and Barbara Ige.