[ExilesAnnounce] FW: QWOCMAP Community Partners - Root, Grow & Bloom [CORRECT VERSION]

Fri May 27 21:32:53 EDT 2011

Dear Exiles members, here's more info about the QWOCMAP Queer Women of Color
Film Festival in June.  Enjoy!

Thanks  -Val, your membership officer

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QWOCMAP Community Partners

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Dearest gigs, 

2 weeks or 14 days or 336 hours to go!

QWOCMAP and our Community Partners are hard at work (cause it's sexy) to
bring you the 7th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival.  As we count
down each moment, we want to
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Take Root

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QWOCMAP is deeply rooted in our community and we draw on this strength to
create change.  

With the light of our Community Partners, QWOCMAP has taken root, grown and
blossomed into beauty for queer women, genderqueer and transgender people of
color.

We are thrilled with our deepening partnership with the fabulous folks at
the Lesbian Health & Research Center (LHRC).  For QWOCMAP and LHRC, health
is more than the absence of disease, it is "complete physical, mental and
social well-being."  Yet current conversations about health and healthcare
ignore structural issues and then shame and blame us for "lifestyle
diseases" (see ColorLines article about
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01> Oprah dissing diabetics).  

Premiering this year is the first in a series of jointly-produced PSAs that
show us why our health is a social justice issue.  The PSA encourages us to
become the experts on our own bodies as we lead active and healthy lives as
we define and articulate them. 

Besides, reclaiming our bodies and being healthy is a big F*%K YOU to
homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ageist, ableist bigots and
institutions!

The PSA features celeb-babes like Miss Major from Community Partner
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a1> TGI Justice Project (TGIJP), so check it out!

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Grow

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d5> 2011 QWOCFF - The Gift Of Family
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d5> We also want to honor our
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The film, produced in collaboration between
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13> QWOCMAP Productions with
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a1/option=com_content&task=view&id=124&Itemid=172> Zuna Institute and
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2a> NIA Collective, demonstrates the magically radical and innovative ways
that Black lesbians reconstruct and queer the ways that families can look
and function. After all, in the U.S., our Black and Latin@ brothers and
sisters are more likely to be
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Resisting oppressive tropes about Black motherhood, child-rearing and
sexuality, these families embody the deep spirited resilience of Black
activist legacies.  

QWOCMAP is brimming with gratitude to our partners for their years of
support and collaboration.  We are extremely thankful for the
spirit-nourishing opportunity to work with them to create art that
articulates the rich and rarely recognized dazzle of Black lesbian moms.

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Blossom

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1d> qwocmap community partners 2008
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1d> With tenacious devotion, QWOCMAP works to create spaces that celebrate
and explore all of the intersections of our individual and communal
identities.  Community Partner organizations join with QWOCMAP to build
community, nurture art and create social justice, through fun,
belly-rumbling laughter and hard, sexy, collaborative work.  This year, we
have 32 marvelous Community Partners and co-presenters to thank for our FREE
7th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival.

This has allowed our organization to truly blossom into something that
brings joy and healing.  Or, in other words, it can "heal what ails ya."

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Volunteers Are Sexy!

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When you come to our 7th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival, please
take a moment to thank these bad-ass volunteer babes! Just about everything
is made possible through their commitment and sexy, hard work.

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<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?QWOCMAPQueerWomenofC/12abf66dfd/5c82cb2b2d/bbc036bd
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415-752-0868

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BODACIOUS BENEFIT

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b2/eid=118245044924102> Salsa Sunday, it's super SABROSO!

Get inspired by  Carnaval SF and come dancing with l at s QWOCMAPer at s! 

JOIN US:
Salsa Sunday
May 29
1 to 6pm
$3-5
Casa Sanchez 
2778 24th St, SF

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Donations support the 7th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival. 

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Re-SISTER:  Canyon Sam

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b9> Thinkers & Troublemakers panel on Saturday, June 11 at 1:00pm.  We are
excited to welcome this firebrand, who has been active in human rights
movements for Tibet, as well as the Asian American and lesbian communities
since the 1970s.  This hot happening is not to be missed!

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Phenomenal Collaborators!

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SAVE THE DATE!
7th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
June 10, 11 & 12, 2011

Queer Women of Color Film Festival - 2008 Best of the Bay Winner!

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP)
creates, exhibits and distributes new films that authentically
reflect the lives of queer women of color and address the
vital social justice issues that concern multiple communities.
Our vision nurtures queer women of color filmmakers as
artist-activist leaders to create systemic change through
art, activism and community building.  

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