Calendar of Boston and New England Events

A list of lectures, films, workshops, conferences, meetings, exhibitions, rallies in the area with a focus on events organized by/for women of color in the New England Area. [ONGOING]

Tuesday, MARCH 11, 7pm-9pm
Monthly SAWA Meeting (2nd Tuesday of the month)

For location and directions, call: (617) 981-2888.

Saturday, MARCH 29, 9am-5pm
Skin Trade: Women, complexion and caste

A multidisciplinary symposium examining the socioleconomic implications of skin color for Arab, Asian, Black, Jewish, and Latina women. How and when does color=caste for women.
Silver Auditorium, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Free.
For more information call: (617) 354-8657

Saturday, MARCH 29, 2pm-4pm
Readings by Meena Alexander

Meena Alexander, author and poet, will be reading from her latest book, The Shock of Arrival. She will be signing copies of her book which will be for sale at the reading.
Sponsored by AARW (Asian American Resource Workshop), International Institute of Boston, South Asian Women for Action, South Asian Association of Harvard University, Third World Scholars Consortium.
International Institute of Boston, 287 Commonwealth Ave, Boston (between Gloucester and Hereford Streets). ICA/Hynes Convention Center stop on the Green Line.
Free Admission
For more information call: (617) 426-5313

Friday-Sunday, APRIL 4-6
The Fight for Abortion Rights and Reproductive Freedom - Eleventh Annual Conference for Student and Community Activists.

Workshops will include the following topics:

• ABORTION ACCESS
• VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
• REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ISSUES FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR IN THE U.S.
• INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLES FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
• MEDIA, ART AND ACTIVISM
• REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
• NEW CONTRACEPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES: NORPLANT & VACCINES
• REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT WOMEN"S ISSUES
• ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM
• LESBIAN/GAY/BI-SEXUAL ISSUES

Conference Speakers/Workshop Presenters:

• Aisha Belton Greater Philadelphia Women's Medical Fund and youth activist.
• Rebecca Chaulker Author, A Women's Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, RU486.
• Fred Clarkson Political researcher and author.
• Marilen Danguilan, MD Health policy aide in the Philippine Senate; consultant to U.N. agencies.
• Blanche Davidian Filmmaker and activist.
• Marlene Gerber Fried National Network of Abortion Funds and CLPP at Hampshire College.
• Sofia Gruskin Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health.
• Betsy Hartmann Committee on Women Population and the Environment and Director, Population and Development Program, Hampshire College.
• Anne Hendrixson Hampshire graduate and researcher.
• Frances Kissling Director, Catholics for a Free Choice.
• Sylvia Marcos Director, Center for Psychoethnological Research, Cuernavaca.
• Megan Schwarzman Medical Students for Choice.
• Vernice Miller Director, Environmental Justice Initiative, Natural Resources Defense Council
• Soheir Morsy Director, Women's Studies Department, Tufts University.
• Claire McCurdy Clinic Defense and Research Project, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• Felicia T. Perez Queer Chicana activist.
• Aixa Queros and Ellen Thompson Necessities/Necesidades, domestic violence program.
• Donna Redwing National Field Director, Gay/Lesbian Alliance against Defamation.
• Judith Richter Author, Vaccination Against Pregnancy: Miracle or Menace, pharmacist/researcher from Germany.
• S.A.W.A South Asian Women for Action, a feminist collective.
• Karen Schneiderman Disability rights and reproductive rights activist
• Rev. Cheng Imm Tan Refugee and Immigrant Women's Ministry, Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry
• Gabrielle Tayac League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations.
• Yamila Azize-Vargas Public Health and Women's Studies, Cayey University, Puerto Rico.
• Nancy Yanofsky Executive Director, Pro Choice Resource Center.
• Susan Yanow Abortion Access Project; LICSW.

Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
Register by mail to:

Conference Registration
Civil Liberties & Public Policy Program/SS
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002-5001

By email: [email protected]
By fax: (413) 582-5620

For more information about the conference,call: (413) 582-5645 or (413) 582-5719

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Last altered June 18, 1996