Spring 2006
So much has happened since Creating Change in November 2005. Two key changes are: that Lisa was hired as Director of Capacity Building within the Movement Building department at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; that Ana was in Austin, Texas working with the Austin Project and has been writing and performing with other artists and organizers in Texas. Ana's first novel, Erzulie's Skirt, is forthcoming from RedBone Press.
This year we began and finished a long dialogue about socio-economic class in our movements. We initially broached the subject last Spring (2005), and began a series of email exchanges that brought us to April 2006. In these exchanges, we've explored our personal relationships to class, our movement experiences, our social and political experiences and some of our thinking about how the paradigm or framework of binary busting does NOT in fact address the particular challenges of class-based oppression. It's been interesting to see the limits of our own framework, and to understand its other side. The results of this dialogue and our thinking were posted in May: both Ana's Story, Lisa's Story and our critical writing piece: Busting the Lens, Collapsing the Binaries: Reframing Class.
Simultaneous to this new writing and all the other changes, we've been working on developing curriculum for trainings and workshops on binary busting. We've also been gathering writings by organizers in our movements that speaks to the binary busting framework and that makes connections between the different issues affecting our multiple communities (send your writing in - we'd love to read it). We've updated our website to accomodate both our limited technological capacity and desire for accessibility.
The work of binary busting has also extended beyond the website. For both of us, it has been exciting to have conversations with artists, scholars and organizers in our daily lives and interactions where we have opportunities to see connections being made and where our own growth has been pushed as well.
There's more to come. This summer we'll be working on finalizing some workshops curriculum and publishing even more writings. Stay posted.
This year we began and finished a long dialogue about socio-economic class in our movements. We initially broached the subject last Spring (2005), and began a series of email exchanges that brought us to April 2006. In these exchanges, we've explored our personal relationships to class, our movement experiences, our social and political experiences and some of our thinking about how the paradigm or framework of binary busting does NOT in fact address the particular challenges of class-based oppression. It's been interesting to see the limits of our own framework, and to understand its other side. The results of this dialogue and our thinking were posted in May: both Ana's Story, Lisa's Story and our critical writing piece: Busting the Lens, Collapsing the Binaries: Reframing Class.
Simultaneous to this new writing and all the other changes, we've been working on developing curriculum for trainings and workshops on binary busting. We've also been gathering writings by organizers in our movements that speaks to the binary busting framework and that makes connections between the different issues affecting our multiple communities (send your writing in - we'd love to read it). We've updated our website to accomodate both our limited technological capacity and desire for accessibility.
The work of binary busting has also extended beyond the website. For both of us, it has been exciting to have conversations with artists, scholars and organizers in our daily lives and interactions where we have opportunities to see connections being made and where our own growth has been pushed as well.
There's more to come. This summer we'll be working on finalizing some workshops curriculum and publishing even more writings. Stay posted.
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