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Feminist Chick Lit, Anyone?
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Sofia Quintero commented on Red Tent Women's Project's event 'The Workshop Leader's Essential Toolkit: Learn to be an excellent workshop facilitator!'

I can always brush up on my facilitation skills and learn new techniques. I hope I can make it. :-)

Feb 25, 2009

The Workshop Leader's Essential Toolkit: Learn to be an excellent workshop facilitator! at A convenient location in Manhattan

March 7, 2009 from 11am to 4pm

The Red Tent Women's Project is proud to present this fantastic opportunity for women who are interested in developing their workshop presentation skills, facilitated by the incredible Alexia VernonAre you a practicing or aspiring female trainer, educator, or artist looking for strategies and techniques to dynamize your leadership practice?In this 5 hour, hands-on workshop, we will cover such areas as:· Designing, implementing, facilitating, and evaluating a workshop· Leading with confidence,…See More

Sofia Quintero might attend Red Tent Women's Project's event Feb 25, 2009

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Sofia Quintero and Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan are now friends Feb 25, 2009

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What issues are most important to you?: media reform, criminal justice, public education

What kind of social activism do you engage in?: cultural activism

What organizations do you love or work with?: Chica Luna Productions, We Got Issues, Sista II Sista, Sisters on the Rise, Casa Atabex Ache

What books, music, films, etc. do you think educate and empower women?: I believe that it is important for women to seize control over their own images and attempt to reach a broader audience. I do believe that if we're going to reach younger women, we can't overlook the power of popular culture. Yes, it is important to create and support nonfiction and documentaries, but to reach beyond elites and not always preach to the converted we need feminist messages in books, film and music with commercial appeal. That said, some of my favorites include movies like GIRLFIGHT, SET IT OFF, THELMA & LOUISE. Yes, Virginia, there is such thing as feminist chick lit and romance novels. I and some of my friends and colleagues write it. And as for music, well, there's plenty of it including in, believe it or not hip hop. Just listen to La Bruja, Toni Blackman, PattyDukes, Rha Goddess, Queen Godis and Lah Tere just to name a few.

What skills and interests to do you have to offer to others in the Red Tent Women's Project communty? This is your chance, so sell yourself!: Among other things, I tour the country giving talks about the politics of entertainment and the power of storytelling to promote social justice. These presentations are often multimedia including screening films produced by my own company Sister Outsider Entertainment and the nonprofit I co-founded Chica Luna Productions as well as readings from my own novels which include feminist "chica lit" and hip hop noir. (www.blackartemis.com)

I teamed up with Elisha "E-Fierce" Miranda, Jennifer "J-Love:" Calderon, and Marcella Runell Hall to creative a multidisciplinary curriculum called CONSCIOUS WOMEN ROCK THE PAGE: USING HIP HOP FICTION TO INCITE SOCIAL CHANGE. The curriculum is based on three feminist hip hop novels that we wrote, contains 30+ lessons for middle school through college, and meets the standards across several discplines. Learn more about it by visiting www.myspace.com/rockthepage.

Sister Outsider also has a groundbreaking multimedia show called PANDORA'S which uses ten monologues, seven films, a anti-heterosexism toolkit and an interactive workshop for community members that bring complexity to the Latina queer experience. You can learn more about all these things by visiting www.sisteroutsider.biz or www.pandorashow.com.

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What would you like other members of this community to know? About yourself, about the world...anything (try not to be profane, though)!: Your silence will not protect - Audre Lorde

What was your "women really matter and I'm going to do something about it" moment?: In the late 80s, my then boyfriend and I were watching a Louis Farrahkhan video he had brought off the street. At one point, the minister addressed the men and said, "You make sure your woman is dressed in the finest even if it means you yourself have holes in your shoes." And for some reason, I grew quite uncomfortable.

My discomfort grew worse when my boyfriend was nodding his head andf smiling. I asked him, "Why would a man want a woman who wouldn't think twice about spending his money to the point he was neglecting his own needs?" My boyfriend floored me when he grinned and said, "No, I agree with him. That's the way it should be. A man should take care of his woman."

And it irked him that I wasn't the least bit enamored with this idea. I said, "Why should one suffer while the other has it easy when together we can be happy in the middle? We struggle and succeed together. That's what it means to be in a relationship" Now I was the one who was surprised that this didn't appeal to him at all. The man was annoyed with me for not being a gold digger!

It finally hit me why this all unsettled me so. Isn't this the way (white) women have been oppressed for centuries: the man puts her on pedestal as a way to control her? I thought, "This is what the feminists are talking about."

That's when I realized that I was indeed a feminist, too.

PICTURE ME ROLLIN' a Novel by Black Artemis

This book trailer for the feminist hip hop novel Picture Me Rollin' was produced by Sister Outsider Entertainment and demonstrates what women can do when we seize control of over own images.

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Dodging Snagglepuss

I walk into the bodega for my cafecito looking forward to my day when there he is. Snagglepuss. That’s what I call him. Not that he knows that, but if he keeps harassing me, he just might find out.

Snagglepuss is a tubby, not-quite-menacing-yet-not-quite-comforting, gap-toothed dude who lives in my neighborhood and my latest recurring headache. He claims to be my age, but hard knock life makes him seem a decade older. Every time he sees me he says hello in that way that doesn’t… Continue

Posted on August 26, 2008 at 9:18pm — 4 Comments

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At 10:24am on August 29, 2008, Zol said…: Thank you, darling! I hope that you are well. Thanks for putting me on to this lovely space.

At 10:20am on August 29, 2008, Angela L Scott said…: Sofia, I believe we share a friend in common... Aleeka. I was at the "Under the Cherry Moon" party she had and I purchased some pleasure products from you. If you are the same Sofia, the world is a small place and I am so happy you joined the Red Tent! I am on of the founding board members. Hope to be communicating with you soon. Peace and love.

At 8:55pm on August 26, 2008, Sofia Quintero said…: An excerpt of my keynote speech Women Telling Our Stories and Promoting Justice at the 17th Annual Bioneers Conference in 2006.