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Women As Social Warriors II: Stigmas of Sexuality

In Summer 2003, the coordination group for Women as Social Warriors reconvened and, after months of robust discussion and debate, we decided to focus on the

work of women activists from both sides of the US-Mexico border who organize around issues of sexuality and sexual identities. This time, the planning committee was comprised of both campus and community organizations from GIIP (Global Information Internship Proram), CJTC (Center fo r Justice, Tolerance, and Commu nity), College 9-10 Co-Curricular Activities, (CLRC) Chicano/Latino Research Center, the Women’s Center, Triangle Speakers, and the GLBTI Resource Center.

The committee decided to anchor the event by inviting Juana Guzmán, a two-time participant in a transnational movement building retreat organized by the CJTC and LALS and called ‘Summer Institute: Social Change Across Borders’. Juana Guzmán co-founded and is Co-Editor of a lesbian feminist magazine, LeS VOZ, and spoke of her work in Mexico to get the magazine into mainstream and local bookstores, organizing lesbian film festivals, soccer tournaments, and working with lesbians incarcerated due to their sexual identity. Juana also articulated the challenges and successes of organizing the 1st Lesbian Feminist march in Mexico City, which drew over 2,500 Latin American and US women to march in spring 2003, and received widespread media coverage.

Amidst a week of powerful speaking engagements with Juana, the keynote event came on January 15 and also featured two other speakers: author and nd UC Berkeley Professor Carla Trujillo, editor of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About, who spoke and read from her new novel, What Night Brings; and local activist and UCSC graduate Mónica Morales who brought some of the focus-issues home speaking from her experience working in Watsonville and Santa Cruz in HIV/AIDS prevention and organizing around GLBTI issues in the Latina community. Again, there was heaps of Fair Trade crafts, food and coffee. For entertainment, San Francisco-based performance artist Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa presented an artistic installment to open the evening animating the themes of mestizáje and sexual identity.

The Women As Social Warriors II: Stigmas of Sexuality event drew approximately 375 guests completely filling College 9-10 Multipurpose Room. Over $1000 was raised for Juana Guzman in small cash donations to take home for organizing and movement-building in Mexico City. Moreover, a connection was made with a student and community population hungry for inspiration and ideas of how to organize around sexual identity.


	About Us News and Events Research and Community Projects Community-Based Regionalism Digital Divide Environmental Justice Globalizing Civil Society Regional Equity Summer Institute Women as Social Warriors Publications Audio and Video Archives Support the CJTC Contact Information		Research and Community Projects Women As Social Warriors II: Stigmas of Sexuality In Summer 2003, the coordination group for Women as Social Warriors reconvened and, after months of robust discussion and debate, we decided to focus on the work of women activists from both sides of the US-Mexico border who organize around issues of sexuality and sexual identities. This time, the planning committee was comprised of both campus and community organizations from GIIP (Global Information Internship Proram), CJTC (Center fo r Justice, Tolerance, and Commu nity), College 9-10 Co-Curricular Activities, (CLRC) Chicano/Latino Research Center, the Women’s Center, Triangle Speakers, and the GLBTI Resource Center. The committee decided to anchor the event by inviting Juana Guzmán, a two-time participant in a transnational movement building retreat organized by the CJTC and LALS and called ‘Summer Institute: Social Change Across Borders’. Juana Guzmán co-founded and is Co-Editor of a lesbian feminist magazine, LeS VOZ, and spoke of her work in Mexico to get the magazine into mainstream and local bookstores, organizing lesbian film festivals, soccer tournaments, and working with lesbians incarcerated due to their sexual identity. Juana also articulated the challenges and successes of organizing the 1st Lesbian Feminist march in Mexico City, which drew over 2,500 Latin American and US women to march in spring 2003, and received widespread media coverage. Amidst a week of powerful speaking engagements with Juana, the keynote event came on January 15 and also featured two other speakers: author and nd UC Berkeley Professor Carla Trujillo, editor of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About, who spoke and read from her new novel, What Night Brings; and local activist and UCSC graduate Mónica Morales who brought some of the focus-issues home speaking from her experience working in Watsonville and Santa Cruz in HIV/AIDS prevention and organizing around GLBTI issues in the Latina community. Again, there was heaps of Fair Trade crafts, food and coffee. For entertainment, San Francisco-based performance artist Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa presented an artistic installment to open the evening animating the themes of mestizáje and sexual identity. The Women As Social Warriors II: Stigmas of Sexuality event drew approximately 375 guests completely filling College 9-10 Multipurpose Room. Over $1000 was raised for Juana Guzman in small cash donations to take home for organizing and movement-building in Mexico City. Moreover, a connection was made with a student and community population hungry for inspiration and ideas of how to organize around sexual identity.

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Women As Social Warriors II: Stigmas of Sexuality