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Media Resources Highlights
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Table of Contents:
Women of Color Links and Resources
Women of Color Media Highlights
Women of Color Periodicals, 1968-1988
International & Regional: Global Asia The Americas Alphabetically by Country: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
For full descriptions, see the Directory of Women's Media
International and Regional
Women's World
An international free speech network
of feminist writers based on the premise: "We have formed
the Women's World Organization for Rights, Literature and Development,
or Women's WORLD, because nowhere on earth are women's voices
given the same respect as men's.
Website: http://www.wworld.org
Asia
Online Women Bulletin
Asia Pacific Online Network of
Women in Politics, Governance, and Transformative Leadership.
Website: http://www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org/
RELAT- Red de EscritorasLatinoamericanas
The Women's World Program in Latin
America
Website: http://www.wworld.org/programs/regions/latin.htm
Alphabetically by Country
Revolutionary Association of the Women
of Afghanistan (RAWA) (located
in Pakistan)
RAWA is the oldest political/ social of Afghan women struggling
for peace, freedom, democracy, and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted
Afghanistan since 1977.
Website: http://www.rawa.org
REBRA
Rede de Escritoras Brasileiras
(Brazilian Women Writers' Net) is a non governmental, non profitable
association (NGO), which renders services and assembles women
writers in Brazil.
Website: http://www.rebra.org
Women's Media Center of Cambodia (WMC)
Cameroon
Association for Professional African
Women in Communication
APAC is a forum for reflection,
study and action on gender and media issue. A framework on action
for new means of practicing communication and for reflecting on
the best image of women through media and of communication for
the promotion of women and development in Africa.
Website: http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/apacafrica.html
Chile
Agenda Salud
Argumentos para el Cambio
Boletin Red Feminista Latinoamericana y del Caribe Contra la Violencia
Domestica y Sexual
Ediciones de las Mujeres
Mujer / Fempress
Perspectivas
Revista Mujer Salud
Women's Health Journal
Women's News Digest
China
Women's News Digest
Association for the Advancement
of Feminism
Costa Rica
Voices on Feminist International Radio
Endeavour (FIRE)
Cuba
Revista Mujeres
Website: http://www.mujeres.cubaweb.cu
Guatemala
La Cuerda - Una mirada feminista de la realidad
Asmita ("Identity")
Stree Academic Publishers
Established in 1990, STREE is a
small independent publisher based in Calcutta, India, bringing
out scholarly, well designed books in Bengali and English on social
and women's issues.
Website: http://www.geocities.com/streebooks
Italy
Journal of South Asia Women Studies
Asiatica Association
Japanese Association for Women in Sport
Website: http://www.jws.or.jp/
Japan Foundation of Bar Associations
(JFBA)
Website: http://www.nichibenren.or.jp/
Kitakyushu Forum on Asian Women
Website: http://www.kfaw.or.jp/
Japanese Women
The Fusae Ichikawa Memorial Association
National Women's Education Centre (NWEC)
Newsletter
National Women's Education Centre
Website: http://www.nwec.jp
Women's Messages from Japan
Africa Woman
Our Rights
Korea
Asian Journal of Women's Studies
Asian Center for Women's Studies
Website: http://ewhawoman.or.kr/acwseng/
Asian Women
Asian Women Research Institute for Asian Women
Website: http://asianfem.sookmyung.ac.kr/english/object.htm
Through Women's Eyes
Women's News
Malawi Media Women's Association (MAMWA)
Namibia
Sister Namibia
Nicaragua
La Boletina
Uks-Research, Resource, and Publication
Centre on Women and Media
Newsheet
Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies
Pavam-e-Zan (Woman's Message)
Perú
Somos MUJERES
Philippines
Lila: Asia Pacific Women's Studies Journal
News from the Center
WE! - Women Envision
Isis International-Manila
Website: http://www.isiswomen.org
Women in Action
Isis International-Manila
Website: http://www.isiswomen.org
South Africa
WHP Review, Women's Health Project
Women's Media Watch
Website: http://www.samgi.org.za/
Agenda- Empowering Women for Gender Equality
Website: http://www.agenda.org.za/
WEAVE (Women's Education & Artistic
Voice Expression)
Website: http://www.wworld.org/about/affiliates/weave.htm
Women's Net News
Women'sNet
A vibrant and innovative network support programme designed to
enable South African women to use the Internet to find the people,
issues, resources, and tools they need for women's social activism.
Website: http://www.womensnet.org.za
Spain
Dossiers Feministes
Duoda: revista de estudios feministas
EMAKUNDE
Website: http://www.emakunde.es/
Poder Y Libertad
Sudan
The Ahfad Journal: Women and Change
Thailand
Asian Women Workers Newsletter
Website: http://members.tripod.com/~cawhk/9904/9904nls.htm
WINAP Newsletter
Trinidad & Tobago
CAFRA News / Novedades CAFRA
Website: http://www.cafra.org/article.php3?id_article=89
ARISE
Action for Development
Website: http://www.ariseafrica.com/
Awli News
Akina Mama Wa Afrika
Website: http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/amwau.html
Femrite
New Era
Magazine published by Femrite
United States of America
Majordomo@QueerNet.ORG
APLB: An electronic mailing list which focuses on issues
related to Asian and Pacifica Islander lesbian and bisexual women.
Bamboo Girl
Website: http://www.bamboogirl.com
Bad Jens: Iranian Feminist Newsletter
Website: http://www.badjens.com
Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists
& Our Friends
Website: http://bridgesjournal.org
Digital Sisters, Inc.
Website: http://www.digital-sistas.org
Feministas Unidas: A Coalition of Feminist
Scholars in Spanish, Spanish-American, Luso-Brazilian, Afro-Latin
American, and U.S. Hispanic Studies
Website: http://titan.iwu.edu/~hispanic/femunidas/
Her Own Words
Website: http://www.herownwords.com
Iranian Women's Studies Foundation- Seminar
Publications
Website: http://www.iwsf.org/
JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African
Women Studies
Website: http://www.jendajournal.com
Making Face, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist
Homepage
Website: http://www.chicanas.com
National Congress of Black Women
Website: http://www.npcbw.org
Onyx Woman: Online Edition
Website: http://www.onyxwoman.com
Chicana/Ltina Studies: the Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social
formerly VOCES: A Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies
Website: http://malcs.net/issues.htm
Uruguay
Cotidiano Mujer
Website: http://www.cotidianomujer.org.uy/
Federation of African Media Women--Southern
African Development Community/ FAMW-SADC
Website: http://www.kubatana.net/html/sectors/fed003.asp?sector+MEDIA&details+Tel&orgcode+fed003
Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute (APAWLI)
http://www.apawli.org
The Mission of APAWLI is to "address the challenges facing Asian American and Pacific Islander women and to nurture trusteeship within our communities". APAWLI welcomes vistors to its site, stating, "The trustees and staff of the Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute have worked to create a 'place' where we can come to hear each other's voices, learn from one another, celebrate the many accomplishments of Asian and Pacific American women, nurture the spirit and deepened understanding of one-self."
Association of African Women Scholars
http://www.iupui.edu/~aaws/women.htm
Bagong Pinay a.k.a NewFilipina.com
http://www.newfilipina.com/index2.html
"NewFilipina, Inc. is a growing non-profit org that produces BagongPinay. NFI's mission is Filipina empowerment through multimedia. Our mission: to broaden Filipinas' horizons and to help them discover and harness the power and strengths that they have within themselves. Our projects also aim to connect Filipinas to other Filipinas around the world, to ideas---old and new, and to the means to take action for themselves and for others."
Black Girl International: The Internet Resource for Black Women
http://www.blackgirl.org
"BLACKGIRL INTERNATIONAL is composed of sites that are suggested by its readership. If you would like to recommend a site to be added, please contact us. This site is intended to give black women the opportunity to see World Wide Web pages devoted to, written about, and written by us. Here you'll find the uplifting, the empowering, the thought-provoking, and even occasionally the controversial. The only criterion for inclusion on these pages is that the content is about black women, contains content of particular importance to black women, or that the authors are black women."
Black Women in Sisterhood for Action (BISA)
http://www.feminist.com/bisas1.htm
"Black Women in Sisterhood for Action (BISA), founded on January 10, 1980, is a national non-profit corporation whose purposes are to develop and promote alternative strategies for educational and career development of black women in the world of work; provide scholarship assistance to deserving youths; provide support and social assistance to senior black women in the community; share information and resources in meaningful ways with the community-at-large; and to provide leadership, role models, and mentors for young people."
Career Communications Group, Inc.
http://www.womenofcolor.net
"Join the Women of Color mailing list! From the beginning, the annual Women in Technology issues of Hispanic Engineer and USBE & Information Technology magazineshave been popular vehicles for companies to locate and attract successful women in technology. Hundreds of companies have reached thousands of female students, professionals, young and old, all across the world, who look forward each year to learning of their colleagues' success. Among many of the fine people in your company, we know there are special women of color who are engineers, scientists, technologists, officers, and managers whose accomplishments make them candidates for recognition in the 2000 Women in Technology edition and during the Women of Color Technology Awards Ceremony. So tell us about the outstanding women in your company by completing and returning the recommendation form." (click on hyperlink above).
Documents From the Women's Liberation Movement, Duke University
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/color.html
FLAME
http://www.flamme.org
"Flame" is a network of African sisters online, committed to strengthening the capacity of women through the use of ICT's to lobby, advocate and participate in the Beijing +5 process regionally and globally. "Flame" also serves as an electronic forumfor women to share and exchange ideas, strategies, information, and issues of concern to their lives.
Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
http://www.incite-national.org
"INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities through direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing."
Latina Web Pages
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/women/latinawebs.html
Muslim Women's Homepage
http://jannah.org/sisters
National Congress of Black Women
http://www.npcbw.org
Native American Women on the WWW
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/native.htm
Native American Women Playwrights Archive
http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/nawpa
Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center
http://www.nativeshop.org/index.html
News Portal about women in Africa
http://allafrica.com/women
Nuestras Voces
http://www.wifp.org/pcspanish.html
"La sección en español del Instituto de las Mujeres para la Libertad de la Prensa (WIFP): Lo que buscamos es difundir los medios de comunicación de y por las mujeres en diversos ámbitos: cultura, política, derechos humanos, etc.; así como nuevos espacios donde podemos dar a conocer nuestras voces."
South Asian Women for Action (SAWA)
http://way.net/sawa/
A Boston based collective of women of South Asian descent, which dialogues across gender, race, religious, class and age lines. Members of the collective articulate what it means to be living in the United States as a South Asian woman. They give their experiences political and creative expression through a variety of media, including visual art, theatre and writing.
UGOGURL Your Black Travel Portal
"Provides a forum for the exchange of vital information
among African American travelers"
http://www.ugogurl.com
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
Voices From the Gaps is an instructional Web site focusing on the lives and works of North American women writers of color.
Women of Color, Women of Words
http://scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/home.html
"Women of Color, Women of Words is a site dedicated to African American women who have gifted, shaken up, and disturbed the theatre world with their powerful words. It is a testament to their courage and perseverance. Hopefully, this site will encourage other sister storytellers to make their words heard."
Woman Spirit by Julia White
http://www.powersource.com/gallery/womansp/default.html
Women of Color Resource Center
http://www.coloredgirls.org
Established in 1990, Women of Color Resource Center is a non-profit education, community action, and resource center working on social justice issues that affect women of color. WCRC develops and distributes education and information resources about women of color that support, sustain, and advance social justice movements.
Women's Issues from "The Wind River Rendezvous"
http://www.bluecloud.org/women.html
It's a (Wo)man's World: Women's Education and Artistic Voice Expression
By Sarah E. Misailidis, WIFP
WEAVE amplifies the woman's voice. Created to support black women's writing and publishing in Cape Town, South Africa, it serves as a collective outlet for many. The organization thrives on mutual exchange through skill sharing and moral support. In 1997, the dream became a reality when WEAVE exploded on the literary scene through its affiliation with the umbrella organization Women's WORLD, an international free speech network of feminist writers.
The situation in South Africa has been one inundated by racial struggles. The institution of apartheid had become so defining to their culture that even when the premise did not apply, it was still hard to break out of that mold. Hence, their writings were criticized for not branching out and exploring anything new. Black women writers felt it as their duty to make their voices heard and work together in order to overcome their frustrations. These black women writers wanted to define themselves indefinitely, and WEAVE was a means to an end. No longer was conflict the central focus of their writings nor were there wrongful depictions of black people by white authors.
The women in WEAVE organize publications as well as public poetry readings, cultural festivals, and writing workshops. They also set a precedent by forming the first self-published, multi-genre collection of black women's writing to come out of contemporary South Africa called ink@boiling point.
WEAVE made new feats possible by the simple act of defiance
mixed in with hope. Out of crisis came better forms of change,
and consequently more media venues in which to express that change.
Global Black Woman
Global Black Woman is a magazine that covers a variety of issues with a focus on topics and features "that enable us to discover and best express ourselves as women empowered in our destinies and gracious to those in need wherever they may be." Dana W. Reynolds-Marniche, the Editor and Publisher of the magazine, writes that the goal of the magazine is "to embrace balance and wholeness, emotionally and psychologically, as well as abundance and grace - spiritually and materially." Subject matters identified in the table of contents include, for example, "Pioneering Women of Substance," "World Affairs," "Cultural Odysseys," "Church Matters", Education, Science & Technology," and "Race, Media & Politics."
While articles on race and media provide critical analyses of the impact of the media on racial and religious views, the "Women of Substance" section highlights powerful women from diverse fields such as theatre and law to media. For example, the "Women of Substance" section of one issue features Adriane Gaines. The article charts the career path of Ms. Gaines, President and General Manager of WWRL in New York,the state's only black-owned station. Another issue profiles Soledad O'Brien, co-anchor of Today - Weekend Edition.
Books & Articles of Interest
Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. Daisy Hernandez & Bushra Rehman, eds.
African-American Muslims: Breaking free of the American Dichotomy
By N'Mah Yilla
"Our role in America is critical. Immigrant Muslims to a great extent don't understand the European mind- the American authority's mind. We do." These are words from Imam Ghayth Nur Kashif of the MajidushShura Mosque of SE Washington, D.C. His comment speaks to the position that African American Muslims in a post 9/11 world. The sages in what for many Americans is the esoteric world of Islam. In short, African-American Muslims are a great resource to be tapped as the Western world tries to understand the dynamics of their war on terrorism, fanaticism, and general disdain for them in many parts of the developing, Muslim world.
According to Michelle Cottle, a writer for the New Republic
Magazine, "the people who might best speak to the Muslim
world about the United States are themselves often deeply conflicted
Americans." (New Republic, 17) In the years after the 9/11
attacks, the African-American Muslim community has been caught
in an identity cross roads. On one hand they are Americans, with
key knowledge in understanding the Muslim mind as well as the
Western one. This can sometimes seem like they are 
faced
with the mutually exclusive choice of loyalty to country or loyalty
to co-religionist.
Added to this is a sense of resentment felt by the black Muslims towards both the immigrant Muslim community and the majority Caucasian public. Cottle further asseverates that "for most Americans, Muslim means Arab. And black leaders complain that for too long, immigrant Muslims have set themselves up as the gatekeepers of the faith. As a result, instead of now serving as ambassadors for their religion or for their country, African-American Muslims feel trapped in the center of a storm, unable to make themselves heard, and unsure, perhaps, of even what they want to say. In effect, the Muslim on a quotidian basis is characterized as an Arab or South Asian. "Black Muslims" have not historically been associated with orthodox Islam. Instead, the phrase conjures up images of belligerent black separatist groups, fiery civil rights speeches delivered by Malcom X, and Elijah Mohammed's nation of Islam (NOI). While these stereotypical images may have had some credence in the 1960s, the NOI's height of popularity, this is simply not true of contemporary U.S. society. The Nation of Islam is no longer (that is if it ever was to begin with) the voice of African-American followers of Islam. With estimates ranging from 20% to 40% of the entire American Muslim population, African-Americans make up the largest group of orthodox Muslims in the U.S.
And so, the situation is such that both the American mainstream and immigrant Muslims have served to isolate the Black Muslim population. The immigrant community sometimes treats African Americans like second-class Muslims. This is paralleled and compounded with the relationship between Black and White America. The long history of slavery and the racial discrimination of segregationist laws have left a legacy of enmity between the black and White U.S. population. This legacy is one so painful and so entrenching in the destinies of the two groups that to this day, they are not completely reconciled.
Is there any hope that African Americans will be able to move past this state of "limbo?" Yes. Despite being in this state of conundrum, African-American Muslims continue to push forward, and play a larger role in both the Muslim community and American society at-large. One such way is through the rise of Muslim Student Associations (MSAs) on Historically black college and university campuses (HBCU). According to Laylah Barrayn of Islamic Horizons Magazine, MSA national was founded in 1963 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This organization was the spring board for many of the most important Islamic organizations such as the Islamic circle North America. It also assists Muslims nationwide with founding MSA chapters at high schools and colleges. Official MSA chapters began form on HBCU campuses in the mid 1970s. Since then, new MSAs have continued to be burgeoning and thrive, even at schools like Spellman College (which was originally founded as a Baptist seminary). With black MSAs growing in number, the need becomes more pressing to have the African-American Muslim population represented at the national MSA level. According to Altaf Husain, a former MSA national president and doctorate student at Howard University, efforts to ensure the input of African-American Muslim students are important so that the indigenous voice in the development of the movement would no longer be excluded. MSA national took one big step in this direction with the recent appointment of Naeemah Seward as the first black executive member of MSA National. MSA National, it seems, recognizes that in order to remain relevant to the initiatives and concerns of the American Muslim college population, it needs to be more inclusive of African-Americans.
In effect, the MSA on HBCU campuses phenomena presents some positive prospects for the African-American Muslim community. African-American and immigrant Muslims can develop a stronger sense of solidarity and understanding by working for and achieving common goals. This understanding that they gain as young adults will be the acquaintances, experiences, friendships carried into full adulthood. These strengthened lines of communication could mean that black Muslims will gain more prominence and recognition as one of the many faces of American Islam.
Sarah Misailidis, Editor
WIFP Associate
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Julia J. Jalloh has extensive research, writing, and
editorial experience. She holds two degrees in law and has practice
experience both in and out of the courtroom. Julia who resides
in Canada, has also lived in Ghana, Mexico, and the USA.
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