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Women of Color
Women's Institute for Freedom of
the Press
Washington, DC
email: mediademocracy [at] wifp [dot] org
Delma Webb, Editor
Table of Contents:
Women of Color Links and Resources
Women of Color Media Highlights
Women of Color Periodicals, 1968-1988
International & Regional: Global Africa 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
International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT)
Website: http://www.iawrt.org
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
East African Media Women's Association
Website: http://www.eamwa.org/
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
Bolivia
RED - ADA (Red Nacional de trabajadoras de la información y comunicación
Website: http://www.redada.org/
Brazil
Fêmea
Website: http://www.cfemea.org.br
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
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
Canada
Native Women in the Arts
Website: http://www.nativewomeninthearts.com
Institute for the Advancement of the Aboriginal Women
Website: http://www.iaaw.ca
Chile
Agenda Salud
Isis International
Website: http://www.isis.cl
Argumentos para el Cambio
Website: http://www.argumentos.cem.cl/
Boletin Red Feminista Latinoamericana y del Caribe Contra la Violencia
Domestica y Sexual
Website: http://www.isis.cl
Con-spirando Revista
Website: www.conspirando.cl
Ediciones de las Mujeres
Website: http://www.isis.cl
Perspectivas
Website: http://www.isis.cl
China
Women's News Digest
Association for the Advancement
of Feminism
Website: http://www.aaf.org.hk/
Costa Rica
Habitación propia
Website: http://www.cosmovisiones.com/habitacionpropia/
Radio Internacional Feminista
Feminist International Radio
Endeavour (FIRE)
Website: http://www.fire.or.cr/
Cuba
Revista Mujeres
Website: http://www.mujeres.cubaweb.cu
Banat Wa Bas
Website: http://www.banat9bass.com/
Ethiopia
IAFFE Newsletter
Website: http://www.iaffe.org
Grassroots Organizations Working Together in Sisterhood
Website: http://www.workingwomensforum.org
Indian Journal of Gender Studies
Website: http://intl-ijg.sagepub.com
Manushi: A Journal about Women & Society
Website: http://www.indiatogether.org/manushi/
Meow 104.8
Website: http://meowfm.com/
Network of Women in Media, India
Website: http://nwmindia.org/index.htm
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
Women Unlimited
Website: www.womenunlimited.net
Women's Feature Service
Website: http://www.wfsnews.org
Italy
Journal of South Asia Women Studies
Asiatica Association
Website: http://www.asiatica.org
Japan
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
Website: http://www.ichikawa-fusae.or.jp
Jordan
Arab Women Media Centre (AWMC)
Website: http://www.ayamm.org
FEMNET News
Website: http://www.femnet.or.ke
Our Rights
Website: http://www.femnet.or.ke
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
Website: www.hotline.or.kr
Women's News
Web site : http://www.womennews.co.kr/default.asp
CIMAC Comunicación e información de la mujer A.C.
Website: http://www.cimac.org.mx
Creatividad feminista
Website: http://www.mamametal.com
Debate feminista
Website: http://www.debatefeminista.com
Mujer totalmente interesante
Website: http://plazasol.uson.mx/mujer
Nicaragua
La Boletina
Website: http://www.puntos.org.ni/boletina/
Pakistan
Newsheet
Website: http://wluml.org
Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies
Website: http://pakistanwomenstudies.com
Pavam-e-Zan (Woman's Message)
Website: http://www.rawa.org/index.php
Perú
Movimiento Manuela Ramos
Website: http://www.manuela.org.pe
Philippines
ANNOUNCE
Website: http://www.isiswomen.org
Mujeres Hoy
Website: http://www.mujereshoy.com
OnlineWomen
Website: http://www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org/index.htm
WE! - Women Envision
Isis International-Manila
Website: http://www.isiswomen.org
Women in Action
Isis International-Manila
Website: http://www.isiswomen.org
South Africa
Agenda - Empowering Women for Gender Equality
and Agenda E-Newsletter
Website: http://www.agenda.org.za/
Feminist Africa
Website: http://www.feministafrica.org/
GIST, Girls Identities Superior in Technology
Website: http://www.womensnet.org.za/girlsnet-empowering-girls
Intersections
Website: http://www.womensnet.org.za/publications/intersections
Women's Media Watch
Website: http://www.samgi.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
ADPC (associació de dones periodistes de Catalunya)
Website: http://www.adpc.cat
EMAKUNDE
Website: http://www.emakunde.es/
Mujeres en Red
Website: http://www.mujeresenred.net
Trabajadora
Website: http://www.ccoo.es/mujeres
Vindicación Feminista
Website: http://www.vindicacionfeminista.com/
Sudan
The Ahfad Journal: Women and Change
Website: http://www.ahfad.org/ahfad_journal.html
Thailand
Asian Women Workers Newsletter
Website: http://members.tripod.com/~cawhk/9904/9904nls.htm
Trinidad & Tobago
CAFRA News/ Novedades CAFRA
Website: http://www.cafra.org
Awli News
Akina Mama Wa Afrika
Website: http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/amwau.html
Isis-WICCE (Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange)
Website: www.isis.or.ug
Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
Website: http://www.wougnet.org/cms/
United States of America
Email list: Afwoscho -A list for women and men (academics, scholars, activists, policymakers, and students) who are interested in discussing gender issues in Africa. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE AFWOSCHO Your Name to LISTSERVE[no.spam*]LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU or see the Afwoscho web page.
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
Black Ensemble Theatre
Website: www.blackensembletheater.org
Email List: Black_Women_Depression - A forum for black women who are dealing with depression, anxiety, bipolar, other mental illness or just the strain of having to deal with "strong black woman" syndrome. For more information or to subscribe, see the black_women_depression Yahoo group's website.
Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists
& Our Friends
Website: http://bridgesjournal.org
The Center for Indigenous Theatre
Website: www.indigenoustheatre.com
Chicana/Latina 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
Currents
Website: http://www.unifem.org/
Digital Sisters, Inc.
Website: http://www.digital-sistas.org
Directory of Women's Media
Website: http://www.wifp.org/DWM/DirectoryWomensMedia.html
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/
GirlChild Press
Website: http://www.girlchildpress.com/
Email list: Girlfriend - Provides a forum for Black women in cyberspace. Topics are wideranging, including such issues as current events, spiritual quests, travel, politics, hair, money,children, popular culture, careers, sexuality, men, women. etc. "Girlfriends can be Black women by birth or by choice (black-identified) of any political orientation and sexual preference." For more information or to subscribe, see the GIRLFRIEND web page.
Email list: Graduate Center Women of Color Network - A listserv for women of color pursuing their Ph.D.'s. Based at the City University of New York, the list is open to women of color doctoral candidates anywhere. The list's aim is to equip its members with the tools to survive and succeed in graduate school and to help members manage their various identities (daughters, partners, mothers, workers). The list posts announcements for events, conferences, papers, grants, jobs, etc. To join, please email Stephanie Campos at smcamposwatson[no.spam*]yahoo.com
GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand, Inc.
Website: www.ggbb.org
Her Own Words
Website: http://www.herownwords.com
Iranian Women's Studies Foundation- Seminar
Publications
Website: http://www.iwsf.org/
IAWM: International Alliance for Women in Music
Website: http://www.iawm.org
IWMF Directory
Website: http://www.iwmf.org
International Black Women's Film Festival
Website: www.ibwff.com
JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African
Women Studies
Website: http://www.jendajournal.com
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Website: http://inscribe.iupress.org/loi/mew
Latina Style Magazine
Website: http://www.latinastyle.com
Making Face, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist
Homepage
Website: http://www.chicanas.com
National Congress of Black Women
Website: http://www.npcbw.org
Native Earth Performing Arts
Website: http://www.nativeearth.ca/2007/home.html
Onyx Woman: Online Edition
Website: http://www.onyxwoman.com
RedBone Press
Website: www.redbonepress.com
Sister Says!
Website: http://www.sisterfund.org
SisterSpeak
Website: http://www.npcbw.org
Sister to Sister/ S2S
Website: http://www.coloredgirls.org
Women, Ink.
Website: http://www.womenink.org
Uruguay
Cotidiano Mujer
Website: http://www.cotidianomujer.org.uy/
La República de mujeres
Website: http://www.chasque.apc.org/rmujer/index.html
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
WomenPlus
Website: http://www.zwrcn.org.zw
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."
RIMA - Red Informative de Mujeres de Argentina
http://www.rimaweb.com.ar/
RIMA- Red Informativa de Mujeres de Argentina es un proyecto de comunicación que se realiza a través de: una lista de distribución por correo electrónico homónima dedicada a la información y el intercambio entre mujeres feministas, periodistas, organizaciones del movimiento de mujeres, investigadoras, estudiantes, y activistas del país y también de países de Latinoamérica. Cuenta con un sitio web www.rimaweb.com.ar y listas de distribución asociadas: una dedicada a la distribución de gacetillas y avisos, y un boletín de actualización del sitio web.
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.
Black Women For Health Reform Town Hall
by Delma Webb, WIFP
September 23, 2009
The Black Women’s Health Imperative and Avery Institute for Social Change sponsored the Black Women for Health Reform Town Hall meeting at the Kaiser Family Foundation, in the Barbara Jordon Conference Center located in Washington, D. C., on Thursday, September 17, 2009.
The meeting began with registration of the invited guests before entering the auditorium. All guests were given the opportunity to receive printed media from the information table. The various health information included brochures about Securing health rights for those in need, from the National Health Law Program's information about health care, and the Black Women’s Health Imperative organization's brochures about the Health-Wise Woman Diabetes Prevention and Education Project.
The invited guests were treated to a nutritious lunch that included a variety of sandwiches of chicken salad, vegetarian, roast beef, and turkey, with fruit salad, potato chips, and chocolate chip cookies packed neat in a plastic container. Bottled spring water was the beverage of choice for this health conscious organization.
Eleanor Hinton Hoytt, President and CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative gave the welcome and opening remarks to a large crowd of African American women from the Washington metropolitan area. Ms. Hoytt acknowledged there is a health crisis in the African American community and we should be concerned about President Obama’s new Health Reform Legislation and how it will impact the African American woman.
Byllye Y. Avery, Founder of the Black Women’s Health Imperative and Avery Institute for Social Change was the moderator and gave the overview of the meeting. The theme of the meeting was, WHY SHOULD BLACK WOMEN SUPPORT THE HEALTH REFORM? Ms. Avery introduced each guest panelist and gave a brief bio about each speaker.
The first distinguished panelist that participated in the meeting was Deborah A. Reid, Staff Attorney with the National Law Program. Ms. Reid is a supporter of Senator Baucus new Health Reform Bill that is in the Senate.
Kierra Johnson, Executive Director, of Choice USA, is the advocate for young adults and explained the myths of young people’s concern for the Health Care Reform. Ms. Johnson said, “that 2/3 of young adults could not afford to pay for medical coverage,” and “that 30 million young adults between the ages of 19-30 do not have health care.” Other concerns Ms. Johnson spoke about the need for prevention health care, patient confidentiality, affordable prescriptions, sex education, and youth reform with health insurance.
Avis Jones-DeWeever, Ph. D., Director, of Research, Public Policy and Information Center for the National Council of Negro Women, spoke about the politics of the health care for African Americans. Ms. Jones-DeWeever emphasized that Black Women were responsible for President Obama’s victory to the White House and that more Black Women voted in this past election. She spoke about the short term goals for African American women to “articulate specific demands” such as the sexual reproductive rights in the health insurance reform. And long term goals to elect Black Women in Congress.
After each of the panelists presented their discussion about the health reform, there was a question and answer period from the audience. Several of the guests in the audience gave a testimony about their ordeal with the issue of health insurance coverage and what they expect President Obama’s new Health Insurance Reform Plan will provide adequate coverage.
Ms. Avery gave the Reflections about the meeting and urged the audience to become members of the Black Women’s Health Imperative.
Ms. Hoytt, in the closing remarks, OUR TIME FOR ACTION, call for all Black Women to raise their voices about the health crisis in our community.
Earlier Editors:
Sarah Misailidis, Editor
WIFP Associate
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Julia J. Jalloh
Julia J. Jalloh, WIFP office, December, 2002
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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