<div dir="ltr">This is a project I am working on with a group of wonderful women of color based in the Inland Empire -- feel free to pass on to anybody you think would be interested.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">
<br>Ching-In<br>
<p align="center"><b>The ˇYa Basta! Collective</b></p>
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<p align="center"><u><b>Call for Submissions</b></u><b>: Anthology on
Gender, War and Militarism.</b></p>
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</font>The ˇYa Basta! Collective is a group of women of color
who are putting together an anthology which gives voice to young
women, girls, and non gender conforming peoples of color.</p>
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</font>This anthology will be built around themes of war, violence,
militarism. We particularly welcome creative work which connects, and
troubles, gender binaries through an exploration of militarization,
war and violence in our times.</p>
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</font>We invite work that is resistant, hopeful and healing.
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<p style="margin-left: 0.05in;">All creative work including writing,
poems, visual art work, cartoons, sticker designs, stencils, etc. are
welcome.
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<p>Please send submissions and a short bio including contact
information (name, email, or the best way to contact you) in Word or
PDF as well as within the body of the text to:
<a href="mailto:YaBastaCollective@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">YaBastaCollective@gmail.com</span></a>.
Hard copies can also be sent by mail to: PO Box 55113,
Riverside CA 92517 c/o ˇYa Basta! Collective.</p>
<p><u><b>Deadline for Submission:September 15, 2008.</b></u></p>
<p><i>If you would like more information on the ˇYa Basta!
Collective please contact: </i><a href="mailto:YaBastaCollective@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><i>YaBastaCollective@gmail.com</i></span></a>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><b>Don't have anything to
submit? </b></font></font>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span>The ˇYa
Basta! Collective</span></font><font face="Verdana"> will be holding
free online writing workshops for girls, women, and
gender-non-conforming folks of color on war, militarization and
violence in conjunction with the themes of our anthology. </font>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span>ˇYa
Basta! Collective </span></font><font face="Verdana">member Ching-In
Chen will run the first four-week workshop, starting August 26 and
ending September 16, 2008. This will be a group for those who want to
jumpstart their writing and are in need of inspiring prompts by
writers from our community, open to those writing in all genres and
all ages. We especially encourage new and beginning writers!</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in;"><font face="Verdana">Each week,
writing prompts will be posted for the group (also open if the
members of the group have writing prompts/favorite pieces of writing
to share!).</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Though this workshop is free, we ask that you
only apply if you can commit to the entire four-week session. (We
hope to run more groups in the future.) The minimum commitment each
week would be to write one piece to share with the group, to read our
peers' posts and respond/give constructive feedback to at least one
of our peers' pieces. The workshop will be limited to no more than 15
participants. To apply for the workshop, please send an introduction
(no more than one page) telling us who you are and why you are
interested in taking the workshop to </font><font color="#000080"><u><a href="mailto:YaBastaCollective@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">YaBastaCollective@gmail.com</font></a></u></font></p>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>~~~~~<br><a href="http://chingeze.livejournal.com">chingeze.livejournal.com</a><br>
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