{"id":333,"date":"2006-11-11T23:45:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T21:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/?p=333"},"modified":"2006-12-24T02:31:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T00:31:11","slug":"womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"women’s day"},"content":{"rendered":"

antwerpen, the (flemish) women’s day. a heart-warming way to make a very brief visit to vlaanderen, surrounded by a bunch of familiar faces, political companeras and friends. some friends said i look really different these days, some insisted it was the californian influence that made me look mexican… (okay, maybe the rose in my hair played a role in this; and of course women in mexico all wear roses in their hair. i had thought there might have been an opportunity to sing bread and roses<\/em> during the day, but then i realized i didn’t know all the lyrics…)<\/p>\n

and we had quite some work to do – our gebroken wit<\/a> workshop which developed out of things we learned from the challenging white supremacy<\/a> sessions with sharon and many other sources. haar antwerpen is screened and sold – pleasurable to feel a material product in hands that now is starting to spread and lead its own life. and i have to participate to the general debate, for nextgenderation of course. (oh god, as the facilitator was increasingly working on my nerves, and curtailing what i felt was an expression of political passion with a flat and annoying “but i thought women would do things differently, less violently”, it slipped out of my mouth: “well there has been no struggle for liberation without violence.” as nadia added afterwards: “it’s merely a sociological observation.”)<\/em><\/p>\n

what i most enjoyed came after all the work. the beautiful meeting with rauda morcos from ASWAT<\/a>, a palestinian gay women’s association based in haifa, and hanging out toghether with the Women in Black<\/a> from leuven who had invited her (leuvense WiB insisting i connect with the bay area WiB; rauda insisting i connect with the bay area network of arab queer women – it seems that every time i leave europe to the US there’s a new set of facilitated contacts… and then we do the little plot to get Aswat T-shirts to friends and to Helem<\/a> in Beirut). and plenty of laughter in good sweet company at the end of the day with the queer cafe and stand-up comedy, and singing our hearts out and dancing with hilde to beautiful french chansons…<\/p>\n

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\n(rauda morcos, photos by lieve snellings)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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