Archive for July, 2009

We’re Just Sayin’ Research Camp In The Summer!

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Check out some of our digital media art here!

These diverse and creative products are an outcome of an innovative youth engaged participatory action research project that examined spaces of encounter between Indigenous and racial minority girls and young women, age 12 to 18 years.   The program employed Indigenous and Taiko drumming, (more…)

Thoughts from We’re Just Sayin’ in the Summer: Gurl Solidarity Media Program

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

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We’re Just Sayin’ In the Summer: Gurl Solidarity Media Program is a 5 day media program and research initiative with in collaboration with the Department of Women’s Studies.  Today is the last day of our media program.  : ( sniff!  It’s been such an amazing experience so far.  Through this media program we are working with over 20 gurlz to learn new skills and empowering all of us to use these mediums to tell their our unique stories.  This has been a really great opportunity because we get such few opportunities as racialized girls and women to tell our stories and to have them heard in different formats.  I am really excited because all of these amazing gurlz will now be part of our antidote community and hopefully really soon you will see them sharing their skillz on our blog.