MEChA de UCLA: "Violence Against Women: Femicides, Deaths, Injustice"

 

This event is part of MEChA de UCLA Semana de la Mujer, a weeklong series of events during Women's Her/History Month.

 

Over time and distance, the equal rights of womyn have progressed. We come together to celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of womyn; however, we must remain vigilant and tenacious for further sustainable change. There is global momentum for championing womyn's equality.

 

"Violence Against Women: Femicides, Deaths, Injustice"

 

4:00-4:45 p.m.
Violence and Femicides in the World - workshop/presentation
Presenters: Stephanie Suarez and Janeth Lopez

What is happening regarding the femicides happening around the world? Why are there so many women deaths around the world? How are these political, social, and injustice issues affecting only women?

 

4:45-5:30 p.m.
Performance Piece on Femicides
Presenter: Reina Prado
Since her first poetry collection Santa Perversa and Other Erotic Poems (Calaca Press, 2001), Prado continues to challenge taboos imposed on Latina women by delving into the realm of the erotic affirming that sexesmiotroerótico (sex is my other erotic). She has performed to audiences throughout California, Arizona, New York City, Washington, DC, and internationally in Scotland, Mexico, and Cuba. She is a founding member along with Pat Payne & Dora McQuaid of The Neo Spinsters, a poetry performance collective. From 1998-2000, she collaborated with the L.A. Coyotas, an interdisciplinary and intergenerational Chicana artist collective. Her performance art includes interactive durational works like "Take a Piece of My Heart" and "Ghost of Us" which have been performed at Highways Performance Space, Intersection for the Arts, 13th Annual Habana Poetry Festival, CASA 0101 and Casa Cultural Benemérito de las Américas in Coyoacán, Mexico.

 

5:30-6:00 p.m.

Arts & Crafts Workshop

Students will be able to read biographies of women who have been killed or assassinated through femicides. Students will be able to paint pink crosses and place the name of the biographies they read on the cross. At the end of the day we will place all of these crosses in front of Meyerhoff Park as a form of awareness.

 

This event is FREE.

 

Cosponsored by MECHa de UCLA, Bruin Feminists for Equality at UCLA, IDEAS at UCLA, UCLA Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies, Office of Residential Life, Social Justice Network, USAC, and the CSRC.