Ladies First Collective, Washington Hall, Hidmo, De Cajón Project, Seattle Fandango Project, Sistah Sinema, Open Hand Reel, 4Culture, Asian Pacific Islander Women & Family Safety Center, B-Girl Media, Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas, Green Bodies, Seattle Girls’ School Latina Affinity Group, Social HeARTistry Educators (S.H.E.), Uzuri Productions, Zenyu, Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Youth Speaks, Women’s Action Commission, FEEST, and StoryGarden Seattle.
DR SNIP SEATTLE ARCHIVE
UW LIBRARIES DIGITAL INITIATIVES WOMEN WHO ROCK ARCHIVE TEAMĪnn Lally, Anne Graham, Angela Rosette-Tavares, Rinna Rem Marisol Berrios-Miranda, Tami Albin, Alice “Bag” Armendariz, Dr. Nicole Robert, Shuxuan Zhou, Brittany Ward, Marrisa Harrison, Gina Alva, Teresita Bazan, Dr. Noralis Rodriguez, Melanie Hernandez, Carrie Lanza, Iris Viveros, Yesenia Hunter, Lulu Carpenter, Andrea Delgado, Dr. Monica de la Torre, Angelica Macklin, Christa Bell, Quetzal Flores, Dr.
WOMxN WHO ROCK COMMUNITY ORGANIZING MEMBERS (CURRENT AND PAST)ĭr. Women Who Rock identifies the organic genius of Women of Color in these scenes and helps create pathways into the university. We do this through the annual conference as well as by maintaining an active presence in music, social justice, and other community based scenes. To this end, a primary goal of Women Who Rock is to create spaces in which Women of Color can recognize and imagine themselves within the academy. An essential component of the Women Who Rock project is the recruitment and mentoring of women of color vis-à-vis relationship building. for an intensive one-day mentoring workshop to provide feedback and support to graduate students in different phases of their research projects. In addition, each year Women Who Rock brings together faculty and community-based scholars from across the U.S. These activities provide graduate and undergraduate students with a critical lens, not only to examine cultural production and feminist activism from a scholarly perspective, but also to build the skills necessary to generate multimedia and digital forms of scholarship through feminist decolonizing theoretical frameworks. Scholarship, Research, and Mentoring anchor an interdisciplinary Women Who Rock curriculum at the University of Washington. The unConference includes: dialogue about women, music, and social justice scenes small group sessions skills-sharing workshops performances a community bazaar children’s activities a film festival featuring shorts on women in the archive a keynote session and an evening open mic and community fandango. Our goal is to expand on “who” counts as women and “what” counts as rock. The Annual unConference and Film Festival is participant-driven with different themes each year that are centered around issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexuality. This multifaceted endeavor reshapes conventional understandings of music and cultural production by initiating collective methods of research, teaching, and community and scholarly collaboration. We encompass several interwoven components: an annual participant-driven community engagement conference and film festival project-based coursework at the graduate and undergraduate levels and an oral history archive that ties the various components together. We bring together musicians, media-makers, performers, artists, scholars and activists to explore the role of women and popular music in the creation of cultural scenes that anchor social justice movements in the Americas and beyond.
The Womxn Who Rock Community Research Project is developed through collaborations between UW faculty, graduate students, community members and scholars of gender, race and sexuality in music and social justice movements.