July 9-11, 2010. Contact us at allgo@ allgo.org or 512-472-2001 to register or for more details.
The Texas Queer People of Color Statewide Summit, is a gathering of individual and organizationally connected activists coming together to build relationship, think critically, envision liberation, and create strategies that build and sustain a queer people of color movement across the state of Texas.
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The Summit is a space to dialogue about how we can build a movement coming from a place of engaging possibilities rather than a place of fighting, and that works to create our own power. The Summit is also intended to explore how we can carry out this work in a way that is sustainable and supportive in a continuum of movement building. We have seen leaders fall from fatigue and burn-out due to the challenges they face when it comes to self-care and finding time and space to ensure that they are emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually whole and healthy. The Summit will also be a space where activists and individuals explore the importance and learn to engage in self-care. The Summit will take place over two days with the majority of the activist attending remaining at the facility to engage in after hours retreat and networking activities. The two-days will include activities and workshops that allow the group to safely engage in dialogue, reflection, learning and sharing experiences. Some areas include: honoring our history, strengthening our network, growing and sustaining the movement, and creating possibilities for economic and social change in queer communities of color that bring about liberation from the inside out. Action Teams will meet to create a state-wide strategic plan in the four current issue areas: Reproductive Justice, Anti-Violence, Immigrant and Refugee rights, and Sexual Freedom. There will be a peer to peer learning environment and peer facilitation of workshops using expertise from around the state. 50 participants will attend.
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The Summit will achieve the following goals:
- Bring together activists, groups and organizations for two days to network, build community, share and strategize around issues significant to LGBT people of color, and develop an action plan.
- Create a space for reflection and critical analysis on how to build a sustainable movement beginning from within.
- Explore the possibilities of internalized liberation and envisioning the world we seek to create.
- Establish working commitments to build on queer people of color liberation efforts statewide.
- Strengthen the statewide network of groups, individuals, activist, and organizations working for queer liberation.
