Reproductive Justice tomorrow

"BROADENING THE MOVEMENT: FROM REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS TO REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE"
A conversation about the intersections of race, class, gender and reproductive health advocacy
Featuring MIRIAM YEUNG, Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum

MONDAY, APRIL 19th - 5:30PM

Niebuhr Hall, N123, Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street

Dinner will be provided
RSVP to ydssems4rj@gmail.com

Bulldog Days Community Sing, With Mamouns!

Monday, April 19, 2010 from 11:00 PM until 1:00 AM

Dwight Hall Chapel
67 High St
New Haven, CT 06511-8963

Come learn songs of social justice from around the world in multipart harmony while feasting upon delicious Middle Eastern food! No previous musical experience necessary - all are welcome. Music is taught by ear, and a fully supportive environment and a lot of fun are guaranteed. Bring enthusiasm and an appetite!

Admission: Open to all!
Refreshments will be served.

Yale’s Critical Islamic Reflections Committee’s 9th Annual Conference: Yale's Critical Islamic Reflections Committee would like to invite you to attend its 9th Annual Conference, which will take place on April 10, 2010 in William L. Harkness Hall, Wall St, New Haven, CT from 10 am to 7pm.

This year's conference showcases the latest research by distinguished and promising scholars of the humanities and social sciences on the subject of 'The (Muslim) Woman Question: Competing Representations, Contested Futures.' Based on selections from over 170
worldwide submissions, this interdisciplinary forum will explore the politics of representation vis-à-vis women and gender in Islam and interrogate how representations of and by Muslim women may influence political futures. Please join us as colleagues, friends, and allies for this important intellectual, political, and communal event. Please
visit http://www.yale.edu/cir/program.html for a copy of the program and to register.

Judge & Indian food!

Discussion with Judge Amanda Rockman, Ho-Chunk Nation Judiciary (4/15)

Constituting American Indian Tribal Governments: Jurisprudence in the Ho-Chunk
Nation
(A Discussion with Judge Amanda Rockman, Ho-Chunk Nation Judiciary)
Thursday, April 15th
4:30-6:30 p.m.
Room 120

Please join PANA, NALSA, and Professor Ned Blackhawk of the Yale American
Studies Department for a discussion with Judge Amanda Rockman. Judge Rockman is
a trial court judge for the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. She will speak about
the development of the Ho-Chunk tribal court system and its jurisprudence. A
brief interview with Judge Rockman is available at:
http://www.ecb.org/engage/AmandaRockman.htm, and a poster with more information
is attached.

There will also be a dinner with Judge Rockman at Royal Palace after the talk.

If you can attend either or both events, please RSVP to
maile.tavepholjalern@yale.edu.

Barrio Fiesta!

Friday, April 9, 2010 from 5:30 PM until 7:30 PM

SSS114
Corner of Prospect and Grove

KASAMA: The Filipino Club at Yale

presents

BARRIO FIESTA

A Celebration of Filipino Culture

food-devouring, coconut-banging, and pole-dancing
.... Filipino style.

Friday, April 9 / SSS114

Dinner at 5.30pm, Cultural Show to Follow

$3 pre-sale, $5 at door

Admission: $3 pre-sale, $5 at door
Refreshments will be served.

The Bhagwad Gita & The Matrix

Thursday, April 8, 2010 from 8:30 PM until 9:30 PM

WLH 211
100 Wall St
New Haven, CT 06511-8913

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111227702236160

Yale Hindu Students Council presents:

"The Bhagavad Gita and The Matrix"

An Interactive Talk by Ramnath Subramanian

Confessions of a Cha-cha feminist

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 7:00 PM

Saybrook Underbrook

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=109241272436370&ref=ts

Playwright and performance artist Maria Elena Fernandez will be performing her one-woman play," Confessions of a Cha-Cha Feminist" on Tuesday, April 6th at 7:00pm at the Saybrook Underbrook. Mrs. Fernandez graduated from Yale with a B.A. in American Studies with a concentration in ethnic studies in 1987. Her play is a hilarious presentation of the experiences of a young Latina woman going to Yale after graduating from a Catholic, all-girls high school.

There will also be a reception (with SNACKS) following the performance where you will get to mingle with the artist herself.

Take a study break and join us in learning more about the history of Latinos at Yale through this fabulous performance! RSVP to lacasa@yale.edu

This event is sponsored by the Traphagen Alumni Speaker Series, Yale College Office of Student Affairs.

Refreshments will be served.

Debate + indian food tonight!

TODAY……..

"RELIGION IS MORE DIVISIVE THAN UNIFYING"

See the attached poster and formal program for details.

Students from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, UPenn and NYU will debate this motion at the third annual Yale Hindi Debate! The Preliminary Round: April 1st (LUCE 101), 5.50pm. The National Round: April 16th (LUCE 101), 5.20pm.

Ask the best question from the audience: win a prize!

Opinions will be strong. Competition will be fierce.

Latino Spoken Word!!

Sexual Violence Awareness Events

Social Justice Day: Thursday, April 1—two events!

1. Broken Bodies, Broken Dreams: Join SJN for a dinner discussion with Professors Elisabeth Wood and Jhumka Gupta for a conversation about wartime sexual violence and sex trafficking. Dwight Hall Library

Co-sponsored by STAND, Amnesty International, and the Women’s Center. Thai food and Claire’s cake will be served at 6:30 and the discussion will start at 7:00.

2. Movie Screening: “Trade” |9:00PM at Silliflicks

Join the Social Justice Network in watching “Trade,” inspired by Peter Landesman's chilling NY Times Magazine story on the U.S. sex trade and sex trafficking. See http://www.tradethemovie.com/synopsis.html for a synopsis.

AACC Asian American Film Festival: Songs of a Sorrowful Man Screening on April 1st

"As part of its annual Asian American Film Festival, the AACC is proud to screen the film Songs of a Sorrowful Man by directors Lina Fruzzetti, Akos Ostor and Aditi Nath Sakar on Thursday, April 1st. This is a touching and poignant documentary that touches upon many issues, including cultural change, gender inequality, and religion.

The AACC will be hosting a special dinner for the directors at Zaroka restaurant around 5:30 pm. Then, later in the evening, the directors will attend the screening of Songs of a Sorrowful Man, a 34-minute film, at the Whitney Humanities Center at 7PM and then hold a question and answer session afterwards, where samosas will be provided. If you are interesting in attending the dinner (free of cost, but we only have space for less than ten Yalies!), then please RSVP to rohit.thummalapalli@yale.edu."

Upcoming Events!! Week of March 1st

Upcoming Events of interest


Arabic Poetry Reading
WLH 207
Tuesday, March 2
7:00pm
Join the ASA in an evening of poetry reading!!


Yalies for a Dream
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Dwight Hall Chapel
Come find out how YOU can get involved with the passage of the DREAM Act!

Immigration is NOT a Latino issue.
The DREAM Act would grant these students, as selected by strict guidelines, a six year period of temporary residence in which they would be expected to complete two years worth of courses toward a bachelor's degree or two years worth of military service. If they accomplish one or the other, they will be granted citizenship.
Feel free to RSVP in the Facebook group and share with friends!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10150107490930562&ref=ts

Killing the Multiracial Neighborhood: Japanese Americans and African Americans in the Fillmore District's Urban Renewal, 1940- 1980

Professor Clement Lai
Af Am House (on Park St, next to GPSCY)
Wednesday, March 3
6:00pm
Wednesday March 3rd at the Af-Am House, 211 Park St
Dinner will be Served at 6:00 pm
Lecture from 6:20- 7:00 pm



South Asian Art Show
A Classical Arts Show
Off Broadway Theater
Thursday, March 4
8:00am

Yale Raga Society, South Asian Society, and Anjali are hosting Yale's second annual all-classical South Asian arts show! The performances include Bharatanatyam and Kathak dance, Carnatic and Hindustani vocal, Rabindra Sangeet, and Urdu ghazals. The show will be held at the Off Broadway Theater at 8 pm on Thursday, March 4th. Please email yaleclassicalshow@gmail.com to reserve tickets. Tickets are $2 for Yale affiliates, and $5 for general audience.

PASSING
Written by Dipika Guha
Directed by Jesse Jou
Yale Cabaret
217 Park St
New Haven, CT 06511

Where does healing begin?
In a land long considered uncivilized, an ill matched English couple try to make home. Inside, amidst the clink of glasses and Singapore Slings, there is another sound... the cry of a blood soaked teenage girl stepping out from the shadows; her body, an unstoppable force of a history that refuses to be forgotten.
Is that how you like me? Quiet?

PERFORMANCES
Thursday 4 March @ 8pm
Friday 5 March @ 8pm + 11pm
Saturday 6 March @ 8pm + 11pm
(Doors open: At 6.30pm for dinner before our 8pm performances. At 10pm for small plates and drinks before our 11pm performances.)

One Flea Spare
By: Naomi Wallace
A Senior Project for O'Hagan Blades and Cordelia Istel
Wed Mar 3 6:30 pm
Wed Mar 3 9:30 pm
Thu Mar 4 8:00 pm
Fri Mar 5 4:00 pm
At Whitney Theater

Welcome!

Hi beautiful, gorgeous women of color! I'm Nila, YLS '12 and will be managing and editing this blog. I'm really excited to get started on this project with you and hope this blog will serve as a way for our community to stay connected on events happening throughout campus. I definitely hope this blog is collaborative and many of you are interested and willing to write posts!

A few things I hope this blog will feature:

Weekly updates on:
1. Events within and outside of the law school that relate to issues of race, color, ethnicity, identity, women, etc. etc.
2. Events that are relaxing, artistic and fun.


Monthly fun interviews featuring a different individual every month
1. Profiles of YLS WOCC members
2. Profiles of WOC professors/lawyers/professionals

I'm so excited you're joining me on this blog journey and hope you enjoy!

<3 Nila