Conference Agenda
(workshop descriptions coming)

Wednesday, May 30

2:00 PM – 6:00 PM – Registration

9:00 AM -5:00 PM -  Causes in Common Pre-Conference Meeting

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM - Morning Exercise –Anniitra Ravenmoon – Womb Dance (Bellydancing)

9:00 AM – 9:35 AM - Grand Opening Plenary - Loretta Ross, SisterSong National Coordinator

9:35 AM – 10:40 AM –Morning Plenary: Nothing About Us Without Us is For Us

• Byllye Avery, The Avery Institute: Your Human Rights are My Human Rights: Building a Reproductive Justice Movement Together
• Rocio Cordoba, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice: Taking Action for Reproductive Justice: MovementBuilding and New Leadership
• Aparna Shah, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice: Expanding the Movement for Empowerment& Reproductive Justice – The EMERJ Project
• Carmen Vasquez, EmpireState Pride Agenda: Reproductive Justice and LGBTQQI Movements Working Together
• Janet Taveras, Formerly Incarcerated Activist: Sexual Rights of Incarcerated Women

10:40 AM - 10:55 AM - Self-Help Exercise

10:55 AM – 11:00 AM - BREAK

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM– Concurrent Workshops Session 1

12:15 PM – 1:30 PM – LUNCH KEYNOTE – facilitated by Titilayo Ihesinachi, SisterSong Conference Coordinator

• Screening Listen UP! Video
• Keynote Speaker, Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern School of Law – Reproductive Oppression and Reproductive Justice for Women of Color

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM – Afternoon Plenary – Whose Body is This? – facilitated by Rocio Cordoba, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice

• Cecelia Fire Thunder, Former Tribal President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota: Fighting for Abortion Rights on a Reservation
• Mia Mingus, Georgians for Choice: The Invisible Freak Show: Queerness, Disability, and Reproductive Justice
• Ghazaleh Moayedi, Arab American provider: Reproductive Justice, Abortion Rights & Young Women
• Dr. Stuart Berman, Centers for Disease Control: STDs Ain’t Sexy: STDs and Communities of Color
• Deborah Arindell, American Social Health Association: What’s Up with HPV and Cervical Cancer Prevention?
• Tara Roberts, Senior Editor, CosmoGIRL! Magazine: Am I the Last Virgin? What Your Mama Never Told You: Empowering Girls as Powerful Sexual Beings

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM – Open Mic Discussion

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM - BREAK

3:30 PM – 4:45 PM – Concurrent Workshops Session 2

4:45 PM—5:00 PM - BREAK

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM – Plenary Panel -- Sex Around the World: Global Reproductive Justice – facilitated by Nkenge Toure, WPFW Radio and SisterSong Management Circle

• Rosita Documentary Film – Xiomara Lugo & Kathia Jean-Jacques, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
• Crystal Lander, Feminist Majority Foundation: Young Women and the Struggle for Global Reproductive Justice
• Leila Hessini, Ipas: The Bush Administration and Global Reproductive Oppression
• Latifa Lyles, National Organization for Women: Global Solidarity and the U.S.Women’s Movement
• Dazon Dixon Diallo, Sisterlove, Inc: Integrating HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Justice Movements Globally 
• Miriam Yeung, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & TransgenderCommunity Center: Causes in Common: A Shared Agenda for LBGTQQI and Reproductive Justice Movements Working Together

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM - Reception hosted by Black Women’s Health Imperative

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Video Interviews on Experiences with Depo Provera and Coercive Reproductive Practices - Committee on Women, Population and the Environment

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM – BREAK – DINNER ON YOUR OWN

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM – Ali Wong, Sex Comedian

Friday, June 1, 2007

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM –Morning Exercise - Kiran Ahuja, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum - Yoga

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM – Welcome - Toni Bond Leonard, African American Women Evolving and SisterSong Management Circle President

9:15 AM – 10:45 AM – Morning Plenary – Controlling our Communities through our Bodies – facilitated by Jamala Rogers, Black Radical Congress

• Sujatha Jesudason, Center for Genetics and Society: The Future of Sex and Reproductive Technologies
• Leila Hessini, Ipas: Mapping Our Rights: How Geography Determines Your Rights
• Emi Koyama, Author: Transgender & Intersex Human Rights Issues
• Silvia Henriquez, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health: Immigrants’ Rights & Reproductive Justice
• Cara Page, Committee on Women, Population and the Environment: Myth of Overpopulation & Dangerous Contraceptives
• Hip-Hop Feminist Nation -- Spoken Word

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM – Open Mic Discussion

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM – BREAK

11:15 AM – 12:30 PM – Concurrent Workshop Session 3

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM – LUNCH KEYNOTE– facilitated by Lynn Roberts, SisterSong Management Circle

• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Private Sex and Public Policies – A Country in Denial

1:30 PM – 2:20 PM – Afternoon Plenary: What Part of NO! didn’t you understand? - NO! Documentary & Discussion – Aishah Simmons

2:20 PM – 2:45 PM - Self-Help Exercise

2:45 PM – 4:00 PM – Concurrent Workshop Sessions 4

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM - BREAK

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM – Concurrent Workshop Session 5

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM - BREAK – DINNER ON YOUR OWN

7:30 PM - Affinity and Special Group Meetings:

• National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Meeting
• Queer People of Color Organizing Caucus - organized by Cara Page
• “Speaking of Sex” PODCAST interviews sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Western Washington
• Racial Justice, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity—Movement Linkages Focus Group sponsored by the Arcus Foundation
• Video Interviews on Experiences with Depo Provera and Coercive Reproductive Practices - Committee on Women, Population and the Environment

7:30 PM - 10:30 PM - Youth Welcome Reception

7:30 PM – 9:00 PM – The Pocketbook Monologues, presented by Sharon K. McGhee

Saturday, June 2, 2007

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM – Morning Exercise - Cara Page, Deeper Waters Productions - Breath and Sound Circle

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM - Welcome – Hip-Hop Feminist Nation

9:15 AM – 10:45 AM – Morning Plenary: “To Be Young, Gifted & Sexy” – Affirming the Sexual Human Rights of Youth

• Claudia De La Cruz, Dominican Women’s DevelopmentCenter: Organizing Youth at DWDC
• Benita Miller, Brooklyn Young Mother’s Collective: Valuing Young Motherhood
• Mina A. Trudeau, Al-Fatiha Foundation: Mediating Multiplicity: LGBTIQQ Muslim Youth
• Aimee Thorne-Thompson, Pro-Choice Education Project: To Have or Not to Have: Abortion Politics and Young Women’s Sexual Rights
• Bonnie Chan, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum: Building Strategic Youth Asian Pacific Islander Leadership
• Kierra Johnson, Choice, USA: Organizing Across Generations: Opportunities & Challenges

10:45 AM – 11:15 AM – Open Mic Discussion

11:15 AM – 11:30 AM - BREAK

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM – Concurrent Workshops Sessions 6 – Youth-Led Workshops

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM – LUNCH PLENARY – facilitated by Shemeka Clayton, SisterLove, Inc - Lotus Program

Global Plenary on HIV/AIDS - Sponsored by ActionAID and the Global Campaign for Microbicides

• Bindiya Patel, Global Campaign for Microbicides
• Shade Doyle: Living with a Mother with HIV/AIDS
• Juanita Williams, SisterSong: Living as a Grandmother with HIV/AIDS
• Sylvia Goba, ActionAid Sierra Leone: Intersection of Violence Against Women and HIV&AIDS: Pathways for dealing with these twin-linked pandemics

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM – Concurrent Workshop Sessions 7

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM BREAK

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM - Evening Plenary: Speak-Out on Sex! - facilitated by La’Tasha Mayes, New Voices for Reproductive Justice Pittsburgh and SisterSong Management Circle

• Film Screening: Youth Organizing Model: Young Women United on Young Women Organizing About Sex Ed
• Speak-Out
• Still I Rise by L. Nyrobi Moss, Sisterlove, Inc.

6:00 PM – 6:30 PM - Open Mic Discussion

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM - DINNER ON YOUR OWN

8:00 PM – 12:00 AM – SisterSong’s 10^th Anniversary Celebration and Dance Party!

Sunday, June 3, 2007

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM - Morning Exercise

9:00 AM – 11:00 PM – Closing Plenary: Where Do We Go From Here? – facilitated by Crystal Crawford, California Black Women’s Health Project and SisterSong Management Circle

• Tribe Phoenix Poetry Collective – Spoken Word
• Rev. Penny Willis, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice: Why Religion Helpsor Prevents us from Talking About Sex
• Katsi Cook, Mother’s Milk Project, Mohawk Reservation: Poison our Environment,You Poison our Children: Environmental Racism and Why Indigenous Women Need to Talk About Sex
• Graciela Sanchez, EsperanzaCenter: SOS - Saving our Stories Forever: The Importance of Preserving Our Histories (Sponsored by Sophia Smith Collection, SmithCollege, Northampton, MA)
• Luz Alvarez Martinez, National Latina Health Organization: Self-Help and Building a Latina Women’s Health Organization
• La’Tasha Mayes, New Voices for Reproductive Justice Pittsburgh: Lift Every Voiceand Sing: Starting a SisterSong Membership Organization
• Jerome Scott, Project South: If Another World is Possible, Another America is Necessary: Moving Forward to the US Social Forum – Atlanta – June 27, 2007
• Loretta Ross, SisterSong National Coordinator: SisterSong’s National Advocacy Agenda for Reproductive Justice: Sexual Rights and Reproductive Health in the U.S.

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Closing Ceremony – Honoring our Visionaries and New SisterSong Members - facilitated by Luz Rodriguez, SisterSong Founder & Treasurer

Registration:

2:00PM – 6:00 PM Wed

7:00 AM – 6:00 PM Thurs

8:00AM – 6:00 PM Fri

8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Sat

8:00 AM – 1:00 PM Sun

Childcare:

9:00 AM – 7:00 PM – Thurs – Sat

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM - Sun