» sistas on the rise http://www.forthebirdscollective.org feminist collective and distro Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:24:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Spotlight on Sistas on the Rise!! http://www.forthebirdscollective.org/2011/01/spotlight-on-sistas-on-the-rise/ http://www.forthebirdscollective.org/2011/01/spotlight-on-sistas-on-the-rise/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:07:09 +0000 Kathleen http://www.forthebirdscollective.org/?p=695 Sistas on the Rise is an amazing south Bronx-based collective working to empower and support young mothers and women of color.  They urgently need donations!! Sistas on the Rise is unique in that they create space for youth to do hands-on organizing for themselves, enacting their goal of empowerment through their everyday process.  This is exactly the kind of sustainable feminist groundwork that we love to see happening, and they’ve been doing it since 2003!!!  Upcoming events include the Teen Talk Back Uptown Youth Series and a concert with Rebel Diaz.  Here is some of their herstory from their website:

Established in 2003, Sistas on the Rise is a collective of young mothers, women and girls working with each other to create alternatives that will allow us to sustain economically instead of revolving in the cycle of poverty.  We want to make sure that we own our lives, cultivate healthy futures and realize our dreams.

We utilize popular education, community organizing, spiritual grounding, cultural values and traditions to provide a youth-led program that cultivates a safe space for healing, nurturing, self-growth, social and economic justice. Sistas on the Rise offers an afterschool young mothers leadership development  with free childcare; mother/daughter mentoring, wholistic sex and sexuality workshops: tutoring; college tours; arts and activism classes; organizing, parenting and life skills classes etc.

You can Donate here, or take a look at their Wish List to see if you can help out in other ways.

]]> http://www.forthebirdscollective.org/2011/01/spotlight-on-sistas-on-the-rise/feed/ 1 Sistas on the Rise: Young Mothers Resource Night http://www.forthebirdscollective.org/2010/06/sistas-on-the-rise-young-mothers-resource-night/ http://www.forthebirdscollective.org/2010/06/sistas-on-the-rise-young-mothers-resource-night/#comments Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:45:22 +0000 kwadkins http://www.forthebirdscollective.org/?p=440 We will be tabling this AMAZING event June 10th: Sistas on the Rise’s Young Mothers Resource Night. The event is next Thursday, June 10th from 4pm-8pm. There’s more info available at their website here! For the Birds-friend Kristie E. recently donated a few zines to our FTB zine collection (someday when we have a space, it will be a zine library… that’s what we say in our dreams). Among those zines was one called EMPOWER: A Young Mama’s Guide to Taking Control (by Allison Noelle Crews, please look her up, she was a very inspiring woman). This was totally serendipitous since we got asked to table at Young Mothers Resource Night the same day! We’ll have copies of the zine available for free at the event. All the other titles will be regular distro prices. Pass it on!

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