Women of Colour Gathering 2023

Name: Women of Colour Gathering 2023
Start: 2023-11-11T09:30:00+1100
End: 2023-11-11T16:30:00+1100
Location: RMIT University Storey Hall

Sat, 11 Nov 2023, 9:30am - 4:30pm AEDT

RMIT University Storey Hall

Melbourne VIC, Australia

WOMEN OF COLOUR MELBOURNE INC.

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WOMEN OF COLOUR: Centering Culture: Leveraging our diverse cultural strengths for collective justice.

For our fifth annual event, Women of Colour Melbourne 2023, will focus on leveraging our diverse cultural strengths for collective justice. We will reflect on how our diverse cultures can mobilise actions and decisions that advance justice and equity for our community for greater representation, impact and legacy.

Our inspirational keynote speaker, Kemi Nekvapil and conference opener Leila Gurruwiwi will share insights on collective power and justice and the actions we can all take and demand for greater representation, impact and legacy.

As always, the conference promises to be a beautiful opportunity to come together in solidarity, celebrating the strength in our diversity, sharing stories of resilience, even dance and connect with each other!!

The conference theme has been developed in consultation with Women of Colour Melbourne Collective and the WOC community.

EVENT SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

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WOMEN OF COLOUR MELBOURNE INC.

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We are a group of Women of Colour who met at a Women of Colour gathering in 2017, an informal event of wonderful women that took place at the #ASRC. We believe in the power of gathering and connecting and creating spaces where the voices, stories, gifts and strengths of women of colour are at the center.

The annual one day events bring together 100s of women from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. A curated community you can leverage for sisterhood, connection, solidarity and (maybe like us) life long friends - all in one room.

This is a non-for-profit 100% volunteer run gathering and we want to ensure that every self-identified #womanofcolour feels like this is their space!

Our vision is to create a space for self identifying women of colour in Melbourne to gather together, share experiences, support each other and build leadership and participation, in the face of systemic issues and barriers.

We recognise that some women of colour face greater barriers than others and we seek to create access for them and reflect
on our privilege.

We encourage the social and economic growth for our membership and our target group and simultaneously seek to contribute back to our communities where we can. We ally in actively protecting and furthering the equal rights, and access to those rights, for all women of colour in Victoria.

We define Women of Colour as a self idenitifed group of Women with unique cultural heritage and racial backgrounds that shares common experiences of systemic racism.

We leave you with this powerful analogy of the origin of the term "WOMEN OF COLOUR" BY Loretta Ross

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