Archive

PAST CONFERENCES

1985: Empowering Women of Color Conference

1986: Organizing for the Here, the Now, the Future, featuring Michelle Wallace

1987: Standing At The Crossroads: This Bridge Called My Back, featuring Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga

1988: Wake Up! Women of Color Taking the Lead, featuring Theresa Cordova, Chockie Cottier, Raquel Sancho, Deanna Jang, & Pat Norman

1989: Sister/Outsiders: A Movement of Our Own – From the Sixties to the Eighties, featuring Aneb Kgositsile

1990: Taking Back: Taking Back/ Private Truths/Public Lies A One-Day Conference Dedicated to the Work of Dolores Huerta, featuring bell hooks)

1991: Legacy of Resistance, featuring Betty Cooper, Maria Cora, Sheba Haven, Helen Zia)

1992: Rising Up Live! Featuring June Jordan, Alice Walker, Angela Y. Davis, Diane Reeves, Terri Lyne Carrington, Gina Pacaldo, Lulintang Arts

1993: A Litany For Survival… In memory of Audre Lorde and All Our Foremothers, featuring Cherrie Moraga and Barbara Christian

1994: Rights of Passage: Exposing the Margins, featuring Paula Gunn Allen & Booma Cheema

1995: Reaping Fruit and Throwing Seed, featuring Angela Davis & Chrystos

1996: Sojourn Within: Defining the True Essence of Our Power, featuring Elaine Brown & Ninotchka Rosca

1997: Uprising: Women’s Work is Never Done, featuring Nikki Gioovanni, Merle Woo, Nelia Sancho, Huanani-Kay Trask, Maria Elena Martinez-Torres, Alba Aguilera, & Krishanti Dharmaraj

1998: Celebrating Daughters of Diversity, featuring Sister Souljah, Norma Alarcon, Katie Quan, & Eva Patterson

2001: Girl to Goddess… Youth to Power, featuring Ursula Rucker

2002: Women of Color in Media, featuring Gina Prince-Bythewood & Felicia D. Henderson

2003: Fighting for Liberation! Expanding Our Notion of Revolution, featuring Yuri Kochiyama

2004: The Politicization of Women in Higher Education, featuring Sonia Sanchez

2005: Confronting Power: A Century of Struggles and Movements, featuring Elaine Brown, Lakota Harden, Dolores Huerta, Susan Taylor, Angela Oh)

2006: Nourishing Mother E.A.R.T.H. Environmental Awakening Restoring Traditions & Heritage, featuring Beverly Wright

2007: Our Bodies, Our Souls: Sistahood, Health and Healing, ​featuring Mililani Trask

2008: decolonizing creativity: FIERY WOMYN, FIERCE EXPRESSIONS, featuring Climbing Poetry

2009: Revolutionary Love, From “Me” to “We”: Redefining intimacy and activism, featuring Cherrie Moraga

2010: Intergenerational Wisdon: Celebrating Our Past, Present, & Future, featuring Rebecca Walker & Auroua Levins Morales

2011: Building Across Differences: Inciting a Movement of Our Own, featuring Angela Davis, Erika Huggins, & Dylcia Pagan)

2012: A Holistic Approach: Justice, Access, and Healing, featuring Andrea Smith & Radmilla Cody

2013: Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Bodies and Souls Building Life, featuring: Ai-jen Poo

2014: Talking Back! Our Voices Overcoming Violence, featuring: Loretta J. Ross, Minh Dang, Brianna Michelle, Kim Tran, & Dom Jones

2015: No Better Time Than Now: Transnational Resistance, Solidarity & Love, featuring Favianna Rodriguez, Corrina Gould, & CeCe McDonald

2016: ‪#‎DecolonizingFeminism‬: Reclaiming our Bodies and Communities in a Digital World, featuring Feminista Jones & many more

2017: Unbound and Unboxed: Owning, Asserting and Uplifting Our Whole Selves, featuring Fatimah Asghar & Ericka Huggins

2018: Free Space, Our Space: Actualizing Freedom, Asserting Presence, Cultivating Power, featuring Charlene Carruthers

2019: Rooted + Rising: Preserving Intergenerational Knowledge, Fostering Revolutionary Possibilities

2020: Metamorphosis: Casting Off Oppressive Paradigms to Live the Life We’ve Been Fighting For, featuring Yesika Salgado & Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca

2021: Igniting leadership, confidence, and cultural strength amongst Black & Indigenous womxn and womxn of color, featuring Roxane Gay & Tourmaline

  • EWOCC 2022 (Hybrid): Restoration and Reconnection

    EWOCC 2022 Restoration & Reconnection The 37th Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference was hybrid and held over the weekend of April 2nd, 2022. Featured Speaker: Imani Barbarin Imani Barbarin is disablilty rights and inclusion activist and speaker who uses her voice and social media platforms to create conversations engaging the disability community. Born with…

    Read more

  • EWOCC 2021: A Virtual Experience

    36th Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference Featuring Roxane Gay & Tourmaline Igniting leadership, confidence, and cultural strength amongst Black & Indigenous womxn and womxn of color March 13, 2021 (Virtual) The 36th Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference (EWOCC), “ Igniting Leadership, Confidence, and Cultural Strength Amongst Black & Indigenous Womxn and Womxn of…

    Read more

  • EWOCC 2020: Put on Hold

    35th Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference Featuring Yesika Salgado + Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca Metamorphosis: Self-Liberation to Collective Freedom March 14, 2020 (scheduled) The 35th Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference (EWOCC), “Metamorphosis: Casting Off Oppressive Paradigms to Live the Life We’ve Been Fighting For,” is the transformation and reconstruction of our society individually, collectively,…

    Read more

    Black and white poster with logo of womxn and plants and butterflies