We are currently accepting applications for the following TWO (2) internship positions for Fall 2010! We promise you a rewarding experience filled with learning, mentorship, sisterhood, and food! If you don’t believe us, ask our summer 2010 intern, Erika Turner. Read what she has to say in her last summer blog post. Deadline for first [...]
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Learn more about The Network/La Red at their Volunteer Open House!
Posted By QWOC+ Boston Intern on June 19th, 2010
The Network/La Red: Ending partner abuse in LGBTQ, SM & polyamorous communities
Join us for an evening of fun and food while getting to know more about The Network/La Red and how you can get more involved.
Club Café
209 Columbus Ave Boston
Thursday, July 15th, 2010 5:30pm-7:30pm
To RSVP or for more info contact volunteer@tnlr.org or visit www.tnlr.org
2nd Annual BLU (Black Lesbians United) Retreat
Posted By QWOC+ Boston Intern on June 16th, 2010
Join Black Lesbians United on their 2nd Annual BLU Retreat, September 17 to September 19, in Malibu, CA.
Here are some of the highlights of the retreat, from the website:
The Bobbie Q
Our version of the old fashioned bar-be-cue. Food, games, friendship. There are few things as good as eating and playing outside with friends. Join as we celebrate, mix mingle, play games, and hold our award-winning relay races!
The Butch/Femme
Switcharoo!
Consider yourself a little more identified with the masculine energy within you? Consider yourself more identified with issues that are often designated as “feminine”? This is your chance to throw down the gauntlet, let your hair down (or put it up), and show just how flexible you can be. Come participate in this hilarious, and often enlightening event, which allows for the script to be flipped, the tables turned, and for everyone to experience the full range of womanhood (in a safe space, of course!)
The Comfort Zone
Kick back and relax at the Comfort Zone, our 24-our cafe. Enjoy a cup of java along with an array of delicious snacks. Watch a video, read a book, play cards, meet a friend, chat all night, take a nap, or just hang out.
SistahMoon Showcase
Are you ready for the best in black lesbian entertainment under the stars? The BLU Retreat features some of the hottest in comedy, music, spoken word and dance!
Sacred Space
Peaceful and tranquil, Sacred Space is perfect for that moment of quiet reflection, reconnection and discovery. Listen to a peacful fountain, light a candle, meditate, talk softly with your sistahs, or just sit in silence… and depart inspired.
The Gal-Her-Ria
Break that piggy bank and browse the Gal-Her-ria, a SistahMarket Space. Sistahs from far and near bring their wares to sell. From handmade crafts, to African couture, you’ll find it all. You’ve never seen a mall like this one!
The Hell Hike
There is nothing like taking on our challenging (but doable) hike through the hills of Malibu. Depart from Sistah Central as individuals, return 90 minutes later as a trail tested team! Bask in the cheers of the other retreat participants as the hikers return to drenched in success!
Plus all of your BLU Retreat favorites!
Sistah Singles
Wealth Building for Sistahs
Afrikan Drumming and Dance Class
Quick Dates
Validation Ceremony
Black Lesbian Film Festival
Medical Jeopardy
Club BLU
Click here to register. For more information, contact the organizers at blu@blacklesbiansunited.org, 310-956-4BLU, or visit their website.
QWOC+ Boston Founder Speaks on “Leveraging Social Media to Create Social Change” Panel
Posted By QWOC+ Boston on March 24th, 2010
Leveraging Social Media to Create Social Change
Thursday, March 25, 7 – 9 p.m.
Simmons College, 300 The Fenway
co-sponsored by the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change
Do you blog, have a website, or Tweet on a regular basis? Want to find out strategic ways to use these skills for social justice work? Join us for a panel discussion on using your own or an organization’s blog, website, or social media sites in order to create social change. (This event is part of Women, Action, and the Media’s WAM It Yourself weekend in Boston).
Panelists will include Adaora Asala from Queer Women of Color and Friends (QWOC+ Boston), Amanda Johnston from Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), Nilagia McCoy from Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) and MIT’s Cambridge Science Festival and Robbie Samuels from Socializing for Justice (So Just).
Join QWOC+ Boston at Fenway’s Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Health Fair
Posted By QWOC+ Boston on March 19th, 2010
Get healthy with Fenway, Queer Asia Pacific-Islander Alliance (QAPA), TRANScend, Massachusetts South Asian Lambda Association (MASALA), the LGBT Aging Project, and more this spring!
Fenway’s LBT Women’s Health Fair
May 11th 5:00-8:00PM
@ Fenway Health, 9th Floor
1340 Boylston Street,
Boston, MA
Special Request to the Boston Queer Community: Support Truth Serum During Surgery Recovery
Posted By QWOC+ Boston on February 3rd, 2010
Dear QWOC+ Boston friends,
We’d like to make a personal request:
A fierce QWOC+ supporter/volunteer, dear friend, fellow community organizer, and long-time producer of all kinds of queer, rebellious, funky, limit-pushing events in Boston needs OUR support during her surgery recovery.
Please consider attending one of the fundraising events we’re supporting this weekend and RETURN the love Aliza’s been giving QWOC+ Boston AND the Boston queer community for over ten years…
HERE ARE THE DETAILS:
THIS FRIDAY! February 5, 2010 8pm
Utero-A-GoGo No. 1
a benefit for Aliza Shapiro
at a private residence in the South End
http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php?src=fftb#!/event.php?eid=302506400729&ref=ts
Info @ Truth Serum Website: http://www.truthserum.org/
THIS SUNDAY! February 7, 2010**
Utero-A-GoGo No. 2
a concert and cabaret/drag/burlesque show of hysterical proportions!
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Ave Allston (at corner of Harvard)
$10 doors at 8pm, show at 9pm 18+
a limited number of discounted tickets are a
http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php?src=fftb#!/event.php?eid=262744656383&ref=ts
Info @ Truth Serum Website: http://www.truthserum.org/
**If you’re interested in attending with a group, please leave a message on the facebook group or page, or send us a tweet @qwocboston and we’ll make sure everyone gets together!
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IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND, PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A DONATION TO uteroagogo@gmail.com. Include a funny haiku note with your offering if you’re feeling creative, Aliza will love it. 
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THANK YOU ALL IN ADVANCE!
Celebrate New Year’s Eve at N~Fuszion, a QWOC-Owned Venue!
Posted By QWOC+ Boston on December 28th, 2009
N-Fuszion is a new QWOC-owned venue! Please show your support this New Year’s Eve
N~Fuszion will be hosting it’s First of Many New Year’s Eve event.
We want Old friends and New Friends to come and join us as we bring in the New decade!
We will be having raffles, and giveaways, live entertainment and so much more. And no, we DO NOT plan on having you break your bank to come to N~Fuszion. As promised we are having a recession buster event with class and style.
The cost of the night is listed below:
Singles 15 in advance and 20 at the door.
Couples 25 in advance and 35 at the door (come on everyone knows someone they can couple up with for this price!)
And if you want to be around the festivities, but want to take a break from them throughout the evening we are offering tables in the VIP lounge for 75 dollars a table…LIMITED TABLES ARE AVAILABLE AND GOING FAST!!!!! In the VIP Lounge you will receive a buffet style hors d’oeuvre. gift bag, and a private bartender!
Restaurant Food from Bistro23 will be available for purchase throughout the night up until 1130pm.
DJ BabyFace is not just a DJ but a Master of Music! Old school, New School, R&B, Latin music…will be there!
Advanced Tickets must be purchased by December 28th. You can buy your tickets online through Marcella at paypal.com and put in this email address marcella.raines@gmail.com. Or feel free to contact Shantanette Patrice at 617-869-7699 for in person ticket purchases.
If you have any questions please contact Marcella at 774-826-7544.
If you have not felt the N~Fuszion yet! You will…don’t wait in line get your tickets NOW!!!
Sight, Sound, Taste…….Feel the N~Fuszion.
We are looking forward to celebrating our First New Year’s with all of you!
Team N~Fuszion
Fall Programs at Black Women’s Health Institute – Sister Healthy Eating (SHE) Network!
Posted By QWOC+ Boston on September 30th, 2009
Join BBWHI and participate in one of our nutrition and weight management programs.
NEW WEIGHT LOSS SUPPORT GROUP – The Sisters Healthy Eating (S.H.E.) Network is a Sister Circle to support you to reach your goal weight. Do you need someone to help you establish accountability? Do you need someone to coach and support you with your workouts and eating plans.This program is for you if you have participated in a traditional weight loss programs or Slim Down Sisters, Roxbury Weigh-In and still need something else to help you get there. SHE Network offers individual and group support.
S.H.E. will offer:
A Network of Sisters working on common goals
30 minute group exercise before each session
Individualized Diet Assessment
Individualized Meal and Fitness Plan
One-on-One with Personal Trainer
Nutrition Education- Getting to the Roots!
How to eat from the food pyramid- deconstructing food groups until we get it.
How many carbs should I eat any way? I just don’t get the counting carbs thing!
What’s a complex carbohydrate?
Am I going to be hungry eating those portions? Is that enough food- I’m a big girl!
Learning how to eat without yo-yo dieting
Please see attached flyers for details
Slim Down Sisters is a 12 week nutrition and weight management program supports members to eat healthily, manage weight, exercise regularly and reduce chronic disease risk factors!
As a member you will:
Set and Accomplish Wellness Goals
Learn to Plan, Shop and Prepare Healthy Meals
Discover Journal Writing for Insight & Inspiration
Investigate Mind, Body and Spirit Connection
Participate in a Confidential & Supportive Environment
Full Access to Body By Brandy Fitness Center
To register for these programs please contact: Boston Black Women’s Health Institute: bbwhi@bbwhi.org
Phone: 617-427-2002 FAX: 617-427-5252
JOYA CD Release Party Featuring IYEOKA, MYSTYQUE, and GUTTERMUSICPROJECT to Donate to QWOC WEEK!
Posted By QWOC+ Boston on May 25th, 2009
SOUL CANDY Record Release Party!
Friday May 29
@ Club Choices, 381 Somerville Avenue, Somerville MA
Doors at 7:30pm, performances begin at 8PM
10:30pm dj/dancing
$10, $5 w/purchase of “Soul Candy” CD
http://www.joyalovesyou.com
http://boston.going.com/soulcandy
SOUL CANDY: Joya’s Record Release Party – A night of heart-shattering, smile-inducing, body-bouncing, flirt-inspiring live music topped off with a splash of current bangin tunes spun by mFp’s own, DJEmpressive. The night will kick off with live performances of songs from Joya’s new album “Soul Candy” along with performances of other artists who appear on Joya’s record: Seige/Gutter Music Project, Mystyque and Iyeoka. After the live music ends, we’ll turn the speakers up and kick it to the sounds of DJ Empressive all night long.
This is event is PROUDLY supporting QWOC+ Boston’s “Diversity Speaks” campaign, and part of the proceeds will go towards the grassroots organization’s fundraising efforts to put on their 2nd annual multicultural festival in August – QWOC WEEK!
So come on out and support Joya, Iyeoka, Mystyque, GutterMusicProject, and QWOC+ Boston all at once! What better way to kick off the summer and pride season than dancing and socializing at a friendly, music loving, dance-yer-tail-off-till-ya-sweat, record release party!
Potluck brunch with “Family” director Faith Trimel and madFemmepride!
Posted By QWOC+ Boston on May 5th, 2009
Please join MadFemmePride in this friendly potluck Brunch to welcome Faith Trimel, the director of “Family,” which both QWOC+ Boston and MadFemmePride are co-presenting at the LGBT Film Festival. It’s bound to draw out many femme-positive women of color and allies.
Title: Potluck brunch with “Family” director Faith Trimel and madFemmepride!
Location: The Democracy Center | Harvard Square: 45 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge MA
Description: Come brunch it up and help us welcome director Faith Trimel!
Trimel’s film plays Friday at the Boston LGBT Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts. Join her (and friendly folks from madfemmepride!) for some Saturday snacks and chitchat at the Democracy Center near Harvard Square.
Start Time: 12:00
End Time: 15:00
Come brunch it up, fRiendLy-&-iNcLuSive/// poT-LucK styLe! and help us welcome director Faith Trimel!
Trimel’s film plays Friday at the Boston LGBT Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts. Join her (and friendly folks from madfemmepride!) for some Saturday snacks and chitchat at the Democracy Center near Harvard Square.
If you can, bring along a box o’ strawberries or a bag o’ bagels! (If you can’t, just come help eat! Note: alcohol not permitted in the Democracy Center.)
Folks of all ages/ stripes/ types/ genders/ dietary inclinations WELCOME! Bring your friends! It’s also totally cool to join us even if you didn’t see the film. 
Find us at http://www.madfemmepride.org
Throw Down The Purple Boa: U.Mass Drag Show To Benefit QWOC+ Boston
Posted By QWOC+ Boston on May 5th, 2009
Students at U.Mass this year have decided to donate the proceeds of their annual drag show to QWOC+ Boston for QWOC Week!
Wednesday May 6th @ 6PM
U. Mass Campus Center 3rd floor, Ballroom A
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA
Part of the money raised during this show will go towards the costs of fliers/informational cards to leave for students on their campuses. We are hoping that we raise enough money to warrant using the remainder of the funds as a decent stipend for a student intern this summer! Please support this event if you are able to TOMORROW! Our students and youth need our support as well.
UMass Boston’s Second Annual Drag Benefit Show!!!
THROW DOWN THE PURPLE BOA!
- hosted by Doubilicious
Featuring Acts From:
- Rosie Peddles
- Rhiannon Glamoure
- Lavonnah Hancock – UMASS
- Natasha Leveaux – UMASS
- Doublicious – UMASS
- Poison Paradise – UMASS
- Blue Collar Joe – UMASS
- Celine the Moon Goddess – UMASS
- Giselle Peacock
- Sir Cophagus – singing LIVE!!
- and so much more!!!
Wanna Get Involved?
- Are you a student or amateur drag king or queen that would like to compete? We still have some spots available for you to perform during the show! Send an e-mail to our stage manager: Henry at hstropnicky@gmail.com.
- Are you part of an organization interested in sponsoring this event? Tables will be available at the event as well as pre-show slides. Contact us for more information.
Our charity for this year’s drag benefit will be Queer Women of Color and Friends (QWOC+ Boston).
So come and show your stuff! Invite your friends! Support a local charity! Have some fun on a Wednesday night!
Special Thanks to Inman Oasis of Cambridge who has generously donated gifts for our winners.
