Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f36LUKg18831; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:30:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:30:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <008d01c0bee0$6a4c2220$23bffea9@hppav> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Mary Ann Corley" <macorley1@earthlink.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:459] Guest Speaker on the NIFL-Womenlit Listserv X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 Status: O Content-Length: 2431 Lines: 52 FYI: The following is posted on behalf of Daphne Greenberg, moderator of the nifl-womenlit discussion group. Mary Ann Corley Director, National Center for Literacy and Social Justice macorley1@earthlink.net *********************************** I am pleased to announce that from Monday, April 16 to Friday April 27th, we will be joined by a guest discussion facilitator. I will post this to the group again, right before the 16th, but I wanted you to have a chance to think about this. Our facilitator's name is Hediana Utarti(pronounced: oo-tar-tea). Hediana is originally from Jakarta, Indonesia, and she spent the last 12 years of her adult life in Honolulu, HI. From 1992 -2000, she worked as the Co-Director of the Women's Center at the U. of Hawaii at Manoa. The Center is responsible for developing educational programs for women students on campus, referral services, supporting student programs and developing networking with community-based organizations. She has helped to establish and expand: self defense classes for women, health workshops, sexual assault prevention teams, relationship violence prevention education and the Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Transgender Student Services office. Since 1998 she has also worked at the Family Peace Center, a domestic violence agency in Honolulu as support group facilitator. Presently (since June 2000) she is continuing her career in domestic violence work through her work at the Asian Women's Shelter in San Francisco where she serves as the Coordinator for Volunteer Program and the Queer Asian Women's Services program. Hediana would like to throw these questions out for possible discussion: a. How do we support immigrant women in literacy that is culturally-appropriate and sensitive? b. What do we do when they reveal to us that they are in a violent relationship? Do we have any idea what SAFETY means for them and for instructors themselves? c. What if the students' issues 'push our own buttons'?d. How do we create and maintain a safe learning space for the non-heterosexual population: gay, lesbian, or transgender or 'questioning' folks (and questioning youth?) How do we deal with homophobia in the classroom? Do we have a space for trasgender people? I am very excited by Hediana's interest in joining us for discussion, and I think that her questions can elicit fascinating "talk". She will be available for discussion starting on April 16th. Daphne
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