PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Hosted by local WOCA member leaders, these intentional convenings serve to connect arts leaders and cultural workers of color and spark dialogue about how women cultural workers can collectively work to strengthen their communities while sustaining a broad participation of women of color in the arts field. WOCA helps map communities and assess who is doing what work. We focus on community and coalition building and how to work to harness our collective power and resources even as we navigate intersecting oppressions like racism and sexism. We listen to fellow women, learning how our communities have been shaped by unjust legacies of policy and privilege and how, as women of color, we’ve equally been redefining them through individual and collective work.  

All of the WOCA gatherings are grounded in community; many are intentionally enhanced by meetings held in physical spaces that are led and/or operated by phenomenal leaders of color. 

PLEASE NOTE: While WOCA appreciates all authentic allies and accomplices, we ask that these gathering spaces remain exclusively for those that self-identify as women of color.

*WOCA uses the term “women” to encompass all those that self-identify as women including cisgender and transgender femmes. Our intention is to uplift and address the very specific ways in which this particular group of people are impacted by various forms of oppression including sexism and racism. WOCA uses the term “women of color” as an organizing tool, acknowledging the expression is a political designation, not a biological one, and borne out of a solidarity movement originating from the labor of Black women.