What WOULD it take to end VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN OF COLOR?

INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence & South End Press Present:
A Book Reading & Discussion
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Women of Color on Violence Against Women
War * Rape * Colonization * Domestic Violence * Police Brutality * Border Patrol

What WOULD it take to end VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN OF COLOR?
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4 pm -- Saturday, Sept. 9
Encuentro 5
33 Harrison Ave., 5th floor (near Downtown Crossing T-stop)
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Featuring:

* CONQUEST: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith
This revolutionary text lays out the gendered effects of conquest on Native women, drawing the connections between imperialism, population control, environmental racism, and relationship abuse. Smith challenges conventional anti-violence responses – and outlines radical, innovative strategies for change! Essential reading for scholars and activists, Smith articulates an agenda that is compelling to feminists, Native Americans, other people of color, and all who are committed to creating viable alternatives to state-based "solutions."

* Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
What would it take to end violence against women of color? How does the mainstream antiviolence movement help? How does it hinder? When will we admit that repositioning women of color at the center of the movement – women more often harmed by the police, prisons, and border patrols than aided by them – means that we must address state violence?

In Color of Violence, INCITE! demands that we
• reconsider a reliance on the criminal justice system for solving women's struggles with domestic violence;
• acknowledge how militarism subjects women to extreme levels of violence perpetrated from within, and without, their communities;
• recognize how the medical establishment inflicts violence—such as involuntary sterilization and inadequate health care—on women of color;
• devise new strategies for cross-cultural dialogue, theorizing, and alliance building;
• and much, much more.

And introducing:

* The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Urgent and visionary, "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded" is an unbeholden exposé of the "nonprofit industrial complex" and its quietly devastating role in managing dissent.

Please join author Andrea Smith for a book reading & community discussion of the above works! Books will be available for sale at discounted rates!

Author Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is a co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence – a grassroots, multiracial feminist organization mobilizing to end all forms of violence against women of color and our communities. She is a Native American activist, cutting edge scholar – and author of "Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide."

To learn more about the above books, visit www.southendpress.org. For more info: inciteboston@yahoo.com or 781-962-1983

Sponsors: INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence; South End Press

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About INCITE!:
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INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence was born in 2000, when more than two thousand dedicated activists from diverse communities came together to end the war being waged on women of color in the US and around the world. Now the largest multiracial, grassroots, feminist organization in the United States, INCITE! boasts chapters in more than 20 cities. Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology presents the fierce and vital writing of 32 of these visionaries, who not only shift the focus from domestic violence and sexual assault, but also map innovative strategies of movement building and resistance used by women of color around the world. At a time of heightened state surveillance and repression of people of color, Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology is an essential intervention.

INCITE! Boston meets every other Sunday from 3-6 pm at the Cambridge Women's Center, 46 Pleasant St., in Central Square. For more information visit www.inciteboston.blogspot.com, email inciteboston@yahoo.com or call 781-962-1983.