Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education  

Past Event

The Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education, UIC College of Education invites you to a free community dialogue with the

"FED-UP-HONEYS"

MAKES ME MAD!
Challenging stereotypes of young women of color using participatory action research

Thursday, February 1, 2007, 6:00 to 8:00pm
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum*
University of Illinois at Chicago, 800 S. Halsted**

This event is co-sponsored by the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.

The "Fed-Up-Honeys" began in 2002 when six young women from the lower east side of New York city came together as part of a participatory action research project focused on the lives of young urban women. They produced a report called "Makes Me Mad: Stereotypes of Young Urban Womyn of Color" which in their words, "illuminates "stereotypes of our peers, the relationship of those stereotypes to the development of self-image, and the ultimate negative impact of those stereotypes on the viability and health of our communities."

Read their report: Makes Me Mad

For more information please visit their website at http://www.fed-up-honeys.org

Members of the NYC-based Fed-Up-Honeys research team will discuss this project and the importance of engaging young people as 'agents of change' in their home communities and schools:

Indra Rios-Moore was born and raised on the Lower East Side of New York to a strong, inspirational and determined single Puerto Rican mother. She grew up in the Baruch Houses of the New York City Public Housing Authority, the largest project development in Manhattan. In 2003, she graduated from Smith College with a Bachelor degree in American Studies and a minor in Spanish. She has a strong desire to continue working and studying in a way that will allow her to contribute to social justice and finds all of the members of the Fed Up Honeys to be continually inspiring.

Caitlin Cahill is committed to engaged interdisciplinary scholarship. She is currently an assistant professor of Community Studies at the University of Utah. Caitlin's work focuses upon young people's well-being, racial equity, urban restructuring, critical race and feminist theory, participatory action research approaches, and social justice. She is interested in research at the intersection of theory and practice that contributes to social change and public policy initiatives, and pushes scholarship in new directions.

A pdf version of Caitlin Cahill's article "At Risk"? The Fed Up Honeys re-present the gentrification of the lower east side published in Women's Studies Quarterly; Spring 2006; 34, 1/2; GenderWatch (GW) is available here

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*Detailed map of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.

**Directions to UIC and parking information.

For more information, please contact us at ceje@uic.edu or call 312.413.2640.

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