As the sun starts creeping back into LA, we hope you find room for the tendrils of love in your life. If you’re looking for a place to start, show us some love in our membership drive, running until tommorow, Friday, Feb 9. We’re looking for members to support our programs and fill our new space, and you can join starting at just $5 a month (psst, it could be a really great valentine to give!)

 

This month we’re celebrating Black History Month with a potluck + soundscape by some of our favorite talents on Sunday, Feb 18. Additionally, you’re invited to a tour of the ONE Archives on Thursday, Feb 22 and another lovely Collage Club with Mars Ibarreche on Sunday, Feb 25 — read more below. 

 

Please scroll down to our featured work this month, presented by Randa Jarrar, from a reading she did of Nour al-Din Hajjaj’s words last month at a vigil for Palestinian poets, writers, and journalists who have been lost. 

 

 

Membership Drive Feb 5–9

 

 

 

We’re looking for 150 new members to join the Feminist Center for Creative Work during our membership drive to help us realize our feminist futures.

 

Every member makes an impact — with your support we can continue to offer programs with incredible artists, like the Red Drink & Respite Juneteenth Dinner with Nia Lee, as well as opportunities to learn, like the free and wildly popular Soft Skills Summer School workshops.

 

FCCW is thrilled to be opening a new space in 2024, and we look forward to inviting our members in to practice the praxis in-person — from art and abolition to celebration. 

We want you to be here, alongside us, part of this intersectional feminist community rooted in our core values. Now is the time to renew your membership or join for the first time — starting at $5 a month — and invest in our collective future.

And if you want to give an FCCW Membership as a valentine gift, sign up yourself, forward your confirmation email to info@fccwla.org and we’ll send you a digital message to send to your valentine.

 

Sounds of Blackness —

 

 

Join us for a potluck, with textscape curated by Gabrielle Felder and soundscape by V.C.R and Imogen TV. Please sign up to bring a delicious food or drink to our celebration 🍽️

 

Feminist Forum: 
Tour ONE Archives w/ Michael Oliveira

 

 

Michael C. Oliveira is an archivist at the USC Libraries' ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, the largest repository of materials related to LGBTQ history in the U.S. Join him and recurring Feminist Forum host, Jerri Allyn, for a tour inspired and informed by the importance of “making our life projects and organizing campaigns available…to leave a legacy for those who come after us.”

 

Collage Club with 
Mars Ibarreche:

 

 

Join us at FCCW for in-person Collage Club, a low-key social artmaking event, led by Mars Ibarreche. In our Journaling With Images session, we will be brainstorming and moodboarding with images in a diary journal format, to practice connecting feelings and emotions with visuals and our imagination. 

 

Our first club was a blast, it was a pleasure to chat with everyone and enjoy this community — bring your friends and come make art together!

 

 

 

On January 18, Writers Against the War On Gaza held a vigil at Echo Park Lake in LA to honor and remember the many Palestinian poets, writers, and journalists who have been killed in the current U.S.-backed Israeli siege. This month, Randa Jarrar, Palestinian writer and artist, is sharing the words that she read aloud by Nour al-Din Hajjaj at the vigil, as our feature.

 

 

Follow @wawog_now for further resources, vigils, and calls to action.