Call for workshop proposals
The planning Committee of the Caribbean Women and Sexual Diversity Conference invites workshop proposals on this year's conference theme outlined above.
Guidelines for submitting proposals, including potential areas of intervention, are available at this link: CWSDC5 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: WORKSHOPS.
Submission deadline: August 8, 2017.
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Partners:
#CWSDC5 is organised by ECADE and United and Strong Inc. with support from Arcus Foundation, the Astraea Lesbian Foundation and Outright Action Int'l.
2017 Caribbean Women and Sexual Diversity Conference
More than a conference, CWSDC provides a space for female- and trans-identified activists to strengthen advocacy and develop the regional network of support for activism related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, with an emphasis on women’s issues.
Conference hosts, ECADE and United and Strong are pleased to announce that #CWSDC2017 will be held in Saint Lucia, from October 5-9, 2017.
Theme: “Self-development for community empowerment”
With the aim of creating change through individual development, #CWSDC5 will celebrate the significant contribution of Caribbean women-identified and LBTI people to their diverse communities. We will explore how women and LBTI peopel live and love at the intersection of the personal and political, their commitment to maintaining our collective bonds of family, culture and identity while creating spaces for self-actualisation and expression beyond hetero- and gender normative structures. The conference will focus on creating change through individual development and community mobilization.
St Croix hosts fourth annual Caribbean Women and Sexual Diversity Conference (CWSDC)
Theme: “Starting here; starting now: Setting the foundation for sustainable engagement”
The CWSDC is a forum to develop a regional network of support for activism related to the recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, with an emphasis on women’s issues. Liberty Place of St Croix, USVI, hosted the October 4 - 7, 2016 conference with United and Strong Inc. of Saint Lucia and the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality (ECADE), a regional network of human rights NGOs.
Read more on how the 2016 conference is inciting change...
Explore the CWSDC 2016 Agenda
Background
The Caribbean Women and Sexual Diversity Conference was conceptualised during the women’s caucus in 2012 at the groundbreaking International Dialogue and Training on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Human Rights which was hosted in Saint Lucia. The first of its kind to be staged in the Caribbean, it recorded the highest number of lesbian and bisexual women from around the region in one space. A women’s caucus was organised in keeping with the theme: Focus on Strengthening the Caribbean Response and Linking Regional and International Advocacy Around the World. This highlighted the need for further dialogue and to reinforce support networks for lesbian, bisexual, intersex women and transgender people in the Caribbean.
From September 24 - 29, 2013 the first Caribbean Women and Sexual Diversity Conference was hosted in Curacao, where more than 30 lesbian, bisexual and transgender women activists and facilitators gathered under the theme: Strengthening the invisible woman and empowering her to leadership.
Subsequently the CWSDC was hosted in Suriname, Trinidad and St. Croix, USVI. Previous organising partners include United and Strong Inc, FOKO, WomensWay, Womantra and WCTT and Liberty Place.
ECADE
Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality
3rd CWSDC: Trinidad and Tobago
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Call for Applications - #CWSDC5
Now accepting applications from individual activists and organisation representatives. Self-funded applicants are encouraged, as only a limited number of scholarships, with costs covered by ECADE, are available. Interested activists are invited to submit an application on or before July 24, 2017.
Click this link to apply: Application form
Haga clic en este enlace para aplicar: Formulario de solicitud
Cliquez sur ce lien pour postuler: Formulaire de demande