Women Against Hate United By Love

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Exhibition Checklist

Staffing

·       Staff event registration 

·       Crew schedules set up including

·       Arrival time

·       Departure time

·       Pre and post event briefing and debrief

·       Staff selected and trained University Of Wisconsin –Milwaukee student organization

·       Name Tags for staff

Pre Event Marketing

·       Promoted on partner organization website

·       Promoted on social media, Facebook, Instagram 

·       Promoted on appropriate offline media - – Press release

·       Invitations and art cards produced

·       Invitations to relevant mailing lists sent

Pre Event Development

·       Registration materials

·       Art prints completed and framed

·       Banners completed

·       Music performers selected and confirmed

·       Public art interactive materials purchased

·       Panel selected and confirmed

·       Moderator selected

·       Commemorative posters produced

·       Know your rights materials 

Exhibition Stand

·       Easels and art

·        Power requirements

·       Power type of power required (5 amp, 10 amp, 15 or 20 amp, 3 phase or 5 phase)

·       Cabling requirements

·       Power requirements discussed and confirmed with event organizers

Audio Visual

·       Tested at venue

·       Back up of AV ready and at venue

·       Approved by Event organizer (i.e. within guidelines)

Hatemongering.  It bubbled up from a place where the unspeakable had largely remained unspoken. Its messages found a primetime champion, and then the unthinkable happened.  The power it unleashed prevailed and its spokesman gained access to the loudest, most prominent megaphone in the world. 

To many, it was a shock.  To some, sadly, just more of the same. 

Although mass exploitation of hate has been a constant in human history, what is happening now is new to most Americans.  Hate today has become supercharged through its glamorization and unflagging support by the most privileged and powerful in our government.   

The onslaught of hate speak and hate-filled policies has taken its toll—numbing, normalizing, and chipping away at our outrage for the outrageous.  

But while hate divides, it also unites.  It brings together the appalled and oppressed to respond and resist.  This activism takes many forms.  “Women Against Hate, United by Love” is ours.

Who are we?  We are a collective of women protectors working to dismantle hate and policies rooted in oppression.  Our ranks include women of color, trans women, women with disabilities, indigenous women, white women, latinx women, non-documented women, women sex workers, rural women, women who are refugees—women of many faiths and no faith.  

“Women Against Hate, United By Love,” our response to this attack on our vulnerable and most marginalized communities, is a collaborative, traveling art exhibition and multi-step “anti-hate” campaign united against bigotry, intolerance and racism.  Its creative building blocks are stories—powerful, tough, revealing stories told by women working to dismantle systems of injustice and oppression, and encourage humanness.  

This art-based initiative and exhibition uses art to work in a coordinated effort, aligning with women and partnering organizations that support women and families. The artwork focuses on Wisconsin women change makers, shining a light on their stories and what they care about, giving voice to the unheard. The art acts as a conduit to reach people and groups of all stripes.  It blurs and blends normal lanes of operation and encourages disparate groups to pull together for the betterment of all Americans.

“Women Against Hate, United By Love” has been presented in “gallery” showings around the state in cooperation with local organizations and interfaith groups.  The art exhibition provides a platform for gathering and discussion, and through sponsored workshops and panel discussions attendees are given the opportunity to ask questions, engage in community conversation, and learn how to become involved.  This is art in action!

All who interact with “Women Against Hate, United By Love” are encouraged to be part of an effort to invent a new future—a future inclusive of all and recognizing no barriers.  The national response to hate has begun and leading the charge are those currently centered in the cross-hairs. This transformation in progress, originating from the margins, is simultaneously ironic, inspiring and hopeful.  

The exhibition, featuring artwork by Kelly Parks Snider, Rachel Griffin, and Leigh Garcia Further information or to bring “Women Against Hate, United By Love,” to your community contact kellyparkssnider@gmail.com

Women Against Hate:  STRATEGIC STEPS FOR POLICY ADVOCACY

• Assist in arranging community events in local exhibition spaces.

• Assist in scheduling meetings with editorial boards of local newspapers prior to events in each city.  (If appropriate, partner schedules these meetings in “their name” to discuss the event or policy.)

• Personally invite print, broadcast and digital media reporters to cover event.

• Personally contact local Mayor, County Executive, School Superintendent, non-profit and other community leaders and invite them to the event.

• Suggest or help identify local citizens with compelling stories they’re willing to share pertaining to the effects the policy has on their lives.

• Invite these “truth-tellers” to participate in editorial meetings, meetings arranged with local legislators, and to play a role at the event.

• Help facilitate creation of specific platforms for organizations participating in the event.

• At the event, to extend policy advocacy reach…

  • Request attendees post a photo and message on their Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook accounts in support of policy.

  • Request attendees send out a postcard to their legislators and the Governor with the advocated policy message.

• Develop a list of influential legislators based on their committee priorities and interests.

• Schedule meetings with legislators on your list. (Ask local “truth-tellers” to attend each meeting based on whether they live in the legislator’s district.  It’s more meaningful.)

• Collaborate on crafting a specific “ask” requesting a public hearing on the policy.

• Line up speakers for the public hearing.

• If legislators or community leaders do something significant for you, be sure to thanks them publically and personally.

• Youth and university outreach component