Our approach to curating programming is participatory and based on our community’s needs.

For example, our first conference was planned during the Fall of 2017 after the “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” rule was cancelled, which was a rule that barred companies from receiving federal contracts if they had a history of violating wage, labor, or workplace safety laws.

This was one of the few policies implemented during the Obama administration in an attempt to close the wage gap.

In response and resistance to the rise of executive orders that disproportionately affects people of color, we decided to come together in order to discuss the ways in which we could create our own resource network of opportunities.

We designed this conference from a social justice perspective and with the intention of creating useful archival material framed at highlighting femme agency through modes of self-actualization.

Our second conference was again a response to our community’s needs

As we began to plan for this conference, we sought the guidance of several community members who suggested that what was needed at that time was space to heal and for cultivating better self-preservation skills.

We then asked how might womxn of color cultivate and sustain spaces for ourselves where our healing and self-preservation are deeply considered.

This conference also featured an exhibition proponent, where we curated and installed 30ft long hanging canvases throughout the space to screen films created by womxn of color, which aligned with our theme of self-preservation.