Want a chance to hear from YWEP staff and members about all the inspirational work we are doing? COME TO DETROIT JUNE 16-25th and be a part of our movement building work!

See us at the Allied Media Conference June 16th-June 20th

Getting to Know the Game: How to Turn Participatory Research into Animated Computer Games and More!
Presenters: Naima Paz, SKitlz Torres, Daphnie Williams, Stephany Cannon and Precious, Young Women's Empowerment Project.
TRACK: INCITE! / To Tell You the Truth / Creating Safe Communities / Trans & Queer Youth Media

Hey CHICAGO!

Are you having a bad experience getting help from a social service, police, hospital, shelter or some where else? Do you think this is because you are involved in the sex trade, homeless or Lesbian Gay Bisexual or Transgender or another reason- like using drugs or being involved in the street economy?

If you want to report this bad experience and help other youth in your community
CLICK HERE

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHFaOHR1MFh3cktTcjMtTEJi...

Spread the word!!!

Get ready Chicago! YWEP started a task force of young people who want to change the way Chicago responds to our community.

The second meeting is March 25th at La Casa Corazon
3328 W North Ave (By Spaulding and North Ave (between Kedzie and Kimball)

See the below flier for more details and show up to get involved!

SAVE THE DATE!
Buy tickets here http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/84506

The Young Women's Empowerment Project
invites you to celebrate our resistance and resilience
on Thursday, December 17, 2009
7 o'clock to 10 o'clock
Walton Residence
70 East Walton
Chicago, IL

Hors d'oeuvres, wine, DJs
Dress to impress in all black & white
Special toast at 8 PM
Tickets: $25 at the door, $20 in advance
Brown Paper Tickets: Insert hyper link
Admission FREE for those who become a monthly sustainer.

We are inviting you to the release of our research study. This research was created by girls, collected, analyzed and written by girls in the sex trade and street economy. Our study is called

"Girls do what they have to do to survive: Illuminating Methods used by Girls in the Sex Trade and Street Economy to Fight Back and Heal

A Participatory Action Research Study of Resilience and Resistance"
After 18 months of research and sorting through hundreds of responses, we cannot wait to share this powerful and life saving information with you.

We titled this show Survival of the artist: Resisting Recession Oppression and Depression because its about the economy of our survival. to us this means its about the math of our emotions- how things add up in our lives and how they add up in our hearts.

To buy tickets online with a credit card click here:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/58711

or to buy tickets with cash:

Women & Children First
5233 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60640
Tel: 773.769.9299

or Early to Bed
5232 N Sheridan
Chicago, IL 60640
Tel:773-271-1219

Siddharth Dube and Joanne Csete
guardian.co.uk,
Sunday August 3 2008

With President Bush's term coming to a close and a search underway for a new chief for the UNAids secretariat, the 15,000 experts and activists gathered in Mexico City for the 17th International Aids Conference can begin to repair the deadly damage inflicted by the Bush administration's reactionary take on HIV prevention and the UN's culpable failure to challenge it.

Read more here : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/03/aids.unitednations?g...