Thursday, March 25, 2010

Walk Against Rape 2010!!

We have our incredible new Walk Against Rape website up! Check it out!

http://sfwar.org/walk/index.html

Set up your fundraising page here: http://www.firstgiving.com/sfwar

May/June 2010 Training Coming Up! Apps due 4/1

http://sfwar.org/volunteers.html

Please Spread the Word!!

Speakers Bureau / CI Presentations?

Hello AMAZING and FANTASTIC Volunteers!!



I hope you’re enjoying the sunny (and also rainy??) weather and having a super spring.

Here at SFWAR, we’re working hard and having fun as usual. We’ve been exploring some new and thrilling ways to engage YOU, fabulous volunteers, based on suggestions and requests we’ve heard from y’all.

So…how would you like to be famous? Well, in San Francisco at least. We’re looking at creating opportunities for volunteers to speak and present in schools, , offices, colleges, etc..

We have two tracks we’re thinking about, and your feedback will determine which (or both) we pursue:



OPTION 1: SFWAR Presentations: We train you on our 3 most popular curriculums—Healthy Dating, Sexual Assault Prevention, and Sexual Harassment (Jeopardy!). We work together on facilitation and presentation skills, and when you’re ready, you head out into the wild…that is, middle and high schools in San Francisco.



OPTION 2: Speakers Bureau. We work together to create a story or narrative to share in a panel with other SFWAR Speakers. The Speaker’s Bureau presents in schools, colleges, organizations, etc., and offers a dialogue and conversation about sexual violence.



So what do you think? Do any of these options interest you? What would be your dream? Share with me and we’ll try to make it happen! This is an awesome opportunity to build public speaking skills, community connections, and to create valuable conversations about sexual violence.

Please give me your feedback whenever you can!



With love and respect,

Isaak



Isaak Brown

Community Educator

San Francisco Women Against Rape

(415) 861-2024 x.308

3542 18th St. #7, San Francisco, CA

Monday, March 15, 2010

Declaring Our Erotic

Declaring Our Erotic
Eight Tuesday eves. Begins April 13.
An erotic writing workshop open to all
Ever read through a sexy short story and thought, "I'd like to do that!" This writing workshop is for anyone who's considered writing erotic stories or writing about sex, or who'd like to get more comfortable doing so! No previous writing experience is necessary.

We each need safe space in which to be our whole erotic selves -- to delve into the fantasies and imaginings that we've learned or been told don't "go with" our public sexual identities. In this workshop we'll celebrate and struggle with the fullness of our erotic expression.

Each evening, you'll have the chance to try your hand at some explicit erotic writing. We'll write in response to exercises designed to tap into different aspects of our sexual selves: memory, fantasy, experience, relationship with the body, and more.

Don't be surprised if you find, as have previous participants, that you're more comfortable discussing your own sexual desires after practicing writing about fictional sex!