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• ANWO Northern Regional Meeting

  • When
    4 Sep 2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

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  Join the ANWO members in the northern region of the U.S. for updates and comradery.

  This meeting will be most helpful if African women who reside in the northern region of the U.S. participate.  The northern region is defined by the following states/territories:

  Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania, NY, NJ, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,  New Hampshire, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and D.C.
  

  Agenda

  I. Introductions (7-7:10 pm)
  

  II.  Northern Region activities & opportunities 7:10 - 7:25
  

  III. Updates since last meeting 7:25 -  7:45
  

  IV.  Building the Region 7:45 - 7:55 pm
  

  V.  Next Steps 7:55 pm
  

  VI. Adjourn  8:00 pm

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• September Harriet's Daughter Book Club & Study Group: Compulsory Sexuality as Colonial Control

  • When
    7 Sep 2025
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    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Microsoft Teams

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  The Harriet's Daughters Study Groups and Book Clubs are monthly virtual meetings led by the African National Women's Organization, where Black women, femmes, and those in solidarity come together to discuss books and other literature that center on African liberation themes. We invite you to join, regardless of whether you have read the book or not. It's always a great discussion.

  September Selection: Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

  Sherronda J. Brown offers new perspectives on asexuality. She takes an incisive look at how anti-Blackness, white supremacy, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and capitalism enact harm against asexual people, contextualizing acephobia within a racial framework.  

  There is no PDF version available for this book, but this is a subject-based discussion regarding compulsory sexuality as colonial control. 

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• September Live Study: Charity vs Self Determination | The Rise of the NGO in the Name of “Helping Women” and children

  • When
    18 Sep 2025
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    8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join us for a political education discussion on the Charity vs. Self-Determination? The Rise of the NGO in the Name of “Helping Women” and Children that exposes how humanitarian aid and charity, especially when directed at African women and children, are often used to mask colonial capitalist interests and undermine genuine self-determination.

  We’ll examine how the rise of NGOs, while claiming to “empower”  frequently operates as a extension of imperialism, maintaining dependency, controlling political agendas, and reinforcing colonial narratives of helplessness. This discussion will challenge the idea that charity is neutral and reveal how true liberation for African people requires organizing for power.

  Zoom registration: tinyurl.com/rndpstudies

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• The Breakdown ---The Rent Is Due: African Women, Colonialism, and the Real Cost of Sex Work

  • When
    21 Sep 2025
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    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

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  What happens when survival is mistaken for liberation? In this episode, we examine the colonial roots of sex work and expose how poverty, displacement, and gendered violence push African women into the so-called "hustle" of the sex trade. 

  Join us as we take on the myths of "choice" and "agency" pushed by feminism and get to the heart of the matter: Colonial capitalism created the conditions for sexual exploitation, and only through African self-determination can we end it.

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• Black Women Liberation and Wellness Retreat

  • Start
    26 Sep 2025
  • End
    28 Sep 2025
  • Location
    Pulaski, TN

  The All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP), in partnership with the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO), will host a transformative 3-day in-person retreat for Black women, focused on political education, healing, and strategic visioning.
  

  This retreat will bring together Black women from across the United States, including but not limited to grassroots organizers, caregivers, educators, healthcare workers, young emerging leaders, and long-standing community members who are actively engaged in or seeking to deepen their roles in building the liberation movement.

  What to Expect:

  • Political education grounded in African Internationalist theory

  • Healing workshops
    

  • Community visioning sessions to reimagine our future

  • Cultural expression, art, music, and celebration

  • Reconnecting and aligning with nature as a tool for grounding and renewal
    

  • Shared meals, rest, and joy in a peaceful setting

  What is required:

  Space is limited.  Please register by June 6, 2025 to confirm your participation.

  Have questions?  Send inquiries to  membership@anwouhuru.org

  Location

  Just one hour outside of Huntsville, Alabama, our retreat will be held in the serene and scenic rolling hills of Pulaski, Tennessee; a peaceful, rural setting that offers the perfect environment for rest, reflection, and reconnection.

  
  

  Surrounded by wide open skies, soft grass underfoot, and quiet wooded paths, this space allows us to truly unplug and ground ourselves in the land.

  We’ll be staying in a black-owned private manor where participants will share sleeping rooms.  Meals will be prepared with care and shared together.
  

  
  

  
  

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