Hello Amy,

I've been extremely busy the past few days, and received this message,below. Apparently, I was supposed to apply some code to someplace and did not do so, although I believe I registered properly. Will you please see if I'm registered properly, and if not, what steps do I take to begin the process again?

Sorry about this, but it went crazy-nuts over here with poetry demands.
Thank you so much.

Best, Cynthia




"  Your command: 
 
         SUBSCRIBE AWP-WOMENS-CAUCUS Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow 
 
has remained unconfirmed for more than 48h and is being cancelled. If you 
want it executed,  but you were unable to send  the confirmation in time, 
then just  re-issue the command to  get a new confirmation  code. The one 
you were sent before can no longer be used. "
 
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---- Amy King <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> Dear Folks,
> 
> I've made an effort to invite people from a variety of AWP Caucuses,
> including the AWP Disability Caucus, AWP Indigenous-Aboriginal American
> Writers Caucus, AWP LGBTQ Caucus, AWP Latino Caucus, and obviously the AWP
> Women's Caucus.  Please let me know about other caucuses I should extend
> the invitation to.
> 
> By way of my introduction, I'll note my motivation for creating this
> listserv.  It seems a lot of our caucus meetings are spent getting to know
> each other and only starting to identify what issues we might address at
> such a large "career-making" conference, among other opportunities AWP
> fosters. **My hope is that this listserv enables expediency of identifying
> issues we might work together to achieve.**
> 
> As we know, there are as many differences among "women" as there are
> commonalities.  It is for that reason - a desire to begin practicing
> inclusivity - that I'm hoping we can start 'reaching across the aisle' and
> figure out how to find strengths in our differences - and work together and
> separately with a few goals in mind. As Audre Lorde wrote,
> 
> “… survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone,
> unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those
> others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a
> world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our
> differences and make them strengths. For the master’s tools will never
> dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at
> his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.
> And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the
> master’s house as their only source of support.”
> 
> 
> I realize that listservs can often devolve into arguments over differences
> and attempting to convince others to see things our way.  I hope that we
> can be wary of such pitfalls, for those are the very problems people like
> Cruz and Trump rely on.  It is how they convince us that we have more in
> common with them than with people we may actually have goals in common
> with.  Debate is welcome, but not respecting the idea that there are many
> different approaches and perspectives, some fitting others experiences
> better than our own, risks devolving into dictating 'my way is best' - and
> magnifies our differences in approaches, rather than focusing on
> identifying and focusing on achieving shared goals.
> 
> My hope is that we may be able to note some common dreams for a better AWP,
> a more inclusive and welcoming literary landscape, a plurality of voices,
> and therefore identify a few common goals we hope to achieve - then
> allowing each other to work in their own ways toward those goals *and*
> perhaps working together as well, perhaps by petition, perhaps by email
> campaign, perhaps by concerted efforts in panel proposals, etc.
> 
> I hope I'm making sense.  I hope this listserv serves us all in ways we
> have not yet envisioned.  We represent a number of contingencies.  Of my
> own, I am queer, woman, now middle class, survivor of childhood abuse,
> activist, infrequently depressed, professor, poet ++.  I have hopes and
> optimism despite forces that work to break and separate us, and I hope to
> cultivate that optimism through community forging that is mission driven.
> 
> Thanks for reading.  Please take a minute to introduce yourselves and offer
> up your thoughts about the AWP Conference overall!
> 
> Amy King
> 
> p.s. As well, I am not asking folks to spend time and do the labor of
> educating us, but I would hope that before we speak about communities and
> cultures that we are not part of, we do a little research about vocabulary
> and some basics before we speak about a particular demographic.  This
> effort is easy (Google!) and respectful of those communities that we may
> not be part of.
> 
> Please also find at the bottom of our VIDA FAQ page some primers we created
> in order to help folks begin to speak about the demographics represented in
> our new "Intersectional VIDA Count" - "Women of Color VIDA Count primer" -
> "Trans VIDA Count primer" - "Sexuality VIDA Count primer" and
> "Disability/Difference/Impairment VIDA Count primer" -
> http://www.vidaweb.org/faq/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
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