The 28th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference, “Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Bodies and Souls Building Life,” seeks to honor a
multiplicity of women’s experiences around labor. As women of color, our journeys are marked by stretches of struggle and moments of victory. We seek to honor labor across generations: our mothers, grandmothers, and caregivers whose souls and bodies gave us life.
EWOCC engages the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of labor in order to sustain our lives as individuals and communities. It is a place to learn and collaborate, as we challenge one another to resist and dismantle the systems that oppress us. We build with ancestral ways of
working that are attentive to the politics of liberation, decolonization, and healing.
EWOCC is a call to action! We invite people of all ages, abilities, socioeconomic and immigration statuses, sexualities, religions and cultural backgrounds to contribute to the day’s events, as we aim to give activists the means to develop new strategies to address current struggles on our own terms.