Who we are: GRRLS are young women or female-identified or trans individuals ages 14-20. We explore issues, find our voice, write, read out loud, take photographs, and present our words and ideas to the public.

Our writing, our art, our voices matter.

We are part of the community, we are social activists.

The GRRLS statement: In the spirit of fostering a new generation of diverse, confident, independted-minded and creative artists/citizens/leaders, the Kore Press Grrls Literary Activism Workshops empower young women with the skills necessary to express themselves on social issues that matter most to them and become potent agents of change.

There is a commonly held assumption that women are given equal treatment because of the great strides made by social change movements of the last few decades, but somehow women are still rewarded for silence. We are changing that one Grrrl at a time.

More about the Grrls Project. Spring 2009 GRRLS Blog here!

The Grrls Workshops: here are our guidelines and goals.

What the Grrls' are saying:

Carrie: "Developing my voice is activism."
Emily: "My writing is less BS and more what I personally want to say...
My social skills have improved as well as my writing skills."
Edward: "I love speaking out."
Robin: "I realized self experience and expression...are a form of
activism."
Miki: "I feel more capable of being involved, and using my words/creativity to make change."

The workshops are facilitated by local women writers and artists. 

Past and present Grrls facilitators:

poets Joni Wallace, Ann Dernier, Renee Angler

writers Kirsten Valdez Quade, Charlie Buck, Judy Sensibar

painter and poet Debra Gregerman

filmmaker Jamie Lee

writer and dancer Kimi Eisele

The Grrls Workshops have limited space. No experience necessary. Kore Press is looking for Grrls or female identified youth ages 14-20 who want to who want to

speak out and be heard! Grrls who want to make in impact in the community with art, who want to write with their peers and adult writers.

Interested? Contact Nhu Tien LU at grrls@korepress.org for sign-up information.

Help the cause! Donate your tax credit to the project. Read more here.

Previous workshop blog: Grrls with Guts: A Writing Course

Tucson Weekly covers a Grrls event under "Poet Power"

 

The Grrls Literary Activism Workshop is a project of Kore Press, which is supported in part by the Tucson-Pima Arts Council, The Arizona Commission on the Arts through appropriations from the National Endowment for the Arts, various private foundations and individual donors. The Grrls Literary Activism Workshop is supported in part with funds from Pam Grissom, Every Voice in Action Foundation, and tax credits from individuals, in partnership with City High School.

 

Thank you to our 2009 tax credit donors!

Nancy Hand

Jennifer Camano

Janice Dewey

Lisa Bowden

Amy Weintraub

Eric Magrane and Wendy Burk

Lucy Weeks

Stephen Strom

Marcia and Richard King

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Help the cause! You can donate your 2010 AZ State tax credit to help keep the Grrls Project going. Read more here.