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April 25, 2019 | Deeds Digest No. 142
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Hello #Changemakers!
Something historic happened yesterday and Team Deeds was thrilled to be a partner in making it happen! For the first time EVER in the ENTIRE history of American presidential elections, candidates seeking that office spoke directly to the values and experiences of women of color at the She The People event hosted by women of color, led by women of color and attended primarily by an audience of women of color in Houston, Texas.
We are particularly proud of our Deeds' Texas Southern University Campus Organizer, TeQuila Chatmon, for all her work in helping to host and make the event a success. And we are super excited that members from our chapters at Prairie View A&M, Rice University, UT Austin, Huston-Tillotson and Texas A&M University were all there, participating in the event and hearing from presidential candidates who cared enough about them to come and answer their important questions.
This feels like a dream come true for me in many respects. Most importantly, I'm thrilled that Deeds is playing some small part in making sure that young women are owning their rightful place in deciding who will represent them in the future.
Your voices. Your values. Your votes, #Changemakers. I can't wait to see what you do with them!
Much love,
-wendy
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MOVEMENT MUJERES' ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
As part of the mission to uplift Texas womxn, Movement Mujeres (a collaboration between Deeds Not Words and Jolt Initiative) will not only be conducting deep-dive leadership training of 50 young womxn of color over the next 4 years, we'll also be supporting the creative development of womxn of color artists in Texas. Just this week, we hired our first two artists in residence! Jessica Sanchez and Karina Perez are both super talented artists who are passionate about using their art to uplift the power, stories and experiences of womxn in order to increase awareness and motivate positive change. We are so excited to see the amazing visual work they will create!
 
*This program will be recurring every two months and two new artists will be hired each time. So please share this opportunity with your artist friends!
Edith Valle
Designer
Deeds Not Words
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This Week's #Changemaker:
Beyoncé
In case you missed it, last week Beyoncé dropped a documentary on Netflix that blesses all of us who couldn’t make it to Coachella 2018 with a front-row seat at her iconic performance and an inside look at the grueling months of hard work that went into it.
For many of us, “Homecoming” is everything a true work of art should be: it’s an exquisitely thought out project that brings together intellectual themes in an artistic form, a work that’s in conversation with the past, present, and future. In “Homecoming,” Beyoncé shines a light on the incredible cultural traditions of HBCUs (that’s historically black colleges and universities) and spreads some serious wisdom from famous black intellectuals like W.E.B. DuBois, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker, to name a few. Going beyond music, Beyonce has spent her career crushing barriers as a black woman and has been a major force for pulling intersectional feminism into the mainstream. In this documentary, we see how she carved space for women and for people of color in a predominantly white music festival and, through it, how she invites all of us to take part in the magic of owning our identities with zero apologies.
You can read a full article about the documentary on Salon.
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