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The Girls Not Chicks Coloring Book Workshop!
Thursday May 17, 7PM @ 2640 (2640 St. Paul St.)
Have you ever wanted the chance to turn Rapunzel into a national football hero? Hercules into a world-class jazzercizer? Make Bert and Ernie their very own queen-size bed that they actually get to sleep in together? Now's your chance! Let the synthesis of your feminist sensibilities and all the fairy tales that have hurt your feelings bring your imagination and creativity to a whole new level. Come hang out with other boys who always wanted to be the Little Mermaid, women who engineer dare-devil rollercoasters, and everyone in between. Jacinta Bunnell, co-creator of the Girls Not Chicks and Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be helps the children-at-heart of Baltimore make their very own radical coloring books!
Jacinta Bunnell's workshops are akin to spending an hour and a half in the arts and crafts cabin at your favorite summer camp. Using found images from popular and unpopular children's media, you will transform these ordinary images into a subversive coloring book, writing new scripts for the story book characters you always wanted to rise up and rebel against, but never had the tools to do. Now you can set them free! The pages you create will be combined with the other participants' pages, creating a collectively-made coloring book. Each participant will later receive a copy of the book!
Hundreds of these D.I.Y. (Do-It-Yourself) coloring books exist around the country as Jacinta has left behind a trail of inspiration in every place she's traveled. Don't miss the chance to make friends, cut-n-paste with a real live gluestick, and change the direction of children's media. No longer will there be a shocking lack of narratives for gender outlaws! We will make truths to set people free. No artistic experience necessary.
Check out girlsnotchicks.org for more info, or stop by Emma's to pick up one of Jacinta's own coloring books for inspiration!
800 St. Paul St. * Baltimore, MD 21202 * (410) 230-0450 * info@redemmas.org
Red Emma's is open Monday through Saturday from 10AM-10PM, and Sunday from 10AM-6PM. Our weekly collective meetings are Sunday at 7PM, and are open to anyone interested in the project, except for the first Sunday of every month, which is closed to everyone except collective members.

Red Emma's is part of IU 660 of the Industrial Workers of the World, one of the only unions to recognize that worker collectives can stand in solidarity with those fighting the bosses as part of one big union.










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