Work Redux | Consequences

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Machine Shop | 300 2nd St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414

March 28, 2017

Work Redux brings together hundreds of women spanning diverse backgrounds to reimagine the future of the workplace. For the first Word Redux of 2017, we will explore the ramifications of gender that tremble through every corner of our lives, our work, and our dreams.

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The ramifications of gender tremble through every corner of our lives, our work, and our dreams.

We feel the burdens of gender in old patriarchal standards of parenting, beauty, sexuality, leadership, earning potential, and ambition. We feel the consequences of gender in the physical pain and violence hiding within the silent corners of our personal histories.

We hide the aftermath of these encounters from all aspects of public life—especially within professional discourse. Nevertheless, the profound emotional hardship of these traumatic experiences courses beneath workplace and family dynamics.

We deserve more than to fall back into “business as usual” after life comes crashing into us. The times demand that we stop normalizing the consequences of our gender and start dismantling systems that benefit from these fallouts. Fallout from experiencing sexual harassment and assault. Fallout from bringing life into this world. Fallout from challenging gender norms. Fallout from being vulnerable.

To prepare for the future of work, we must construct a new architecture where every rung of scaffolding is reinforced to protect and support all women from the aftershocks of their gender implications.

Speakers:

Sarah Clyne, Domestic Abuse Project
Andrea Jenkins, Transgender Oral History Project, U of MN
Sarah Super, Break the Silence
Kao Kalia Yang, author
With a performance by Venus de Mars

About Work Redux

As part of Pollen’s mission to invest in human connection, Work Redux is an event series (and now also a network of leaders) that inspires questions, sparks discussion, and drives action to challenge cultural assumptions behind the current, dominant work culture. Together we will better understand how we can design and change the future of work.

Ticket price includes breakfast, coffee, and juice. There is a surface lot and metered street parking nearby. Machine Shop is also accessible via public transit. Check metrotransit.org for routes and schedules.

7:30-8:30 AM – Registration, breakfast, and networking
8:30-8:45 AM – Welcome and Performance
8:45-9:30 AM – Panel Discussion

9:30-10:30 AM – Table Conversations

Special Thanks

Work Redux | Consequences would not be possible without the support of the Bush Foundation.

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Thanks to Machine Shop and Eat for Equity for their partnership. Thank you to Libby Vanderploeg for the gif artwork.
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Sarah Clyne

Domestic Abuse Project

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Sarah Clyne

Domestic Abuse Project

Sarah Clyne is the executive director for the Domestic Abuse Project (DAP). Sarah holds a master’s degree in education and a B.A. in sociology and spanish, both from the University of Minnesota. Prior to DAP, she was the executive director for Joyce Preschool, which won the Nonprofit Excellence award in 2013. She serves on the board of directors for Nonprofit Assistance Fund/MAP for Nonprofits, the MN Council of Nonprofits, and WATCH. She additionally serves on Mayor Hodges’ Cradle-to-K Cabinet, the Governor’s Council on Law Enforcement and Community Relations, and is a founding advisory board member for Educators for Excellence-Minnesota. She brings many years of leadership experience in the non-profit sector and K-12 education having served as a district administrator, a principal, and a teacher. Sarah is passionate about education, social justice issues, and building cross-sector relationships to dismantle the disparities our communities are facing.
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Andrea Jenkins

Transgender Oral History Project, University of Minnesota

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Andrea Jenkins

Transgender Oral History Project, University of Minnesota

Andrea Jenkins, educator, poet, artist, and activist, works as the Oral Historian for Transgender Oral History Project for the University of Minnesota and is also running to represent Ward 8 on the Minneapolis City Council. She is the author of three books: Tributaries: Poems Celebrating Black History, Pieces of A Scream, and her latest title, The T is Not Silent: New and Selected, (Purple Lioness Productions, 2015). Andrea has received many fellowships and awards, including a Bush Fellowship, the Many Voices Fellowship at the Playwrights’ Center, The Cultural Community Leadership Institute Fellowship through Intermedia Arts, and a Givens Foundation Fellowship for Black Writers. Her work has been collected in several anthologies including A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota (MHSP, 2016) and Blues Vision: African American Writing in Minnesota (MHSP, 2016). In 2015 Andrea was named Grand Marshall of the Twin Cities Pride Parade.

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Sarah Super

Break the Silence

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Sarah Super

Break the Silence

Sarah Super is a rape survivor, educator, and activist. She is the founder and leader of Break the Silence—an organization striving to end rape culture, hold perpetrators accountable, and support survivors of sexual violence in healing. Sarah earned her M.Ed in human resource development and dual B.A. in sociology and American studies from the University of Minnesota.
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Kao Kalia Yang

Teacher, speaker, writer

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Kao Kalia Yang

Teacher, speaker, writer

Kao Kalia Yang is a teacher, public speaker, and writer. Yang is the author of the award-winning book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Coffee House Press, 2008) and the book, The Song Poet (Metropolitan Books, 2016). She is a graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Kao Kalia lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her family.

Kao Kalia Yang is a member of the Hmong ethnic minority. Born in Thailand’s Ban Vinai Refugee Camp, Yang is now an American citizen.
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Venus de Mars

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Venus de Mars

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Venus de Mars is best known as the iconic leader of the long standing Minneapolis dark-glam/trans band: “Venus de Mars & All The Pretty Horses.”

Venus formed the band in the early 90s, and fronted it through turbulent dark days when identifying as trans meant being classified as mentally ill and living as an outcast. She recently toured with Laura Jane Grace and Against Me.

She is now touring her first solo-acoustic release, “Flesh and Wire.”

But she is also known in the arts community as a performance artist. She is both a former McKnight Multidisciplinary Artist Support, and Bush Artist Support fellowship recipient, as well as one of the core artists from the now defunct 1980s era “Rifle Sport Alternative Art Gallery,” which was formerly located on Minneapolis’s infamous “E-Block.”

Venus, her band, and her wife are the subject of the award winning 2004 rock-documentary “Venus of Mars.”

In addition to continuing her musical career, Venus is now in the process of writing a memoir which follows her early 90s to mid-2000s underground trans-rock world-path full of music, ambition, destruction, obsession, dream, fetish, and shadow.