At last year’s Allied Media Conference, there was a six hour discussion between self-identified radical women of color media makers attempting to answer the question: what is radical women of color media making?

The conversation that happened was inspiring, uplifting, powerful, and so necessary–and it created a hugely important description of what ‘media’ is to a certain section of women out there–what it is, what it can be, and what theory informs all of it.

(created by Nadia)

I found this discussion along with Nadia’s artistic representation of the conversation to be very important to me in answering many of the questions being brought up right now in the blogosphere (see here for a very brief intro). How is the way dozens of on-the-ground radical women of color media makers define themselves and their use/needs of media different than how those same women are being represented right now in the blogosphere?

The million dollar question: what’s up with the difference in representation?