Wikipedia:Meetup/Art and Social Justice

 Art & Social Justice Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

The English Department at California State University, Northridge is hosting an edit-a-thon for attendees to gather and strengthen Wikipedia’s scope and content related to art and social justice.

New to editing Wikipedia? Training and resources will be provided! Drop-ins welcome!

Event Information
'**Please create an account prior to arrival. A limited number of new accounts can be created at the event.**'
 * Date: Monday, April 17, 2017
 * Time: 4:00 pm - 6:45 pm PDT (drop-ins welcome!)
 * Location: Jerome Richfield Hall 319, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330
 * Who Should Attend: Everyone with an interest in arts, literature, social justice, activism, and Wikipedia editing, regardless of editing experience
 * Participants: New editors welcome! Demos, background info, and food will be provided early in the program, and we’ll all be editing right alongside one another.

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Articles to edit

 * California Legacy Project: California radio project that focuses on California literary history
 * '''Politics of California
 * '''Diversity (politics)
 * 826LA
 * Yes California (Calexit): secession campaign for California
 * Deborah Miranda: Native American writer and poet
 * Neoliberalism: the contemporary resurgence in 20th-century America of 19th-century ideas of laissez-faire economics.
 * Gerald Vizenor: Native American author and theorist
 * Spanish Missions in California: a series of 21 religious outposts built by the Spanish empire and evocative of colonialism and Native American oppression.
 * Native American Feminism: feminist community building and identity for Indigenous women
 * Ruth Whitman: American poet
 * Edgar Allan Poe: American author
 * “The Black Cat”: short story by Edgar Allan Poe
 * Susan Power: Native American author
 * Angela Carter: British author
 * The Bloody Chamber: short story collection by Angela Carter
 * American Psycho: American novel by Brett Easton Ellis
 * Michelle Huneven: American author
 * Aimee Bender: LA-based American author
 * Douglas Kearney: LA-based American author and poet
 * Matthew Specktor: LA-based American author and pot
 * Matthew Specktor: LA-based American author and pot

Article "stubs" for creation or expansion

 * Literature of California
 * The Neoliberal Novel: Walter Benn Michael’s theory that explores how neoliberal policies are formalized and historicized within contemporary American literature.
 * The Neoliberal City: David Harvey’s theory examining how neoliberal policies are having a profound effect on the nature and direction of urbanization in the United States and other wealthy western countries.
 * Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir: Deborah A. Miranda’s Native American memoir
 * Laughing Gas: Poems, New and Selected, 1963-1990: poetry collection by Ruth Whitman
 * Sacred Wilderness: novel by Susan Power
 * The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake]]: American novel by LA author Aimee Bender
 * The Black Automaton: poetry collection by LA-based American poet Douglas Kearney
 * English department at Cal State Northridge (or any other department)
 * English department at Cal State Northridge (or any other department)

Articles created/improved

 * American Literary Regionalism
 * Native American Feminism