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Guns and Tampons: A History of Violence Against Women I Know

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Hanalei Ramos is a Filipina-American community organizer, educator, and performer from Jersey City, New Jersey. She has toured around the nation to various college and university campuses as a spoken word artist, and has also been seen as a performer and panelist at GirlFest Honolulu, the National Asian-American Student Conference, the East Coast Asian-American Student Union, and the March for Women’s Lives. She holds a degree in English and secondary education, and as a community artist educator, she has taught writing and poetry workshops to youth and senior women in the Jersey City and New York City area. Hanalei has also completed the Asian Arts Initiative’s nationally modeled "Artists in Community Training" program (ACT.) Most recently, she has authored Letters to Martha, a personal testimony to her own experience as a survivor of domestic violence, and Foiled Stars, a collection of poems and prose. Her first solo performance work, Guns and Tampons: A History of Violence Against Women I Know, was created through the generosity of the Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia), and will be excerpted at the National Asian-American Theater Festival in New York City in June 2007.