February 2012
37 posts
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– arundhati roy from the guardian (via counterworlds)
Shawty Got Skillz 2012! Send us your Skillz by...
shawtygotskillz:
It’s time for the 4th annual Shawty Got Skillz (#SGSZ) Session at the Allied Media Conference!!!! We aim to pull together a skillshare at the AMC for radical trans women, trans*, non-binary and genderqueer folks and cis women of color that reminds us that we have the skills we need to thrive! We need your help! Click here to make Shawty Got Skillz happen this Year! [Linked to...
A Feminist Care Package for Too $hort
feministcarepackages:
Dear Too $hort, We are a collective of people of color who are angered and saddened by your comments in a video for XXL magazine. We are angry because no one at the magazine thought to pull the plug on the interview and we are sad because you seem unaware that you were advocating the rape of girls by boys. We think that young people have a right to know about sex and...
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not...”
– Alice Hoffman (via misswallflower)
“More women, and especially black women, are behind bars as much because of hard...”
– Why So Many Black Women Are Behind Bars
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
(via daniellemertina)
shawtygotskillz:
Announcing AMC2012 Tracks, Network Gatherings, and Practice Spaces. Submit session proposals now!
You are now invited to submit proposals for AMC sessions. Submit your proposal at AMPTalk!
We are looking for sessions that can be hosted within AMC Practice Spaces or Tracks, or that stand alone in their awesomeness. When you propose your session, you can associate your proposal...
“Boys are told from a young age that whatever they do will be excused under the...”
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http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/the-nonexistent-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-consequences-of-enthusiastic-consent/ (via 2222222222222222222222)
More of why Too Short’s post was fucked up, violent, evil and what not. But if you follow me, you knew that...
IF YOU ARE A WOMAN, the LGBT COMMUNITES OR NATIVE... →
DC/MD/VA We're Coming Your Way!
lati-negros:
March 29-31 is the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference at George Mason University.
We will be holding a roundtable for the People of Color caucus entitled: How Did We Get Here?: Being AfroLatin@ in the Ivory Tower, in Activism and Online
on Friday March 30 at 315pm.
Come see us and support us too!
Also, Bianca is discussing her experiences and surviving the...
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WatchPhew. Viola Davis is not playin!!!!
Let’s be clear, Zora Walker does NOT support the Help (movie, book, whatever). And it isn’t about playing maids in 2011. Whatever to that. It’s about misrepresenting the history itself and you can hit the archive for back posts on the history, on the Help, and you’ll even find some reading lists.
But Davis gets ALL OF MY RESPECT....
Pay Attention! Ethnic Studies #WishiLearnedinHS... →
WatchKara Walker | Art21 | PBS
January 2012
29 posts
Anonymous asked: Can you repost Darlene Clark Hine's, “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West,” the link no longer works.
““…Abortion was not always illegal before Roe. Into the 19th century,...”
– The Way It Was by Eleanor Conney | Mother Jones (2004) http://bit.ly/zQKuQ7
“And they were telling me —. Now, it doesn’t matter, now. It really doesn’t...”
– American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr. — I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (April 3 1968)
this right here is MLK’s legacy. his self-defined understanding of himself. the way he framed himself to the world. and it still brings me to tears today. the hope, the sadness, the complication, the dream,...
“Why should there be hunger and privation in any land, in any city, at any table...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, Dec. 11, 1964. (via nbr)