womenwhokickass:

Reina Gossett: Why she kicks ass

• She joined the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in July 2010 as the membership coordinator, and staffs the newly created Movement Building Team, working to develop SRLP’s membership and community organizing work.
• Formerly, she was the director of the Welfare Organizing Project at Queers For Economic Justice, and is a Soros Justice Fellow at Critical Resistance.
• She also has numerous writing credits, including The Scholar & Feminist Online and Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex.

buzzfeed:

Just stop. 

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sampsoniawaymag:

Seven books have been removed from classrooms in the Tucson Unified School District. Censored writers have responded to the measure in interviews and blogs; others have not yet publically commented.

Continue reading at Sampsonia Way

Latinos in Arizona, I tell you to order and buy these books. They think they can take away the books, but they can’t take away your freedom. Even if you don’t like to read, make it a point to read these. Si se puede! 

People interested in this, which you all should be, should go ahead and like the U.N.I.D.O.S. facebook page! They’re a group of TUSD high school/college students who I had the pleasure of hearing speak about the subject via Skype last week in an Ethnic Studies Teach-In we held here at Yale. They’re doing all they can and any sort of donations would really help them out with getting supplies and the message out there. 

Chicano! is one of my textbooks this semester. It is really a great book, it’s written in such an easy to read/understand way without compromising the amount of knowledge that’s packed into it. And the rest of these books look amazing too. But no, they don’t want us to know our history, how they lynched us, how they treated us like nothing, and they don’t want us to know that we have history, that we are a strong people. But we are. We are. 

My WISHLIST. <3

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fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama today. Said the president, ”Dolores was very gracious when I told her I had stolen her slogan, Si, se puede. Yes, we can. Knowing her, I’m pleased that she let me off easy— because Dolores does not play.”

I met and got to take a photo with this fierce Latina about a month ago…and nearly dead of happiness. 

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readabookson:

https://anonfiles.com/file/6ded7ca2b1992e630fdff7b149db4b6a

This book by bell hooks has literally healed me in multiple ways and challenged me on what I perceived to be Love. 

myveryownfieldofstrawberries:

feminism ftw

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cosmeticevolution:

Please visit www.onebillionrising.org to find an event in your community.  Show the women in the world how much they are loved.

upworthy:

We’re rising with V-Day and One Billion Rising. Why? Well dang, it just doesn’t seem like there’s any good reason not to. 

Pledge to join us!

rittisoncco:

One Billion Rising! A picture from Peru. Thanks to Sarah for sending this to me!!

For everyone in Ulm: One Billion Rising is happening on the 14th Feb. check out their Facebook page for all event details! It’s going to be POWERFUL.

janetmock:

Standing by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project means standing at the intersection of low-income communities and trans folks. Help fun SRLP’s next 10 years of life-changing work. 

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