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womenwhokickass: Reina Gossett: Why she kicks ass She joined...

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:45:03 -0400

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.

Mon, 06 May 2013 00:20:19 -0400

buzzfeed:

Just stop.

molotovsforemmett: peroquevaina: yospeakespanol: sampsoniawaym...

Sun, 05 May 2013 10:33:17 -0400

By Arturo Rosales

Edited by Elizabeth Martinez

By Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

By Rodolfo Corky Gonzales

By Rodolfo Acuña

By Paulo Freire

By Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson

molotovsforemmett:

peroquevaina:

yospeakespanol:

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

fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory: United Farm Workers co-founder...

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:29:23 -0400

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.

readabookson: https://anonfiles.com/file/6ded7ca2b1992e630fdff7b...

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:02:57 -0400

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

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:43:47 -0500

myveryownfieldofstrawberries:

feminism ftw

Photo

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:15:31 -0500

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:01:05 -0500

cosmeticevolution: Please visit www.onebillionrising.org to...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:58:34 -0500

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....

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:54:04 -0500

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...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:53:49 -0500

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.

katarinaatl: WHEN ABORTION WAS ILLEGAL: Untold Stories This...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:04:21 -0500

katarinaatl:

WHEN ABORTION WAS ILLEGAL: Untold Stories

This Academy Award-nominated film features compelling first person accounts which reveal the physical, legal, and emotional consequences during the era when abortion was a criminal act. Remembrances include those of women who experienced illegal abortions, doctors who risked imprisonment and loss of their licenses for providing illegal abortions, and individuals who broke the law by helping women find safe abortions.

This made me cry, these brave women and medical personel! In the 1950s, 20-30 women came to hospitals in bigger towns every day because they had had illegal abortions.

Abortion isn’t about women wanting to do abortions. They have to. It is never a happy decision, and in many places of the world, it can still lead to death and humiliation.

Also, I never knew that abortions were legal in the US until the 1850s. Real freedom.

janetmock: Standing by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project means...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:00:16 -0500

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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"The mainstream media is ripe with oversexualized images of women of color, and policy often..."

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:58:43 -0500

“The mainstream media is ripe with oversexualized images of women of color, and policy often stigmatizes and shames this same group of people. Women of color and poor women are blamed for their inability to keep their legs closed and for having too many children. For marginalized groups of women, sex is not linked to pleasure or freedom; it is demonized and used as an example of all the ways in which these women lack self-control. As a result, a lot of conversations around sexual freedom discount the experience of people of color, failing to take into account how much sexual freedom is assumed to hinge on a woman’s privilege—be it because of her race, economic status, or social standing.

Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Jill Nelson, Alice Walker, Leti Volpp, Saidiya Hartman, and countless other feminists of color have either directly or indirectly brought up the idea that the social consequences of sex are greater for women of color. Women are sexualized by the media, period, but women of color face a unique set of circumstances where they have historically been hypersexualized, and then held to white standards of purity. According to popular ideas of sexuality, women of color start out impure. One concrete example of this happens around rape and sexual assault. When the survivor is a woman of color, the assumption is that she started out consenting. After all, the bodies of women of color are for consumption and therefore they are always ready and willing to have sex.”

- Samhita Mukhopadhyay (via spartanbitch)

Blood Magic

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:08:27 -0500

echolaughs:

“What has happened in the history of women that we went from being ‘the menstruating goddess’ to dirty, filthy whores?”

~ Anne Enke

[Photo: “The Menstruating Goddess” on the exterior wall of the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati]

inothernews: DEFIANCE Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai,...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:59:36 -0500

inothernews:

DEFIANCE Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, center, with members of hospital staff, left Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England. The 15-year-old girl was shot by the Taliban in October for campaigning for girls’ education. (Photo: AFP-Getty Images via The Wall Street Journal)

"[TW: Rape] According to statistics from the United States Department of Justice, for every white..."

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:53:04 -0500

“[TW: Rape] According to statistics from the United States Department of Justice, for every white woman who reports a rape, there are at least five black women who are raped but do not report it. For every black woman who reports her rape, at least 15 black women’s sexual assaults go unreported.”

- Race is a feminist issue (via sparkamovement)

This is why intersectionality matters.

(via skyliting)

The Gulabi gang is a group of Indian women vigilantes and...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:28:57 -0500

The Gulabi gang is a group of Indian women vigilantes and activists who visit abusive husbands & beat them up with laathis (bamboo sticks) unless they stop abusing their wives.

In 2008, they stormed an electricity office in Banda district and forced officials to turn back the power they had cut in order to extract bribes.^[4] They have also stopped child marriages and protested dowry and female illiteracy.

The group, which the Indian media portray positively, was reported to have 20,000 members as of 2008, as well as a chapter in Paris, France.

The Gulabi gang is the subject of the 2010 movie Pink Saris by Kim Longinotto and the 2012 documentary Gulabi Gang by Nishtha Jain. Another movie, Gulab Gang, starring Madhuri Dixit in the leading role, is to be released on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2013.

nuestrahermana: “Not Victims/ Not Passive / Combative Women!...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:28:39 -0500

nuestrahermana:

“Not Victims/ Not Passive / Combative Women! Revolution” (Close translation)

"You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions..."

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:34:52 -0500

“You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn’t doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman’s looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she’s ugly, but everyone else thinks you’re an idiot.”

- Hillary Clinton (via ceedling)