December 2010
“My problem with the hype and pressure around DADT is that it distracts from the...”
– Why I Won’t Be Celebrating the Repeal of DADT: Queer Soldiers are Still Agents of Genocide | … Or Does It Explode? (via curate)
“My skin is brown just like theirs, But now I’m unworthy of the color ‘cause I...”
– Michelle Serros, Chicana Falsa (via findingagency)
Casa Xochiquetzal →
genderqueerdukeofmexico:
kosmogore:
“Casa Xochiquetzal (The House of the Beautiful Flowers) is a retirement home for prostitutes, established in Mexico City’s Tepito neighborhood, that got it’s name from the Aztec goddess of love and women. The center was founded in 2007 by a former prostitute, Carmen Munoz, impressed by the old sex workers she saw sleeping in the streets. And it wasn’t easy...
the dark background: Do not repeal DADT →
gonegood:
this is an anti-war cartoon, btw.
I used to just have issues with it, but I think I’m against repealing DADT now. The arguments made for repealing it (by most) are doing such a good job of legitimising the U.S. military, the necessity of war and invasions in general, Iraq in particular,…
brown. round. boi.: [today: experiments in a jazz... →
brownroundboi:
Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project Edited by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Lisa L. Moore, and Sharon Bridgforth University of Texas Press http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/jonexe.html. Experiments In A Jazz Aesthetic Book release…
When Leather is a Whip, Martín Espada
gonegood:
At night, with my wife sitting on the bed, I turn from her to unbuckle my belt so she won’t see her father unbuckling his belt
(via libraries + kathleenjoy)
salmonrojo: Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red... →
salmonrojo:
7pm Thursday Dec. 16, 2010
¡CELEBRACION Y FANDANGO!
Son en Movimiento: Talleres de Arte Comunitario de Son Jarocho
presents an END OF THE YEAR GATHERING featuring:
a special documentary film screening of
Fandango: Searching for the White Monkey/Buscando al Mono Blanco followed by un ¡Fandango!
Come join us as we close out the year with a film screening of Fandango:...
“They just can’t let us have NOTHING.” - My mom and everybody else’s”
– wearing shoes that be talking (via shanaelmsford)
Yes! Exactly!
(via lowendtheory)
Georgia Prison Strike Petition →
salmonrojo:
SUPPORT THE DEMANDS OF THE GEORGIA PRISONERS STRIKE! No Reprisals! Hands Off the Strikers!
Sign | View Petition Text Sign online to tell President Obama, Attorney General Holder, Georgia Governor Perdue, Georgia Attorney General Baker, Georgia Corrections Commissioner Owens, the Georgia Legislature, the Georgia Congressional Delegation, Congressional leaders, U.N. Secretary...
Help Rio's favelas resist forced evictions before... →
bespangled:
I got the following email from someone I studied abroad with who is working for Catalytic Communities in Rio, which works to support community leaders and bring attention to the forced evictions going on in favela communities before the World Cup and Olympics:
“It is just incredible how many communities are being removed for new condos (not even roads or Olympic infrastructure) and...
Legal Alien by Pat Mora →
larebelde:
nezua:
oyegitana:
Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural, able to slip from “How’s life?” to “Me’stan volviendo loca,” able to sit in a paneled office drafting memos in smooth English, able to order in fluent Spanish at a Mexican restaurant, American but hyphenated, viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic, perhaps inferior, definitely different, viewed by Mexicans as alien, (their eyes say, “You...
Founding president of gay group PFLAG dies →
The founding president of US group Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) has died at the age of 90.
Adele Starr, of California, reacted badly when her son Phillip came out in 1974 but overcame her negative feelings to establish the support group for the loved ones of gays and lesbians.
After he came out, her son suggested that she find a support group and she met PFLAG founder...
Understanding India’s Microcredit Crisis →
abbyjean:
As Vivek Nemana reported here, the Indian microcredit industry has pitched into what appears to be a replay of the American subprime debacle. I just spent a week in India, talking to nearly everyone. I learned there were so many complexities—history, politics, institutional rivalries— that to just view events through the foreign lens of the subprime crisis is…actually about right.
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MALCS Videos →
MUJERES ACTIVAS EN LETRAS Y CAMBIO SOCIAL
VIDEO ARCHIVES
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Book + Bolo: A Song by Sonia Sanchez →
bookandbolo:
take my virginity
and convert it to maternity
wait around a century or two
and see what i’ll do.
take my body give it yo’ brand
stitch my breasts on the fatherland
wait around a decade or two
and see just what i’ll do.
place my dreams on any back stair
tune my eyes for yo’ nightmare
wait…
Texas Historians Preserving WWII Internment Camp :... →
The roundups began in earnest almost immediately after the Dec. 7 attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States’ entry into World War II.
Japanese, Germans and Italians, both foreign nationals and foreign-born American citizens considered potential threats, were rousted from their homes in the U.S. and in Latin American nations friendly to the U.S. and were then shipped to internment...
