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#BlackPowerisForBlackMen is when an angry Latina is sexy and attractive to Black men but an angry Black woman is ugly and ghetto.
Muchacha Fanzine Issue #11 “POC Solidarity” CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS!
For it’s newest zine edition, the Latina feminist fanzine Muchacha invites people of color of varying identities to submit stories, visual art, photography, comics, poetry, and essays related to building unity among people of color.
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As colonized peoples, it is important that we lift each other up. Though people of color (POC) have made progress in uniting on common fronts, this does not exempt us from the oppressive behaviors that are still happening in our communities. People of color being complicit in violence against black people, non-muslim POC acting islamaphobic towards muslim POC, & POC being abusive against transgender and cisgender women of color are only a few examples. POC marginalizing other POC while being simultaneously marginalized is very real & happening right now throughout the entire world.
Rather than scrambling for bits of power and access to white supremacy, Muchacha Fanzine’s “POC Solidarity” asks to consider any of the following questions: “How can different groups of POC build trust among one another? In what ways can we heal ourselves & help heal one another? How can we acknowledge our different histories while collectively moving forward? How can we decolonize internalized racism within ourselves & each other? What can we do to work together in new ways? How can we use our privilege in productive ways? How can solidarity among people of color help dismantle oppressive systems (legal, educational, health care, media, economic, government, community, political, religious, justice systems)?”
*Remember this is very open-ended. This issue of Muchacha does not expect definitive answers. Instead, the point is to feature diverse perspectives in order to have a much-needed conversation. There are no strict guidelines on POC-related topics as long as your work avoids transphobic, classist, ableist, misogynist, & otherwise oppressive language. If you are a person of color who has thoughts on this issue, Muchacha encourages you to submit. All writing & art forms are welcomed and valued. (even rants & doodles!)
Send submissions to [email protected] by December 1st, 2015. Please limit written submissions to 2500 words & attach .jpg art images. Including a short bio/contact info is encouraged but optional. All of the contributors will receive free copies including domestic/international shipping. POC UNITE!
Signal boost!
Strange Froots performing "The Wanderer" during Hip Hop Week Montreal's "No Bad Sounds" showcase at Le Divan Orange March 18th, 2015
"The Wanderer" by Strange Froots speaks on the parallels between slavery and modern-day racism as we know it through police brutality, among other forms. The original sample is from Senegalese artist Cheikh Lo's "Dokandeme" (vagabond/wanderer in Wolof), which spoke on his trials and tribulations as an African immigrant in France.
Signal boost.....featuring art by Queer Women of Color, Queer of Color and Trans Artists!
#QueerandTransPOCArt #ThirdWorldSolidarity #BlackLivesMatter #ModelMinorityMutiny #QTPOCArt #WOCFeminism #QueerWomen of Color
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May 29-30 in SF: Introducing….QUEER REBELS FEST! Two nights of provocative performance by queer and trans artists of color! From the Third World Student strikes to LA Riots to Black Lives Matter movement, we examine spaces of separation and solidarity among communities of color, to build collective power. Featuring fabulous artists: Ryka Aoki, Wizard Apprentice, Erika Vivianna Cespedes, Frederick Douglas Kakinami Cloyd, Lisa Evans, Lares Feliciano, Baruch Porras Hernandez, Việt Lê, drag queen Persia, Elena Rose, Kevin Simmonds, SPULU, KB Boyce, and more!
“A new and ripe realm for building power, community, and visibility” – Bitch Magazine
WHEN: May 29-30, 2015. Doors 7pm, Show at 7:30pm. $12-25 no one turned away
WHERE: African American Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street, San Francisco
FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/ events/1593776877536152/
TICKETS: FRI MAY 29: http://www.brownpapertickets. com/event/1568321
SAT MAY 30: http://www.brownpapertickets. com/event/1558606
MORE INFO: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/QRPRODUCTIONS
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and Queer Cultural Center co-present QUEER REBELS FEST 2015!
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The last link was a broken link. here is the correct one.
Help Me Graduate- Because I’m Almost There
I need to go out in this world and I want to be a counselor. I want to help people who’s voices are not heard and honestly the only thing standing between me and my BA degree is this money I am trying to raise. It’s hard for a person like me to get a job and get paid as much as I should in this world. However at least with a degree I can take my step forward please read and hear me out. I have ONE more year left. Please help.
http://www.youcaring.com/andarra-romeo-359004
Help Me Graduate- Because I'm Almost There
I need to go out in this world and I want to be a counselor. I want to help people who's voices are not heard and honestly the only thing standing between me and my BA degree is this money I am trying to raise. It's hard for a person like me to get a job and get paid as much as I should in this world. However at least with a degree I can take my step forward please read and hear me out. I have ONE more year left. Please help.
http://www.youcaring.com/imalmostthere
Finally
It's Oscar Week Let's ask actresses irrelevant things Who you wearing? Let's critique "Saw your film and I thought--" "Oh my God. Look at my eyes! Do you do that to the guys?" Same red carpet, no surprise Paparazzi, tabloid lies Read about it in a magazine Ain't it funny just how white The year's lineup always ends up being So hey, let's pretend That racism is at an end Grab your remote and my hand We can be colorblind just for the weekend~
Hollywood get with it Meninists, you're outta style About time to admit it Diversity ain't that wild Got a long list of trailblazers They have a lot to say We can bring a blank slate, baby And we'll write their names
Just 7 percent of directors 5 percent of cinematographers Her name is Quvenzhané Wallis It's really not hard to pronounce it
Listen up we deserve more Tuning into the Oscars each year We're telling you to ask her more What about her stellar career? Got a long list of trailblazers
They have a lot to say We can bring a blank slate, baby And we'll change the game
On Change, Songs of Freedom, and a Man Named Sam Cooke
Hi y'all.
I think my new piece might be fitting for MLK Day and your followers. It's up on the new feminist site Femsplain, a safe publishing community for anyone who identifies as a woman to have their voice heard. It is headed by Tumblr's Amber Gordon.
The piece is about change, revolutions, freedom songs and my discovery of the song "A Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke meant for my progress and self-worth as a youth. Given the piece's context, it seems fitting that it has been published on MLK Day.
Here's a link to the article: http://femsplain.com/on-change-songs-of-freedom-and-a-man-named-samuel-cooke/
And an excerpt:
"[At the time of discovering the song] I was 13...and settling into this thing called womanhood. Having already become skillful at the art of shrinking myself in the presence of a domineering man with an opinion, I was also apologizing instead of asserting myself, menstruating, rejecting any notions of self-worth and developing curves that have still yet to make themselves known on my present body. Of course, none of the previous statement represents an inherent definition of “womanhood;” it merely speaks to my experience of being a 13-year-old cisgender girl with unwed but co-parenting parents, a strong-willed mother but inherently sexist father and my attempts to stake my claim to deserve prosperity in this life."
Thanks again for your sharing of my work!
arosethatgrew.tumblr.com
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(If this submission is not suitable for your purposes, I apologize and thank you for your time and consideration.)
This is so fucking disgusting. What did they expect? SHE IS BLACK. HER PARENTS ARE BLACK. It saddens yet angers me to see society pick apart a young black girl before she can even speak on her blackness.
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strolling | ep 9 | identity, black pseudo-science, university, travel, gentrification of black Europe & more - Cecile Emeke
Episode 9 of Strolling is here. We talked about nuances of black identity, African-American British identity, black pseudo-science, university, travel, gentrification of black Europe & more. Subscribe to keep updated on the next episode.
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I wish I knew what this meant.
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PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO AND REBLOG! I just want to use my freedom of speech to tell everyone about a low-key college that not many people know about. In college, rape happens quite frequently when the dean of a school lets students with gang murder charges, sexual assault, assault, and any type of criminal background go to this school with a 100% acceptance rate, New Mexico Highlands University.
When too many criminals are put in one school just because they are so desperate for any type of income and/or a good sports team, the students’ safety are in danger. That is why the college denies it and covers it up. Crime statistics here are thought to be false. Schools that are 4th tier aka low income, low graduation rate, low GPA average, high drop out rate, and highest STD rate are so desperate for money because nobody wants to go there after all the stuff put in the news about the school that they are willing to let ANYONE in, as I previously said NMHU has a 100% acceptance rate for these reasons.
I have had friends who have been raped and assaulted here and I have personally been assaulted. The dean showed no sympathy and did nothing about it. Many girls ended up dropping out of this school and their half-completed education went to waste because nothing is getting done about it. Help spread the word!!!
And this school has gotten sued for racial and sexual discrimination multiple times
This is awful. Please reblog to spread the word about this college that is doing illegal things by trying to cover things like this up - the more outrage there is, the more likely it is that something will be done about it.
EMMONAK, Alaska — She was 19, a young Alaska Native woman in this icebound fishing village of 800 in the Yukon River delta, when an intruder broke into her home and raped her. The man left. Shaking, the woman called the tribal police, a force of three. It was late at night. No one answered. She left a message on the department’s voice mail system. Her call was never returned. She was left to recover on her own.
“I drank a lot,” she said this spring, three years later. “You get to a certain point, it hits a wall.”
One in three American Indian women have been raped or have experienced an attempted rape, according to the Justice Department. Their rate of sexual assault is more than twice the national average. And no place, women’s advocates say, is more dangerous than Alaska’s isolated villages, where there are no roads in or out, and where people are further cut off by undependable telephone, electrical and Internet service.
The issue of sexual assaults on American Indian women has become one of the major sources of discord in the current debate between the White House and the House of Representatives over the latest reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
A Senate version, passed with broad bipartisan support, would grant new powers to tribal courts to prosecute non-Indians suspected of sexually assaulting their Indian spouses or domestic partners. But House Republicans, and some Senate Republicans, oppose the provision as a dangerous expansion of the tribal courts’ authority, and it was excluded from the version that the House passed last Wednesday. The House and Senate are seeking to negotiate a compromise.
Here in Emmonak, the overmatched police have failed to keep statistics related to rape. A national study mandated by Congress in 2004 to examine the extent of sexual violence on tribal lands remains unfinished because, the Justice Department says, the $2 million allocation is insufficient.
But according a survey by the Alaska Federation of Natives, the rate of sexual violence in rural villages like Emmonak is as much as 12 times the national rate. And interviews with Native American women here and across the nation’s tribal reservations suggest an even grimmer reality: They say few, if any, female relatives or close friends have escaped sexual violence.
“We should never have a woman come into the office saying, ‘I need to learn more about Plan B for when my daughter gets raped,’ ” said Charon Asetoyer, a women’s health advocate on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, referring to the morning-after pill. “That’s what’s so frightening — that it’s more expected than unexpected. It has become a norm for young women.”
The difficulties facing American Indian women who have been raped are myriad, and include a shortage of sexual assault kits at Indian Health Service hospitals, where there is also a lack of access to birth control and sexually transmitted disease testing. There are also too few nurses trained to perform rape examinations, which are generally necessary to bring cases to trial.
Women say the tribal police often discourage them from reporting sexual assaults, and Indian Health Service hospitals complain they lack cameras to document injuries.
Police and prosecutors, overwhelmed by the crime that buffets most reservations, acknowledge that they are often able to offer only tepid responses to what tribal leaders say has become a crisis.
Reasons for the high rate of sexual assaults among American Indians are poorly understood, but explanations include a breakdown in the family structure, a lack of discussion about sexual violence and alcohol abuse.
Rape, according to Indian women, has been distressingly common for generations, and they say tribal officials and the federal and state authorities have done little to help halt it, leading to its being significantly underreported.
In the Navajo Nation, which encompasses parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, 329 rape cases were reported in 2007 among a population of about 180,000. Five years later, there have been only 17 arrests. Women’s advocates on the reservation say only about 10 percent of sexual assaults are reported.
The young woman who was raped in Emmonak, now 22, asked that her name not be used because she fears retaliation from her attacker, whom she still sees in the village. She said she knew of five other women he had raped, though she is the only one who reported the crime.
Nationwide, an arrest is made in just 13 percent of the sexual assaults reported by American Indian women, according to the Justice Department, compared with 35 percent for black women and 32 percent for whites.
In South Dakota, Indians make up 10 percent of the population, but account for 40 percent of the victims of sexual assault. Alaska Natives are 15 percent of that state’s population, but constitute 61 percent of its victims of sexual assault.
The Justice Department did not prosecute 65 percent of the rape cases on Indian reservations in 2011. And though the department said it had mandated extra training for prosecutors and directed each field office to develop its own plan to help reduce violence against women, some advocates for Native American women said they no longer pressed victims to report rapes.
“I feel bad saying that,” said Sarah Deer, a law professor at William Mitchell College of Law in Minnesota and an authority on violent crime on reservations. “But it compounds the trauma if you are willing to stand up and testify and they can’t help you.”
Despite the low rates of arrests and prosecutions, convicted sexual offenders are abundant on tribal lands. The Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, with about 25,000 people, is home to 99 Class 3 sex offenders, those deemed most likely to commit sex crimes after their release from prison. The Tohono O’odham tribe’s reservation in Arizona, where about 15,000 people live, has 184, according to the Justice Department.
By comparison, Boston, with a population of 618,000, has 252 Class 3 offenders. Minneapolis, with a population of 383,000, has 101, according to the local police.
The agencies responsible for aiding the victims of sexual assault among American Indians are often ill prepared.
The Indian Health Service, for instance, provides exams for rape victims at only 27 of the 45 hospitals it finances and, according to a federal report in 2011, did not keep adequate track of the number of sexual assault victims its facilities treat and lacked an overall policy for treating rape victims. Additionally, the health service has just 73 trained sexual assault examiners.
The Justice Department, which has increased the number of F.B.I. agents and United States attorneys on Indian reservations and is seeking to help the Indian Health Service train more nurses, said combating sexual violence was a priority.
“There’s no quick fix. There’s no one thing that will fix the system,” said Virginia Davis, deputy director for policy development in the department’s Office on Violence Against Women. “We’re taking a systematic approach to this — thinking about different ways to solve the problem.”
In the meantime, the problem persists. Lisa Marie Iyotte, 43, who was raped on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, said prosecutors had never told her why they did not charge the man arrested in that crime. He was later convicted of another rape, and when he was released from prison in 2008 and moved back to the reservation, no one told her, she said. She has not seen him yet.
“When I think about it, I say, ‘What am I going to do?’ ” she said. “I don’t know.”
Nine hundred miles away, in the Navajo Nation, Caroline Antone, 50, an advocate for the reservation’s victims of sexual violence who has herself been raped, said sexual assault was virtually routine in her community.
“I know only a couple of people who have not been raped,” she said. “Out of hundreds.”
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Disgustingly racist exhibition happening in London, including the display of a chained black woman, horrifically reminiscent of the days of exhibition Sara Baartman. Needs approx 4,000 more signatures. SPREAD & SIGN.
Strolling, Ep 7 - Cecile Emeke A brand new episode of the short documentary series, featuring Abraham. We talked male feminists, patriarchy, crying, “great” britain, reparations for Africa, Palestine, Boko Haram, hair & more. Keep up to date with new episodes via http://strolling.cecileemeke.com
The Horrific Practice of Chinese Foot Binding
Women have done many things for beauty throughout history – from indifferently using arsenic or lead-based cosmetics, suffering broken ribs from over-binding corsets for a smaller waist, to yet more extreme forms of body modification. One of the most agonizingly painful of such practices is the Chinese custom of foot binding. This required the feet of young women, most typically young girls, to be broken and bound until they were able to fit inside a tiny shoe. The ideal was a three-inch-long foot. The process itself took around two years, but the feet would stay bound for life.
The tradition was believed to have begun around 970 AD when the consort of Emperor Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty performed a dance on a ‘golden lotus’ pedestal, wrapping her feet in silken cloths. The ruler was so entranced by the beauty of the movement that other women in the court imitated the look.
For over a thousand years, tiny bound feet were considered highly erotic, and the resulting ‘lotus gait’ – caused by women needing to walk on their heels in a unsteady, ‘mincing’ manner was not only arousing for men but thought to make the sexual anatomy “more voluptuous and sensitive”. During the Qing Dynasty, love manuals apparently detailed 48 different ways of fondling a woman’s bound feet. However even while in bed, women wore special slippers to conceal them.
Chinese women upheld foot binding believing it promoted health and fertility, in spite of the crippling pain they suffered. The practice also took the perceived disadvantage of being born a woman and turned it into a social advantage in terms of the marital opportunities it afforded. Women with unbound feet were highly unlikely to enter into a prestigious marriage, forcing those of the upper classes to ‘marry down’ while those of lower social status risked being sold into slavery. Women with bound feet were the ‘lily footed’ ladies of Chinese society. Fortunately, the Chinese government outlawed foot binding in 1911. A thousand years of women with bound feet.
For goodness’ sake, can we talk about how this is not just a matter of “beauty” (“women have done many things for beauty throughout history” — silly women!) but about literally and physically restricting women? About how beauty norms and constructions of femininity under patriarchy are designed to make women less powerful? It’s not an accident. When it’s impossible for women to walk or run without pain or injury (e.g., footbinding, high heels, etc.), women are less in control of their own bodies and physical movement and are thus more vulnerable. Attaching erotic and social value to those looks—even calling them “healthy”!—is a very effective way to get women to “willingly” participate. And can we talk about how another factor at the heart of “beauty” norms is that women’s bodies in their natural state are flawed, unattractive, and need fixing (whether by footbinding, corsets, cosmetic surgery, makeup, dieting, waxing, etc.)? Presenting footbinding as taking “the perceived [sic – it wasn’t/isn’t just a perception, because girls and women were and are actually worse off!] disadvantage of being born a woman” and “turn[ing] it into a social advantage in terms of marital opportunities” completely misses the point: that footbinding was an example of how women’s social inequality (as well as class differences between women) were physically cemented in their bodies.
anarcha-pie
I wanted to say that but you are clearly braver than i
warriorsunmentality
In a few centuries (hopefully sooner) people will show pictures of shaving and breasts and be all they thought that was appealing, but reall is gross that we find sexy whatever other people find sexy like WTF
miumiumiao
ok good the og commenter deleted this post bc honestly unlesw you’re fucking chinese and understand how sexism works within the context of chinese culture and society rather than within a us and western centric framework of understanding sexism you need to get the fuck out of this conversation. i am not saying that foot-binding wasn’t really fucking sexist, but i am nonetheless highly fucking uncomfortable w non sinos and non asians in general commenting on sexist practices in the histories of china and other asian countries. tbh i feel like this applies overall to non-western/european countries overall. this isn’t your conversation to have, imo.
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Hi Guys--so Asian women/bloggers definitely have this problem where every time we search the tags for something like "asian fetish" or specific ethnicities or cultures, for critique and analysis purposes, we find ourselves inundated with porn, instead of the things we're searching for. So I've come up with a tag to solve that, to make sure that you can specifically search for the posts you want, without having to deal with a flood of potentially triggering (and definitely gross) fetish porn. The tag is "RiceforThought" and the explanation post is here: http://lightspeedsound.tumblr.com/post/91999068059/asian-social-justice-bloggers-a-proposal. If you could maybe reblog that for me so that I can raise visibility and the tag can start being put in use, that would be wonderful!