Dare You to Move

latinegrasexologist: catrachorebelde: Great map showing where...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:35:12 -0500

catrachorebelde:

Great map showing where most enslaved Africans ended up in the Americas. As you can see, Blackness doesn’t end in the United States.

From Black and Latino.

a reminder

It might be useful to make mini-flyers of this when people ask me my ethnic background….fareelzdoe. #sickandtired

I Ain't The Right Kind of Feminist

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:54:00 -0600

First off I’m too confused
Secondly you know my blackness envelops me
… Thirdly my articulateness fails me
When the marching feminists come by
I walk with them for awhile
And then I trip over pebbles I didn’t see
My sexist heels are probably too high
I’m stuck in the sidewalk cracks

Oh where Oh where has my feminism gone…
Don’t you know it’s chasing after my blackness
Somewhere in the white sea

I’m in the movement
No chile
I’m not talking about dancing
I’m in the liberation movement
Yeah I’m talking about the PLO
Yeah I’m talking about South Africa and apartheid
No I didn’t say you were fit to be tied

I am a woman
You are a lady
We are sisters in the movement
It’s about neapolitan ice cream
Mixed and oh so sweet
It’s not about white and sterility

Girl what are you talking about
I can have kids
My people have always had kids
Not it’s about oppression of all oppressees
But they never come in peace
They just got some different labels
Tell me
Is sisterhood the same as the 60’s brotherhood

Oh where Oh where has my blackness gone
Don’t you know it’s chasing after Ms. feminism
Somewhere in the white sea

I belong to a consciousness raising group
I have rhetoric
I am a sociologist
I study race, pride, sex, class, humanity
I also make mention of all the “isms”
I am a feminist

Well I am a sister
I am fluid in the dozens
I study us
I study urban renewal

Which includes my bathroom roaches
And my kitchen mice
And the animals down at Public Aid
Tell me about the man that has filled my belly
and ten others with babies

Come share with me sister feminist
Let us dance in the movement
Let my blackness catch your feminism
Let your oppression peek at mine
After all
I ain’t the right kind of feminist
I’m just a woman

-Cheryl L. West

"Even official statistics are social products, shaped by the people and organizations that create..."

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:53:29 -0600

“Even official statistics are social products, shaped by the people and organizations that create them”

- Zerubavel in “The Social Division of the World” (1999)

Photo

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:41:57 -0600

juneisnice: The incredible screen printed posters of Melanie...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:54:21 -0600

juneisnice:

The incredible screen printed posters of Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza, a graphic arts collaboration based out of Oakland. You can find their stuff at Dignidad Rebelde.

I just chose some of my favorites. (I have the first two and I love them).

reclaimingthelatinatag: nezua: soniasaraiya: To all the women...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:53:01 -0600

reclaimingthelatinatag:

nezua:

soniasaraiya:

To all the women who quietly made history.

This reminds me of this:

Finally, and this is important: even those women who weren’t inventors and intellectuals, even those women who really did spend all their lives doing stereotypical “women’s work”—they also built this world. The mundane labor of life is what makes everything else possible. Before you can have scientists and engineers and artists, you have to have a whole bunch of people (and it’s usually women) to hold down the basics: to grow and harvest and cook the food, to provide clothes and shelter, to fetch the firewood and the water, to nurture and nurse, to tend and teach. Every single scrap of civilized inventing and dreaming and thinking rides on top of that foundation. Never forget that.

Which is by the Reclusive Leftist, which I found through this excellent post, with comments, via meganwest.

Bisabuela Juanita, Abuelita María Lucha Quintana.

so powerful

"We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s."

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:30:15 -0600

“We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s.”

- Kifah Shah (via albinwonderland)

10knotes: Via/Follow The Absolute Greatest Posts…ever.

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:51:35 -0600

10knotes:

Via/Follow The Absolute Greatest Posts…ever.

17 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes You Never Hear

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:48:00 -0600

17 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes You Never Hear:

“Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionary and see the synonyms of the word ‘black.’ It’s always something degrading, low, and sinister. Look at the word ‘white.’ It’s always something pure, high, clean. Well, I wanna get the language right tonight. I wanna get the language right so that everybody here will cry out ‘Yes I’m black! I’m proud of it! I’m black and beautiful!’ ”

Aziz Ansari teaches Giuliana Rancic a valuable new dance move...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:33:36 -0600

Aziz Ansari teaches Giuliana Rancic a valuable new dance move at the Golden Globes. [x]

HA!!

blackballerinas: Stephanie Dabney and Mel Tomlinson in...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:29:13 -0600

blackballerinas:

Stephanie Dabney and Mel Tomlinson in “Manifestations” Courtesy of Dance Theatre of Harlem Archives

"Any language system has power relations embedded in it, and those who are part of the dominant..."

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:20:44 -0600

“Any language system has power relations embedded in it, and those who are part of the dominant linguistic system tend to have their perceptions, experiences, and modes of expression incorporated into language. In the case of English, Kramarae believes that it is a ‘man-made language’ and thus embodies the perspectives of the masculine more than the feminine. The perceptions of white middle-class males, in particular, are normalized in standard linguistic practice. Men are the standard, for instance, in many occupational terms, and women are the aberrant category: waiter versus waitress, actor versus actress. Mr. as a title of address does not contain information about marital status, whereas the terms Miss and Mrs. do provide information that is more useful to men than to women. Not only language itself but the instruments of language—dictionaries—feature white men’s viewpoints, as do the societal structures and institutions that derive from language, such as educational institutions, technology, and the like.”

- Stephen W. Littlejohn and Karen A. Foss, Theories of Human Communication, 9th ed. (via disabledbyculture)

"[TW: Rape, Sexual Violence] “we are here to tell her that women have every right to be adventurous...."

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:09:17 -0600

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[TW: Rape, Sexual Violence]

“we are here to tell her that women have every right to be adventurous. We will be adventurous. We will be reckless. We will be rash. We will do nothing for our safety. Don’t you dare tell us how to dress, when to go out at night, in the day, or how to walk or how many escorts we need! I am saying this because I feel that the word ‘safety’ with regard to women has been used far too much — all us women know what this ‘safety’ refers to, we have heard our parents use it, we have heard our communities, our principals, our wardens use it. Women know what ‘safety’ refers to. It means – You behave yourself. You get back into the house. You don’t dress in a particular way. Do not live by your freedom, and this means that you are safe. A whole range of patriarchal laws and institutions tell us what to do in the guise of keeping us ‘safe’. We reject this entire notion. We don’t want it.”

”

- Kavita Krishnan, secretary, All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA),

Following the bestial sexual attack on a 23-year-old paramedical student in Delhi, the capital, along with other cities across the country, has seen numerous protests demanding justice not just for the survivor, but better laws and stringent action against sexual offenders per se. When on Wednesday 19 December students and protesters marched towards the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s house, the police tried to ward them off with water cannons.

(via thisisnotindia)

jalwhite: taktophoto: Then and Now Photos of Abandoned Detroit...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:05:58 -0600

jalwhite:

taktophoto:

Then and Now Photos of Abandoned Detroit School

Upsetting.

10knotes: Via/Follow The Absolute Greatest Posts…ever.

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:05:32 -0600

10knotes:

Via/Follow The Absolute Greatest Posts…ever.

strengthofthepeople: caliphorniaqueen: scandalmoments: I’...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:54:00 -0600

strengthofthepeople:

caliphorniaqueen:

scandalmoments:

I’m also just really fascinated constantly by the idea, and this is in conversation, you know, I’m not challenging the way our government works in this area, but in conversation it’s fascinating to me…

Kerry Washington being great on Real Time with Bill Maher! She spoke TRUTH on Affirmative Action!

I love the first look on her face. It’s like the thought, “This niggaaaaah” went through her head, but she’s so classy that she only lets it out as a smile. Then she schools folks.

TELL EM KERRY!

strengthofthepeople: dopest-ethiopian: When your fridge is...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:50:16 -0600

strengthofthepeople:

dopest-ethiopian:

When your fridge is still empty

This girl is hilarious.

totally just did this….

When people say "I can hear your music"

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:38:32 -0600

sodamnrelatable:

I’m just like

“So can I”

I hate it when i walk into class late and everyone's like

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:32:49 -0600

sodamnrelatable:

soul-service:

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:31:22 -0600

soul-service: