February 2012
16 posts
"A Better Life" screening w/director at UC...
Mexican actor Demián Bichir received a 2012 Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for “A Better Life,” which the The New York Times has called “an emotionally resonant film about how we live now.” Bichir stars as Carlos, an unassuming and undocumented East LA gardener who works hard to provide his American-born son with a better life. 110 minutes. English and Spanish.
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Breaking Boundaries: ASI SF State 1st Annual... →
Cesar Chavez Student Center
1650 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94112
Saturday, March 10, 2012
9:00am until 5:30pm
The purpose of our conference is to create an organized front by uniting women and allies of different backgrounds, to educate, empower, and challenge gender norms that have been enforced upon women for generations. In doing so, we will defy all structures of oppression and...
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“All of us, female and male, have been socialized from birth to accept sexist...”
– Feminism Is For Everybody - Bell Hooks (via wear-meout)
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Opinion: Ricky Martin overshadowed on 'Glee' by...
Pretty spot on evaluation. Except I have to add Madonna’s song La Isla Bonita, with incorrect references to samba, exoticized stereotypes and butchered Spanish makes me want to get violent and punch people in the piñata for considering it remotely having to do with “authentic Latino-ness.” -MC
univisionnews:
In one of the episode’s more bizarre moments, Matthew Morrison’s...
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Fuck Yeah Radical Literature!: Book: This Bridge... →
First published in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back has been out of print since the expiration of its contract with Third Woman Press in 2008. Hopefully the digital copy will find its way to those who will circulate it and possibly build up pressure to have it printed again.
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“Reduced to its biological preconditions, the insular structure of the producer’s...”
– Angela Davis, “Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation”
Angela Davis, y’all. If more Feminists read Angela Davis, Feminism wouldn’t annoy me so much. This was in 1977, when she was in jail.
Anyway, this passage may be dense and hard to get through but last night it almost...
WatchThe 25th Anniversary Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC) entitled: Intergenerational Wisdom: Celebrating Our Past, Present, & Future, returned on March 13-14, 2010 to the UC Berkeley Campus to honor the legacy of women of color in the U.S.; to celebrate the struggles of women of all ages; and to provide a space for growth, empowerment, and practical tools for everyday life. This year,...
27th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference
ABOUT The Empowering Women of Color Conference is brought to you by the Women of Color Initiative of the Graduate Assembly, UC Berkeley. Our purpose is to build bridges between academic and community women of color in an effort to assist them in sharing resources, strategies, and visions that will empower them at all levels of society. EWOCC strives to build networks among different generations,...
“We too have been seduced by the false assumption that the goal of academic...”
– bell hooks, “on being black at yale: education as the practice of freedom”; Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black; (1989); (p. 64-65). (via agradschoolbreakup)
Sexism & the City: A Feminist Framework for Trying... →
sexismandthecity:
Adapted from Applied Research Center’s Strategic Framework for Advancing Racial Justice)
1. Focus on structural sexism and systemic inequality rather than simply personal prejudice (and bias). 2. Focus on impacts rather than intentions…Impacts can be documented, while intentions are…
“This tribe called “Women of Color” is not an ethnicity. It is one of the...”
– - Aurora Levins Morales, My Name is This Story from Telling to Live Latina Feminist Testimonios.
(via mujerinterrumpida)
January 2012
29 posts
anarcha library: Building Unlikely Alliances: An... →
anarchalibrary:
Building Unlikely Alliances: An Interview with Andrea Smith
You often talk about the need to have a broader vision that brings together the 95 percent of people not at the top of societal hierarchies. But that 95 percent is not homogenous. How can we negotiate some of the fractures that are…
Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial... →
tumii:
A summer school in Barcelona, Spain July 9 - July 19, 2012
Course Description
“Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons” is part of a larger intellectual and political initiative generally referred to as the “modernity/(de)coloniality research project.” A basic assumption of the project takes knowledge-making, since the European Renaissance, as a...
Salty Dog: Fire in my Hands: A Different Kind of... →
“The demand for demands is an attempt to shoehorn the Occupy gatherings into conventional politics, to force the energy of these gatherings into a form that people in power recognize, so that they can roll out strategies to divert, co-opt, buy off, or – if those tactics fail – squash any…
“Why am I compelled to write?… Because the world I create in the writing...”
– (via bustopthoughts)
ofanotherfashion:
In the 1930s, Dorothea Lange took a large series of photographs of migrant workers throughout the U.S. including in California, Texas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi. The most famous of these images is “Migrant Mother”.
The above photo portrays migrant mothers as well. These Mexican women were photographed on the U.S.-Mexico border in California.
Source: LIbrary of Congress
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“Silence is like starvation. Don’t be fooled.”
– Cherrie Moraga, La Guera (via language-games)
“My reputación
precedes me. I come
from a long line of women
much maligned,...”
– Malinche’s Tips: Pique from Mexico’s Mother — Pat Mora (via batidos)
Loose Woman | Sandra Cisneros →
themythofthejaguarphoenix:
They say I’m a beast.
And feast on it. When all along I thought that’s what a woman was. They say I’m a bitch. Or witch. I’ve claimed the same and never winced. They say I’m a macha, hell on wheels, viva-la-vulva, fire and brimstone, man-hating, devastating, boogey-woman lesbian. Not…
I'm my own kind of Chicana like I'm my own kind of... →
violencegirl:
An interview with SF Weekly.
Latinos at Sundance: Aurora Guerrero's Directorial...
nbclatino:
Photo courtesy Sundance Film Festival
Aurora Guerrero’s voice is sweet and feminine, yet she is a fighter - as strong as they come. On Sunday night, her film, Mosquita y Mari, is premiering at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, which is based on autobiographical events and that she has been writing, on and off, for almost half of her life. She’s no stranger to Sundance, with four...
““Though we tremble before uncertain futures
may we meet illness, death and...”
– (via hellabreezys)
“Unnecessary specialized language is used to humiliate those who are not supposed...”
– Aurora Levins Morales, Certified Organic Intellectual from Telling to live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (via art-is-the-word)
“We must open the wound to make it heal, purify ourselves with the prick of...”
– Cherrie Moraga (via soulpowervenuslove)
How US Policies Fueled Mexico's Great Migration →
The experience of Veracruz migrants reveals a close connection between US investment and trade deals in Mexico and the displacement and migration of its people. For nearly two decades, Smithfield has used NAFTA and the forces it unleashed to become the world’s largest packer and processor of hogs and pork. But the conditions in Veracruz that helped Smithfield make high profits plunged thousands of...
Immigrants Contribute Billions into Social... →
That total (earning suspense file) hit a record $90.4 billion, earned by 10.8 million workers, in 2007, just before the recession. Some of those were legal workers who simply made paperwork mistakes, but the majority are believed to be illegal immigrants.
In real numbers, allocated to real agencies, it works out like this, in 2007:
$11.2 billion went into the Social Security Trust Fund
$2.6...
