February 2012
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"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.
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