January 2011
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“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this...”
– James Baldwin (via queerwatch)
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[FREE Oscar Lopez Rivera: Boriqua Human Rights...
http://boricuahumanrights.org/
Hello Friends: Please take a few minutes to make phone calls or send letters on behalf of Oscar Lopez Rivera. The US Parole Commission has said they intend to make their decision to confirm or reject the negative recommendation by the US Parole Examiner on Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera, #87651-024, currently incarcerated at FCI Terre...
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[ Dear fellow Americans, Your government is...
—an egyptian youth.
http://jan25egy.blogspot.com/2011/01/letter-to-world.html
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["The demonstrations that sparked on Jan 25 have...
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/latest-updates-on-protests-in-egypt/?ref=middleeast
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[today: currently 29, january 2010] summary &...
online for hours with my little cousin who was just deployed to afghanistan. words used: special intel, classified, hot spot, etc. ugh. i mean, really? her daughter is starting kindergarten and she cannot be there for her daughter. all i said was, “please be careful and not hurt yourself or hurt/kill other people.” she said she’d try. fucking poc/poor people being used as...
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[For those of you in the U.S. Who want to do... →
squashed:
Call your Congress people and urge them to publicly support the Egyptians’ right to self-determination and free expression.
Egypt is an important U.S. ally—and we do a lot to help Mubarak stay in power. Making it costly for the U.S. to back up the Egyptian regime’s crack down could…
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[Third World Protest as US Spectator Sport] →
zuky:
I’m not a fan of the US cultural habit of turning political turmoil in faraway lands into a gawkworthy spectator sport. I came to this realization in the aftermath of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, as it gradually dawned on me that sheltered, largely clueless people who had no stake in…
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[On The Argument That Trans Women Are Triggering] →
dappercat:
This would be behind a cut - if I could make tumblr’s ‘cut’ button work reliably without deleting half the post forever. If anyone knows how to do these in html, please reply and let me know - this is driving me to distraction!
thepeacockangel:
This was written by someone I…
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[English Al Jazeera is livestreaming coverage of... →
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[Yet Another Kiri Bloggish Thing: What's Happening... →
promotingpeace:
The basics: Egypt is a large, mostly Arab, mostly Muslim country. At around 80 million people, it has the largest population in the Middle East and the third-largest in Africa. Most of Egypt is in North Africa, although the part of the country that borders Israel, the Sinai…
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["But we had never had conversations like these,...
[read full story here: “letter to my mother” our own voice, oct. 2004]
i have to hand it to my baby queer pin@y self. i was spoiled. was given some kinda upbringing where older pin@y queers could try to talk to my ma, bring her food, suggest a femme tibok filipina therapist for my ma coping with my wayward queer and gender non-conforming ways. was even put in a place where the midwest...
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Anonymous asked: I notice you perform and write frequently. I really appreciate your beautiful writing on here. What POC poets do you recommend? Why?
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[tmi: tuesday]
i encourage you to inquire, comment, poke, question, prod me today. this is a rare thing and as many people know, i hardly answer asks anymore, but go ahead & we’ll give it a shake. all subjects are game until i feel that they are not….lol.
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[confession time 2011]
if i get another sideways glance at my chest and get judged in transgender/queer spaces AND straight spaces for having boobs (read: only i can call them that) … i might upchuck (read: on you). update: not everyone has a great health insurance plan that covers transgender health costs, blood families of wealth, salary-employment, has $8,000- $12,000 salary-paid USD to cough up, a...
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[Egypt activists begin Tunisia-inspired 'day of... →
fyeahafrica:
Anti-government protests have broken out in Egypt after an internet campaign inspired by recent political upheaval in Tunisia.
Hundreds of protesters are marching through Cairo chanting anti-government slogans, after activists called for a “day of revolt” in a web message.
Riot police have been deployed but so far no clashes have been reported.
Weeks of unrest in Tunisia...
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[a note on the word "resilience"] evening pages....
at another book reading, where four of us, all so different and in many ways breathing the same air were given a question:
why do you think you are still here? is it because of your resilience? do you think resilience is hereditary?
before that she says, 1 out of 10 of us never make it out. never stop being homeless, are chronically homeless.
LGBTQ youth are in the streets, right now. you can...
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[Koleinu Havdalah: Kicked Out & LGBTQ...
i’m featuring and reading my piece “the hayop ka! chronicles:a queer pin@yOUTcasted & in the streets.” check it out today.
kaybarrett.net
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TODAY/ Saturday, January 22 · 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah57 Bethune StNew York, NY
Join Koleinu and Cooperberg-Rittmaster Rabbinical Intern Ari Lev Fornari for Havdalah...
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[quorum forum, NYC: cupcake cabaret tonight!...
[FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011]
Quorum Forum & Bevin Branlandingham Present
Cupcake Cabaret
9PM-11PM * FREE (Part of the Quorum Forum Festival of Queer Magic) Manifesta Loft, 315 Seigel St. (Bushwick) Brooklyn (L to Morgan Ave.)
Bevin Branlandingham curates a free performance of Cupcake Cabaret, her self-love performance variety show that has been performed in NYC and San Francisco....
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[For The Straight Folks Who Don't Mind Gays But... →
queerbrownxx:
For The Straight Folks Who Don’t Mind Gays But Wish They Weren’t So Blatant by Pat Parker You know, some people got a lot of nerve. Sometimes I don’t believe the things I see and hear. Have you met the woman who’s shocked by two women kissing and in the same breath, tells you she is pregnant? BUT gays, shouldn’t be so blatant. Or this straight couple sits next to you in a movie and...
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[And when the body finally starts to let go, let...
fall down on the world fall down on the world fall down on the world before it falls on you.”
— sleater kinney, get up
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[Genderbitch Lite: I get kinda tired of people,... →
re-blog for truth. stop pointing out you are separate from a system where your evident privilege supports you. by singling yourself out, it’s not being accountable, it often just demonstrates your guilt.
genderbitch:
It’s a derail folks, even if you don’t mean to derail, even if you’re just looking to reassure me.
Don’t worry, I know there are good feminists, good cis people, good...
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["Go and read Food Matters because it won’t make...
—melissa danielle, excerpted quote on breeze harper’s post.
in response to a white feminist social justice food thinker & critic’s review of Sistah Vegan. found here:
Sistah Vegan: A bunch of inarticulate black women vegans?
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[says to self: 2011] food.
says to self: sweet potato & carrot pesto croquettes. i know, i know. i am awesome. (self-healing & love 2011 #27)
so crunchy delicious, sweet and spicy, mm basil. so good. perfect salad and wild rice.
p.s. yes, i talk to myself and to my food often.
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[Butch It Up For QEJ!] today 4pm- 8pm.
Party, Fundraiser, and Butch Clothing Drive for Queers for Economic Justice!!! Dykes on Bike-Cycles (DOBC) is getting it in gear in the New Year, and our first event of 2011 is a party-fundraiser in support of Queers for Economic Justice (QEJ). Ginger’s Bar in Park Slope will host this very special fundraiser, featuring an amazing lineup of poets, comics, and musicians. We’ll have the BBQ...
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[conversations with the bestie: gchat & racism]
she said: i was in a meeting the other day and someone made a lost reference which was social justice related. it was an older black woman from englewood and she was in a meeting at work with this young white woman who came to englewood to educate poor young black mothers on infant mortality issues. this older black lady was like “look stupid white girl us natives don’t need saving...
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[And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures with You]...
Our white sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us sitting at a factory machine wielding a machete in our bright bandanas holding brown yellow black red children reading books from literacy campaigns holding machine guns bayonets bombs knives Our White sisters radical friends should think again. Our white sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us walking to the fields in hot...
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[angel johnson update: shot 6 times & evicted]... →
Angel Johnson is the Indianapolis trans woman I posted about who was shot six times during a home invasion, survived it and is now recovering from her injuries. But according to Diamond Stylz, the apartment complex she was living in just added insult to her injuries. Citing that she was ‘a danger to other residents’, they evicted her from her apartment. WTF? I’m about to go Maya...
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[a lesson from my 20 yr. old self]
“I take learning heart first, hands next, body ready, pen gliding. All at once I am moving with a book, with a theorist, with a poem, with protest, and I want it all alive, put it to use so that we all can survive with laughter more than contempt.”
—-2002.
kaybarrett.net
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Feminists do not speak for me.
kiriamaya:
I’m saying this as a trans woman and a disabled woman. I will add that feminists usually do not speak for WOC, non-Western women, or poor women either.
