August 2011
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#gasp #sacrilege #judgeme
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Watch[RFP favorite summer foods 2011: mabel tsang]
mabel tsang is a queer woman of color originally from the bay area. RFP had the pleasure of participating in a womyn of color spoken word workshop she co-facilitated at UCSD SPACES queer people of color youth conference. in this video, mabel shares with us her favorite summer food. check out our previous entry for favorite summer foods w/...
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[Liberty Humane Society Plans on Evacuating... →
littleorphanammo:
Jersey City’s Liberty Humane Society (LHS) is making preparations today to begin evacuating the animals at the shelter tomorrow in advance of Hurricane Irene’s arrival here Sunday.
The shelter is looking for volunteers to help get the animals out of town safely. A shelter representative on Twitter promised more details later today, but so far we know that LHS is looking for...
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kulandaybarrett kay ulanday barrett If you see homeless in NYC today please share: they can go to the Bowery Mission for shelter 212 674 3456. Also, please stay safe! The Bowery Mission 227 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
#irene
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[While Other Low Lying Areas of City Evacuated,...
“The Mayor must take appropriate action immediately to protect the life and safety of everyone confined at Rikers Island and all vulnerable corrections facilities in New York City. Their lives should not be treated as less valuable than those of other New Yorkers.”
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[Take Action for Rikers’ Island Prisoners! Demand... →
firesandwords:
Take Action for Rikers’ Island Prisoners! Demand the City Create an Emergency Evacuation Plan
Mayor Bloomberg has announced that in the event of a hurricane, that he will not evacuate prisoners at Rikers’ Island, claiming instead to have a “contingency plan” in place. The experience of prisoners in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina shows that city authorities will...
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[hurricane east coast- brownroundboi update...
1) i left jersey city as it was supposed to be a CAT 2/3 hurricane in my neighborhood. i said a small hopeful g’bye to my home and brought my macbook, photos, journals, altar, the letters of my students of the first class i ever taught, and a letter my ma wrote me.
2) big special thanks to kit for another unwarranted adventure, picking me & dog up, having a calm conversation w/ a...
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[Gay white anti-Blackness in action.] usage of...
astallaslions88:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=239592042743030&ref=nf
for uplifting people of color and liberation food talk, see RECIPES FOR THE PEOPLE. Queer and Trans People are front and CENTER!
shake that white privilege and racism! my comment in response: the aunt jemima image and mammy image is deeply problematic and hot mess. as shared by others. your leisure to have a...
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WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE BODY SHOP? - a criticism of... →
almaswithinalmas:
EXPLOITING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES The Body Shop claim to be helping some third world workers and indigenous peoples through so-called ‘Trade Not Aid’ or ‘Community Trade’ projects [36]. In fact, these are largely a marketing ploy as less than 1% of sales go to ‘Community Trade’ producers [37], and it has been shown that some of these products have been sourced from...
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[i miss my partner...]
she is off learning positive reinforcement and animal behavior modification at the shedd aquarium. on her first day, she did a training session w/ a 750 lb. sea lion named otis.
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[“…for each of us in some way has been both...
—-Cherríe Moraga, La Guera.
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[ “Those of us who stand outside the circle of...
— audre lorde
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[Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond...
*Femmes Of Color Symposium Keynote Speech, Oakland, CA (8/21/11)
Good afternoon, and thank you for having me. It is lovely to be here with you all. Thank you to the symposium organizers who have asked me to be here and for your hard work putting this gathering on. And thank you to ALL the folks who have made it possible for us to be here, including the people who built this building and...
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[monday: fingerling potatoes w/ pesto and wilted...
#foodhelpsmenotpunchpeople #monday
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[Fairie Dreams: Silence=Death, Black Trans... →
fairiedreams:
Silence=Death was the iconographic rallying cry of ACT UP in the face of malign neglect, active HIV criminalization, suffering, loss, stigmatization, queer and serophobia.
Maybe we can reinvigorate this call to action, in a non ableist way?
Outrage and Activism:
All…
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“For some the idea that people of colour would and have rejected Whiteness is...”
– Whiteness as a Colonizing Force (via thetart)
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“Forget the room of one’s own - write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the...”
– Gloria Anzaldua, ‘Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers’, in This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, (New York: KITCHEN TABLE: Women of Color Press, 1981), p. 170. (via feministquotes)
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[is angry at "women-only" spaces who use...
#overit #cisprivilege #notyouroppressionolympics #sometimeswhyistayhome
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[twitter & food ways]
kulandaybarrett: hella heated summer foods—- tomatoes, apple & parsnip soup, vegan tacos! http://t.co/dFWdfo3 #QTPOC #food #photo
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Re: The Help ["We respect the stellar performances...
——Association of Black Women Historians’ response to The Help, film & book. Ida E. Jones is National Director of ABWH and Assistant Curator at Howard University. Daina Ramey Berry, Tiffany M. Gill, and Kali Nicole Gross are Lifetime Members of ABWH and Associate Professors at the University of Texas at Austin. Janice Sumler-Edmond is a Lifetime Member of ABWH and is a...
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I wish I was white so I could "freestyle" about...
#thatisnothiphop #itshotmess
strugglingtobeheard:
HA!
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[lately, i am not one for words and sometimes...
—- recipes for the people. (RFP)
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“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder”
– Rumi (via wackenergy)
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[Immigrant Rights Petition: Tell DOL: Don't Deport... →
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[In a sense, I was born in the nightmare of the...
—- james baldwin, interview: THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Dec./Jan. 1979
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“A poem is not about; it is out of and to. Passionate language in movement. The...”
– Adrienne Rich, from “Permeable Membrane” (via paintingxdaffodils) 