rematriate.

nitanahkohe: Border Lands, David Bradley (Chippewa)

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:54:16 -0400

nitanahkohe:

Border Lands, David Bradley (Chippewa)

dopethrones: Danzantes del Alma by Run Trains on Flickr.

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:21:29 -0400

dopethrones:

Danzantes del Alma by Run Trains on Flickr.

nitanahkohe: paintings by Erin Currier; top to bottom, left to...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:02:19 -0400

nitanahkohe:

paintings by Erin Currier; top to bottom, left to right: Nataly Medrano, Liliana Elizabeth Sanchez, Silvia Sanchez Viesca Ortiz, Alma Marguerita Lopez Garcia, Perla Ivonne Aguirre Gonzalez

The phenomenon of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, called in Spanish the feminicidios (femicides) and las muertas de Juárez (The dead women of Juárez), involves the violent deaths of hundreds of women since 1993 in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, a border city across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. The victims of these crimes have preponderantly been young women, between 12 and 22 years of age. Many were students, and most were maquiladora workers. A number were relative newcomers to Ciudad Juárez who had migrated from other areas of Mexico and Central America. The estimated homicide toll is speculated to be around 400, but many local residents believe that the true count of los feminicidios stands at an estimated 5,000 victims. Most of the cases remained unsolved as of 2011.

Half of the proceeds of the sale of this work will be donated to Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa for the purpose of finding the missing, and holding those responsible for the dead accountable.

"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:32:12 -0400

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

- Zora Neale Hurston (via karlmagkatzen)

thearcanetheory: androphilia: “Being a woman is not a means to...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:04:54 -0400

thearcanetheory:

androphilia:

“Being a woman is not a means to humiliate and punish anyone”

After a policeman in the Iranian Kurdish town of Marivan paraded an accused criminal in traditional Kurdish women’s clothes in the streets in order to humiliate him, women marched in the city condemning the use of women’s attire as a kind of humiliation.

In support, an internet campaign of Kurdish and other Iranian men has sprung up showing men wearing Kurdish women’s clothes and messages and support. For example, this message says,”wearing Kurdish women’s clothes is not only not an insult, it is instead a great honor for us,” and goes on to describe how women stand side by side with men in every part of society and during wartime.

Support the campaign by liking the page!
زن بودن ابزار تحقیر و تنبیه هیچ کس نیست

(via Ajam Media Collective)

WOW

slay-z: zora is my favorite ever and this quote is my favorite...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:01:46 -0400

slay-z:

zora is my favorite ever and this quote is my favorite ever

Artist Turns Abandoned Cars into Public Art Installations

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:55:00 -0400

Artist Turns Abandoned Cars into Public Art Installations

"You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - there..."

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:29:59 -0400

““You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - there has to be a limit.””

- Edward Said (via faimi)

jalwhite: Let the Spirit Move You is a celebration of...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:03:06 -0400

jalwhite:

Let the Spirit Move You is a celebration of ancestral belief systems that are a proud and important part of our cultural legacy as African descendants. The documentary focuses on the African based spiritual traditions that continue in Puerto Rico grounded in ancestral worship - espiristmo. Because of misinformation and preconceptions, to date there is little information on the sacred African traditions that are part of the cultural life of Puerto Rico. These traditions have generally been practiced out of public view and now with the advent of Evangelical types of religions labeling these traditions as “devil worship” many practitioners out of fear are going further underground or giving up these important historical ancestral traditions.

Produced by: Dr. Marta Moreno Vega

KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN.

share widely. donate if you can!

jalwhite: The US’ “War on Drugs” and “War on Terror” have...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:02:52 -0400

jalwhite:

The US’ “War on Drugs” and “War on Terror” have produced a parallel system of state violence and social control, manifested through unjust prosecutions and the mass incarceration of people of color.

Join us on April 18th from 6:30-8:30pm for a town hall discussion as we hear first-hand stories from former prisoners, family members, lawyers, intellectuals, historians and activists about excessive sentences, discriminatory policing, suppression of political dissent, and mass incarceration.

Constance Malcolm / Mother of Ramarley Graham, who was killed by the NYPD in his own home

Jazz Hayden / Community activist & founding member of the Campaign to End The New Jim Crow

Faisal Hashmi / Brother of Fahad Hashmi, who was accused of providing material support to Al-Qaeda

Ramzi Kassem / Lawyer represent-ing multiple detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Bagram Airforce Base, & other US “Black Sites

Yusef Salaam / Wrongfully convicted in the Central Park jogger case

Noor Elashi / Daughter of Holy Land Five political prisoner, Ghassan Elashi

Shaheena Parveen / Mother of Matin Siraj, who was charged as a terrorist in a fabricated NYPD plot

Andy Stepanian / Convicted as a terrorist for his animal rights activism

Amir Varick / Community Activist sentenced to 25 years to life for a non violent drug offense

Alicia McWilliams / Activist & Aunt of Newburgh 4 defendant, David Williams.

Sohail Daulatzai / Author of “Black Star, Crescent Moon”

Steve Downs / Former lawyer in the ‘US vs. Yassin Aref’ case

After the event, if a consensus is reached, we will hit the streets for a solidarity march through Harlem!

This FREE event is presented by

CTENJC, The Campaign to End The New Jim Crow

In partnership with:

NCPCF-National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms

CAIR-Council on American Islamic Relations

DRUM, Desis Rising Up and Moving

Justice by the Pen

Lean more about:

The Campaign to End The New Jim Crow www.endnewjimcrow.org

For more information about this event, contact:

hodayesha@gmail.com or justicebythepen@gmail.com

"Magic realism is not a literary trick for me. I accept that the world is a very mysterious place."

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:41:16 -0400

“Magic realism is not a literary trick for me. I accept that the world is a very mysterious place.”

- Isabel Allende (via nezua)

"Our work then becomes focused on yelling at white women for being racist. And if we become very good..."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:31:51 -0400

“Our work then becomes focused on yelling at white women for being racist. And if we become very good at this task, white women start paying us to yell at them. This approach can be lucrative for some individual women of color, but does not actually impact the political direction of these bureaucratic organizations. More significantly, this work does not help women of color organizing build its own power.”

- Andrea Smith “Without Bureaucracy, Beyond Inclusion: Re-centering Feminism” (2006) (via poemsofthedead)

reclaimingthelatinatag: Cristina Rodríguez-Cabral was born in...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:49:45 -0400

reclaimingthelatinatag:

Cristina Rodríguez-Cabral was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1959 and is a sociologist, writer, poet and a literary critic. She is the first afro-Uruguayan to achieve a Doctoral degree, which she earned at the University of Missouri in 2004. Cabral earned a B.A. in Sociology and Nursing, a Master degree in Teaching English as a Second Language, and a Doctoral degree in Romance Languages. Her field of expertise is Afro/African-Hispanic literature. Cabral has published a book of poetry From my Trench (1993), and the anthology Memory & Resistance (2004). Her poetic work has been analyzed by several scholars and included in a number of Latin American courses. Her work also is included in collections like Alberto Britos’s Anthology of Black Uruguayan Poets (1990), Myriam DeCosta-Willis’ Daughters of the Diaspora (2003), Lucia Ortiz’s Hijas del Muntu (2011), among others. Cabral has participated in a NEH Summer Institute on Equatorial Guinea, and published a number of articles on the literature and culture of that country. Along the year Dr. Cabral receives several invitations from Universities in the state and abroad to present her creative work as well as to visit classes dealing with African/Afro-Hispanic issues and Women studies. Cabral is currently a professor of Spanish and Literature at North Carolina Central University. [x]

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Art for Change is proud to present, SWEAT + ASHES, by ILLYGRL,...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:44:02 -0500

Art for Change is proud to present, SWEAT + ASHES, by ILLYGRL, curated by Micaela Anaya and Grace McAvoy.

Please join us for the opening of the exhibit at the AFC gallery.

Friday, March 8, 7:30-10:30
1699 Lexington Ave (btwn 106 & 107th street), bottom level

FREE and open to the public.

ABOUT SWEAT + ASHES
Illygrl is an Interventionist Arts Collective. We seek to confront the comfortable by exposing the underbelly of globalization as lived by garment sweatshop women workers; to tear down the myth of U.S. exceptionalism by speaking to the third world experience of U.S. Capital Imperialism. Our purpose is to reveal truths through storytelling and to create consumer transparency through interventions.

Four months ago we sat in a tin garage faced with the truth we had once run from. The truth is that many of us born into this vortex of waste and want do not wish to consider an|other| as our egos gawk at themselves in new threads. But these threads, whether we want it or not, tie us. Four months ago, in Guatemala, we sat with 9 women maquila workers, every night since we sit with their stories- welcoming their truths over our myths.

By working collectively with women worldwide and as active citizens here we hope to push the corporations that outsource to factories globally to consider the wellbeing of the workers and not simply their profit margins. We believe art/intervention can inspire an awakening of consciousness and further collective action. It is our fundamental belief that
art can change people, culture, humanity.

SWEAT + ASHES is a piece of our journey, a piece of their stories and hopefully a piece of your vision for people to outgrow profit.

ABOUT ART FOR CHANGE
Art for Change (AfC) is a 501(c)3 organization that encourages the advancement of progressive social change by using art as a catalyst for disseminating information to people. We provide space to discuss and explore that information, stimulating individual and collective reflection, which leads to action and change.

http://www.artforchange.org/about/

"My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude."

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:04:44 -0500

“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”

- Warsan Shire (via ikenbot)

"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:45:22 -0500

“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”

- Audre Lorde in Sister Outsider. One of my favorite quotes. Happy birthday, Audre. (via queerbookclub)

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:21:30 -0500

“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”

- Zora Neale Hurston (via whatsatelephonebill)

"And to acknowledge our dreams is to sometimes acknowledge the distance between those dreams and our..."

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:58:16 -0500

“And to acknowledge our dreams is to sometimes acknowledge the distance between those dreams and our present situation. Acknowledged, our dreams can shape the realities of our future if we arm them with the hard work and scrutiny of now.”

- Audre Lorde (via bellemaddox)

"Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of..."

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:57:02 -0500

“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older – know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths.”

- Audre Lorde (via plastickitten)

jalwhite: “Sacar la Voz” - Ana Tijoux

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:01:41 -0500

jalwhite:

“Sacar la Voz” - Ana Tijoux