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Bring these fabulous to AMC

Why not help send me and some other lovely ladies? Via Noemi:

AMC. We need to get there.We have fundraised, asked for grants, compromised, felt energized, asked for days off, gotten free airline tickets, borrowed time, overcharged credit cards and emailed/talked/made plans with friends and strangers across the lines.And still call us shameless, we ask for more. Y porque no?

please consider donating to these fine, chingona mujeres

Maegan “la Mala” Ortiz, raising chingona mujeres. Sending single mami love
laMamitaMala.com
mamitamala@yahoo.com

Elle, southern sistorian, who I shall meet one day even if we live closer than other folks. Oh we shall share a beer very very soon
http://elleabd.blogspot.com/
mselleg@aol.com

blackamazon Sydette otherwise known as the bad ass who I love
http://guyaneseterror.blogspot.com/
Sydette@gmail.com

Fabiola, fabmexicana who guest blogs here, leaving pedacitos de su corazon.
Otra mami soltera de Califabmexicana@gmail.com

Noemi Martinez
spiller of dreams-single mami hermanaresist.com
csdistro@gmail.com

ms. cripchick
a powerchair-roaring queer radical woman of color
cripchick's weblog
stacey.milbern@gmail.com

Many of us will be taking part in the Women’s Media EquitySummit on July 16th.At the AMC, we’ll be involved in several different caucuses, meetings and generally raisinga ruckus wherever you may find us. And OUR KIDS WILL BE CAUSING ALL SORTS OF MAYHEM AT THE KIDS TRACK AND IN GENERAL. It will be a sight to see. Things will happen. We will write/blog about it.

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I need the swing

I am shakinga nd crying over necessary harsh but real work being done and I have nothing to say so I am listening and it is safer to do this because to be honest this is hwo little it matters

the idiotic stupid bullshit( I'm cursing all up and through this one DEAL)

SO i am going through my technorati and see that Octa has linked me

Ooh shiny, lemme see....

WAIT CAN I UNSEE CAN I UNSEE.

Because this " furor" , this mastubatory solipsistic, journalistic neglagiance , and narcissistic blowharding that is passing for coverage of this

is exactly why this " feminist movement" is leaking water everywhere.

NO ONE LOOKS GOOD IN THIS

because no one is attempting to do anything BUT LOOK GOOD! Not to mention a bevy of slipshod journalism and reporting that seems only to try and stir up the idea of a "vibrant engaged internet discussion" where there is none cause frankly

NO ONE GIVES A DAMN

And here is where I get really mean and nasty and ornery and ageist but hey since its being used lets get it.

I am really really tired of hearing about " young feminists" who are AT LEAST 6-10 years older than I am talking about young feminists wanting blah blah and strictly talking about people responding to how they don't get presidencies, articles, and press attention. ESPECIALLY IN ORGANIZATIONS WOMEN HAVE BLED FOR FOR OVER 40 YEARS

ANd this article here....

Well doesn't that take the cake.

So I am supposed to take the word of a WHITE WOMAN m who presumes to speak for all young women., mind you she ADMITS NOT HAVING FOLLOWED ELECTIONS needing more youth led work

and here's the words I love.

" cutting edge"

I'm sorry but if DB Sweeney isn't Pamchenkoving Moira Kelley , I'm sorry I want no part of the fucking cutting edge.

And I'm sorry to burst the hard Mainstream media attention bubble but the fact that peopel aren't connecting to you online is not the end all be all of their relevance. Also if it is so important so relevant why did you use that cutting edgeness to write about it.

Meanwhile what is the cutting edge ? Name some of it . OH wait those things tend to sound more like issues and policy.( and if what you name is also part of the OPPONENTS platform as well you fail)

And as we know Young Women ( most of them now 6-15 years older than ME) are concerned with the look of things because essentially the endorsement is

" as a brown woman she looks better to young feminists"

I do not ofr a second believe that Lyles is a token ( I actually do follow now somewhat having the mistaken belief that if I am going to run my mouth on something I should know it VAGUELY)

but how are these endorsements based on WEBSITE USE ANYTHING BUT

the desire to capitalize on a mythic Obama effect to make these mythical young women feel better

because you knwo those older owmen use facebook and twitter to right so much so GRADY RAN ON IT AS WELL

Mind you none of the articles quote

YOUNG FEMINISTS OF COLOR the demographic NOW IS SCREWING UP ON.

But never let facts good discussion and ya know actually leading a dialogue get in the way of being quoted or saying " You know what I'm gonna sit this one out"

( Lets make it plain bemoaning slutty brides took up more space)

First and foremost what are the differences in the two women's positions?

Why is Latifah Lyles so " invigorating"?

Tell me when you find it cause oh right no one knows or cares to know. Even Salon is asleep wait (I Don't mean even I'm kind of going with as usual), needing a commentor to remind them s( something ) basic searching could find that LYLES IS A VICE PRESIDENT .

So now we have a tale of two women somewhat FIRMLY entrenched in NOW's power structure, making promises at which the out going leader "chuckles"at, about this time THIS TIME they will make this organization relevant again.

BE written by people who are so eager to have a " feminist wars" piece of copy the abscond with basic journalistic thoroughness ( like Google and THE WEBSITE OF THE ORG THEY ARE WRITING ABOUT well except to be assholes about site design)

even going so low as to say essentially I trust them they don't have to provide facts?!?!?

being more concerned about feminisms marketing than it's actual function.

A quick browse

Welfare rights action on now's website hasn't been updated in five years

International Rights AND Immigration IN SIX MONTHS

Domestic Violence is a n article on Chris Brown that is short and does NOT mention how for a first time offender in DV the tragedy is not JUST that he isn't in prison but that his sentence WAS ACTUALLY ABOVE THE AVERAGE . But hey pithy quote on what it tells us!

Economic justice is all about fair pay not about FINDING JOBS, PAYING LOANS ,HOUSE FORECLOSURES or any of the things that are actually being dealt with by young women ( and BOTH parties are involved with this website yes?)

And Media Justice is more involved with HALL OF SHAME THAN PRAISING FEMALE EFFORTS.

Trans Women are NOT O N IT and Gay rights is ALL PROP 8 ALL THE TIME

mind you nobody mentions that as reason why NOW MAY NOT HAVE MEMBERS

NO It's there mean to the pretty white girls!!! or the change candidate wasn't elected MUST BE PALIN!

This vapid empty nasty silencing discussion is why there aren't members. The ignorance and silent refusal ( and don't fucking dare come to me with we cover it here because when you cover it as much as rush limbaugh THEN WE CAN TALK) to be honest about the truth and history of NOW ( while started involving WOC so no Lyles is not NEW )

this false young versus old that is essentially all white all the time, to the extent of fetishizing someones blackness as an " image make over"

a myopic responsive,elitist response to the future

that has brewed an idea that better marketing is a more important than actual information and has people RESPONDING TO IT

and the continued desire to do nothing by both YOUNG AND OLD to respond to the reality of the lives of women they are trying to reach


but mean while

the things like

WOMEN RUN MEDIA JUSTICE CAMPAIGNS

MEDIA CONFERENCES

MEDIA PROJECTS

INTERNATIONAL NEWS


the amazing things being DONE WITH THE INTERNET rather than just talked about

women having to run for themselves and making decisions and having discussions so painful and SO NECESSARY that don't even show up on RADAR of these places who are so CONCERNED because they would rather worry about who has the big desk in Washington?

That the real revolution is HERE

Lisa is so amazing I copied it VERBATIM

wouldn't it be revolutionary if someone acknowledged that the future of feminism should look invisible because the work for justice and peace has been taken up by everyone? and the "future of feminism" is more than just NOW and the latest books or curriculum from some academic theorist?

When every one is as concerned as making our lives better and listening to us and actually working with us as whose in charge maybe I'll take this seriously till then.

The only remotely good thing about this hailstorm of stupid is the desire to see a good 90's film.
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Waaaaaaaaaaaay to close to home.

Poor women shouldn't have anything rich people want.

including children.

One of the reasons my blog is kind of quiet recently is that I am starting something important to me .

Dedicated to my mother.

Because my mother had to fight to keep me.

She could speak "the" language.

But why is that the only thing that should save her?

This is a "choice" as well . the choice to raise your children,speak you language and be yourself without having to suffer for it.

It being daring to exist.

Request for Action from the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA):

Cirila Baltazar Cruz gave birth to her baby girl in November of 2008 at Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula, MS. She speaks very little Spanish and no English, as her native language is Chatino, an Indigenous language from Oaxaca, Mexico that is spoken by some 50,000 people.

The hospital provided her with an “interpreter” who is from Puerto Rico and does not speak Chatino, the language of the mother. Because of the language barrier and the misunderstanding by the hospital’s interpreter who only spoke Spanish and English, a social worker was called in.

The hospital’s social worker reported “evidence” of abuse and neglect based on the following:

* The “baby was born to an illegal [sic] immigrant;”
* The “mother had not purchased a crib, clothes, food or formula.” (Most Latina mothers breast feed their babies).
* “She does not speak English which puts baby in danger.”

Ms. Baltazar Cruz’s baby was snatched from her after birth at the hospital and given to an affluent attorney couple from the posh Ocean Springs who cannot have children.

The authorities made no effort to locate an interpreter in her native tongue. MIRA located an interpreter who is fluent in Chatino in Los Angeles CA and has interviewed the mother extensively with the interpreters help. The mother has been accused of being poor and not being able to provide for this child. No one has asked the mother to provide evidence of support. She owns a home in Mexico and a store which provides both secure shelter and financial support, not counting the nurturing of a loving family of two other siblings, a grandmother, aunts, uncles and other extended family.

Meanwhile, there is word in the Gulf Coast community that the “parents to be,” have already had a baby shower celebrating the “blessed arrival” of this STOLEN child!

PLEASE MAKE CALLS & WRITE LETTERS DEMANDING THE SAFE RETURN OF BABY & REUNITE WITH HER MOTHER

If you believe this is unjust and outrageous and goes against all moral and religious beliefs and values, please call or write to the presiding Judge and the MS Department of Human Services to STOP this ILLEGAL ADOPTION! Stealing US born babies from immigrant parents is a growing epidemic in the United States. Many Latino parents have lost their children this way!

Honorable Judge Sharon Sigalas
Youth Justice Court of Jackson County
4903 Telephone Rd.
Pascagoula, MS 39567
(228)762-7370

Children’s Justice Act Program
MS Dept. of Human Services
750 North State Street
Jackson, MS 39202
Call (601)359-4499 and ask for Barbara Proctor

For more information please call MIRA at: (601) 968-5182

MIRA Organizing Coordinator
Victoria Cintra at (228) 234-1697 or Organizer Socorro Leos at(228) 731-0831

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GIRL TALK FEATURING MY ROSE!

Girl Talk: A Cis & Trans Woman Dialogue
Curated by Julia Serano & Gina de Vries
Wednesday, June 17th
LGBT Center - Ceremonial Room
1800 Market Street
7:30pm
Tickets: $12-$20
Buy Tickets on-line!!: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66001
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/QFest09/GirlTalk.html

Queer cisgender women and queer transgender women are allies, friends,
support systems, lovers, and partners to each other. Trans and cis
women are allies to each other every day -- from activism that
includes everything from Take Back the Night to Camp Trans; to
supporting each other in having “othered” bodies in a world that is
obsessed with idealized body types; to loving, having sex, and
building family with each other in a world that wants us to disappear.
Girl Talk is a spoken word show fostering and promoting dialogue about
these relationships. Trans and cis women will read about their
relationships of all kinds – sexual and romantic, chosen and blood
family, friendships, support networks, activist alliances. Join us for
a night of stories about sex, bodies, feminism, activism, challenging
exclusion in masculine-centric dyke spaces, dating and breaking up,
finding each other, and finding love and family.
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Late night think rant

Cereta's excellent post on men and rape by way of Coffeeandink's links and post
( Hat tip yelo son and sex _and Race)

So I'm doing that thesis THANG and some of you knwo I am a "blogger"
Mostly WOC issues and I'm hoping to be getting my grad in that.SO combine that with my propensity to say whatever the blue blazing hell comes to my pretty napptural head.

I am read/talking/ pondering on date rape and sexual assault.

First and foremost I continue to be a fucking amazed by the consistent use of " oh no oneI know would?"

Please tell me how many people YOU KNOW who would go

Hi I am the type of person who will willfully and openly use another person and disregard their will, and frankly how many of you really would take action into isolating that person?

Know how many times people have explained "away" a person's racism sexism classism ?"

How many of you have brushed off or giggled off someones nastiness cause well

"their not that way to you"

and I'm not saying dis own them but even ACKNOWLEDGING THE REALITY OF WHAT THAT COULD MEAN FOR OTHERS

( its part of the reason I talk bout myself so damn much in addition to my big ego I want you to knwo I am speaking ONLY FOR ME)
yeah sure you really would stand up and fight that.

Oh you would?

Prove it when a woman says she is assaulted of has concerns

Make the first thing out your mouth NOT

" not all guys/I would never /you should"

but what can I do to help?

or even the mere attempt at understanding the world i go through in THIS BODY IN THIS SKIN

isn't the world you go through

but I have a real shit time of up front no bullshit working with any white feminist org to taklk about this

Why?

because my " rape " ain't your "rape"

It's why i hate the fucking " this is what a feminist looks like/take back the night/ psuedo sex positive ( as opposed to sex AND SEX WORKER ) positive

the night ?

never mine .

Me this body this skin a CONSTANT reminder of colonialist rape , people like me only come up when it's in relation to THEIR experiences at social events .

Meanwhile we're trying to deal with the systematic sexual assault by social events, government etc etc etcit's something they "missed" or you know petition worthy

but vibrators and the right to hen peck boyfriends

RALLY TIME.

I want to be less bitter but every time i hear this shit it becomes a well we fight for EPEW blah blah oh and *insert horrible soulcrushing experience of LGBTQ WOC* so TAKE US SERIOUSLY as we were slogans


But my final FINAL HUh moment.

Is this gray rape/ we can teach sexual yes cues/ oh___didn't know?

Nope sorry I ain't letting nobody of the hook that easy.

I m gonna need you to explain in VERY VERY SMALL WORDS AND SLOWLY

hwo you can miss someone wanting you.

How you can miss someone asking and pleading you to continue , being involved enough to HAVE ANY VOICE AT ALL while you BUT NAKED AND RARING TO GO?


if part of you roll is to let the person you're with KNOW WHAT YOU WANT

AND TO MAKES SURE YOU KNOW WHAT THEY WANT

how do you" miss cues".

How is it UNSEXY ( i have heard this I immediately knew why this fools girl was so cranky)

to make sure asnd ask permission to be thoughtful

How truly unimaginative do you have to be to not figure out hwo to make ENJOYING SEX SEXY

unless

wait a minute

YOU ARE NOT LOOKING??


So help me out since I give you TOO MUCH INFO but I ma also (one of ) The MOST INTERESTING friend on facebook.

splain me?

yell at me say I'm a dottering nitwit

but when I am analyzing text ( friday night I know)about ways to position the singular black female body in performance and how much of that comes from witness to violence and I hear the sheer ignance that passes as discourse
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