Sent to you by moya via Google Reader:
Things you can do from here:
- Subscribe to New Model Minority using Google Reader
- Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
uniquenatural:Dope…
Thursday, March 31, 2011
pink
That's about right!
Sent to you by moya via Google Reader:
via freedom fighter. on 3/31/11
well anonymous, my love life is pretty non-existent, except that i love lots of people in lots of different ways— i've had and still do have fabulous friends and lovers (and some that weren't so fabulous, of course). i'm openly poly, but pretty much single right now (so if you know someone, ehem). i'm not looking, but i am open to whatever ways love shows itself. always open to love.
today, to be specific, i'm in love with a wonderful woman, who is not in love with me. however, we love each other a lot, and are great friends to each other, and sometimes it makes me happy just to be experiencing such profound love, and sometimes it makes me feel sad that i'm not getting love in the way i want/had imagined, etc. boo/hiss for expectations. also sometimes, love makes me feel tortured and super emo. but that's just my emo personality.
file this under: tmi.
Things you can do from here:
- Subscribe to freedom fighter. using Google Reader
- Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
Thursday, February 17, 2011
how to support a revolution
Sent to you by moya via Google Reader:
via guerrilla mama medicine by mama on 2/17/11
what i learned in the past month and past 31 years…
–offer free babysitting for folks who are going to hit the streets or do other kinds of work/revolt that is more difficult with children around
–let people sleep on your couch, bed, mattress, floor. offer crash space.
–if you have internet. share internet w those who dont.
–keep the bar stocked.
–keep cigarettes stocked
–if you have al jazeera english. let folks come over and watch. call folks with the latest news if you know they dont have access.
–keep basic first aid supplied handy
–be a street medic. ( i will never forget the guy who came to me with coca cola to blow in my nose to off set the effects of tear gas. it fucking worked.)
–if you can translate, do so. like it was so helpful when we could watch state tv and have someone translate for us, or watch aje and vice versa for the arabic speakers.
–joke and laugh a lot. morbid jokes are totally appropriate.
–trust chaos. (fighting it accomplishes nada)
–keep food stocked. (you never know who is coming by. or when stores will be open or closed. )
–take pictures. document. reflect the revolution to the world. tell the stories.
–fight. if you cant fight on the front lines, support the people who are fighting on the front lines.
–remember its not about you or me. its about freedom.
–model self care. (ppl who need to take time to take care of themselves are more likely to do so when they know that others around them are doing the same.)
Things you can do from here:
- Subscribe to guerrilla mama medicine using Google Reader
- Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
Sunday, February 13, 2011
"In many so-called primitive cultures it is a requirement of tribal initiati...
Sent to you by moya via Google Reader:
via maia medicine on 2/12/11
"In many so-called primitive cultures it is a requirement of tribal initiation to spend a lengthy period alone in the forests or mountains, a period of coming to terms with the solitude and nonhumanity of nature so as to discover who, or what, one really is—a discovery hardly possible while the community is telling you what you are, or ought to be. He may discover, for instance, that loneliness is the masked fear of an unknown which is himself, and that the alien-looking aspect of nature is a projection upon the forests of his fear of stepping outside habitual and conditioned patterns of feeling. There is much evidence to show that for anyone who passes through the barrier of loneliness, the sense of individual isolation bursts, almost by dint of its own intensity, into the "all-feeling" of identity with the universe. One may pooh-pooh this as "nature mysticism" or "pantheism," but it should be obvious that a feeling of this kind corresponds better with a universe of mutually independent processes and relations than with a universe of distinct, blocklike entities."- Alan Watts, Nature, Man and WomanAlan Watts (via fuckyeahsolitude)
Things you can do from here:
- Subscribe to maia medicine using Google Reader
- Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
Monday, February 07, 2011
A Short Course in Indigenous Feminism
Sent to you by moya via Google Reader:
via 道 on 2/7/11
A Short Course in Indigenous Feminism: by Rowland Túpac Keshena
For those who don't know much about me, I am a currently studying for a Masters Degree in Public Issues Anthropology, specializing in a Fanon and MLM infused analysis of revolutionary Native nationalist and anti-colonialist movements in North Amerika. I also have really strong interrelated interests in revolutionary critical pedagogy, the "reindigenization" of the Chicano community and movement and, the subject of this post, indigenous feminism. Anyway, one of the perks of my program is that I can create my own courses, and I've taken such a route this semester by creating my own directed studies course in indigenous feminist theory.
The growth of indigenous feminism is, for me, a huge interest, both personal and academic, not just because of the obvious importance struggling against both white supremacist (ne0)colonial capitalism and hetero-patriarchy if we want to achieve meaningful freedom, justice and equality, but also because for a long time the status quo within our movement was that you could not be both a feminist and a native warrior. On the one hand we are not Native enough if we call ourselves and our movement feminist, but on the other we are not feminist enough for the whitestream feminists since we pointing out that the whitestream movement does not take us, and our unique experiences and struggles into account. I am indigenous man and I find this to be one of the greatest failings of our movement, and for that reason I wholeheartedly endorse, support and promote the rise of an indigenous feminism.
Anyway, with that in mind and in the spirit of sharing ideas, and radical education I've decided to post my reading list for others to take a look a lot, critique and/or otherwise contribute their thoughts. It's made up of a mix of books and articles, both academic and non-academic, which are available on line.
Books:
Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, edited by Joyce Green
I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism, by Lee Maracle
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii, by Haunani-Kay Trask
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, by Andrea Smith
Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism, by Eileen Morton-Robinson
Online Articles:
Indigenous Feminism Without Apology, by Andrea Smith
Jennifer Nez Denetdale on Indigenous Feminisms
An Indigenous Perspective on Feminism, Militarism, and the Environment, by Winona LaDuke
Zapatismo and the Emergence of Indigenous Feminism, by Aida Hernandez Castillo
Academic Journal Publications:
Wicazo Sa Review "Native Feminisms: Legacies, Interventions, and Indigenous Sovereignties," guest edited by Mishuana R. Goeman and Jennifer Nez Denetdale
Whiteness Matters: Implications of Talking Up to the White Woman, by Eileen Morton-Robinson
Race, Tribal Nation, and Gender: A Native Feminist Approach to Belonging, by Renya Ramirez
Introduction: Special Issue on Native American Women, Feminism, and Indigenism, by Anne Waters
Patriarchal Colonialism and Indigenism: Implications for Native Feminist Spirituality and Native Womanism, by M. A. Jaimes Guerrero
Dismantling the Master's Tools with the Master's House: Native Feminist Liberation Theologies, by Andrea Smith
oh my gods yes. This reading list is amazing.
Things you can do from here:
- Subscribe to 道 using Google Reader
- Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
Saturday, February 05, 2011
cre8tivesilence:Look at that mothafuckin’, dapper-ass...
Sent to you by moya via Google Reader:
Things you can do from here:
- Subscribe to Liquor&Spice using Google Reader
- Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Yaaaasuh!
Sent to you by moya via Google Reader:
Things you can do from here:
- Subscribe to Liquor&Spice using Google Reader
- Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)