March 2012
bogieinthe21st replied to your post: I’ve been following you for a while, and I love your positivity and circulation of positive images etc. What motivated you to convert to Islam? That seems like an odd choice for someone motivated by the things that motivate you.
I love the breadth of your thought, but still it seems to me that there is a lot more love in Jesus than in Mohamed (PBUH all the...
Anonymous asked: what are your feelings on white people converting to islam? is it culturally appropriative?
Reflections: EspejosBellos - A QTPOC who are of... →
radicalqueerbrownboy:
PEACE FOLKS! Follow this awesome ‘fatshion’ blog I’m co-moderating. Here’s some info on it:
We are a collective of curvy, chubby, fat, plus sized & fabulous people of color come together to form an online space where fashion and style truly reflects us all.
It is our goal to try our best to provide a body positive space to show off fashion & style for...
Official 2012 National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness... →
angelindiskies:
February 7, 2012 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD). NBHAAD is a national community mobilization initiative designed to encourage HIV prevention, testing and treatment among Blacks and African Americans in the United States. This year’s theme is “I am My Brother’s/Sister’s Keeper: Fight HIV/AIDS.” NBHAAD main objectives are to:
Educate and distribute...
February 2012
“this is a critical moment/when i decided that dance was as important to me as...”
– excerpt from the essay, why i had to dance//, published in the book, lost in language & sound: or how i found my way to the arts, written by Ntozake Shange (p. 56)
“Only universal opportunity — safety, health, and viable education — can repel...”
– Connie Rice, in her book, Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman’s Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones, (p. 321)
Attack the Block (review) →
nikaras:
Attack the Block stands out from this year’s sci-fi action adventure films for offering thrilling ideas. Unlike Hollywood’s tentpole blockbusters, this relatively low-budget British comedy about a group of teenagers in London’s Brixton ghetto defending their turf against an alien invasion has a purpose: It explores the emotional, as well as sociological, meaning of “home” for these...
Asexual People of Color: Welcome, y'all! →
asexualpocsunite:
Hi there! I’m your main mod fivelettered here. Thanks for following us!
I made this tumblr after I decided to fully embrace the idea of being a grey-a/demisexual (something I’ve thought I was for a year or so) and going on AVEN. When I finished making my account, I realized that most of these…
signal boosting because fivelettered is awesome!!
Queer writers of Color Conference in Chicago March... →
naijaboi:
Come one come all to check out your fierce queer nigerian gender non conforming artist in chicago. i will be presenting a piece on Queering African Cinema in Chicago on March 1st. spread the word even if u can’t make it. see ya there fam. Peace Seyi
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Thursday, March 1, 2012 7pm-10pm “Ancestors: A Queer Writers of Color Reading”sponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation...
Cherrie Moraga: Voices from the Gaps →
readnfight:
From this interview with Cherrie Moraga:
M-A O-R: What do you think is the main difference between theatre and essay as means of creative and political expression?
CM: Both my essays and plays attempt to explore a political question or contradiction through the mind or the heart. By that I mean, both genres require analysis and a heart-felt honesty. But the essay is...
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the Native LGBT/Two-Spirit Digital Library →
dancingonembers:
Indigenous LGBTQ/Two Spirit People
Two Spirit Films
Native LGBTQ Hate Crime Murders
Digital Library
Two-Spirit Collections
Stereotypes
readin & fightin: makingsoul: from Cherríe... →
makingsoul:
from Cherríe Moraga’s “La Güera”:
I have many times questioned my right to even work on an anthology which is to be written “exclusively by Third World women.” I have had to look critically at my claim to color, at a time when, among white feminist ranks, it is a “politically…
“One motivation for doing This Bridge Called My Back was that when I was at UT I...”
– Interview with Gloria Anzaldúa
(thanks again to tiaramerchgirl for posting this! <3 )
Kitschy-kat: A while ago someone was asking for... →
kitschy-kat:
But I’ve just finished reading Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity by Amina Mama and I would definitely recommend it.
Psychology has had a number of things to say about black and colonised peoples, and most of these reinforce racist stereotypes.
Beyond the Masks is an incisive…
"Lineage," Margaret Walker
readnfight:
My grandmothers were strong.
They followed plows and bent to toil.
They moved through fields sowing seed.
They touched earth and grain grew.
They were full of sturdiness and singing.
My grandmothers were strong.
My grandmothers are full of memories
Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay
With veins rolling roughly over quick hands
They have many clean words to say.
My...
“Fuck poems
and they are useful, they shoot
come at you, love what you are,...”
– From Black Art a poem by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
QBits: Obama Administration Announces Health... →
qbits:
By Kellan Baker on Feb 22, 2012 at 1:50 pm
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has announced two new grant competitions focusing on connecting HIV-positive transgender women of color with health care services, including primary care and HIV-related care.
The first…
“She has this fear
that she has no names
that she has many names
that she...”
– Gloria Anzaldua, La Frontera (1987)
this is the full quote.
(via usesforroots)
Afro.Art.Chick: February 26, 1965 →
afro-art-chick:
Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, died of injuries reportedly inflicted by officers after a voting-rights meeting in Marion, Alabama.
“The Southern Christian Leadership Conference wanted to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, as a response to Jimmie Lee…
ATTENTION
daniellemertina:
kemetically-ankhtified:
lati-negros:
Please note:
Black history acknowledgement, awareness, appreciation, and respect DOES NOT end tomorrow.
Wake Up, Management
word.
of course it doesn’t. I need to love and appreciate myself all year.
“Your job is not to educate others, (…) it is, first, to survive.”
– Speaker Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, a Professor of Sociology at Duke University. (via razycrandomgirl)
unculture asked: I am a white queer Jewish...
poemsofthedead:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
i think this is the wrong kind of post to put when i am wanking about not having any dates.
like
seriously your life is nice and all but can you honestly try to think of the black people you’re talking to before saying anything?
Also, this kind of self aggrandizing is why some of us don’t date white people. No cookies for you.
i really hate when...
bogieinthe21st asked: I've been following you for a while, and I love your positivity and circulation of positive images etc. What motivated you to convert to Islam? That seems like an odd choice for someone motivated by the things that motivate you.
“Gay people wanna get married. I just wanna be able to use the public restroom...”
– What about Trans rights? (via trans-doc
)
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Poems of the Dead: (Please REBLOG) Why POC need... →
butcharri:
Please, Please REBLOG this!!!!
You know one thing that I’ve found in being a creative and a person of color is that attempting to get POC to collaborate on something that involves people of color outside of Hip-Hop culture is virtually impossible without a shit load of…
