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My dear friend,

I want to tell you how badass I think you are and how much I appreciate the way you inhabit spaces, the way you interact with others. I love how much you REALLY listen to people, and treat everyone with compassion and treat them with the importance all humans deserve but that not everyone gives to everyone else. I find you to be a calming presence, but one that is not afraid of rage, of powerful resistance and that is such an incredibly rare thing. I love that you really look at people and value them for who they are, so many other folks seem to be obsessed with these strange status hierarchies we have within our spaces that we try to make less hierarchical. I am guilty of this, but you challenge me to adress that within myself. I love how you question, how you can often out loud say what I’ve been silently wondering alone.
I love that we have come to a place where we’ve got each other’s backs. I feel that I can go to you and be heard and be validated. I too, am finding that my friendships have shifted a lot this year, and I feel like you are someone whose friendship makes me a better person, you are someone that I feel I can live a love ethic with and also a bad-ass radical politic. I feel braver when we tackle the bullshit together.
I want you to know that your confidence in me makes me feel on top of the world! I want to continue to be someone that you can come to, for anything, whenever!
I really appreciate your feedback on the structure of my piece. It’s for sure a little rough, it’s kind of just my stream of thoughts and hasn’t really been edited at all. I think in a lot of ways, I like it like that, because that’s sort of how I experience these memories, that history, in a disjointed, sort of jarring way. The links aren’t super obvious, even to me. They just sort of are the culmination of this ever-present history and denial and eventual acknowledgment of it. But I get what you mean. What I may do, is like preface it with what I just wrote here, as like a warning that it may not flow or connect, but that it is the way that my body feels it, the way my brain brings it up. But I’ll stew on it, and am open to suggestions for flow.
I really appreciate how you have become a safe place for rage with me. And it’s something that I feel is made space for, in our advocacy groups but in ways where it’s like.. your rage and hurt have to be sort of.. articulated well, and you can’t say “FUCK WHITE PEOPLE” and regardless of how I feel about statements like that, for the most part, I need to say them, and I need to hear them. I need to feel my fucking rage and pain, and it’s something that I can’t even do with my family because they are so invested in living the Canadian Project. They work so fucking hard at being just as shitty as all the white people who are white-supremacists, because it’s the only obvious avenue they have at belonging. At being foreign but not as foreign as those “others.” And it’s so fucking hard for me to  feel empowered for the first time in my life as a racialized person, and to not feel like I can talk to my family about it. So you, being you and being brave enough to share your story at that goddawful meeting has made me feel like I can finally share mine. I want you to know that you are the catalyst for all this. And I feel these changes in my life, where I talk about my own history more, where I’ve removed a lot of the jargon academia gave me to hide behind, keep the theory and use my experience in a way that serves me.


Reblogged from butcheredmentality
“ The force that allows white feminist authors to make no reference to racial identity in their books about ‘women’ that are in actuality about white women is the same one that would compel any author writing exclusively on black women to refer explicitly to their racial identity. That force is racism. In a racially imperialist nation such as ours, it is the dominant race that reserves for itself the luxury of dismissing racial identity while the oppressed race is made daily aware of their racial identity. It is the dominant race that can make it seem that their experience is Representative. bell hooks, Ain’t I A Woman, pg 138 (via butcheredmentality)

(via thebrownggrrlzproject)

Reblogged from thebrownggrrlzproject
Brown Grrlz Project: In Praise Of The Vulnerable Femme: The Redux

thebrownggrrlzproject:

My breasts sag.


They are small, soft,
Easily laying against my chest
Falling off to the sides
Across them light lines that weave stories like rivers flowing downward to the earth.
I have practiced exactly one thousand positions, casually cupping them, shrouding them
…

Reblogged from larebelde

xicanagrrrl:

larebelde:

Terms like ‘women of color’ are not just descriptions, but have political and ideological histories and current meanings. Here’s a clip of Loretta Ross, cofounder and national coordinator of SisterSong -Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, sharing one of the birthing moments of the term ‘women of color’.

http://www.sistersong.net
http://www.westernstatescenter.org

h/t to a.p.

The Origin of the phrase “Women of Color” (via westernstatescenter)

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“Y’all know where the term women of color came from? Who can say that? See we’re bad at transmitting history. In 1977 a group of black women from Washington D.C went to the National Women’s Conference that Jimmy Carter had given 5 million dollars to have as part of the World Decade for Women, there was a conference in Houston, TX. This group of black women carried to that conference something called Black Women’s Agenda because the organizers of the conference, Bella Abu, Elise Miller, what have you, had put together a three page Minority Women’s Plank (Laughs) and a two hundred page document that these black women thought was somewhat inadequate (group laughs). And so they actually formed a group called Black Women’s Agenda to come there in Houston with a Black Womens’ Plan of Action that they wanted the delegates to vote to substitute for the Minority Plank that was in the proposed plan of action. Well funny thing happened in Houston, when they took the Black Women’s Agenda to Houston, then all the rest of minority women of color wanted to be included to the Black Women’s Agenda. Okay? Well they agreed except that you could no longer call it the Black Women’s Agenda. And it was in those negotiations in Houston the term women of color was created. Okay? And they didn’t see it as a biological designation, you’re born Asian, you’re born Black, you’re born African-American, whatever, it is a solidarity definition, a commitment to work in collaboration with other oppressed women of color who have been minoritized. Now what’s happened in the thirty years since then is that people see it as biology now. Like okay, I’m- and and and people say “I don’t want to be defined as a woman of color, I am Black, I am Asian-American, well that’s fine, but why are you reducing a political designation to a biological destiny? That’s what white supremacy wants you to do. (Laughs.) Now, and I think it’s a setback. When we disintegrate as People of Color, you know, around primitive ethnic claiming, yes, we are Asian-American, Native American, whatever, but the point is when you choose to work with other people who are minoritized by oppression you have lifted yourself out of that basic identity into another political being, another political space. And unfortunately, so many times, people of color hear the term people of color from other White people, and think White people created it instead of understanding that, that we self-named ourselves, this is a term that has a lot of power for us. But we’ve done the poorest job of communicating that history so people understand that power.”

(via thebrownggrrlzproject)



Reblogged from brownpeople
newmodelminority: brownpeople: “Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.” - Arundhati Roy The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Why I write.

newmodelminority:

brownpeople:

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.”

- Arundhati Roy

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Why I write.

(via westcoastdreams)



Callout for Submissions! Pulse, the UVic Student’s of Color Collective’s anti-racist zine is being revived! The theme we hope to explore in this issue is Place. Pulse will be made available in both a print and online version, as such we welcome any medium of expression including but not limited to collage, poetry, silkscreens, photos, prose, and even audio / video, under the theme of Place which incorporates your racialized experiences/ identity as a person of color. We recognize that not all folks who identity as people of color are “visible” and that all racialized experiences are complicated and welcome submissions that highlight this reality. We are seeking to create a space and community where folks with racialized experiences are recognized, honored and privileged. As such, we would love to hear a variety of voices and encourage all folks who identify as people of color including all identities and backgrounds of sexuality, gender, ability, health and socioeconomic locations to submit! Submissions are Due Monday March 19 and can be emailed to pulse.socc@gmail.com or dropped off at the SOCC office in the University of Victoria’s Student Union Building  (Room B020). They can also be mailed to:UVic Students of Color Collective ℅ UVic Students&#8217; SocietyUniversity of VictoriaPO Box 3035 STN CSCLekwungen Territory V8W 3P3CanadaThe UVic Students of Colour Collective is a group of self identified students of colour operating as an advocacy group out of the University of Victoria. We attempt to defy the mainstream and act from the margins placing issues of race, gender, and colonization into an anti-racist framework which builds our work, action, and political endeavours. Through Pulse and all of our work, we seek to challenge and oppose systems of racism, ableism, classism, sexism, colonization, cissexism and heterosexism.

Callout for Submissions!
 
Pulse, the UVic Student’s of Color Collective’s anti-racist zine is being revived! The theme we hope to explore in this issue is Place.
Pulse will be made available in both a print and online version, as such we welcome any medium of expression including but not limited to collage, poetry, silkscreens, photos, prose, and even audio / video, under the theme of Place which incorporates your racialized experiences/ identity as a person of color. We recognize that not all folks who identity as people of color are “visible” and that all racialized experiences are complicated and welcome submissions that highlight this reality.
We are seeking to create a space and community where folks with racialized experiences are recognized, honored and privileged. As such, we would love to hear a variety of voices and encourage all folks who identify as people of color including all identities and backgrounds of sexuality, gender, ability, health and socioeconomic locations to submit!


Submissions are Due Monday March 19 and can be emailed to pulse.socc@gmail.com or dropped off at the SOCC office in the University of Victoria’s Student Union Building  (Room B020). They can also be mailed to:
UVic Students of Color Collective ℅ UVic Students’ Society
University of Victoria
PO Box 3035 STN CSC
Lekwungen Territory V8W 3P3
Canada

The UVic Students of Colour Collective is a group of self identified students of colour operating as an advocacy group out of the University of Victoria. We attempt to defy the mainstream and act from the margins placing issues of race, gender, and colonization into an anti-racist framework which builds our work, action, and political endeavours. Through Pulse and all of our work, we seek to challenge and oppose systems of racism, ableism, classism, sexism, colonization, cissexism and heterosexism.



Reblogged from fuckyeahlesbianliterature
“ When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Adrienne Rich, Invisibility in the Academe. (via youcanhaveitall)

(Source: autostraddle.com, via youcanhaveitall)


Reblogged from effyeahdirtyfeet

effyeahdirtyfeet:

Dear fucking shitty cis-men who think you have the right to sit there and be the grand arbitrar of whether or not people who actually have the reproductive capacity to become pregnant should feel harassed by anti-choice activities:

FUCK. YOU.



Reblogged from saucy-sarah

THIS IS AMAZING

saucy-sarah:

There’s more:

Students Teaching About Racism in Society is a Student Org at Ohio University. I’m the President, any questions… MESSAGE ME! :)



This will be a rad event put on by rad people. Please come out and support creating spaces and dialogue that center on and explore reproductive justice and it&#8217;s complexities.

This will be a rad event put on by rad people. Please come out and support creating spaces and dialogue that center on and explore reproductive justice and it’s complexities.