March 2012
Fund for Troy Davis's family →
numol:
[via Dread Times (link to post)]
AFAICT the new deadline is the 28th [of February]. they’re only at 69% of their goal as of now, please pass this around and donate if possible.
The Davis family has had to bury three warriors for justice in the past seven months. Virginia Davis, the matriarch of the family, passed in April, just two weeks after the US Supreme Court denied Troy’s...
Students of Colour Collective: Free Meal Plan- In... →
studentsofcolourcollective:
> Greetings! > > > The FREE Meal Program (FREE stands for Food Revolution: Everybody Eats) is > an initiative spearheaded by the UVIC Sustainability Project. It seeks to > 1) find access to land 2) create small-scale organic gardens 3) locate > volunteers to care for the gardens throughout the…
February 2012
Lucy Lawless Belting Out 'Xena' War Cries During... →
hipsterwavves:
I enjoy long walks on the Internet.
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not that it’s never around but queerphobia and the whore stigma seem to be very prominent things in the communities of colour that i’m in right now. does anyone have any good resources that talk about the intersections of race, sexual and gender identities, and class handy? colonization and sexuality? decolonizing love and beauty?
ATTN VANCOUVER - BC HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WALKOUT →
This is an amazing high-school led movement for better education in public schools throughout Canada.
When: Friday, March 2nd - 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
Why: This is catching momentum much faster than we thought. Thank you to everyone who has invited all your friends and shared this event. We are working on the logistics as fast as we can! We agree with many...
““Love without thought. Love without conditions. Love without promises. Love...”
– Jeanette Winterson, “The Stone Gods” (via fuckyeahjeanettewinterson)
100 PoC Spotlight :: Sandy Hudson →
Sandy Hudson is in her second term as the Chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students–Ontario, representing more than 300,000 students. Sandy served three terms on the Executive Committee of the University of Toronto Students’ Union; one term as Vice-President Equity and two terms as President. Sandy also served as the Women’s Representative and the Racialized Students Representative to...
100 PEOPLE OF COLOUR ANTI-RACIST ACTIVISTS →
things that cover up things that cover up things.
bulatlatmultimedia:
Gabriela secretary general Lana Linaban said that the so-called people-centered approach “renders women and children more vulnerable to military abuses. Like a spider luring flies to its web, the military’s use of deception and violence — being ‘bantay-salakay’ is a norm under Oplan Bayanihan.” http://bulatlat.com/main/?p=56586
Six LGBT Movies The Oscars Ignored This Year (But... →
via Queerty
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Girls Action is offering Leadership Capacity... →
As a follow-up to our Elle Project face-to-face training Girls Action will provide a total of eight (8) grants of $1000 to Elle Project alumnae and other members of the young women’s network to help them develop innovative actions and leadership initiatives in their communities.
Are you a young woman between 16-28 years of age?
Do you need support to further develop your leadership skills?
Do...
the things you know that you thought no one else did.
Jackson 2bears →
if you can somehow trackdown some youtube videos of his pieces, do. they are amazing. he has pieces up at the vancouver art gallery for beat nation: art, hip hop, and aboriginal culture.
Queer, Femme, and Filipina: Charm Torres →
Because i am empowered, i was able to navigate and find community that was safe for me as a Filipino person, but at the same time, i did not have a Filipino community that also embraced my radical gender politics. I found Filipino spaces in Toronto still very heteronormative. And i find myself displaced and isolated wherever i turn – in queer spaces, i found many amazing people of colour, but...
my goal for this week:
create a time machine before friday so i can forever be below the age of 25
quarter life crisis (with the expectation that i’ll live up to 100 year old) starts:
N. O. W.
i need a spoon
this place just gave me a knife and fork to eat chicken and rice.
Sex Work: A Feminist Legal Perspective →
“… sex work is not inherently violent or degrading. The exchange of money for sex does not hurt women; violent people, discrimination and dangerous laws do.”
Anonymous asked: Why is this site called Etiquette Etc. where did the name originate? Just curious.
new wave feminism: Race and incarceration in the... →
zeezeescorner:
Philip N. Cohen posted this chart comparing the rates of incarceration across racial groups in the USA (via Sociological Images). Cohen writes:
to understand the disparate impact of this change on Black men in young adulthood primarily — and secondarily, Latino men — here are the rates of incarceration for men by age and race/ethnicity (Blacks here exclude Latinos; Asians and...
Georgia Rep. Fights Anti-Abortion Bill with... →
Georgia State Rep. Yasmin Neal has introduced House Bill 1116 that proposes limiting vasectomies for men, except in cases where not getting one would result in death or “impairment of a major bodily function.”
The anti-vasectomy bill was a response to a bill that would punish abortions performed after the 20th week of pregnancy with prison sentences between one and 10 years.
“The day has come...
wine.
Aboriginal Doula Training to Be Offered →
The first training session of the year for aboriginal doulas will take place from March 4 through 8 in Port Alberni, British Columbia. Training, travel, accommodations and course materials will be provided. February 24 is the deadline to apply.
Training will take place from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on March 4 and from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. from the fifth through the eighth.
The goal is to bring...
9 cats wrapped like burritos →