tballardbrown:

For many people, reality shows Basketball Wives, Miami and Real Housewives of Atlanta have metastasized in America’s psyche as a poisonous stereotype of African-American women.

(via Reality TV and Shame Ownership: How a Latina Became an African-American Stereotype | Clutch Magazine)

shadowkira:

What the hell is this? This is disgusting.

Link is here but it’s through AOL so I wasn’t sure if everyone would be able to read it… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/trayvon-martin-gun-targets_n_1510080.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl10|sec1_lnk1%26pLid%3D160321

fuckyeahsouthasia:

Satyamev Jayate: Only truth shall prevails

The first episode of this new show brought to you by Aamir Khan and his media production strives to fight against Female Foeticide in South Asian communities. The show exposes the evil practice of female foetecide in the form of forced abortion.

Myth 1. It is usually uneducated/ poor people who commit female foeticide. False. 

Myth 2. It is usually people from rural/ more religious communities who commit female foeticide. False.

Myth 3. Doctors and health workers are often found encouraging female foeticide (forced abortion) instead of objecting to perform it. Fact.

Myth 4. Doctors and people caught involved in forced abortions are punished legally or socially. False.

Myth 5. Female foeticide is now a growing industry. Fact.

Myth 6. Female foeticide is derived from, and supported by religions such as Hinduism and Islam. False.

So much courage. Salute to all these brave mothers. 

“Humne tujhpe hazaaro sitham hai kiye, Humne tujhpe jahaa bhar ke zulm kiye, Humne socha nahi, Tu jo udh jaayegi, Ye zameen tere bin sooni reh jaayegi, Kiske dum pe sajega mera angana…Ooore chiraiya ,Nannishe cidiya, Anganame feer aaza”

“We put you through misery, we treated you unfairly, we did not think that when you would fly away, this land would go dry, my garden would lose its source of joy…Oh birdie, little birdie, come back to our yard.” (I am sorry for the very rough translation but this song is too gorgeous to not share).

Watch on : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u1vASMbEEQc

mylifeasafeminista:

This list is stil a work in progress, but I really wanted to get it posted.  I have either read parts of/all of the texts below or they have been recommended to me.  Please reblog and add your own suggestions to the list.  Each time someone adds something new, I’ll go back to this original post and make sure to include them.  Thanks and enjoy!

Books

• Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
• Women Culture and Politics by Angela Davis
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua
• Aint I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
• Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
• Feminist Theory from Margin to Center by bell hooks
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• Medicine Stories by Aurora Levins Morales
• Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home by Anita Hill
• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
• Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith
• Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions (Feminist Constructions) by Maria Lugones (submitted by oceanicheart)
• Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism by Jessica Yee (submitted by oceanicheart)
• Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks (via easternjenitentiary)
• Nervous Conditions by Tsisti Dangarembga (via easternjenitentiary)
• A Taste of Power by Elaine Browne (via tinajenny)
• Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism by Aileen Moreton-Robinson (via jalwhite)
• I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle  (via jalwhite)
• Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics by Joy James (via jalwhite)
• Re-Creating Ourselves by Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (via reallifedocumentarian)
• Chicana Feminist Thought by Alma M. Garcia (via eggplantavenger)
• Queer Latinidad by Juana Maria Rodriguez (via eggplantavenger)
• The Truth That Never Hurts by Barbara Smith (via sisteroutsider)
• Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions by Maria Lugones (via guckfender)
• Consequence: Beyond Resisting Rape by Loolwa Khazzoom (via galesofnovember)
• The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid (via wherethewildthingsmoved)

Anthologies

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esmeweatherwax:

ourafrica:

“The Gentlemen of Bacongo” is a book Released in 2009, by Photographer Daniele Tamagni. The book features a subculture in the Congo where men express their creativity through their clothing. They are part of a cultural movement called Le Sape “a clique of extraordinarily dressed dandies from the Congo. Despite years  war and abject poverty, these men dress in tailored suits, silk ties, and immaculate footwear

This is Africa, our Africa

Holy shit that’s a lot of dapper

(Source: tastefullyoffensive)

odairses:

Maharaja Sir Kishan Singh (1899–1929) was the ruling Maharaja of princely state Bharatpur (1918–1929) and successor of Maharani Girraj Kaur.
Maharaja Kishan Singh was born at Moti Mahal, Bharatpur on 4 October 1899 in a Hindu Jat family. He was eldest son of Maharaja Ram Singh by his second wife, Maharani Girraj Kaur. He was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer and Wellington. He succeeded on the deposition of his father on 27 August 1900. Installed on the gadi at Bharatpur on 30 August 1900. He reigned under the regency of his mother until he came of age and was invested with full ruling powers on 28 November 1918. - 

(Source: alessandrahautumn)

mohandasgandhi:

Where’s the Color in the Occupy Movement? Wherever We Put It

In 1886, 300,000 workers, a great number of them immigrants and anarchists, went on general strike across the United States. That day, they took another step in the long march toward an eight-hour workday that had started in the 1860’s and didn’t end until well into the 20th century. That strike and the Haymarket Massacre that followed days later sparked a global tradition of celebrating unity among all workers, a tradition that never quite took hold in the United States with the same gusto as it did in other countries.

Over the last decade, the immigrant rights movement has revived May Day rallies and marches as a response to the waves of hate hitting immigrants since September 11, 2011. After something of a winter hiatus, Occupiers across the country have added their voices to those of immigrant organizations calling for massive marches and a general strike today. The strike includes no shopping, providing an action for those who can’t skip work or school for whatever reason.

There are also places where a partnership between Occupying and immigrant rights isn’t taking hold. In Los Angeles, there will be two events; a morning march led by immigrant rights groups, as has been true for a decade, and another in the afternoon organized by Occupy L.A. Michael Novick, a spokesperson for Occupy L.A. pulled up a generalist argument for the separation in an interview with CNN. May Day isn’t just about immigrants, he said; “It’s for labor rights, for economic and social justice, for economic equity, and for peace. And we think that will build a strong force downtown to say this is going to be a day that could change the world a little bit and hopefully for the better.”

It’s unfortunate that a march led by immigrants with those same messages doesn’t count as broad and inclusive in L.A.; that doesn’t seem to be an issue in New York, for example, where the immigrant rights groups and OWS have merged their major events.

Colorlines.com and our publisher, the Applied Research Center (ARC), continue to explore the relationship between OWS and the racial justice organizations that work to ensure that economic and social justice solutions take root in communities of color. ARC staff has been involved with Occupy Research, a network of academics and independent researchers doing research about and for the movement. We’ve conducted a series of focus groups with youth organizers involved in Occupy in various cities, including Oakland, New York, Portland, Baltimore, and Atlanta, and will be reporting on those later this Spring.

We are reminded daily that the 99 percent isn’t monolithic, and that the mechanisms that cause suffering differ from community to community. Some of the conditions that are new for this generation of the white middle class — the structures that bilk them of their assets or prevent them from acquiring any — are very old indeed, and often function with a particular sharpness, for people of color. That isn’t a coincidence, and economic justice movements would do well to deal with these patterns explicitly and deeply if they hope to solve the problem for everybody. In recent weeks, we’ve talked with Occupiers, activists and big thinkers about the question that will need to be asked as long as the movement carries on: “Where is the color in Occupy Wall Street?” The answer turns out to be: “wherever we put it.”

almaswithinalmas:

ISR Season 4 Episode 8: Racial Unity - Muslema Purmul

Ustadha Muslema Purmul on the rites of Hajj and the running between Safa and Marwa:

If you’re sexist, think about the fact that you’re walking in the footsteps of Hajar, a woman.
If you’re racist, think about the fact that you’re walking in the footsteps of an African woman.
And if you’re classist, think about the fact that you’re walkin g in the footsteps of a woman who was a slave.