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Why aren’t more people freaking out about the new Venezuelan labor law?
You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?
It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift
Ms. DeVries was *JUST* telling me about this shit tonight!! This is *AMAZING!!!!*
Isn’t this the coolest thing?! Damn.23576 Comments -
I am sad to say that this is the first I have heard about this case. I’m reblogging in part to signal-boost it, even just to the, like, 10 people who actually read this tumblr regularly.
People need to know about this case.
Submitted by: sydlow
Thanks sydlow! I just sent this flier to organizers and they love it.
Justice for Reynaldo Cuevas
Reynaldo Cuevas was shot and killed by an NYPD officer on September 7th, 2012, after escaping from an armed robbery at the bodega he worked at. He was dragged 25 feet away by police and left to bleed for 20 minutes as witnesses yelled at them, informing police that he was an employee of the store. A few days later the community held a vigil for Reynaldo and marched with his family to the 42nd precinct to demand justice. Since then, the Cuevas family has held a candlelight vigil every Saturday at the corner of the block here he was killed. Less than two months later, on October 27th, the NYPD rammed into the dirt bike Reynaldo’s cousin and friend were riding, killing one and paralyzing the other. A witness from the scene says the NYPD rammed into the dirt bike purposely.
We need to let the NYPD know, they cannot get away with this. We will not give up. We are stronger.
More information on facebook, search for “Justice for Reynaldo Cuevas”
This is absolutely sickening. There is a war on brown bodies being waged in my streets.
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- 3 months ago
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- #reynaldo cuevas
- #cuevas family
- #nypd
- #:(
- #people of color
- #police brutality
- #uuugh
- #police murder
- #submission
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Queer & trans POC visual artists, take note! :)
are there any QTPOC artists that want/need a commission? i kinda want someone to draw me as a merperson while being accurate to my body size/scars/tattoos/piercings/etc.
maybe that’s asking too much.
file under: why i need to be an artist
file under: my artistic career will be entirely self-portraitsSignal boositng ‘cause I know there’s someone out there that can do it!
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a bell and a pomegranate: atriptothemorg: witchsistah: talldarkbishoujo: threedifferentways: My... This is a really important conversation.
My observations and experiences as a Pagan Woman of Color:
- On finding out I’m of black descent, people keep asking me who my Met Tet is. Who my Head Orisha is. Which Lwa am I bound to. And then saying “Why…
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Gadabout Green's Misadventures: Honestly... I can’t watch too much coverage on what “The Black Chuch”, (which is problematic in itself,) has to say about President Obama’s decision to support gay marriage personally. If any media outlets covered the Mormon church and other “white” churches with such vitriol on a national level, I don’t…
- 1 year ago
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- #YES
- #THIS
- #racism
- #homophobia
- #people of color
- #anti-black racism
- #black people
- #religion
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"a response to white fat activism from People of Color in the fat justice movement" BOSS. Read it!
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Throwing some love to Reina
So the amazing Reina has a beautiful blog that I encourage all of you to check out. Recently, she’s been posting a lot of archival & historical interviews & articles about Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries). This history is vitally important to know and to remember.
And I know we live in the internet age of FAST! FAST! FAST!, but I’d encourage you, as much as possible, to read this blog like you’d read a book you were savoring. Sit the hell down in a comfy chair, pour yourself a cup of tea or coffee. Take your time. Let the words sink in.
Above all, don’t skim it! This work matters way too much for skimming.- 1 year ago
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- #Reina
- #the spirit was
- #Sylvia Rivera
- #Marsha P. Johnson
- #S.T.A.R.
- #Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries
- #trans women
- #trans
- #gender
- #gender non-conforming
- #people of color
- #qtpoc
- #queer people of color
- #trans people of color
- #thespiritwas
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saw this outside lawrence west stn a few years ago.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: zine dealing with body/hair/size/fat phobia for and by Indigenous peoples and people of colour. **PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY**
Call for submissions: Online and printed zine about dealing with body/hair/size/fat phobia for and by Indigenous peoples and people of colour.
Title: To be decided/announced.
Deadline: February 28th 2011
For far too long, I’ve have been made to always question my body.Always made to feel like if I waxed my sideburns/shaved my legs/signed up for weightwatchers/stopped eating so much roti, that I would live up to the potential of how beautiful I could be. I have learnt that these issues not only represent a complex fear of hair or fat, but is also emblematic of what my body represents as a queer brown body, constantly threatening whiteness, conformity and concepts of beauty that idealize skinny, hairless, colonized white bodies; among many other things. The internalized hate and racism that our communities and peoples have is destroying us, forcing us to dislike and alter our bodies, putting it through further violence and trauma.
As I have been attempting to work through this, I have had the honour of meeting so many beautiful Indigenous people and people of colour who constantly work hard at breaking down these ideas, who survive, love themselves and each other everyday for who they are. We need to share our struggles and triumphs; we need to know we aren’t alone in this. There are many people who have stories, facts, advice and successes on these issues to share with others.
For these reasons and more, with consultation from many over the past two years, I want to put together this zine for Indigenous people and people of colour to share, read, write, listen, learn, realize, question and start a path to working towards realizing how sexy and beautiful we already are.
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