http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrnMYg62boM
#trayvon
#shaima“Hood or hijab—this needs to stop”
silence is death
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: RIP Sepia Mutiny
Sepia Mutiny, one of the first blogs to write about South Asian issues, will be shutting down April 1 (Here’s hoping that this is an April Fool’s prank).
I also truly feel that the mission of Sepia Mutiny is complete, especially for what I envisioned SM would be all about (other bloggers…
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“…all the women in the country who are working for change. Do not give up as this is your dream”
—Sharmeen Chinoy (Oscar Acceptance Speech 26 Feb 2012)
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A3 poster based on the Victorian Tea set podcast from the BBC’s ‘History of the world in 100 objects’.
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It’s a Girl! Documentary Film
In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called “gendercide”.
This documentary film tells the stories of abandoned and trafficked girls, of women who suffer extreme dowry-related violence, of brave mothers fighting to save their daughters’ lives, and of other mothers who would kill for a son. Global experts and grassroots activists put the stories in context and advocate different paths towards change, while collectively lamenting the lack of any truly effective action against this injustice.Riveting documentary. Recommended to those with a palate for social justice, gender equality and harmony in culture. There are several clips in this documentary where the incidents narrated are highly graphic and unsettling (wherein some mothers killed female offspring) but this is a reality and the only way to tackle and eliminate it is to address it, firstly, and rebel against the status quo that establishes this brutal approach.
As a female from a similar culture, I know how difficult it has been for me and my parents to receive comments on my parents having daughters only; from well-phrased sympathy and pity to suggestions for my father to abandon my mother because she ‘couldn’t bring sons in the house.’ He stayed with her not only because he loved her but because no woman deserves to become a pariah for the child she carries in her womb.
I will have daughters one day, deo volente, and they will know that their mother is more than proud to have them; she’s blessed.
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deconstructing constructionism: Alice Walker’s Definition of a “Womanist” from In Search of Our...
Alice Walker’s Definition of a “Womanist” from In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose Copyright 1983.
WOMANIST
1. From womanish. (Opp. of “girlish,” i.e. frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.) A black feminist or feminist of color. From the black folk expression of mothers to…
Multicultural Resource Center: White Privilege: Now What & Other Such Fallacies
Examples of what white privilege deniers THINK it means to be told to “Check Your Privilege.”
- Apologize for being white
- Believe white is bad or wrong
- Be ashamed of being white
- Feel guilty for being white
Examples of what people ACTUALLY mean when they say “Check Your…
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Feve brunch: a breakfast sandwich with grilled glazed donuts. This was heaven and sin and worth every damn calorie.
