JiLLiAN WHiTE

nitanahkohe:

Border Lands, David Bradley (Chippewa)

dopethrones:

Danzantes del Alma by Run Trains on Flickr.

nitanahkohe:

paintings by Erin Currier; top to bottom, left to right: Nataly Medrano, Liliana Elizabeth Sanchez, Silvia Sanchez Viesca Ortiz, Alma Marguerita Lopez Garcia, Perla Ivonne Aguirre Gonzalez

The phenomenon of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, called in Spanish the feminicidios (femicides) and las muertas de Juárez (The dead women of Juárez), involves the violent deaths of hundreds of women since 1993 in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, a border city across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. The victims of these crimes have preponderantly been young women, between 12 and 22 years of age. Many were students, and most were maquiladora workers. A number were relative newcomers to Ciudad Juárez who had migrated from other areas of Mexico and Central America. The estimated homicide toll is speculated to be around 400, but many local residents believe that the true count of los feminicidios stands at an estimated 5,000 victims. Most of the cases remained unsolved as of 2011. 

Half of the proceeds of the sale of this work will be donated to Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa for the purpose of finding the missing, and holding those responsible for the dead accountable.

thearcanetheory:

androphilia:

“Being a woman is not a means to humiliate and punish anyone”

After a policeman in the Iranian Kurdish town of Marivan paraded an accused criminal in traditional Kurdish women’s clothes in the streets in order to humiliate him, women marched in the city condemning the use of women’s attire as a kind of humiliation.

In support, an internet campaign of Kurdish and other Iranian men has sprung up showing men wearing Kurdish women’s clothes and messages and support. For example, this message says,”wearing Kurdish women’s clothes is not only not an insult, it is instead a great honor for us,” and goes on to describe how women stand side by side with men in every part of society and during wartime.

Support the campaign by liking the page!
زن بودن ابزار تحقیر و تنبیه هیچ کس نیست

(via Ajam Media Collective)

WOW

slay-z:

zora is my favorite ever and this quote is my favorite ever

Artist Turns Abandoned Cars into Public Art Installations

jalwhite:

Let the Spirit Move You is a celebration of ancestral belief systems that are a proud and important part of our cultural legacy as African descendants. The documentary focuses on the African based spiritual traditions that continue in Puerto Rico grounded in ancestral worship - espiristmo. Because of misinformation and preconceptions, to date there is little information on the sacred African traditions that are part of the cultural life of Puerto Rico. These traditions have generally been practiced out of public view and now with the advent of Evangelical types of religions labeling these traditions as “devil worship” many practitioners out of fear are going further underground or giving up these important historical ancestral traditions.

Produced by: Dr. Marta Moreno Vega

KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN. 

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jalwhite:

The US’ “War on Drugs” and “War on Terror” have produced a parallel system of state violence and social control, manifested through unjust prosecutions and the mass incarceration of people of color. 

Join us on April 18th from 6:30-8:30pm for a town hall discussion as we hear first-hand stories from former prisoners, family members, lawyers, intellectuals, historians and activists about excessive sentences, discriminatory policing, suppression of political dissent, and mass incarceration. 

 

• Constance Malcolm / Mother of Ramarley Graham, who was killed by the NYPD in his own home
• Jazz Hayden / Community activist & founding member of the Campaign to End The New Jim Crow
• Faisal Hashmi / Brother of Fahad Hashmi, who was accused of providing material support to Al-Qaeda
• Ramzi Kassem / Lawyer represent-ing multiple detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Bagram Airforce Base, & other US “Black Sites
• Yusef Salaam / Wrongfully convicted in the Central Park jogger case
• Noor Elashi / Daughter of Holy Land Five political prisoner, Ghassan Elashi
• Shaheena Parveen / Mother of Matin Siraj, who was charged as a terrorist in a fabricated NYPD plot
• Andy Stepanian / Convicted as a terrorist for his animal rights activism
• Amir Varick / Community Activist sentenced to 25 years to life for a non violent drug offense
• Alicia McWilliams / Activist & Aunt of Newburgh 4 defendant, David Williams.
• Sohail Daulatzai / Author of “Black Star, Crescent Moon”
• Steve Downs / Former lawyer in the ‘US vs. Yassin Aref’ case

After the event, if a consensus is reached, we will hit the streets for a solidarity march through Harlem!

 

This FREE event is presented by 

• CTENJC, The Campaign to End The New Jim Crow
• In partnership with:
• NCPCF-National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms
• CAIR-Council on American Islamic Relations
• DRUM, Desis Rising Up and Moving
• Justice by the Pen

 

Lean more about:

The Campaign to End The New Jim Crow www.endnewjimcrow.org

For more information about this event, contact: 

hodayesha@gmail.com or justicebythepen@gmail.com

reclaimingthelatinatag:

Cristina Rodríguez-Cabral was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1959 and is a sociologist, writer, poet and a literary critic. She is the first afro-Uruguayan to achieve a Doctoral degree, which she earned at the University of Missouri in 2004. Cabral earned a B.A. in Sociology and Nursing, a Master degree in Teaching English as a Second Language, and a Doctoral degree in Romance Languages. Her field of expertise is Afro/African-Hispanic literature. Cabral has published a book of poetry From my Trench (1993), and the anthology Memory & Resistance (2004). Her poetic work has been analyzed by several scholars and included in a number of Latin American courses. Her work also is included in collections like Alberto Britos’s Anthology of Black Uruguayan Poets (1990), Myriam DeCosta-Willis’ Daughters of the Diaspora (2003), Lucia Ortiz’s Hijas del Muntu (2011), among others. Cabral has participated in a NEH Summer Institute on Equatorial Guinea, and published a number of articles on the literature and culture of that country. Along the year Dr. Cabral receives several invitations from Universities in the state and abroad to present her creative work as well as to visit classes dealing with African/Afro-Hispanic issues and Women studies. Cabral is currently a professor of Spanish and Literature at North Carolina Central University. [x]

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Art for Change is proud to present, SWEAT + ASHES, by ILLYGRL, curated by Micaela Anaya and Grace McAvoy.

Please join us for the opening of the exhibit at the AFC gallery.

Friday, March 8, 7:30-10:30
1699 Lexington Ave (btwn 106 & 107th street), bottom level 

FREE and open to the public. 

ABOUT SWEAT + ASHES
Illygrl is an Interventionist Arts Collective. We seek to confront the comfortable by exposing the underbelly of globalization as lived by garment sweatshop women workers; to tear down the myth of U.S. exceptionalism by speaking to the third world experience of U.S. Capital Imperialism. Our purpose is to reveal truths through storytelling and to create consumer transparency through interventions.

Four months ago we sat in a tin garage faced with the truth we had once run from. The truth is that many of us born into this vortex of waste and want do not wish to consider an|other| as our egos gawk at themselves in new threads. But these threads, whether we want it or not, tie us. Four months ago, in Guatemala, we sat with 9 women maquila workers, every night since we sit with their stories- welcoming their truths over our myths.

By working collectively with women worldwide and as active citizens here we hope to push the corporations that outsource to factories globally to consider the wellbeing of the workers and not simply their profit margins. We believe art/intervention can inspire an awakening of consciousness and further collective action. It is our fundamental belief that
art can change people, culture, humanity.

SWEAT + ASHES is a piece of our journey, a piece of their stories and hopefully a piece of your vision for people to outgrow profit. 

ABOUT ART FOR CHANGE
Art for Change (AfC) is a 501(c)3 organization that encourages the advancement of progressive social change by using art as a catalyst for disseminating information to people. We provide space to discuss and explore that information, stimulating individual and collective reflection, which leads to action and change.

http://www.artforchange.org/about/

jalwhite:

“Sacar la Voz” - Ana Tijoux