International Women's Rights Collective

cleanlinez: dear-white-people: justinsimien: lilliep: lilliep...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:09:19 -0400

dear-white-people:

justinsimien:

lilliep:

lilliep:

Dear White People (2012)

DEAR WHITE PEOPLE follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over a popular “African American” themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film will explore racial identity in “post-racial” America while weaving a universal story of forging one’s unique path in the world.

Trailer — Info — Donate

ETA:

Help send the film to the Tribeca Industry Meetings vote here.

I know ppl are still reblogging this so edited to include the voting link.

The #DearWhitePeople Union is UNSTOPPABLE. So excited to make a movie you will love as much as we love you! (which is a lot lot)

again: send film to Tribeca Industry Meetings via this link: http://www.indiewire.com/article/its-time-to-vote-for-project-of-the-year-send-one-film-to-the-tribe

"TRIGGER WARNING As a survivor of campus sexual assault, and as someone who became a feminist..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:08:21 -0400

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**TRIGGER WARNING**

As a survivor of campus sexual assault, and as someone who became a feminist and an activist after my own experience of institutional apathy towards my attacks, I feel conflicted. I am so glad that this serious issue is getting more attention, but I am increasingly frustrated and almost scared by the lack of diversity that I see in the survivors receiving national media attention. As I look at photos and watch the media appearances of these resilient, brave survivors I can’t help to feel invisible. I browse a network of campus rape survivors who are working to combat institutional apathy towards rape victims and struggle to find other women of color who are like me.

Why does the representation of survivors in the media matter? Validation of black women of survivors would go against the jezebel stereotype that, in fact, black women are not all sexually insatiable creatures and can be raped. It would challenge attitudes that black women are more to blame for being survivors of sexual and domestic violence and that being raped is just as serious as if they were any other color. An important message that media attention on rape survivors means that “you matter.” Do not other survivors — whether they are men, of color, poor, LGBTQ, gender non-conforming matter, too?

What has contributed to young white women being the face of rape survivors in media? I do not know. It may be a reflection of our culture to be more sympathetic to white female survivors as talking about rape and rape culture in mainstream media becomes more prevalent (a sort of extension of “missing white woman syndrome”). It could be general distrust or fear of the mainstream media to properly tell our stories. Or maybe no one wants to listen. When I first was trying to get attention to my story, I remember reporters, producers, and magazines alike asking me to rehash the painful details of my story only to pick to feature other survivors: all of them pretty, female, and white.

”

- Wagatwe Wajuki, “College Rape: Does The Media Only Focus Only On White Survivors?”, PolicyMic 4/29/13 (via racialicious)

brofiling: white privilege radically changes the appearance of...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:55:38 -0400

brofiling:

white privilege radically changes the appearance of Tsarnaev bros

This is how brofiling actually works in real life. The Week Magazine ran with this image as their cover sketch.

Just so it is said, clearly and unambiguously: the Tsarnaev brothers are white guys. They are white. The FBI’s own wanted poster for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lists his race as “white”, but you would never know it from the cover image on The Week.

Hold up the cover to someone else, and ask them how many white people they can see on the cover. Chances are they will identify Gabby Giffords on the top left and the image of the Boston policemen (all white men) on the top right, but how about those two guys in the center? Nope, not a chance that anyone would say these caricatures look white.

Why? Because in addition to being white they are also “Muslim”, which is the current dehumanizing “Other” that whiteness has constructed as a sanctioned target for violence in US popular culture.

This is how white privilege works in media representations and everyday life: when the criminal suspects are demonstrably white men, seize upon any aspect of difference and magnify it such that they become Othered, non-white, and menacing. If it is too hard to do so, simply dismiss them as aberrations and isolated cases of insanity. This is also how white culture, specifically the process of whiteness in conjunction with white privilege, portrays several non-white identities, including those that are now considered white but at one time were decidedly not so. For example, see here for how the Irish were depicted as violent apes or lazy drunks in the late 1800s to early 1900s.

"what are the words you do not have? what do you need to say? what are the tyranies you swallow day..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:11:50 -0400

“what are the words you do not have? what do you need to say? what are the tyranies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?”

- audre lorde (via justmegger)

"It is unfair to ask a woman to leave aside her personal experience and discuss feminist issues in..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:11:35 -0400

“It is unfair to ask a woman to leave aside her personal experience and discuss feminist issues in the abstract. You are discussing the stuff of her life. Asking her to “not make it personal” is to ask her to wrench her womanhood from her personhood. Don’t play Devil’s advocate. Seriously. Just don’t.”

- Shakesville: I Am Not a Political Football (via finedineonmyvegangenitalia)

readabookson: https://anonfiles.com/file/a38ddf78d2485f414c46e4f...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:07:22 -0400

readabookson:

https://anonfiles.com/file/a38ddf78d2485f414c46e4f108ce7307

"An even bigger issue is that if people think social justice is about niceness, it means they have..."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:38:23 -0400

“An even bigger issue is that if people think social justice is about niceness, it means they have fundamentally misunderstood privilege. Privilege does not mean you live in a world where people are nice to you and never insult you. It means you live in a world in which you, and people like you, are given systematic advantages over other people. Being marginalised does not mean people are always nasty to you, it means you live in a world in which many aspects of the cultural, social and economic systems are stacked against people like you. Some very privileged people have had awful experiences in life, but it does not erase their privilege.”

- The Revolution Will Not Be Polite (via sonicy0uth)

recipes for revolution are quiteeeeee tricky.

(via crystal-cat-loves-ac)

"How do you raise a young person in our simultaneously both porned out and repressed culture to both..."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:29:20 -0400

““How do you raise a young person in our simultaneously both porned out and repressed culture to both avoid sexual assault while not being alienated from their own sexuality? Please, please tell me.””

- Socialist activist & journalist for the Nation Dave Zirin this week on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry. (via thepeoplesrecord)

space-legs: buttonpoetry: Janani - “trans/national” (CUPSI...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:32:01 -0400

space-legs:

buttonpoetry:

Janani - “trans/national” (CUPSI 2013)

“My testosterone is now made by Israel’s largest company. There is colonization running through my bloodstream.”

Janani, of Stanford University, performing during semifinals at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.

TEARS

emily84: kjahjlhfalkshdfkjas

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:28:34 -0400

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kjahjlhfalkshdfkjas

fuckyeahfeminists: Classy. Because to advertise a furniture...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:38:44 -0400

fuckyeahfeminists:

Classy. Because to advertise a furniture sale you have to call women trash. How funny! Hook ups! Sex! And if we’re joking about sex, clearly we have to frame it around hetereosexual sexual contact. Once a guy hooks up with a girl she’s used and trash. GET IT?

SO. HILARIOUS.

not.

Take Back the Nigh march was great! Thank you Crimson for not...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:20:41 -0400

Take Back the Nigh march was great! Thank you Crimson for not covering it at all.

Boston Bombings Show That Even "Safe Spaces" Are Dangerous

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:12:17 -0400

Boston Bombings Show That Even "Safe Spaces" Are Dangerous:

“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.”

shameless self-promotion

fall3nsoldi3r: i-am-the-one-who-knocks: jacks-black-canvas: bl...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:20:06 -0400

fall3nsoldi3r:

i-am-the-one-who-knocks:

jacks-black-canvas:

blacksheep-runner:

Petition the Obama Administration to mandate education about sexual assault and rape in schools

The last petition we were pushing did not obtain enough votes, we will not stop until this is mandated. Please vote on the WHITEHOUSE.GOV website, it takes 2 seconds and they never send you emails.

Good Idea

I support this 100%

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lonelylilvampire: DW Diaz’s New Urban Infitters Line:...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:12:27 -0400

lonelylilvampire:

DW Diaz’s New Urban Infitters Line: Genocide Chic!

Daniella Pineda a.k.a. Sophie of The Originals as her alter ego DW Diaz in this little piece of satire. I think I love her already.

thepeoplesrecord: wagingpeace: Angela Davis on Violence I...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:11:06 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

wagingpeace:

Angela Davis on Violence

I will always reblog anything on Dr. Angela Davis.

[Crimson] Out of the Classroom, Into the Streets

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:29:18 -0400

[Crimson] Out of the Classroom, Into the Streets:

“Feeling anger about sexual violence is socially acceptable, but when that anger gets loud and public, people get uncomfortable. It is hard to ignore. It distracts us from our daily work of pretending that everything is okay. This is exactly what we want to do.

We believe that it’s time to take back Take Back the Night, that we’ve been quiet for too long, that rape culture should—and does—make us angry, and frustrated, and that this is the perfect opportunity to let that anger out. So this week we will be marching, for the first time in recent memory, through Harvard Square. We will have signs, and we will be loud. Our message will be clear: Sexual violence is unacceptable, period. And we’re not going to pretend that being quiet about it is okay any longer.”

readabookson: https://anonfiles.com/file/424acad1020b0f64c1b6456...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:21:28 -0400

readabookson:

https://anonfiles.com/file/424acad1020b0f64c1b6456e155aae58

[BGD] Hey, White Liberals: A Word On The Boston Bombings, The Suffering Of White Children, And The Erosion of Empathy

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:11:47 -0400

[BGD] Hey, White Liberals: A Word On The Boston Bombings, The Suffering Of White Children, And The Erosion of Empathy:

by Mia McKenzie Hey, White Liberals*: I needed to break protocol to reach out to you and let you know that youâre killing me. No, worse. Much worse. You are robbing me of part of my humanity. In lots of ways, really, and frequently, but right now let’s just talk about this one way: Your constant prioritization of the lives of white people over the lives of people of color is taking a serious toll on my psyche and those of many in my community. And by that I don’t mean what you might expect. Most of us already know that racism and its BFF white privilege have detrimental effects on people of color. Racial oppression leads to any number of unhealthy conditions, including high blood pressure, depression, heart disease, diabetes and even asthma. But what Iâm talking about is something different. Something Iâm going to call DSWP: desensitization to the suffering of white people. A few days ago, I was having lunch with a good friend who is Korean-American, and she told me that when

poc-creators: INCITE! Women of Color against Violence INCITE!...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:22:05 -0400

poc-creators:

INCITE! Women of Color against Violence

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and our communities through direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing.

WHO WE ARE:

INCITE! is made up of grassroots chapters and affiliates across the U.S.; other collectives working on particular political projects such as police violence, reproductive justice, and media justice; a national collective that works to leverage this grassroots organizing on a national and transnational platform; an advisory collective that helps increase the capacity of national organizing; and thousands of members and supporters.

WHAT WE DO:

INCITE! works with groups of women of color and their communities to develop political projects that address the multiple forms of violence women of color experience in our lives, on our bodies, and in our communities.

We identify “violence against women of color” as a combination of “violence directed at communities,” such as police violence, war, and colonialism, and “violence within communities,” such as rape and domestic violence.

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The Color of Violence: The INCITE Anthology

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, a national organization of radical feminists of color, announces Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, an anthology of critical writings demanding that we address violence against women of color in all its forms, including interpersonal violence, such as sexual and domestic violence, and state violence, such as police brutality, militarism, attacks on immigrants and Indian treaty rights, the proliferation of prisons, economic neo-colonialism, and violence from the medical industry. Color of Violence presents the fierce and vital writing of 33 visionary radical feminists of color. These writers not only investigate the intersecting ways in which violence and oppression exist in the lives of women of color and our communities, they also map innovative strategies of movement building and resistance used by women and trans people of color around the world. Of the many topics they address, Color of Violence asks us to consider that:MORE>

INCITE- The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

“I’m very much afraid of this ‘Foundation Complex.’ We’re getting praise from places that worry me.” -Ella Baker, June 1963

“I want us all to be real creative about our tactics and strategies to dismantle the empire.” - Joo-Hyun Kang, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded Conference, 2004

WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF THE NON-PROFIT INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ON REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT BUILDING? In this landmark collection, over 25 activists and scholars describe and discuss the non-profit industrial complex (NPIC)—a system of relationships between the state, the owning classes, foundations, and social service & social justice organizations that results in the surveillance, control, derailment, and everyday management of political movements. Naming what some might call “the elephant in the room,” the contributors to this groundbreaking and thought-provoking collection critical assess the NPIC’s impact on the practice and imagination of the political left in the U.S.

Of central concern is the emerging dominance of the 501(c)(3) non-profit, a model which some argue threatens to permanently eclipse autonomous grassroots-movement building in the arena of social justice. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded addresses the following questions:

What is the history of the non-profit model?

What drove its development?

How does it impact the form and direction of social justice organizing?

How has reliance on foundation funding impacted the course of social justice movements?

How does 501(c)3 non-profit status impact social justice organizations’ relationship to the state?

How does non-profit status allow the state to co-opt and control our movements?

Are there ways the non-profit model can be used subversively to support more radical visions for social change?

What are the alternatives for building viable social justice movements?

How do we resource our movements outside the non-profit structure? MORE