Kelis Reading African American Science Fiction Author Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild & Other Stories
I am here for this
Still in love with this.
Curious to know if that’s a songwriting book there, or if it’s general note-taking.
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Mic check!! Here’s the lineup for the 1st My Art, My Culture: Women, Media & Hip Hop Series Fri 3/22 from 6-9pm! Get your tickets here.
ABOUT Betti Ono & The Daughters of Dilla Project have embarked upon the journey of creating an opportunity for cultural, inter-generational dialogue amongst ourselves and our community artists. Read more to learn about the faces of My Art, My Culture: Women, Media & Hip Hop Series I. Your support can help make the My Art, My Culture an ongoing series. Spread the word, tickets are only $10 available at myartmyculture.eventbrite.com
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Bumming Cigarettes is an Official Selection of the 2013 Langston Hughes African American Film Festival!
***Director tiona.m. will be attendance in Seattle, WA at the April 20, 2013 screening. This screening is sponsored and hosted by Sistah Sinema.
*see you there!
There will be an open assembly on Wednesday, March 20th @ 7pm and a ‘mass march’ next Sunday in East Flatbush to protest the killing of Kimani Gray.
Oakland is also having a march in solidarity with NYC on Thursday. For more info, visit their event page on Facebook.
IM GOING
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-Youth fighting against education system!!!
in tuscon a group of youth activists and organizers from U.N.I.D.O.S. (United Non-Discriminatory Individuals Demanding Our Studies!)staged a direct action challenging the school board and authorities to end their white supremacist erasure of Brown peoples’ history in Arizona. woohoo! “Our education is under attack. What do we do? Fight back.” inspiring!
(Source: unidostucson.wordpress.com)
Happy 69th birthday Queen Alice Walker!!!!
image description: alice walker looking to the side with her beautiful eyes, short grain fro, wearing a red loose fit v-neck shirt with a silver cross hand made necklace and earrings, one of her hands is up as if she is about to speak and she looks hopeful and kind and badass
*kimani gray with the ancestors*
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Some escaped slaves decided to create their own Quilombo in the forest of North America, and they called it A.P.O.C. - Anarchist People Of Color. APOC was a necessary step on the beginning of the self-determination of people of color inside the movement. This self-determination we seek is to analyze the problems of race inside and outside the movement in our own perspective. To create our own analysis of authority and what it means for us to be Anarchists….
APOC is our Quilombo. Our keep, our fortress, where we can meet as people from oppressed background and not only share our experiences and how they are relevant to each other, but also how they are relevant in the larger scheme of things. APOC is more than a safe zone for people to feel good about not being in a room without white folk, but is a conscious project of self-determination for people of color. It is a step closer to our freedom as a people and the materialization of the idea that community comes from something in common, something we can share. No, APOC is no utopia. It is not even close. But that is neither here nor now. We may stumble, we may fall, we may even break our heads wide open. But at least we are walking on our own two feet….
I have to tell you a secret about APOC: it is not about white people at all. It is not, and it should not be ever. I am tired of talking about white people, thinking of white people, analyzing white people and worrying about white people. I want to know what I have in common with my Korean sister and my Guatemalan brother. I want to know about the great struggles for liberation in Uganda and how the Filipino resisted imperalism. What can we learn from each other as people of color? What does my bairro in Rio de Janeiro has in common with a Latino barrio in East Side San Jose? This is something I wrote for my sisters and brothers at APOC. We need to understand ourselves in order to understand the world around us and be able to fightand destroy the bourgeois plague which eating away our homes, our lives and our cultures. As a black person, my anarchism is Black Anarchism. As a member of the exploited class, my anarchism is Class-Struggle Anarchism. As a person who wishes for a better future, my anarchism is Anarchist-Communism.
Vamos a ela, porque temos muito, muito para construir.
Não tá morto que peleia!
Viva a Anarquia!
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image description: fotos of the diverse artists in the collective, they look of afro, native, euro, asian, middle eastern, latin american descent (though i don’t know), some photos are of shoes, scarves, faces with colorful backdrops, folks wearing cool queer clothing, and together look like a motley/mosaic/collage of multiplicity in community
SICK is an artist-driven collective that aims to unite a community of artists who are simultaneously navigating chronic illness and gender-variant identities in the Bay Area and beyond. Such populations are often made to choose one of these identities in order to maintain safety, alliance, and visibility. As a new organization, SICK will provide an essential community conversation and outlet for artistic expression, culminating in its first exhibition and performance in May 2013 at the SF LGBT Center.
Bay Area: Save the date! Come to El Rio for HOMOCHROMATIC on March 16th, a queer dance party benefitting SICK.
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