janetmock:

I’m a believer in the power of the written word. Today, I got to see my name alongside two of the women whose work guide me: Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson.

Stephen Ira, who is profiling the honorees at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s 10th anniversary celebration, wrote a piece…

androphilia:

Bluest Eyes By Emory Douglas, 2008

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mehreenkasana:

Transgender community in Pakistan take to the streets against drone strikes

Dozens of people held a rally and demonstrated at the Minara road to protest against Nato supply routes being reopened and drone strikes. According to the protestors, drone strikes are counterproductive and result into collateral damage, which is intolerable.

[…]

Fakir said that the US claims that it is targeting terrorists by the drones but asked who was responsible for the deaths of innocents. According to Fakir, drone strikes are greater acts of terrorisms. To further elaborate, Fakir asked that if terrorists were to enter a school in the US and take students hostage, the US would not send drones to fire missile on the school but would find the safest way to kill or arrest the terrorists without harming the children.

Yes.

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Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, a special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order (Vol 37, No. 4, 2011-2012),critically examines grassroots efforts, cultural interventions, and theoretical questions regarding community-based strategies to address gendered violence.  This collection encapsulates a decade of local and national initiatives led by or inspired by allied social movements that reflect the complexities of integrating the theory and practice of community accountability.

edited by Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, Alisa Bierria, Mimi Kim

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence
  – Editors’ Introduction
• Foreword
  – Beth E. Richie
• Moving Beyond Critique: Creative Interventions and Reconstructions of Community Accountability
  – Mimi Kim
• Decolonizing Anti-Rape Law and Strategizing Accountability in Native American Communities
  – Andrea Smith
• Philly Stands Up: Inside the Politics and Poetics of Transformative Justice and Community Accountability in Sexual Assault Situations
  –Esteban Lance Kelly
• The Best Daughter
  – Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• Catalyzing Possibility: The NO! Film Documentary as Community Accountability Technology
  – Theryn Kigvamasud’Vashti and Aishah Shahidah Simmons, interviewed by Alisa Bierria
• In Our Hands: Community Accountability as Pedagogical Strategy
  – Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo
• “Where Them Bloggers At?”: Reflections on Rihanna, Accountability, and Survivor Subjectivity
  – Alisa Bierria
• Death and Rebirth of a Movement: Queering Critical Ethnic Studies
  – Cathy Cohen
• Afterword: After the Juggernaut Crashes
  – Julia C. Oparah

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dumbthingswhitepplsay:

janetmock:

It’s rare that trans women are given the mic to speak about our experiences on our own terms, and it’s an even rarer occurrence when we women of color get to share space with one another and truth tell in a public space.

I’m proud of the nearly 10 minutes I shared with Isis King, who came into the media’s focus when she was recruited to compete on Cycle 11 of America’s Next Top Model in 2008. I’m proud to call Isis my dear sister and to be able to speak with her about our public lives.

For In The Life Media’s landmark 20th season, Isis and I discuss living visibly as trans women, our personal experiences in the media and our views on “tranny” and divisive trans terminology.

I’d like to use this space to clarify three things:

1. Isis mentioned Laverne Cox as one of the only examples she’s known of trans women like herself on television. I’d like to highlight the fact that other sisters are and have also represented on television: Carmen Carrera, Candis Cayne, Jamie Clayton, Nina Poon, Harmony Santana and Nong Ariyaphon Southiphong.

2. I made a statement about our responsibility to educate others about our experiences. I said, “You have to use your life as a teaching moment.” It’s a personal choice to do so, and it’s a responsibility that I take on, but it is NOT our job to educate people about us. I was reminded of this when I read Janani Balasubramanian’s essay “Brown Silence,” where she so eloquently writes: “Not everyone’s education needs to be our responsibility all the time…Our words and energy should also be conserved.”

3. I also said the dehumanization of trans women in the media “leads to trans women hurting themselves in a way that they feel they don’t deserve more.” Instead, I’d like to add that the systematic dehumanization of trans women through words, images and the lack thereof of words and images that represent the totality of our experiences actually is what contributes to others seeing us as less than human therefore justifying the violence, battery, criminalization and murders we face. 

Finally, I hope conversations like these continue to happen, and that they happen with a wide array of women, because it’s only in hearing a plethora of our voices do we paint a more realistic portrait of womanhood. 

TWoC talking about themselves????

that’s all i needed to know

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mothernaturenetwork:

When you hear the words “composting toilet,” there’s a good chance you immediately begin imagining some sort of terrifying box with a hole in it you want nothing to do with.

mikeinutah:

Zion / Angels Landing Part II

ethiopienne:

Forever reblog.

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mothernaturenetwork:

Ingredients for a successful urban kitchen garden
Growing your own food can be easier than you think.

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