Records

Radical Women of Color US Feminists

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For my records and for your knowledge, a list.
Andrea Smith
Audre Lorde
Angela Davis
Cherrie Moraga
Gloria Anzaldua
Haunani Kay Trask
Ella Shohat
Lee Maracle Chrystos
Daisy Hernandez
Barbara Smith
Carla Trujillo
Nadine Naber
Rabab Abdulhadi

More:
bell hooks
Ninotchka Rosca
Leela Fernandes
Melinda de Jesus
Helen Zia

2nd Edition of Asian American Women…

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Thanks to BFP for the this:

2ND EDITION OF ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN ISSUES, CONCERNS, AND RESPONSIVE
HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCACY

Announcing the second edition of
Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil
Rights Advocacy

by NAPAWF Founding Sister, Lora Jo Foo
Published by iUniverse

Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil
Rights Advocacy reveals the struggles of Asian American women at the bottom
of the socio-economic ladder where hunger, illness, homelessness, sweatshop
labor and even involuntary servitude are everyday realities. The health and
lives of Asian American women of all socio-economic classes are endangered
due to prevalent, but inaccurate stereotypes which hide the appalling level
of human and civil rights violations against them. The book captures their
suffering and also the fighting spirit of Asian American women who have
waged social and economic justice campaigns and founded organizations to
right the wrongs against them.

We encourage you, fellow sisters, to meet with your chapters and discuss
your thoughts and ideas about the issues the book raises. Several of the
chapters of this second edition were updated by women activists and
advocates around the country. We encourage you to invite these courageous
women to your meetings so that they may share their experiences and help
facilitate active and productive discussion.

To thank you for your hard work and commitment to the movement, current paid
NAPAWF members may purchase the book at a discounted rate. Supplies are
limited so order your copy today! To place an order, please visit our
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aawbook@napawf.org. If
you aren’t a current paid member, sign up today so you can take advantage of
this special discount!
Paperback: $19.95 $15.00 NAPAWF Members Only!
Hardcover: $29.95 $25.00 NAPAWF Members Only!

2 Marbles for the Day, Young Girls in the System and Beauty Iran

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Cases like the Jena 6, ones that have claimed national attention, disturb us to our bone. However, just because media and the internet have been introducing these case to us now doesn’t mean that injustices haven’t been going on for years, decades, lifetimes even.

Bfp has a fantastic and haunting collection of institutionalized violence against girls, including instances like a young teen getting arrested for writing, “OKAY” on her desk and another getting pepper-sprayed after biting a police officers arm.

If you are an advocate for women’s rights, if you are looking to make this place just a little bit better after you pass, then you know that what we leave behind and what WE DO for our youth NOW is of critical magnitude. This could be a prophetic glimpse into what happens when we become so focused on WOMYN that we forget that WOC were all once young girls.

Big thanks to BFP.

For bloggers and independant media makers, we take it upon ourselves to out into the world what we think is going unseen and unheard. If you are like me and believe that photography is one of the ways into truth (not with Photoshop) and freedom, go here and dare to think of our Iranian sisters and brothers who are caught in the scaling violence and threats of our US-led war into the Middle East.

H/T to Nez.

Living in the Margins

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A gigantic resource was just published. Check it out, distribute widely, but most especially: READ IT.

Living in the margins: A national survey of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander Americans

Here are some key finders…Some teasers to get you to read it in its entirety:
* Nearly every respondent (98 percent) had experienced at least one form of discrimination and/or harassment in their lives.
* Nearly all respondents (89 percent) agreed that homophobia and/or transphobia are problems within the broader API community.
* 78 percent of respondents agreed that API LGBT people experience racism within the predominantly white LGBT community.
* Only 50 percent of respondents said that English was their native language. Yet nearly all LGBT informational and advocacy materials are produced in English.