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Indigenous Young Women: Speaking our Truths, Building our Strengths
In honor of World Indigenous Peoples Day, Native Youth Sexual Health Network and Girls Action Foundation has officially launched Indigenous Young Women Speaking Our Truths, Building Our Strengths national project and gathering! Check it out: Indigenous Young...
Language & Action back from hiatus!
Welcome back to Language & Action, a periodic collection of news about organizing, ideas, interventions, and opportunities, with an emphasis on the lives of women of color, trans people of color, and queer people of color. Â We need your help to keep this feature...
Stereotypes, Myths, & Criminalizing Policies: Regulating the Lives of Poor Women
Statement from New Orleans-based Women's Health & Justice Initiative, July 2011 Since the beginning of the year, we have witnessed a surge of legislative attacks targeting poor communities through bills calling for mandatory drug testing as an eligibility...
Indigenous Peoples In the Sex Trade – Speaking For Ourselves
Indigenous Peoples In the Sex Trade – Speaking For Ourselves We as Indigenous peoples who have current and/or former life experience in the sex trade and sex industries met on unceeded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver on Monday April 11th 2011. In a talking circle...
Justice for Palestine: A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists
Please distribute widely Justice for Palestine A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists Between June 14 and June 23, 2011, a delegation of 11 scholars, activists, and artists visited occupied Palestine. As indigenous and women of color feminists...
Strauss-Kahn, Domestic Immigrants and Money, Power, Respect
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was recently accused of sexual assault by a black immigrant woman who worked as a maid in a New York hotel. Since then, the media, Strauss-Kahn's defense team, and others have attempted...
Creating Collective Access at the Allied Media Conference (Detroit)!
Creating Collective Access is at the Allied Media Conference again this year! This is our second year (details on our development in Detroit last year here) and we are growing! We are getting big and juicy! This shit is for real!!! Are you a crip and/or someone with a...
“Man Down” – Rihanna Uncovers the Anguish of Rape Victims and Calls the Community to Accountability
Rihanna recently released a powerful video, "Man Down," which portrays sexual violence and a lethal response. Many writers have reflected on the politics of sexual violence against black women in the context of this video including Akiba Solomon at Colorlines, Crunk...
INCITE! Needs Your Help Getting to Detroit!
Hello INCITE Supporters! The Allied Media Conference is around the corner, and the INCITE Track is presenting an incredible bunch of workshops this year. Our work grows stronger each year through this time spent in Detroit, sharing skills, deepening relationships, and...
Support the Allied Media Conference & Shawty Got Skillz
Stacey & Mia from To The Other Side Of Dreaming break down why it's critical to support the Allied Media Conference (June 23-26, 2011, Detroit), a movement building space for radical women of color/people of color organizing, disability justice, queer young...
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