tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14665364461861199462024-03-12T16:19:38.596-07:00Feminisms in ActionWMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-75385133633363522892017-04-12T12:24:00.001-07:002017-04-12T12:24:36.002-07:00We Need to Talk About Disability And Sexual Violence<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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There is no monolithic experience to surviving trauma. Specifically, aspects of identity, such as race, class, ability, gender identity, and citizenship status, can have a profound impact on the experiences of survivors. Beyond simply acknowledging this, we have to ensure that our conversations and support systems truly delve deeply into how survivors’ identities influence their experiences. Just as no two survivors have the same experience, no two disabled individuals are the same. Disabled people can experience sexual violence in vastly different ways, but it is important that we are all aware of how we can strive to support survivors with a range of physical, sensory, psychosocial, and intellectual disabilities. For example, when we fight against street harassment with campaigns such as #YesAllWomen, it is crucial to remember who might be excluded from this narrative. As Kayla Whaley explains in her article </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nobody Catcalls the Woman in the Wheelchair “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People register “disabled” before they register “woman” and the former always overrides the latter, because in our </span><a href="http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/08/6-common-forms-of-ableism/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ableist society</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a disabled body is necessarily a </span><a href="http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/01/getting-laid-isnt-answer-to-ableism/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">desexualized one</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Whaley, 2016). When we talk about #BodyPositivity, we need to include </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">all </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bodies, including those who use wheelchairs or are missing limbs. Just as Whaley says, “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harassment, after all, isn’t actually about sex, but </span><a href="http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/10/street-harassment-compliment/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">about power</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” (Whaley, 2016). Exerting power to desexualize disabled women is harassment. 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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to including disabled women in the conversation about street harassment, we must acknowledge how disability plays a role in complicating the notion of consent. Individuals with intellectual disabilities and physical disabilities alike may rely on a caregiver to assist them in gaining and providing consent with a partner. Furthermore, many people view disability as a sign of vulnerability and weakness, which is one reason for the disproportionately higher number of disabled survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Oftentimes, structural power relations and dehumanization within care facilities, such as group homes, facilitate cultures of violence (Gill, 2010). That being said, it is crucial to “</span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #232323; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">question how the predominance of sexual abuse for women with intellectual disabilities can be addressed without making the victims symbols of humiliation” (Gill, 2010).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Oftentimes, non-disabled people understand disabled people, particularly disabled women, solely through the lens of victimhood, whereas in reality, disabled people are complex, dynamic individuals with interlocking identities- not victims to be pitied. There is a tendency to deny disabled people agency, both in the context of consent and sexual violence, and beyond. We must resist that tendency. In order to do so, many disability theorists and activists advocate for an understanding of sexual violence that considers power, rather than consent. As Gill states, “</span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #232323; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The shift to define sexual abuse from a matter of consent to a relation of power and exploitation highlights that those who experience sexual abuse do so not because of a ‘lack’ of intelligence but rather because of unequal power dynamics that might favor professionals, family members, and staff” (Gill, 2010, p. 202). Just as we acknowledge the complicated role of race, gender identity, and sexual orientation in the discourse surrounding sexual violence, we need to consider the disproportionate ways in which disabled people are affected by sexual assault and relationship violence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #232323; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #232323; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While the statistics about the disproportionate impact of sexual violence on disabled individuals are jarring and important, I purposely did not focus on them in order to address the structural issues that create these discrepancies. Highlighting the prevalence of violence against disabled women and disabled gender nonconforming people runs the risk of perpetuating the stereotype of disabled women as helpless, when this is far from the case. In writing this blog, I seek to raise awareness about the impact of sexual violence on disabled people and to push myself and others to continue to think critically about how our anti-violence work and advocacy is failing disabled survivors. Intersectionality is more than just a theory. It is a critical consciousness that we should put into practice each and every day.</span></div>
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WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-59433708101163862052017-01-16T12:59:00.001-08:002017-02-03T10:35:31.660-08:00Spring 2017 WMST Brown Bags<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0TsO5u4c5s" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jessamyn Staley</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a yoga teacher, body positive advocate, and writer based in Durham, North Carolina. Jessamyn uses high energy vinyasa flow as a way to move past mental and emotional barriers. Her classes provide a body positive approach to yoga which celebrates students’ bodies and encourages them to ask “How do I feel?” rather than “How do I look?” when practicing yoga.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Confessions from a Recovering Academic” - Béalleka, formerly Lynn Maku</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Confessions of a Recovering Academic” charts Béalleka’s professional trajectory from her undergraduate specialization in Gender and Women’s Studies, through a series of jobs and a ten-year, academic career. Reflecting on her recent transition to independent employment, she speaks to the freedoms and challenges of feminist work in a gig-economy and heart-centered vocational practice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TBD - Prof. Gina Athena Ulysse</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><a href="http://www.ginaathenaulysse.com/meet.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prof. Gina Athena Ulysse </span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">does work on Haiti and her work is based in Black Studies and Feminist Scholarship. An interdisciplinary scholar-artist, Ulysse weaves history, statistics, personal narrative, theory, with Vodou chants to dramatize and address issues of social (in)justice, intersectional identities, spirituality and the dehumanization of Haitians and other marked bodies. With her performance work, she seeks to outline, confront and work through the continuities and discontinuities in the unprocessed horror of colonialism. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.bettyyu.net/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Betty Yu </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a Chinese-American interdisciplinary, multi-media artist, educator and community activist. Ms. Yu was a 2012 Public Artist-in-Resident with the Laundromat Project and is a 2015 Artist-in-Resident with the Saltonstall Foundation. Currently, Betty is a 2015 Cultural Agent with the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC) a people-powered arts network. She recently co-created the "Monument to Anti-Displacement Organizing" which is part of the Agitprop! show at the Brooklyn Museum. Betty is the recipient of the 2016 SOAPBOX Award in Community Arts from the Laundromat Project. She is a co-founder of the Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB), a cultural collective working with CAAAV Organizing Communities to tell the stories of Chinatown tenants fighting displacement. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“My talk/presentation will focus on the anti-gentrification cultural organizing work I've been doing as a co-founder of </span><a href="http://www.chinatownartbrigade.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chinatown Art Brigade</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an Asian women-led collective and our Brigade's close partnership with </span><a href="http://caaav.org/our-work/programs/chinatown-tenants-union" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CAAAV's Chinatown Tenants Union.</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The "Here to Stay" cultural art project that involves a series of large-scale outdoor mobile projections that will address themes of gentrification, displacement and community resilience in NYC's Chinatown. I will talk about our project as an example of how artists and cultural workers can work in collaboration with communities who are most directly impacted by gentrification and help provide a platform to tell those stories of resilience and resistance of those fighting gentrification and displacement. And as local cultural workers ourselves in the Brigade - we are really trying to put out there a different kind of model where artists can work with activists and tenants in Chinatown to use art and culture to help serve the interests of the working class immigrant communities. And in a concrete way, through art, culture and media, we are advancing CAAAV's campaign to push for a rezoning plan that will truly protect people from being displaced.” - Betty Yu</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> editor Jennifer Patterson as she takes a look at anti-violence work, survivorhood & healing. Often pushed to the margins, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming survivors experience high levels of sexual violence yet lack services and supportive spaces in which to begin the lifelong healing process. And what is healing when trauma is frequent or deeply rooted in systems bigger than individuals? What are the barriers, and who are the gatekeepers making sustainable healing difficult? What can healing look and feel like outside the dominant narratives of medicalization and pathologization? How can we reimagine our support and healing spaces in order to hold space for many narratives of harm and healing? </span></div>
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<a href="http://echothroughthefog.cordeliadillon.com/post/153393286626/how-to-call-your-reps-when-you-have-social-anxiety" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to Call Your Reps When You Have Social Anxiety</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s a LOT going on in the U.S. right now. Many people’s rights and safety are at risk. You’ve probably heard that one of the most effective ways to advocate for issues you care about, or stand up against dangerous policies and appointments, is to call your local representatives.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you want to help but have social anxiety and find phone calls very intimidating, you may be thinking, “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How do I do this?!”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (An oversized telephone handset hovers ominously over the narrator with its cord spiraling around her body. She looks up at it with great concern.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Block off time on your calendar.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Each call only takes a minute or so, but you might want to block off more time for your first call, so you can prepare your words & nerves. Don’t rush yourself! Scheduling is super important, otherwise you will perpetually delay calling.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Find out who represents you.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Some places to look: House (</span><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.house.gov%2Frepresentatives%2Ffind%2F&t=ZDE3ZjcwOTk1OTFhYTdiY2IwZjA2YzZiNGM0MDUxMGE1MjZkZjliNixPWFcxc21vSw%3D%3D&b=t%3Ax9ShjC5oeyGsxcy37uyMNg&m=1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) and Senate (</span><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.senate.gov%2Fsenators%2Fcontact%2F&t=MzIzOTYyZTUyN2MzNDExMzA1Zjk1NzIzZThkYjY5YjQwZjIwZjBhMixPWFcxc21vSw%3D%3D&b=t%3Ax9ShjC5oeyGsxcy37uyMNg&m=1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Write out exactly what you plan to say.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It only needs to be a few lines, and there are lots of templates online that you can use. e.g. “Hello! I am constituent from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">city</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">zip code</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) and I am calling to urge </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some Name</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to publicly…” If they have already released a statement, don’t use that as an excuse to avoid calling. I know it’s hard, but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">call anyway</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Thank them and ask them to keep pushing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take a deep breath.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> You can do this.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do this: dial. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(This is the hardest part.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read from your script. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At this point, you’ll likely be sent to voicemail or to an actual person. The person will most likely be friendly and probably won’t have much time to talk, so you shouldn’t have to deviate much from your script. It’s a quick conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That’s it! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Say “Thank you” and hang up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You did it! If you’re thinking “Hey, that wasn’t so bad…”, call more people! And follow up with them next week, or even tomorrow, to make sure they keep these issues top of mind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">okay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> if your voice shakes. It is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">okay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> if you feel awkward.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They get a lot of calls, so they don’t have time to judge you by how well you delivered your message.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is is also </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">okay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> if you can’t call.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week, my best friend told me, “Do something that is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">uncomfortable</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> but not </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">harmful</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to your mental health.” For me, calling was enough outside my comfort zone to be stressful & scary, but not so far away as to use up all my energy. That might not be the case for you, and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that’s okay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Do not beat yourself up about it. There are lots of ways to take action without picking up a phone:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Donate</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, if you’re financially able, to organizations that fight injustice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">202-761-5903</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My name is [YOUR NAME] and I am calling to urge the Army Corps of Engineers to reverse the permit granted for the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. In the event that the pipeline breaks, it will poison the drinking water of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and it crosses over the tribe’s ancestral burial grounds. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My name is [YOUR NAME] and I am calling to ask that [REPRESENTATIVE’S NAME] to take a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline and urge President Obama to intervene and and protect the peaceful demonstrators at Standing Rock. This pipeline violates 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">202-225-2611</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">701-328-2200</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My name is [YOUR NAME]. I am calling to ask that [Governor Dalrymple/Congressman Cramer] immediately remove the National Guard and end the violence against the water protectors at Standing Rock and put a stop to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The use of water canons in the frigid cold, tear gas, and rubber bullets will only lead to the death of the people there and the construction is illegal. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38466-don-t-be-passive-observers-of-last-night-s-terrorization-in-standing-rock-here-s-what-you-can-do" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38466-don-t-be-passive-observers-of-last-night-s-terrorization-in-standing-rock-here-s-what-you-can-do</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These Sheriffs and police departments have loaned out the officers who are abusing Native peoples in Standing Rock. Jam their phone lines and tell them to bring their people home. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<i>Here is the statement our WMST Fall 2016 Team shared today at the Brown Bag. We wrote this prior to the sharing of screenshots. We stand by our statement and implore our social justice communities also work hard to examine our complicities. We also want to acknowledge how crucial the LGBTQ Intern Team is to the Center's success and our sustained collective work. <img src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v5/f6c/1/16/2764.png" /><br /><br />Full Statement:</i><br /><br />The Center for Women’s Studies Intern Team would like to share our vision of what “moving forward” means to us. We envision the Center as a space where we aim to be our authentic selves. To embody this vision, we welcome anger, rage, frustration, annoyance, fear, disappointment, and pain. We hold space for people who do not see unity with those who have violently denied their humanity as an immediate possibility.<br /><br />We ask of ourselves and our communities to recognize that we are at very different positionalities and points in our activism and that we are not all impacted by our current sociopolitical context in the same ways or to the same degrees. People of color, trans and queer people, undocumented people, Muslims, Indigenous peoples, women, disabled people, and especially those at the intersections are especially vulnerable and our privileged identities impact how actually vulnerable we are.<br /><br />We recognize that this has been, is, and will continue to be LIFELONG, ONGOING work. We’re in it for the long haul, and we hope you are, too.WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-67568826414915976132016-10-19T09:16:00.001-07:002016-10-19T09:16:11.902-07:00Art & Activism Zine by Jake Mahr '17<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jake Mahr '17 created this cool zine for the 2016 Seneca Falls Dialogue Conference. Check it out!<br />
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<br />WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-29991218767565540682016-04-13T09:06:00.001-07:002016-04-13T09:06:13.821-07:00Intergenerational Learning with Barbara Smith & Alethia Jones<b id="docs-internal-guid-7e29b0dc-105b-5040-2ff9-2728fd46281c" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-7e29b0dc-105b-5040-2ff9-2728fd46281c" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Activism can often be a rewarding, yet tiring process. Barbara Smith is no stranger to the stress activism and organizing puts on one’s health. She suggests that through the process, one must remind one’s self why one got involved. Remembering the experiences, emotions and importance of cause often reinvigorates our commitment. Additionally, Smith challenged us on our framing of activism because she saw activism as a single issue cause whereas organizing is a more comprehensive way of seeing and seeking to eradicate oppression through a systemic lens. Next, she suggested that even when it seems like you're not making any tangible process to keep going because just like athletes, you can’t just train for the big event, rather you must practice and stay strong for multiple battles. For example, Black Lives Matter was able to come to forefront because they steadily asked what is unjust and how can they continue to destabilize power as it exist.</span></b></div>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-34655911990845644992016-03-30T10:50:00.001-07:002016-04-13T09:06:47.697-07:00Voting?!???<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So I know we’re all of age here (except for the occasional young ambitious student or the year-skippers out there), but even as a senior, I find myself incredibly confused about the voting process. Where does one go to vote? Am I registered? Does my registration expire? How do I get an absentee ballot if I’m in state? Or out of state? What? .... Oh god. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jake:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Change does happen on this campus when you get a good unification of students and faculty. After the posters went up, we emailed a set of administrators in various position from a couple deans, vice president, to people to work in facilities, people that work equity and diversity. It laid out some general steps that we hope to see in the future, we just want to make sure that no matter where anyone is on campus, where they are living, where they study, or what department they are in, they don’t have to worry about their safety every time they use the restroom. It hard to be student when you go to the restroom and you are not sure which restroom to use. It’s a stressful situation to be unsure which restroom to use or to feel as if the outside world is imposing a gender on you that is not your identity. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Images of the all-white 2015 Academy Awards winners.</td></tr>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">By now it seems everyone and his or her grandpapa has been talking
about this all white Oscar situation.</span><span style="background: white; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Y’all
were probably wondering why I had not written a blog on it yet, since I live
for pop culture. The truth is while everyone was outraged, I was trying to
figure out how much is too much for a Valentine’s Day dress. I did not
comment on the so white Oscars because I was SO not surprised<b>; </b></span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">to be honest no one should be surprised. The academy; which is the
group of people that choose the films nominated for the year is filled with old
white men. Also despite the fact that there were good movies this year with
black actors such as </span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Straight Outta Compton </i><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">and </span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Beast of No Nation</i><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">,
none of them were about slavery. And we all know white people only like black
actors when they are being subordinate or stereotypical. In the words of Queen
Nicki Minaj, “Thought you knew better, do your fucking research.” With all of
this said I was going to let the conversation of this all white Oscars die out,
but Jada Pinkett-Smith made a comment on it, than blacktress Janet Hubert, and
also the still clueless Stacy Dash, Viola Davis, and later Gabrielle Union. The
tea just continued to spill over with every waking hour, and I could not let
all that spilling of tea go unaddressed. At this moment I did what any great
blogger would do;I forwent all of my responsibilities to analyze this intense
tea and give to you just like it is.</span></div>
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<b>Jada Pinkett-Smith and The Fresh Queen of Petty Set it off</b></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Janet Hubert (left) responds to Jada Pinkett-Smith (right).</td></tr>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Let’s start from the beginning, a couple days after the
#OscarSoWhite announcement, Jada Pinkett-Smith posted a video where she urged
black people to recognize the amount of power they have. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqA_e-NfYFg"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt;">Smith said</span></a></span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">, “Is it time that people of color have amassed
enough power that we no longer need to ask to be invited anywhere and no longer
beg for the love, acknowledgement or respect of any group?” She also
stated that it was time for black people to take back their resources and feed
them into their communities and programs, which would acknowledge their work.
Smith ended her video by explaining she will neither be attending nor watching
the Oscars but she wished Chris Rock, the host this year, nothing but love. The
video seemed very well-intentioned, and I do not believe Jada was asking other
black actresses/actors to boycott the event; she was just announcing that she
herself was not going.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Blacktress Janet Hubert, the darker Aunt Viv, was not here for
Smith’s video and decided she would make a response video, where she dragged
Mrs. Smith by her edges. Hubert called out Smith for devoting her time on the
Oscars, “...when our boys are dying and people are starving.” Hubert also
accused Smith for being a hypocrite because she is now boycotting the same
group of people that have helped her and her family make millions of dollars.
“Just because the world didn’t go the way you wanted it to does not mean
you can ask people to stand up and sing we should overcome for you… You have a
huge production company in Hollywood where you only produce your friends,
family and yourself, so you are a part of Hollywood and you are a part of the
system.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;">Along Came an Airhead</b></h3>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The ever-clueless Stacey Dash chimed in, saying boycotting the
Oscars was ludicrous. Dash stated that black people either want segregation or
integration. Integration to her would be getting rid of awards such as BET and
NAACP Image “where you’re only nominated/awarded if you are black.” Dash also
said that if it were the other way around, meaning only white award shows
nominating only white people, everyone would be outraged. However it is the
other way around. That’s why people are upset because they only see white
people win awards. Dash claimed there should be no BET channel or Black History
month because at the end of the day we are all Americans.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Before we move any further, Stacey Dash is literally a buffoon and
confused. We should all take Gabriella Union’s advice and completely
ignore her existence. Secondly, awards such as the BET and Image awards exist
because black people do not see their work appreciated in the “mainstream” and
acclaimed white award shows. These awards do not create segregation because as
we can see from the previous Oscars and also this nation’s history, segregation
already exists. Without channels such as BET and Centric, black bodies would
not have been able to see themselves in media. There is still a need for these
networks and for magazines that center blackness because blackness in media is still
rare. Nothing has really changed, so please stop perpetuating this distorted
reality where blackness, black history, black art and bodies are appreciated
enough that we should abandon outlets that support and uplift us. Lastly, the
belief that only black people are nominated for either the BET awards or the
NAACP Image awards is false. Throughout the years there have been white
nominees for both award shows.</span></div>
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<b style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Addressing the Real Issues and Caring about All Black Lives</b></h3>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">People in media including the gossip of all time, Wendy Williams,
believed that Hubert was just being Petty LaBelle. Despite how petty it may
have seemed, Hubert’s response video made valid points. Smith was not speaking
out last year about the all white Oscars, and prior to this video she has not
mentioned the lack of black actors/ movies in Hollywood. Smith does not go to
many BET or Image awards, where black musicians and actors are acknowledged for
their outstanding work. Jada Pinkett-Smith does attend and speak about Black
Girls Rock, which promotes spreading positivity about young girls’ blackness.
However, I have not heard Jada speak out about police brutality or the water
crisis in Flint, Michigan. It is convenient how she has been able to center her
race at this point because her husband was not recognized by the Academy. Why
does she not center her blackness in other conversations where she can use her
voice to shed light on situations already occurring in the black community? Her
and her husband own a production company; why are they not using that to make
films centered around multifaceted black narratives and starring new black
actors? Situations that are a little more pressing than an Oscar. I am not
saying the Academy has not messed up, because they definitely did and have been
for almost forever. Yet, if we are being honest there are only like three
black movies that come out every year, so there is not a lot to nominate. Also
if we are keeping it like 115, Will Smith shouldn’t have been nominated because
that accent was trash. The </span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Straight Outta Compton</i><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> actors, yes, Michael B
Jordan in </span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Creed</i><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">, yes, Idris Elba in </span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Beast of No Nation;</i><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> yes!!!,
the bear from </span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The Revenant</i><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">, yes, Will Smith for </span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Concussion</i><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">, NO!</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">On the flip side, representation does matter. Devaluing the work
of black bodies even if they live in Hollywood is not okay. The question we
must ask ourselves when these situations occur is how would the conversation be
different if the people were white. Everyone was eating out of Patricia
Arquette’s hands when she went on stage last year and demanded the universe had
to help her obtain more money, even though she makes millions of dollars.
People were fine when Jennifer Lawrence wrote an essay about pay equality. Why
is it a problem when black bodies ask why they are not nominated? Why is it
automatically perceived as a complaint instead of a genuine concern that should
be evaluated? If I’m not mistaken this the third year in a row that we have
seen an all white Oscars, instead of 98 percent white Oscars. Why are white
actors/actresses who claim to be feminist and activist not speaking out against
this? Actors/Actresses should be speaking about the lack of diversity in
Hollywood constantly, not just when the Oscars come up. Actresses/ Actors
should be critical about the mostly white academy always, not just when the
Oscars come up. Black Actresses/Actors should appreciate the value of awards
such as BET and the Image awards all the time, not just when white America has
rejected them. If black Actresses/Actors are going to care and about their own,
they need to always care about their own all the time, not just when they
experience inequality in their privileged lives. Caring about black lives is
caring about them all the time in every situation. From Flint, Michigan to
Baltimore, Maryland; from Ferguson, Missouri to Cleveland, Ohio; From Sanford,
Florida to Staten Island, New York. Not just in Hollywood when the Oscars come
around.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">On that note that is all the tea I have the week. I know this blog
was longer than usual but there was so much confusion that needed to be
addressed. I hope you all keep your edges in tact in every situation, and never
let the man play you, and that you are always blessed. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">P.S. If you are
looking to watch a film produced by a black person that is not about slavery
check out</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HtCfm7SKbU"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <i>AmeriCan</i></span></a></span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">. AmeriCan is a short film on YouTube, which
gives viewers a new lens on police brutality. The film is directed by Nat
Parker, who is also the star and director of the new film, <i>The Birth of a
Nation.</i>This is the new birth of a nation about Nat Turner and not the old
KKK one. </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have you ever wondered about ways to keep your vagina clean and healthy? Read this list of some helpful tips! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-bfe15047-210c-6dbd-be20-37eb477d48b3" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Soaps: Don’t use harsh soaps, shampoo, powder, deodorant, or bleach on the vulva or inside you vagina. Like douching, these cleansers can negatively impact the PH levels of your vagina and increase your risk of getting an infection. Remember, your vagina can clean itself with small secretions/discharge. To assist the cleaning of your vagina, you could use a mild soap on your inner thigh and groin area (away from your vulva), and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rub</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> water on the vulva. </span></b></span></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-bfe15047-210c-6dbd-be20-37eb477d48b3" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your underwear choices should keep your vagina clean and dry. Go cotton or commando. Jane Minkin, M.D., a clinical professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences at Yale University states, “Cotton breathes and absorbs moisture, it’s the ideal way to clothe your [genitals]”. Avoid wearing thongs, tight fitting pants, and extended wearing of wet bathing suits or sweaty exercise clothing; they can increase heat and moisture and may contribute to certain infections. Do not wear pads or panty liners when you are not on your period, due to increased heat and moisture, and increased likelihood of infection. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-bfe15047-210c-6dbd-be20-37eb477d48b3" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regular visits to the gynecologist are very important! Every person with a vagina should have a gynecological exam either “by the age of 21 or within three years of becoming sexually active”. Gynecologists can detect and diagnose diseases and disorders of the vagina or reproductive system and can discuss ways to keep your vagina at its healthiest! </span></b></span></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-bfe15047-210c-6dbd-be20-37eb477d48b3" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/womens-health-pictures/hygiene-rules-for-a-healthy-vagina.aspx#09" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.everydayhealth.com/womens-health-pictures/hygiene-rules-for-a-healthy-vagina.aspx#09</span></a></span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-bfe15047-210c-6dbd-be20-37eb477d48b3" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-love/how-condoms-keep-your-vagina-healthy" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-love/how-condoms-keep-your-vagina-healthy</span></a></span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-bfe15047-210c-6dbd-be20-37eb477d48b3" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/11/ways-society-breeds-vagina-hate/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/11/ways-society-breeds-vagina-hate/</span></a></span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-bfe15047-210c-6dbd-be20-37eb477d48b3" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/02/our-vulvas-ourselves/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/02/our-vulvas-ourselves/</span></a></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Erin Diguglielmo '17, Women's Health Intern</span><b id="docs-internal-guid-bfe15047-210c-6dbd-be20-37eb477d48b3" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span>WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-46347943568175178332015-11-18T07:23:00.004-08:002015-11-18T07:23:49.370-08:00Review: Fun Home<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">On November 7th, I
had the opportunity to get out of quiet and mundane Hamilton to see <i>Fun
Home, </i>which was based on Allison Bechdel’s graphic novel memoir, on
Broadway. Getting out of Hamilton felt amazing. Not to mention, later that day,
I was able to eat real soul food, which warms my heart. I was so relieved to be
off campus, I almost took the R train back to my house. Yet, I realize that if
I disappeared, you, my endearing fan base, would be exceptionally sad. Also I
came to the conclusion I’ve worked too hard to not get this piece of paper this
institution claims is a credible degree. So here I am, entertaining you with my
thoughts of <i>Fun Home</i>.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Overall, <i>Fun
Home</i> was a great musical that had a compelling cast. The play follows
Allison Bechdel, who tries to make sense of her life, sexuality, and
relationship to her father by reflecting on the events she experienced as a
young girl. During her college years, Allison becomes comfortable with her
sexuality and her work as a comic artist. She falls in love with a confident
lesbian named Joan, who helps her to become comfortable with the fact that she
is a lesbian. Even with her newfound confidence, Allison still seeks approval
from her father. This is evident when Allison waits for her father’s response
to her coming out letter only to be met with disappointment when her dad says
he is glad she is “experimenting.” It is clear that often there is a disconnect
between her and her father, yet there are certain moments where they seem one
in the same. Allison wholeheartedly tries to build their relationship and make
her father happy. A scene that stuck with me is when younger Allison was
drawing a picture and her father told her it needed more structure. After her
father has an outburst, Allison pleads with him. Even though she didn’t agree
she did what he wanted anyway, saying, “Daddy, I’m sorry, I want to do it your
way, I like the way you did it.”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Allison’s father,
who is exceptionally hard to please and is manipulative, is troubled and
conflicted throughout the play. There are times when he seems to love his
family, and then, minutes later, he is revolted by everyone and everything.
Allison’s mom and her siblings are often just backdrop in the play; once in
awhile, they will speak and sing, but that’s it. There isn’t much character
development going on for anyone who isn’t Allison or her dad. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">As the play
progresses, my disdain for Allison’s father grows, with almost every single
scene. This was disheartening because when the play started I really wanted to
like him. He is inconsiderate, abusive and projects his feelings onto Allison.
This is evident when he tries to force Allison into gender binaries by
explaining if she doesn’t fit them people will gossip about her. Allison points
out that this is ironic, since he is not your typical “rugged” portrayal of a
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The audience also
witnesses Allison’s father flirting with underage and younger men, whom he
employs to work in his house and whom he teaches. Allison’s mother even tells
Allison that he has gotten in legal trouble because he served alcohol to a
group of young men to coerce them to have sex with him. After hearing this,
Allison believes that now her and her father are connected through their
homosexuality. However, I find this lens she uses to view her father troubling.
Bruce Bechdel targets young men and provides them with alcohol, so there is the
question: is he gay or is he a pedophile? Those two things are not synonymous.
I wonder if Allison ever grappled with the idea of her father being a pedophile
and just did not mention it in the play because of the way he dies. (Oh, yeah,
he dies in the play, but I won’t tell you how so you can remain surprised.) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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really enjoyed it and would give it like 4.5 stars out of 5, which might not
mean much because I’m a twenty-year-old college student and not a theatre
critic. However, I figure if you didn’t value my opinion you wouldn’t read my
awesome blog posts!!! </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cry, one of my best friends who prides themselves on avoiding sad human
emotions did cry. So you should probably carry some Kleenex just in case.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p> </o:p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.2px; text-indent: 48px; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Ashleandra Opoku '17, Multicultural and LGBTQ Affairs Intern</span></div>
WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-41663357203479365972015-11-10T12:08:00.000-08:002015-11-10T12:08:02.153-08:00A Conversation with Christina (Poppy) Lui '13<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 23.25pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="color: #500050; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">A graduate of the class of 2013, Christina (Poppy) Liu was a senior during my first year at Colgate University. I was blessed with the fortune to witness her finish both of her thesis projects throughout the year, and even luckier to get to know her personally in the spring semester. Poppy continues to be an inspiring force as she explores the world beyond Colgate. Now, three years later, as a senior beginning to look at life beyond Colgate, I was able to ask Poppy a few questions so that others can hear some words of wisdom and might better know the amazing artist, actress, and human being that she is. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How were you involved in WMST/feminism at Colgate? How does it apply to your life now?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was a Women’s Studies (WMST) major (double major with theater), directed </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Vagina Monologues</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> twice, and interned at the Center for WMST for three years. I also wrote and produced an original play, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This Is Not A Play About Sex</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, in my last two years of my time at Colgate. WMST and feminism applies to every aspect of my life: the way I choose roles I want to perform as an actress, the way I took no bullshit from men while I was a bartender in the city, the way I practice communication with my partners, the types of communities I immerse myself in, the way I watch films, everything.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are you up to now?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m rehearsing for three shows that are all geared for full production in the winter and spring of 2016 (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Gambler</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with Phoenix Ensemble Theatre at The Wild Project, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Double Falsehood</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with Letter of Marque Theater Company at Irondale, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BODY</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with Blessed Unrest at The New Ohio Theater). I am also building the theater company I founded called The Collective Sex, the project that birthed out of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This Is Not A Play About Sex</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What advice would you like to give current WMST concentrators?</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 23.25pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stay soft, stay loving, stay tender. This work can be challenging, and it can make us hard or bitter. It takes lots of courage to stay in your softness. Love is the strongest choice. After you have moved through anger, through pain, through judgment and injustice, right as you are about to think "Ugh, is this how it's always going to be? Why bother?" right at that moment, choose love instead.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 23.25pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you have any advice or words of wisdom for students at Colgate and/or seniors who are graduating soon?</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 23.25pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My biggest piece of advice is to not give a fuck what people think about you. For real. Measure yourself by your own internal value system. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Build</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> your own internal value system. What things do you love? What do you have tons of passion for? What is stopping you from doing those things? To hell with what people expect of you or think of you. We waste so much of our energy worrying about how we appear to the outside eye.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 23.25pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn to find peace in the fact that everything changes. You won't be doing "one thing" after you graduate so don't feel a need to answer, "What are you doing when you graduate?" The answer is everything. Just start somewhere. The secret is it really doesn't matter where. What did I first do when I graduated? I made it an adamant part of my "plan" to start bartending in NYC. Period. I got a bartending job eight hours after I moved into the city. I spent all of my other free time figuring out what I loved about this city, sponging in as much as I could, and when I found threads I wanted to follow, I did.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A few more words of wisdom: </span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spend some time with yourself. You learn so much in solitude.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">Surround yourself with the type of person you want to become.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adopt a pay-it-forward attitude.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don't have a plan, have passion.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don't take yourself too seriously.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Coming Soon'; line-height: 19.2px; text-indent: 48px; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Monica Hoh '16, Information Technology and Resources Intern</span>WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-19145827824225166392015-10-19T14:20:00.001-07:002015-10-19T14:20:57.620-07:00Me, Bree, and some Knowledgeable Tea: What's the Point of Being Scared?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I guess if I’d had any sense I’d I’ve been a little scared, but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they’d been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.” </span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Fannie Lou Hamer</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hey everyone!!! It surely is I, your new favorite blogger. Two weeks ago, Bree Newsome was on campus. She spoke at a Brown Bag at the Center for WMST and later that day had a larger discussion in Love Auditorium. She was amazing, of course, and spread revolutionary knowledge. Guess who got to interview after the Brown Bag? Just guess. Your new favorite blogger, Me! (Everyone should be proud of me because I did not faint or hyperventilate and my hairline is still intact.) At first, I was extremely nervous to be interviewing such an icon, but Newsome was refreshingly down-to-earth and was just as enthusiastic to share with us, as we were to listen to her. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ashleandra Opoku: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It seemed like the world got familiar with you this summer, but you were doing work prior to taking down the Confederate Flag. Could you speak more on the work you were doing prior?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BN:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I have to completely unplug sometimes from this movement, and it is hard. I had to delete twitter off of everything because it was such a habit. I didn’t even realize how automatic it was. I would go on my phone, see what’s going on in the news, be stressed out, and repeat. I really had to learn it’s okay to take a step back for a number of reasons. First of all, for my own health, and also I like to step back and see where everyone that’s not in this movement is at. The movement can become very insular, and sometimes it’s important to step back and say, “Oh, they are speaking about a rat eating a pizza.” It’s okay to have fun, enjoy yourself, and enjoy life. I know it’s fucked up, but you can still have joy in life. My pattern typically had been going, going, going until I burn. I’m realizing I need to take time, all the time, in between.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">What I loved about Bree’s visit was how she focused everything around a cause. During a part of the interview she spoke to how she had to prepare herself to face death for this action and how she became okay with that because she knew if she died she would’ve died for a just reason. She stressed that to her it was important to take down the flag because that specific flag had been created during the Civil Rights Movement as a way to terrorize Black people. This flag was not left over from the Confederacy but rather was specifically raised during the 1960’s as a terrorist symbol. She was also very honest and real about the work she has done and is recently doing. One thing she said that stuck out to me in the Brown Bag is that she would never ask anyone to do anything she would not do. Newsome mentioned this in reference to activism because she did not participate in activist work when she was a student at NYU and did not want students to feel as if they had to be a certain type of activist, especially while in school. Newsome also stressed on the essence of teamwork. In a video about her group called Tribe, I saw the other people involved in making sure that she retrieved the flag safely. I was able to see the planning and coordination that had to be done to achieve such a goal and realize that this fight for justice and equality is an effort we all have to make together. It is not singular or isolated but connected and can only be accomplished if we all keep our hearts and minds and spirits focused on our goal. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 2.4; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I recently had the honor of acting in </span><span style="font-style: italic; line-height: 2.4; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is Not a Play About Sex</span><span style="line-height: 2.4; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an original play written by my dear friend and Colgate class of 2013 graduate, Christina Liu. Although I’m super excited about it, and I could talk to you for ages about why it’s a wonderful play, my enthusiasm was not always there (though this didn’t last for long). I remember in my first semester I saw the posters for auditions and performances, and I recoiled at the very thought of being a part of it. “It’s </span><span style="font-style: italic; line-height: 2.4; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">totally</span><span style="line-height: 2.4; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> about sex! It’s definitely about sex! I can’t be a part of that!” I thought. It was not appropriate to what I thought theatre and activism should be. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 2.4; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">This, however, was a very short-lived opinion. It died quickly when I heard all the amazing reviews that the first few performances received. So I set out to see the film screening, which was its own trial. But when I finally saw the show, heard the words and felt all my many, many feels (I definitely cried by myself in Golden auditorium), I was in awe. I was amazed and honored to be seeing such honesty about this campus and this culture that I was joining in my first year at Colgate. Everything felt relevant and vital to my future experiences here at Colgate, and I felt like I just got an insider’s view on the campus as well. Seeing this show and talking with Christina set me on my own journey as a Theatre and Women’s Studies double major. </span></div>
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WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-12758349562228460932015-09-22T10:25:00.002-07:002015-09-22T10:27:59.530-07:00When you are minding your business, and White Feminism strikes again<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
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WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-26534153008156296422015-09-10T07:56:00.001-07:002015-09-10T07:56:27.683-07:00What's Good? Not My Edges: Reflections on the 2015 VMAs<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This all may seem like senseless gossiping, which to an extent it is, but it’s important to analyze the media attention each woman is receiving. When Nicki first came out about being disappointed some media outlets like </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The View </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">portrayed Minaj as entitled angry black woman, using her race as a reason for not being nominated. They did not question why a video that had over a million hits and widespread reception was not nominated. Instead, they combatted Minaj’s disappointment by pointing out there were other artists of color that had been nominated for the award, none of whom won, and stating that Nicki Minaj was nominated for other awards. The women on </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The View</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and other media outlets tried to explain that Swift’s video was more about female empowerment and Minaj’s was merely selling sex. Even though throughout the entire “Bad Blood” video, Swift and her fierce female friends are training to fight another group of women. It is ironic that certain depictions of women are empowering, provocative and feminist and others are objectifying. It is also strange how certain bodies have to be be on their best behavior to have their truths gain acceptance. It was appropriate for Minaj to be upset about not being nominated. It was also appropriate for her to call out Cyrus in her acceptance speech because Cyrus had missed Minaj’s point and belittled her statement. </span></div>
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WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-20939277762205286952015-04-26T20:30:00.002-07:002015-04-26T20:30:22.165-07:00Brown Bag: S. Bear Bergman A business card-like post on S. Bear Bergman’s creatively designed website describes him as “author. storyteller, instigator.” During Bear’s visit to Colgate on March 20, he proved that all these labels we true. During his presentation, Bear chronicled the experiences that led him to develop his own publishing company, Flamingo Rampant, which is built on the platform of “feminist, racially diverse, LGBTQ positive books for all children and families.”<br />
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Bergman’s power as a storyteller is apparent as he weaves the narrative of his activist life into a story that intrigues his audience, balanced in wit and stark reality. Bergman’s journey begins, at least in the context of this Brown Bag story, with his own identity as a “queer trans identifying guy”. In alliance with other transgender and gender nonconforming individuals Bergman became involved with Gender Odyssey’s efforts to support gender independent kids and their families. More young kids were (are) coming out and feeling free in gender independence, and Gender Odyssey enlisted Bear to write stories for the kids to read during camp because they were not represented in mainstream children’s stories. Bergman wrote two “cheekily adorable” children’s books.The books featured gender independent or trans identified kids in full stories rather than isolated episodes. Having published “grown up” books (adult books implies something else, according to Bergman) in the past, Bear was inspired to get the books published after acclaim from parents of gender independent young children. Upon reflection Bergman claims “boy was I dumb.” This is because the world of children’s publishing is largely conservative, a fact that Bear was unaware of. Bergman highlights three points to remember in children's book publishing: girls will read books about boys but not vice versa, people of color will read books about white families, but not vice versa, LGBTQ families will read books about straight families but not vice versa. Such realities become especially disconcerting when paired with the aims of capitalism to maximize sales, not identity representation. Bear was often confronted with comments such as “if you write a book about a straight family…” or “how many nine year old trans kids are out there?” These remarks show how dominant narratives remain dominant. People undermine the efforts of those hoping to engage with and bring attention to alternative narratives.<br />
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The undermining of these efforts are seen in statistics about children’s books. In 2014 seventy percent of protagonists in were male. Ninety-three percent of the males were white. Less than one percent of characters were LGBTQ identified and most stories took place in the suburban as opposed to city settings. Knowing that mainstream support was limited, Bear started a Kickstarter through which he raise $19,000 and was able to publish two books. The books sold well, and Bear thought that he had solved the issue by proving that there was a need for these books. He continued to write grown up things. It wasn't until he had a son that he saw how the picture of childhood presented in children’s books did not represent the world that many kids live in. Bear struggled with finding books with two dads and gender independent families. Ultimately, Bergman headed back to Kickstarter, this time with the idea of publishing a set of books to make it easier for parents. Bear hopes that his books will help children see that their stories and families are valid. He engages with the stories of his characters because he wants children to know that their experiences are full stories, not just special episodes.<br />
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You can check out the work of Bear’s publication company at www.flamingorampant.com<br />
Bear's personal website is www.sbearbergman.com<br />
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-Sharon Nicol '17<br />
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WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-39666576820428015952015-03-23T08:40:00.000-07:002015-03-23T08:40:00.184-07:00Brown Bag: Global Feminist Artivism<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week’s brown bag was in celebration of International Women’s Day, which was this past Sunday, March 8, 2015. International Women’s Day, originally called International Working Women’s Day, was established in 1909 by the Socialist Party of America in response to a march that occurred in 1908. During this march, over 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding better pay, work hours, and voting rights. The brown bag featured Professor Cristina Serna from the Women Studies Department and Professor Ani Maitra from Film and Media Studies. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first panelist, Professor Serna, started the brown bag with discussing artivism (artivismo), her research and experiences at Festival LesbianArte. Festival LesbianArte takes place in Mexico City and hosts a series of workshops, performances, and that functions to foster solidarity. Some of Professor Serna’s comments surrounded the spread of artivism in Latin America through social media and how the Festival LesbianArte interprets artivism. She shared a quote from the organizer’s that I thought was powerful: “art is the tool for social change and transformation, arte allows us to create spaces and faces, that are critical and emancipatory, that merge from our memories, reality and dreams. We profoundly believe that artivism opens and continues to open new paths for lesbians and feminism, in order to communicate our struggles and change our communities and societies.” Professor Serna also talked about translation within transnational activism, particularly how words and ideologies translate between languages, cultures, and location.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overall, the brown bag put a lot into perspective about what border feminism can look like, the role art and media have within transnational movements, and the ways in which we can enact change through artivism.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I know that many people fear that with the misuse of racism and racist, the word will lose it poignant value, but that is truly the indicator of a sickness if the world grows to normalize the label of racist and white supremacist. What I begin to think is that people of color and white people can be socialized to hold whiteness superior and effectively become white supremacists. Racism should indeed be reserved for systems because even if a so called successful black light skin man perpetuates racist attitudes due to white supremacy instilled in his mind( *cough* Juan Williams *cough*) they will gain no real advance or benefit. A so called successful person of color who perpetrates racist violence, symbolic or otherwise, will only be successful as long as the system allows. Ze is and will never be free without actively decolonizing and deprogramming their mind. Material benefits is not freedom or success because it will not protect you as person color. The most disturbing and saddest lie the world tells people of color is that material benefits, light skin, class, and status will protect them. Sad and destructive indeed. If that were true, the world would have already been ours with the many things we have created and invented only to be used for profit by the same violent hands that put humans in chains.</span></div>
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<br />WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-90985409876089301972015-03-06T13:06:00.004-08:002015-03-06T13:06:48.704-08:00Brown Bag Reflection: Food Justice with Tanya Fields<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As someone who is from the Bronx, I have seen and felt first hand what Tanya was talking about. A few years back, I remember being very confused when my mother brought home a pineapple. I didn’t understand how it was supposed to be peeled or cut or if it was even ripe. Because growing up, to me pineapples only came in a can and in fruit cups. I grew up thinking that canned pineapples and fruit were natural, and that the actual piece of fruit was not, that it was only luxury served to you ready to eat on a tropical island. But the reality for my family and many people in my community is that canned food was (and still is) a part of our diets, since canned foods can last until the end of the month.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Raw vegetables were not a common staple in my family, and the few vegetables that my mother bought often did not look so fresh. Even now when I go to the supermarket, I do not see a wide variety of fresh fruit and vegetables. In thinking about Tanya’s comment about working single mothers not having the time or energy to cook a full meal every night, I also think about how grocery shopping is often a gendered role, and how it is not possible to go buy fresh fruits and vegetables every week. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On this same day, Favianna Rodriguez also talked about food justice during her talk. She shared art pieces that depicted the way the current U.S. food system disproportionately affects children in poor communities and communities of color. Tanya did an incredible job debunking the rhetoric that poor people or people of color do not care about what they eat or about their health. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the problems that I see is how food campaigns tell people what they should be eating. In my mind I try to reconcile what I see is the “proper” foods and meals to eat and the food I grew up eating, dishes deeply rooted in my culture. A monologue in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Panza Monologues</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> by Virginia Grise and Irma Mayorga, reflects these sentiments when “[the doctor] made </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">mamí</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> go to a nutritionist to learn how to cook out her love, ” after diagnosing her young daughter with diabetes and shaming the mother into thinking that her food made her daughter sick. Culture and food are deeply interconnected, especially in the Bronx, and I do not think that these communities should scrap their cultural foods for quinoa, tofu, and kale, but rather suggest adding raw veggies or a salad along with rice and beans. Or be provided with fresh, affordable peppers, onions and cilantro to make sofrito. Which is why I highly appreciate Tanya’s food bus and the fact that she brings these products to her community, where they can pick up a potato or some onions on their way to work or the doctor’s office. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am so thankful to Tanya for sharing her personal narratives, and showing us the reality of many people in the South Bronx. I cannot wait to get home in May and support her cause and inform my friends and family about the fresh, affordable produce they can buy. </span></div>
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WMST Bloggershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020153871163319186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466536446186119946.post-41963379715251579902015-03-02T08:55:00.001-08:002015-03-02T08:55:09.651-08:00Brown Bag: Demystifying SORT<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The brown bag opened with members of the audience readings parts of Maya Angelou's powerful poem </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phenomenal Woman, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">which is a part of the organization’s constitution. Members of the audience were able to share their thoughts on the organization prior to the panelists speaking. Melissa Melendez '14 and Maya Atakilti '15 gave a brief history of how the organization was created, with its roots in providing a space where not only could women of color meet and talk about issues they were facing, but also create strategic plans on how to address them outside the space. Each of the panelist went through a series of questions pertaining to the organization. Antoinette Nwabunnia expressed why she joined the organization, her personal experiences with the leadership within the organization and what the space provided for her. Her sentiments on what the space provided for her is what stuck out to me the most. Similarly to what Antoinette expressed, I grew up in a household and community full of resilient women of color where we'd cry, fight, laugh, talk, theorize, or what have you. When I came to Colgate I didn't realize how important that community was for my spirit, and joining SORT fulfilled that void but in beautifully different way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">On 17th Feb, Women's
Studies Center held a brown bag to discuss the Vagina Monologues with some of
the cast and crew of the show. The show was held the weekend earlier from Feb
14-16 in Brehmer Theater to a packed audience all three nights. The brown bag
began with some of the cast in the audience performing bits of their
monologues. The director of the show this year, Natasha Torres '15, then began
the conversation talking about her own experience seeing VM for the first time
her first year, "I thought it was one of the most radical things I'd seen.
There were women telling 'cunt'! I was also like what is wrong with them…"
The next year she decided to audition for a role and she has been a part of it
every year since. "I hadn't seen my vagina before I don't think. It made
me realize I needed to get in touch with myself." Her words were echoed by
some of the other panelists Sahara Zamudio, Monica Hoh, Anika Rutah and Nina
Cook. Torres also talked about her role as a director, and how bonding within
the cast/crew and conversations between them, and fostering that community was
the most important aspect of the job for her. She reminisced that the community
built around the show without her even realizing it. She also touched upon some
of the problematic aspects within the show: its rigidity, and silences for
instance. Those two in particular lingered in the discussion even as praises
for the show featured in all the panelists' experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Having been a part of the
show myself, I have been thinking about the silences within the script myself.
I remember Natasha's concerns about it and her efforts to alleviate some of
them through the charity element of the show and the clit-tail hour that adds local
Colgate experiences to the show. Even then, the show, while phenomenal, can
often feel cripplingly inadequate, particularly in its limited inclusion of
trans women and their experiences. Not misleading to its name, Vagina
Monologues, only does include monologues and experiences--while pioneering and
wide-ranging--of not women, but persons with vaginas. It has been a
controversial issue for the show in recent years, with Mt. Holyoke College even
</span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/16/vagina-monologues-mount-holyoke_n_6487302.html"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: NE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">scrapping the performance of the show
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It leads me to wonder
however, about how helpful banning or not performing the show is in the big
picture. The show is still pretty radical in its concept. Especially at a place
like Colgate, so rife in slut-shaming and sexual assault and yet so silenced in
the topic of sexuality of women, a group of women leading the stage talking
about experiences with vaginas is incredibly powerful. As Hoh talked about her
reaction after seeing the show her first time her first year, "That's
probably the first time I have heard the word 'vagina' so many times." She
is more than likely not alone in her reaction. As she remarked subsequently,
"Why is it so?" Why are we not talking about this more? I think the
show helped me have more honest conversations with my friends." Similar to
Hoh, if the show nudges students on this campus to think about vaginas, and
sexuality, and consent, say if it makes a drunk fratbro wonder about his
partner's needs for once, then the show has more than done its job. On the show
defense, there is only so much awareness and ground one show can cover--and the
show already goes for three hours! This is not to say however, that the show couldn't
do a better job of including more wide-ranging experiences. For now, maybe one
way to go about improving the show without scrapping it altogether would be to
encourage those silences to be filled in the optional clit-tail hour, as this
year's show tried to. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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