“Sons” – Teresa Siagatonu and Rudy Francisco performing for Hollywood’s Da Poetry Lounge during semifinals at 2013 National Poetry Slam. DPL ended up taking 2nd in the tournament (from the YouTube description)
Category Archives: Awareness
What does my girlfriend mean when…?
yes yes yes. this.
Pakistani Feminist poised to become youngest Nobel Peace laureate ever
Read this article! It’s referring to an interview with Malala Yousafzai and Jon Stewart. Malala is a famous Pakistani woman who advocates for women’s rights, specifically rights to education. In the past, she was subject to assassination by the Taliban – it’s an amazing story. Check out her response to being threatened by them:
http://www.businessinsider.com/malala-yousafzai-left-jon-stewart-speechless-2013-10
Dudes – Your Key Role in Feminism
More than meets the eye, perhaps
As is noted in the comments section of the original post at Crates and Ribbons, the identity of those pictured is contested. But even so — imagine even if the photo was staged — that the image is so productive of interpretations that fail to take into account the possibility that something untoward is going on, is an object lesson in the way that a rape culture works upon the collective consciousness.
From Dig Boston: “BEYOND BINARY BIGOTRY”
Both bisexual and transgender communities bump up against a social norm of dichotomous rather than spectral classification, and until society excludes the binary and embraces the rainbow of identities that truly exist in the world, we will be ignoring and hurting our brothers and sisters (and everything in between).
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No one has the right to tell anyone who to be or how to love and whom, even if that love or identity conflicts with the ideas of sexuality and gender we’ve always had.
— BU lit student / journalist / activist Emily Hopkins (@emihop), writing in the Dig Boston public opinion column in June 2012