Last week, the #SayHerName campaign and report and a National Day of Action for Black Women and Girls highlighted the stories of Black women who have been killed by the police. From #SayHerName: Toward a Gender Inclusive Analysis of State Violence:
We have emphasized that Black women and women of color’s experiences of racial profiling and police brutality are not aberrations or distractions from the central conversation, which features cisgender, heterosexual Black men and men of color as the prime protagonists, but rather are central to our understanding of the impacts of policing on our communities, and to the solutions we pursue.
Nation-wide action included a vigil in NYC’s Union Square and a protest by BlackOUT Collective in San Francisco.
“I’m mad because at the end of the day, it literally costs white poets nothing to click a button in support of an ultimately undifferentiated anti-imperialist non-racism.”
“There is important and pressing work that those pulled under the Asian/Asian American identity by the racializing structure of America must do in order to examine and dismantle their own anti-blackness.”
“Starting the group house had been a dream of Corado’s for years, ever since she became homeless as a young transgender woman.”–Excerpt from “LGBT Youth Home Welcomes Population Accustomed to Insecurity”
“I wish I could love myself, the way all the fat girls I admire most tell me to.”–Colleen Abel in Phoebe.
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Unlike the Tumblr, Feminist Mad Max, In These Times thinks Mad Max isn’t very feminist or even that… good of a movie.
I keep hearing great things about this television show which explores dating shows and their need to create situations in which women destroy other women.
Bust Magazine asks us to stop what we’re doing and look at this archive of women in punk. OK!
The New Yorker agrees with us that “The World Needs Female Rock Critics.”
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Hey Texas Queers, here’s your chance to share your knowledge on LGTBQ activism. Workshop proposals for the Aquí Estamos conference are due June 22nd.
Nepantla, a new poetry e-journal dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, being curated by Christopher Soto in collaboration with The Lambda Literary Foundation, has posted a call for submissions. The deadline is August 1st.
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What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments! <3
