How Queer Undocumented Youth Built the Immigrant Rights Movement

dulcerevolution:

“Today, undocumented queer organizers continue to organize based on our experiences and the stories of people in our communities. It is by listening to these stories that many of us have come to the conclusion that we need to continue to use creative and unapologetic tactics to stop deportations and to address the abuses and injustices taking place every day in immigration detention centers. Meanwhile, national mainstream organizations continue to push for a path to citizenship that ignores the immediate needs of undocumented immigrants and the record-breaking deportations under the Obama Administration. Perhaps Frank Sharry and DC-based immigration reform groups should stop rewriting history and listen to those directly affected by immigration laws, including undocumented queer immigrants who continue to be at the forefront of the movement.

Next time someone asks how the contemporary immigrant rights movement came about, tell them that queer undocumented youth built it.”

Reblog if you are a Non-Binary Gender or know someone that is.

zillyhooah:

(Writing a paper for school on Non-binary genders and it’s pretty important)

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please god no why

“mens rights activists” and “masculinists” are in my college facebook group

captainiceboobs:

If Romney is so against transgender rights, why is he putting women in binders?

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From otaachimow (because I don’t wanna do Chinese homework right now)

Linky to their blog

Rule 1 - Post the rules.
Rule 2 - Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then make 11 new ones.
Rule 3 - Tag 11 people and link them to your post.
Rule 4 - Let them know you have tagged them.
Rule 5 - Tell the person who tagged you answered their questions.

Questions for others!

  1. What places have you been other than where you live right now? Where my relatives live (US and California) across the Midwest where I’ve lived, and Louisville and D.C. for conferences.
  2. If you had to choose a name other than your current preferred name, what would it be? Hmm, Sydney I suppose.
  3. Cats, dogs, or other (please specify)? Dogs! Because of my mom’s allergies and because they seem more simple.
  4. What is the most delicious thing in the world?  Adobo chicken with rice! (The kind from the Philipines, the original name for which isn’t known anymore D: )
  5. How much sleep per night do you get on average? Weekdays: 5-8. Not-busy Weekends: 8-11
  6. What is your preferred flavor of popsicle? Purple!
  7. Dry-erase board or chalkboard? Dry erase, chalk is too…feely.
  8. What is your favorite thing to wear? A solidarity fist shirt I have with some type of jacket.
  9. Do you have any siblings? Yup, one brother.
  10. Have you ever eaten frybread? If so what is your favorite topping? Yes, but not enough to have a favorite topping :(
  11. If you could be instantly fluent in any language, which would you choose? If I get all dialects then Chinese or Arabic, if not then Japanese.

Oh, and like Kai did, feel free to answer these on your own! Tagging people is awkward :S

(Fuente: revolucionmundial, vía beambox)

BBC Article on China/Western Relations and Chinese

[people walking on a bring Beijing street at night]

The great task facing the West over the next century will be to make sense of China - not in our terms but in theirs. We [the Western World] have to understand China as it is and as it has been, not project our own history, culture, institutions and values onto it. It will always fail that test. In truth such a mentality tells us more about our own arrogance and lack of curiosity than anything about China.

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“For years, I opened my 11th-grade U.S. history classes by asking students, “What’s the name of that guy they say discovered America?” A few students might object to the word “discover,” but they all knew the fellow I was talking about. “Christopher Columbus!” several called out in unison.

“Right. So who did he find when he came here?” I asked. Usually, a few students would say, “Indians,” but I asked them to be specific: “Which nationality? What are their names?”

Silence.

In more than 30 years of teaching U.S. history and guest-teaching in others’ classes, I’ve never had a single student say, “Taínos.” How do we explain that? We all know the name of the man who came here from Europe, but none of us knows the name of the people who were here first—and there were hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of them. Why haven’t you heard of them?

This ignorance is an artifact of historical silencing—rendering invisible the lives and stories of entire peoples.

[…] In an interview with Barbara Miner, included in Rethinking Columbus, Suzan Shown Harjo of the Morning Star Institute, who is Creek and Cheyenne, said: “As Native American peoples in this red quarter of Mother Earth, we have no reason to celebrate an invasion that caused the demise of so many of our people, and is still causing destruction today.” After all, Columbus did not merely “discover,” he took over. He kidnapped Taínos, enslaved them—“Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold,” Columbus wrote—and “punished” them by ordering that their hands be cut off or that they be chased down by vicious attack dogs, if they failed to deliver the quota of gold that Columbus demanded. One eyewitness accompanying Columbus wrote that it “did them great damage, for a dog is the equal of 10 men against the Indians.”

Corporate textbooks and children’s biographies of Columbus included none of this and were filled with misinformation and distortion. But the deeper problem was the subtext of the Columbus story: it’s OK for big nations to bully small nations, for white people to dominate people of color, to celebrate the colonialists with no attention paid to the perspectives of the colonized, to view history solely from the standpoint of the winners.”
Bill Bigelow, Rethinking Columbus: Towards a True People’s History (via seschat)

(Fuente: fariyah, vía sofriel-deactivated20130317)

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aprendizaje:

otaachimow:

aprendizaje replied to your post: yeah also so it turns out Nahuatl is really hard

Do they have a Nahuatl program at UChicago? That would be awesome!

they don’t have Nahuatl, as far as I know. But they do have Yucatec and K’iche Maya programs that run…

well then there’s a good chance I’ll be learning Yucatec Maya in a year :D And yes, I would love to go to UChicago. If I find out I’m going I will for sure let you know ASAP!

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otaachimow:

aprendizaje replied to your post: yeah also so it turns out Nahuatl is really hard

Do they have a Nahuatl program at UChicago? That would be awesome!

they don’t have Nahuatl, as far as I know. But they do have Yucatec and K’iche Maya programs that run every couple years. The Latin American studies department rotates them with a few other languages. I wanted to take Yucateco but sadly I just missed the rotation and this year they’re doing Haitian Kreyol instead. 

That’s still pretty awesome, I didn’t know that (though maybe not as much so when you think of it in context of the amount of Spanish programs, but I guess  more that not a whole lot of universities I know do stuff like this). If I’m going to school there in a year I’ll definitely have to check that out!

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