Speak

“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” -Audre Lorde ....................................................................................................... The ASUW Women’s Action Commission is one of eight diversity commissions founded by the Associated Students of the University of Washington. Each commission has a mandate to put on educational programs each quarter, as well as serve and advocate for its constituency within the student government and the administration. The WAC seeks a social justice framework that recognizes and affirms the multiple and intersecting identities held by woman-identified and/or female-assigned-at-birth constituents.

[asuwwac]

Elect Her at UW! Great networking and great speakers! #electher #electheruw #empowerment #WeRuntheWorld #uw @asuwseattle @gpss @aauw (at UW: Husky Union Building)

[asuwwac]

We got some goodies today from the Feminist Majority Foundation! Come grab a button or sticker! #thisiswhatafeministlookslike #feminist #Beyonce #WendyDavis #RosietheRiveter #fierce #women#Msmagazine (at ASUW WAC Office)

[recklessattitudes]

[asuwwac]

PUT A RAINBOW ON IT is a playful way to reference and reflect on some of the (mis)uses of the rainbow pride flag. The video aims to illuminate and connect a few common contradictions in claims made about safe space - from schools, to neighborhoods, to nations. Made by community educators through a participatory process, PUT A RAINBOW ON IT hopes to deepen dialogue on the question: "what is a queer issue?" Share the video and learn more at www.putarainbowonit.com  #putarainbowonit

[jalwhite]

A woman-of-color who writes poetry or paints or dances or makes movies knows there is no escape from race or gender when she is writing or painting. She can’t take off her color and sex and leave them at the door or her study or studio. Nor can she leave behind her history. Art is about identity, among other things, and her creativity is political.

Gloria Anzaldúa, Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras — Creative and Cultural Perspectives by Women of Color  (via jalwhite)

[tumblinfeminist]

Being a feminist doesn’t mean suddenly no longer liking problematic things. If you stopped liking everything that was sexist in media and entertainment there would be no media or entertainment left. Being a feminist, to me, is being aware of what it is you’re liking, and of its problematic aspects.

sabrina_il (via dat-lolly)

[harriettumbles-blog]

Those who call themselves allies are responsible for understanding the contexts in which they speak; they are responsible for recognizing the structures of power from which they derive their privileges. And if this all sounds like too much to ask, then, perhaps, they should reconsider their claims to social justice work. As Audre Lorde notes in the The Uses of Anger, genuine desire to build with those at the margins requires abandoning defensiveness, guilt, and self-interest. While women fight for the right to exist in a world free of constant mental and physical attacks, our allies cry about their hurt feelings and threatened masculinities.

The Problem With Our So-Called Allies (via harriettumbles)

[asuwwac]

BECAUSE YOU'RE BROWN HONEY GURL today! Workshop at 330 in the Q Center and Intervention at 8 at Queer Youth Space! #asuwwac #asuwqsc #queeryouthspace #uw #poetry #discussion #decolonize #community #feminist #antiracist (at UW Q Center)

[asuwwac]

Reserve your tickets now for this free event tomorrow! Check out our fb page for the link! #frida #ecctheater #asuwwac #uw (at UW Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center)

[fabianromero2013-deactivated201]

immigrants, poor people, queer people of color, disabled folks, women (esp trans women of color) and gender-nonconforming folks if you are in academia and you don’t feel smart enough, remember that you are in the playground and training grounds of the elite. academia was not designed to include you. you are surviving something that has been systemically designed to exclude you in order to keep power in the hands of white, middle class, able bodied cis-men. knowing this, don’t let academia train you to believe that elitism is the right way to make it through school. you can learn shit, hold the knowledge of your people in your heart, discard shame for your humble beginnings and/or marginalized identities. move through this experience knowing that the changes it offers you don’t have to include accepting academic elitism, inaccessible language or superiority. you can can simultaneously own the privilege that comes with being college educated and connections to your roots. academia does not have to kill your spirit.

fabian romero- indigenous immigrant queer boi writer, facilitator and community organizer  

[dosomecrimes-deactivated2020101]

[600tongues]

I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love and be loved. She can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.

Leila Khaled 

[ellesugars-deactivated20150909]

Rap music is so diverse in its themes, its style, its content but when it becomes a vehicle to be talked about in mainstream news, the rap that gets in national news is always the rap music that perpetuates misogyny that is most obscene in its lyrics and then this comes to stand for what rap is. Really its for me the perfect paradigm of colonialism, that is to say, we think of rap music as a little third-world country, that young white consumers are able to go to and take out of it whatever they want. We would have to acknowledge that what young white consumers, primarily male, oftentimes suburban, most got energized by in rap music was misogyny, obscenity, pugilistic eroticism and therefore that form of rap began to make the largest sums of money.

bell hooks 

[nachovixen]

[souryellows]

one down, three to go

[asuwwac]

After you go to the Feminist Study Group, head to the ECC for this event! #survivors #openmic #stories #experiences #feelings #sarva #uw (at UW Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center)

[asuwwac]

Come take part in this conversation space! Get the readings from our Facebook event! #audrelorde #age #race #class #sex #beckythompson #multiracial #feminism #asuwwac #uw (at Q Center)