Empowered AfroLatina

[afrolatinotravel]

We are so excited about out inaugural trip to Cuba!

Sign-ups are now open and closes Sept. 16th 11:50pm EST

Contact [email protected]

[diasporadash]

Exploring the AfroLatino Identity with Caribbean Culture Center!

Starts this Thursday!

[afrolatinotravel]

We are so excited about out inaugural trip to Cuba!

Sign-ups are now open and closes Sept. 16th 11:50pm EST

Contact [email protected]

[diasporadash]

SO hyped behind this! Sign up ya’ll!

[diasporadash]

Last 30 hours to support Tambor, #documentary about #AfroCuban #Drummers of the #Santeria #religion.

I just got back from Cuba last week with some fresh footage and eager to continue. As we apply to grants and put up our own income to continue documenting, support from the community is greatly appreciated.

Please help us by donating or spreading the word. Thank you all.

-Dash 

LINK: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tambor-a-documentary-about-drummers-in-havana/x/714914#/story

[negrodocumentary]

The Intersections of AfroLatinidad in Focus

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

6pm-8pm

Scribe Video Center

4212 Chestnut St, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

$10 - RSVP [email protected] 

[diasporadash]

Afrolatino Festival NYC 2015 - $25 Ticket for 24 Hours ONLY

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afro-latino-festival-nyc-july-10-12-2015-tickets-17473877839?discount=GAP

[diasporadash]

The Intersections of AfroLatinidad in Focus

Thursday, June 25, 2015 

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)

La Casa Azul Bookstore

143 E. 103rd St. (103 & Lexington) 

New York, NY

Screening of Dash Harris’ NEGRO: Adocu-series about Latino Identity which explores colonization and the historical and present day class and color complex among Latinos.  Visiting Peruvian photographer, Milena Carranza Valcarcel will present her work on AfroPeruvian communities in Peru followed by a panel discussion moderated by community organizer, Claudia de la Cruz. The event will focus on AfroLatinidad in the Americas and the intersections of race, class, color, gender and sexuality. Please consider bringing a brown doll donation for AfroLatino Travel’s initiative “Brown Dolls for Brown Children,” serving children in Panama, Peru, Nicaragua and Cuba. 

Photo by Milena Carranza Valcarcel  

Tickets: $10 https://goo.gl/FNqP3f

RSVP: [email protected] 

[afrolatinoforum-blog]

Thursday, October 23rd, 6:00pm - 9:00pm  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Plenary Conference Opening: Race Counts! Welcome

Miriam Jiménez Roman, Executive Director, afrolatin@ forum

Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation 

Juan Flores, co-founder, afrolatin@ forum

Round-table Discussion

Pedro Noguera, New York University

Tanya K. Hernández, Fordham University School of Law

Leonardo Reales Jiménez, Human Rights Activist, Storyteller, and University Professor

Tianna Paschel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

Rolando Roebuck, Community Activist, Washington, DC

Cultural Presentation RSVP for Thursday Night’s Plenary

Friday, October 24th, 8:30am - 6:00pm Graduate Center, City University of New York 9:00am - 9:15am

Arrival and registration

9:15am - 10:45am

In and Out of Focus: Media and AfroLatin@ Representation

AfroLatin@s in the Classroom: Youth, Education and Culture

11:00am - 12:30pm    

Looking Suspicious: The Racialization of Crime

Taking Measures: AfroLatin@s and Economic Inequities

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm - 3:00pm

¿Y nosotros qué?: Acknowledging the AfroLatin@ Immigrant 

AfroLatin@s and Health Disparities: When Both Race and Ethnicity Matter

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Plenary: Connecting Stories: The Practice of Racial Dialogues

5:15pm -  6:45pm

Closing Plenary: Identity, Visibility and Representation: The Role of the Census

Saturday, October 25th, 1:00pm - 6:00pm  El Museo del Barrio 1:00pm - 2:30pm    

Panel: Recounting the Afrolatin@ Artist Experience – Past, Present, & Future

2:30pm - 3:30pm    

Dance and Mask-Making Workshops

3:30pm - 5:00pm         

Musical and Cultural Performances

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Reception

RSVP for Saturday’s Family Day

View schedule HERE

[athenagray]

Tweet 1: I can see a lot of people either avoiding Plan B & ending up pregnant or attempting to take multiple doses & getting sick.

Tweet 2: anyone w a credit card (not everyone, I know) can/should use ella ella-rx.com they’ll ship it overnight $45

SIGNAL BOOST. Ella is another form of emergency contraception/the morning-after pill. It’s more effective than Plan B and can be taken up to FIVE DAYS after your mishap, rather than three days. Please spread this around; with all of the anti-choice legislation flying about and how difficult it can be for some people to get Plan B even OTC (like minors, people living in small towns, etc.), this might be the only way a lot of people can get their hands on the morning-after pill.

[queenconsuelabananahammock]

Boooooost

[imperiology-deactivated20140429]

I’ve also read that Ella is more effective for plus size people.

[sourcedumal]

This is important. Ella works for everyone. Plan B is not effective for people over 176 pounds. Protect yourself

[madnessinthemist]

Everyone?

Boosting the shit outta this.

[amberrunning-deactivated2017091]

[latinegrasexologist]

Yes

[empoweredafrolatina]

"Four billion tons of white bull shit."

[esotericworld]

Link: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5961748

A documentary about the CIA’s cocaine scandal is coming out soon

[queenoftheswirl-deactivated2019]

NEED TO SEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[theladybadass]

(shameless mod promo)

Grab some Halloween gear and Trick-or-Treat bags. Free Shipping until October 12th at my Society6 shop

[gold-kushkloudz]

[dynastylnoire]

No

Most of our grandparents were creeping. Especially the ones that went off to war.

Some of our grandfathers were adults marrying teenagers they impregnated.

Some of our grandfathers beat our grandmothers.

Some of our grandfathers refused to let them work even after women were given the rights to work.

Some of our grandfathers had completely different families.

Some of our grand parents were in the closet.

This whole idea that black grand parents stayed together for the love isn’t true. The truth is black women didn’t have a lot of options and to divorce meant it that she would be vilified and more than often without a source of income in some states.  To be queer and black was also frowned upon so people hid it and stayed closeted.

If our grandparents could have split they probably would have, but they couldn’t. The same options to creep were there. They just had to go to those places physically instead of online.

Sidenote: Don’t ever take any advice Tyrese gives seriously. He’s like the ambassador for Fuckboy International

[empoweredafrolatina]

The bolded.

[postracialcomments-deactivated2]

A man tried to talk to a woman inside a Queens building lobby, then slashed her neck when she ignored him, according to police, who are now looking for the suspect.

The man, believed to be about 20 years old, approached the 26-year-old victim in the lobby of a Jamaica building after 5 a.m. on Oct. 1, police said. 

He tried talking to the woman and when she turned away, he grabbed her from behind and used some sort of cutting instrument to slash her neck, according to police. 

The victim was taken to the hospital, where she was listed in critical but stable condition. An aquaintance of the victim told NBC 4 New York that she is recovering, but that she suffered damage to her vocal chords.

Source

[xcrashqueen]

"if a guy is bothering you you should just ignore him!"

[vivyllons]

The bookstore in my town has a racism section in honor of Ferguson and it gives me a lot of hope

[the-uncensored-she-deactivated2]

#JusticeforMikeBrown, #ArrestDarrenWilson, #BlackLivesMatter, #Ferguson

[julucinda]

If Latin America had not been pillaged by the U.S. capital since its independence, millions of desperate workers would not now be coming here in such numbers to reclaim a share of that wealth; and if the United States is today the world’s richest nation, it is in part because of the sweat and blood of the copper workers of Chile, the tin miners of Bolivia, the fruit pickers of Guatemala and Honduras, the cane cutters of Cuba, the oil workers of Venezuela and Mexico, the pharmaceutical workers of Puerto Rico, the ranch hands of Costa Rica and Argentina, the West Indians who died building the Panama Canal, and the Panamanians who maintained it.

Juan Gonzalez - Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (via anything-for-selenas)

[empoweredafrolatina]

Do you know of any AfroLatin@ events in Boston area?

Encuentro Diaspora Afro is based in Boston and is a good resource for that.