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Janelle Monae: 'I Don't Believe Women Need to Posses a Vagina to Be Women'
Janelle Monae â who last week released her album Dirty Computer â clarified that the pants she wore in her âPYNKâ music video werenât necessarily meant to simulate a vagina, and also clarified that her femme anthem is for all women, no matter what genitals they possess.
âSometimes I think people interpret those as vagina pants, they call them vulva pants, they call them flowers, but it just represents some parts of some women,â Monae told People. âThere are some women in the video that do not have on the pants, because I donât believe that all women need to possess a vagina to be a woman. I have one Iâm proud of it, but thereâs a lot of policing and controlling that people are trying to have over our vaginas and when you think about female genital mutilation, when you think about all these womenâs issues, I wanted to make sure we were discussing these issues but we were also celebrating each other.â
When âPYNKâ was first released, Monaeâs co-star (and rumored girlfriend) Tessa Thompson voiced her support for trans women.
Monae supported Thompsonâs statement with one of her own.
I, too, live in the time of slavery, by which I mean I am living in the future created by it
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Ajani Benoit Highlights some of the Human Rights Issues in Grenada
Richie Maitland on Human Rights in Grenada
January 2018
Blackness is often only discussed in an American context, without an understanding of its social, political, economic, and cultural interconnections to the rest of the Afro-Atlantic, Europe, Asia, and the continent of Africa. Far too many Black folks in America remain unconcerned or without knowledge of the African Diaspora worldwide. It is imperative for Blackness to be understood in an international context, as Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael and other Black freedom fighters attempted to do so in the formation of their own radical consciousness and revolutionary politics. The following resources and media are not by any means exhaustive, but an attempt to hold Black millennials in the Western hemisphere accountable for developing a complex, internationalist analysis as Afro-descendants, particularly in respect to the radical history of Black power movements in the Caribbean. Resources will be given on Puerto Rico, Barbados, Martinique, Guyana, Haiti, Suriname, Grenada, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, the Virgin Islands (U.S.), Jamaica, and Trinidad.
âOn 8 March let us empower all women to fight against societal expectations and forge a new path, remembering the words of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich â âwell-behaved women seldom make history.â Let us make history.â
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 1884â1962
Human rights activist, UN delegate, politician, lecturer, writer, and longest-serving First Lady of the United States. As a member of the prominent Roosevelt family in New York, and niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she enjoyed a privileged childhood. But she was met with tragedy when her mother, brother, and father died in quick succession before she was ten. At 15, she was sent to a finishing school and taught by the feminist Marie Souvestre, who would have a great influence on her life. She returned to New York where she got involved with the Junior League, and then happened to run into her fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The two were married after a secret romance, despite his motherâs disapproval. She devoted herself to married life, raising six children and supporting her husband, while constantly at odds with her mother-in-law. So she was devastated to discover in 1918 that Franklin had been having an affair with her social secretary, Lucy Mercer. She considered divorcing him; instead, she decided to devote all her energy toward public service. When her husband contracted polio and lost the use of his legs, she persuaded him to stay in politics, and began making public appearances on his behalf. She advocated for labor unions, and campaigned for Democratic candidates. And when Franklin Roosevelt became President in 1933, she immediately began challenging the traditional role of First Lady, drawing intense criticism along the way. She established an experimental community for struggling workers, reported from the front lines during World War II, and called for women to go into factories. She fought passionately against racial discrimination toward black and Japanese Americans, even within her husbandâs own New Deal. And she vowed to match her husbandâs salary during his first year as president, giving lectures across the country, hosting a weekly radio program, holding daily press conferences, and writing a popular daily column called âMy Day.â Inspiration for the column and press conferences came from Lorena Hickok, a lesbian and one of the top reporters in the country, who had been sent to give Roosevelt her very first interview as First Lady. The two hit it off immediately, and were soon inseparable. When they werenât together, they wrote each other lengthy, daily love letters. Their relationship eventually waned as Roosevelt became more and more active, but they remained lifelong friends. Roosevelt was good friends with other lesbian couples as well, such as Nancy Cook and Marian Dickerman, with whom she purchased and ran a school for girls, and a furniture factory to support local farmers. Her other great romance from this time was with her bodyguard, Earl Miller. Her husband, meanwhile, continued to have affairs with a number of women. When he died suddenly before the end of his term, Eleanor Roosevelt was distraught to discover that he had once again been in the company of his original mistress, Lucy Mercer, at the time, and that her daughter had arranged the affair. But her husbandâs untimely death did not put an end to her public career. Incoming President Truman appointed her to the first American delegation to the United Nations, where she was the only woman in the group, and served on the Commission on Human Rights. She continued to lecture and advocate for the working class, people of color, and women up until her death. And though she was often considered a controversial First Lady, a plain-looking woman, a possible communist, and made up one of the largest of J. Edgar Hooverâs FBI files, in her later years she became one of the most admired and beloved public figures in United States history, and remains so to this day.
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âI challenge everybody going forward to think about the harmful effects that their words and actions have on others.â
White House officials are still working on an anti-LGBT religious freedom order which was supposedly spiked earlier this year.
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Today on International Women's Day we want to recognize trailblazer Kittisha Doyle. "I am Kittisha Doyle, Grenadian native and winner of Caribbean's Next Top Model Cycle 2. Today, as the world acknowledges women, we embrace our flaws, our shortcomings; we embrace our failures and achievements; we embrace our uniqueness and diversity and we celebrate our journey to equality. Today, I join with women in Grenada and around the world as we take a stand against gender based discrimination. I #PledgeForParity.
Today and everyday we stand in solidarity with victims of discrimination. Have your say @longlivetammy
GrenCHAP joins with UNAIDS to recognise Zero Discrimination Day on 01 March, 2016.
Our friends from #bglad #colourpink #sasodguyana #LGBTplatformSuriname #iamonetnt #UnitedandStrong celebrated with us today.
African-Caribbean boys are being held back by a "hustle culture" in which educational success is not seen as masculine, a teachers' leader says.
Black schoolboys can choose to perform poorly to avoid undermining their masculinity, the head of the Jamaican Teachers' Association has said.
Mr Cameron said: "That notion of masculinity says that if as a male you aspire to perform highly it means you are feminine, even to the extent of saying you are gay.
"But in the context of Jamaica, which is so homophobic, male students don't want to be categorised in that way so that they would deliberately underperform in order that they are not."
He said research had suggested that boys in Jamaica deliberately underperformed in literacy tests because the tests were carried out in standard English, and "to speak in standard English is considered a woman's activity".