Dance and pictures and other weird stuff

Feminism, dance, and my shenanigans

[papertownsmovie]

The ‘Get Lost Get Found’ tour loves cheese, you guys. And we love you. Two great reasons to vote for Wisconsin to win a tour spot this summer! Favorite and reblog to vote! One note = one vote!

[hellomadisonwi]

As Hannah Hart for Halloween

HELLO

[faultinourstarsmovie]

One note = one vote. Like or reblog to vote for your state! Go Minnesota! http://thefaultinourstarsmovie.com/demandourstars 

[monika-klink]

Ester Hernandez La Virgen de las Calles

[hellomadisonwi]

I like this piece because it sits a bit uncomfortably. I'm not sure I have anything definitive to say on it, but I like what is provokes, especially followed by the wanted ad. 

[youdontlooklatino]

by Dash Harris

1. Not everyone speaks Spanish

There are many languages and dialects spoken even within countries where the official language is Spanish. We have English, Portuguese, Haitian Kreyol, and other creole languages and dialects as well as indigenous languages such as Quechua.

There were about a two thousand other languages spoken throughout what is now Latin America before the sixteenth century…the number of languages spoken by non-Conquest peoples (i.e., indigenous, “native” Americans) in the region of Latin America (excluding Anglo North American regions) now stands at about 500, many spoken by so few people that those languages will cease to be native languages during this course of this century.

[hellomadisonwi]

I saw an article on buzzfeed called "Questions every latina is tired of hearing." I felt maybe that was a bit too generalized, but I like this article on becoming knowledgable about a region you may have some misconceptions about. 

[reclaimingthelatinatag]

Ana Tijoux - "Shock" in Arizona

This video and song is the 2010 collaboration of Chilean MC, Ana Tijoux, with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), National Immigrant Youth Alliance and Puente Movement, in support of “Alto Arizona”, a campaign fighting for immigrant’s rights and respect in Arizona and around the world.

[hellomadisonwi]

In high school I used to listen to this song a lot. Ana Tijoux represents the new generation speaking out and using popular media dominated by males (usually white or black) to talk on her own platform. Here, she is just continuing her awesomeness. Check it out. 

[csmcgmont]

Please drop Trader Joe’s a postcard! We were told in my Chicana 3212 class at the University of Minnesota that Trader Joe’s does business with a grape picker who allows inhuman conditions to exist in their grapevine fields. In 2008, a 19 year-old pregnant woman died of heat stroke because water…

[hellomadisonwi]

Subrina tells it like it is. Everyone listen up!

[hellomadisonwi]

Dolores Huerta, leader of United Farm Workers and inspirational Chicana. She was born in New Mexico, but grew up in California were she met César Chávez and, along with him, lead the fight for California Migrant Workers. Since this, she has worked on many other human rights projects and was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

[lguti21]

Sandra Cisneros

was born in Chicago in 1954. She earned her English degree at Loyola University of Chicago and earned her Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Iowa. Cisneros is a writer who has worked in the K-12 system as well as in colleges and universities. Her work includes books like Bad Boys, Loose Woman, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, The House on Mango Street, and Carmelo among many others.

[hellomadisonwi]

Her poem you read was amazing. I loved the part where she talks about critics, but says "when I open my mouth, they wobble." 

[hellomadisonwi]

Looks like Nina Diaz is going through some changes, for those of you who want an update on this beautifully talented amazing singer girl. 

[neuroticmind]

[loveminaxthe12]

We all are. 

[hellomadisonwi]

Quite true. What do you think some of these rules are, that we should ignore?

[k-leidoscopic]

altar de una de mis cuevas anteriores.

    -KALEID▼SCOPIC

[hellomadisonwi]

Looked at many altars, trying to figure out what spoke to me. Many large, highly decorated ones, but I love this one. It feels like the most important, small treasures, very beautiful. 

[hellomadisonwi]

Love the color in this, so expressive. Picture by Adry del Rocio, who says "I paint to be reborn" "Pinto para renacer", which is delightful. This is titled "Virgen Mexicana." 

[hellomadisonwi]

Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, and awesome advocate Dolores Huerta. (Picture credit to front page mag). 

"The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women’s movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights."

-Huerta, from her acceptance speech

[thesexuneducated-deactivated201]

illustratedjai submitted:

[image description: An image mimicking the classic red ‘hello my name is’ sticker, with the alternate text ‘hello I identify as’ in all caps. The write-in section is blank.]

Hello I Identify As started, originally, as a set of laminated signs to be carried by the members of Out On Campus at Vancouver Pride 2011. They were made in each colour of the pride flag rainbow.

Since then, the signs have lived in the Out On Campus lounge, being used for workshops or as examples of the kind of work done there. 

This semester, four members of a class called ‘Queer Genders’ were tasked with a project. Jai, the original creator of the file, Mickie, Mark and Nicole decided to show the variety of identity on campus, not just in gender or sexual identity, but in all aspects. They made the above image into a pair of whiteboards, and split up, asking folks to write in their identities, and then taking photos of them. These photos were edited into a video and shown to their class. 

For ethical reasons, none of those photos will be posted to this tumblr, but the work goes on. If you feel like it, please download, print or otherwise make use of this image, and fill it in with your identity. Submit a photo, or file; if you don’t have the capability to alter the image yourself, send us an ask, and we’ll write your text in for you. 

[hellomadisonwi]

Cool project, relevant to what we discussed in class. Make sure you identify yourself before others do it for you, encourage your friends to do the same.

[hellomadisonwi]

Adopting the tactics of their hero Cesar Chavez, six protesters have gone on a hunger strike to demand that the University of California at Los Angeles establish a department of Chicana and Chicano studies.

We are very lucky to have what we have here at the U. Not sure if I agree with the tactics, but it is important for the residents of the USA to feel represented in Academics. 

[hellomadisonwi]

Strong Chicana women! Mexican-United Statesian (however that should be written) girls who are lovely independent ladies. They also happen to be my family.