Multiple Marginality

Creating, envisioning & examining "just" communities, the nature of oppression, inequity v. equality, human & civil rights with an Angeleno, urban, indigenous, youth perspective

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As long as queer kids are taking their own lives, as long as young lesbians are told that their crushes on other girls are just fleeting feelings that all straight girls have and as long as trans girls as young as age 6 are treated as sexual deviants who shouldn’t be allowed to use the bathroom, we’re going to need representation in all-ages media.

Top 11 Times This Year Pop Culture Reminded Us Kids Are Queer Too

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Watch Elizabeth Warren utterly destroy the Senate GOP

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for my father who made the journey across the ocean alone. from country to country. for ma and me who joined him years after. and for everyone else who left and is still looking.

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Who built your home? Were they born in the U.S., or were they immigrants? If they were immigrants, were they documented? Were they paid a fair wage, and treated decently? Were their working conditions safe? Did anyone die or lose a limb during the construction process?

Beside the Point: Your Job or Your Life: Worker death highlights unsafe conditions - News - The Austin Chronicle (via curate)

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Transgender people are not getting adequate health care, and widespread discrimination is largely to blame, according to a recent World Health Organization report. And the story is told most starkly in the high rates of HIV among transgender women worldwide.

JoAnne Keatley, one of the authors of that study, puts it plainly.

“Just shocking rates,” she tells NPR’s Arun Rath. “There was a recent meta-analysis demonstrating that a transgender woman was 49 times as likely to be living with HIV [than the general population] in 15 countries in which data was looked at and analyzed.”

Transgender Women Face Inadequate Health Care, ‘Shocking’ HIV Rates

Photo credit: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

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You know what they call a black person who earns a Ph.D.? A nigger.

Malcolm X (via thegreat-tab)

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So to recap, just this month Texas has: 1) Denied birth certificates to children born to undocumented parents despite the 14th Amendment that guarantees citizenship to EVERYONE born in the United States. 2) “Accidentally” gave about 250 detained children held in detention center for immigrants an adult dose of a hepatitis A vaccine. 3) And now says “no wrong doing” and “no laws broken” in mass graves of immigrant bodies found in Texas. >>> Link to article: http://t.co/47Yud18vVT

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Unidentified Remains of Immigrant Dreamers in Texas 

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UPDATE**** http://www.texasobserver.org/illegal-mass-graves-of-migrant-remains-found-in-south-texas/ 

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“GRAVES OF SHAME”

** “A year ago, a Texas Rangers inquiry found “no evidence” of wrongdoing in the botched handling of migrant remains in Brooks County. New evidence indicates rampant violations of the law”**

examples:

–> bodies buried in kitchen trash bags, with as many as five piled on top of one another in a single

–>One corpse was wrapped in a burlap bag; other remains were found inside a milk crate.

–>Skulls were wedged between coffins

Keep reading

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How One Woman Found The Courage To Say No To Domestic Abuse

Saroj is a cook at a public school in her village, Dujana, in the northern Indian state of Haryana. Like most people in this state, she doesn’t have a last name.

She walks to work down narrow streets of concrete homes with cows and buffaloes outside. She is short, only about 5 feet 2, but she walks tall and confident in her traditional mustard-colored tunic and pants. Her tanned face is framed by big, dark eyes and a square jaw.

As Saroj passes an old man sitting outside a house, she leans in close to me and starts whispering.

“That man sitting on that chair, he’s my husband’s elder brother,” she says. “He quarreled a lot with me.”

“What did he quarrel about?” I whisper back. The man, with his back to us, is still within earshot.

“Well, he wanted to control me,” she says. “So that I wouldn’t come and go from the house as I pleased. He wanted me to ask for his permission, that’s why.”

Read the full story by Pulitzer Center grantee Rhitu Chatterjee for NPR’s Goats and Soda.

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Such solid work on such a tough topic. -Ariel

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“In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.” -unknown