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We are a community made up of radical mujeres, some of color and some queer, based in Tucson, Arizona. This is our tumblr, find us at malintZINE.com

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Inspired by the truth and power of #ITooAmHarvard, people of colour who are students at University of Oxford in the U.K. created #ITooAmOxford to speak of their experiences with racism on campus. The photographs are diverse (there’s more on their site) and here I included some of the ones of Black women/women of African descent (my apologies if I misread any genders) as I did when I posted my now viral post on I Too Am Harvard because again it reveals the racist assumptions about both their intelligence and appearance, something I dealt with as a Black woman when I was younger and in undergrad/grad. I also noticed the sense of “place” and nationality that impacts the stereotypes that they face. 

This is a point for the lies about racism being uniquely American to stop. Now. Today. I am tired of weekly emails from Whites ahistorically announcing how racism does not exist in the U.K. It is not their place to make that determination anyway; only Black and other people of colour can. The person who experiences the oppression, not the oppressor, the oppressed, not the privileged, speak truth to the experiences.

These students are speaking their truths. Do not ignore them. Their lives matter. They deserve better than the stress and even physical/mental health issues that dealing with racism can cause. Stereotype threat is real and impacts academic performance and health. 

I wish these students the best. Much love. ❤

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A decade ago, I sat talking to a young mother on welfare about her experiences with technology. When our conversation turned to Electronic Benefit Transfer cards (EBT), Dorothy* said, “They’re great. Except [Social Services] uses them as a tracking device.” I must have looked shocked, because she explained that her caseworker routinely looked at her EBT purchase records. Poor women are the test subjects for surveillance technology, Dorothy told me ruefully, and you should pay attention to what happens to us. You’re next.

At The American Prospect, Virginia Eubanks details four broad ways in which looking to the experiences of marginalized communities can lay out for everyone else the ways in which we have been, are being and are soon to be monitored and surveilled. (via x09)

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#maleproverbs is a hasthtag (started by @brownaandlovely, according to Topsy) that explored the impact of patriarchy and how men often use the same statements over and over; because of male privilege, such statements align with status quo thinking and are thereby “normalized.”  Naturally the usual derailment came (i.e. "not ‘all’ men, "I don’t do that," "reverse sexism!", "you women are mean/bitter," etc.) instead of them realizing that if 19K+ tweets are sent on a topic in a couple of days by women who have better things to do than “make up stories” that coincidentally other women have experienced as well, maybe patriarchal oppression and sexism are institutional. Maybe misogyny, misogynoir and transmisogyny are real. But no, derailment and denial are always the expression of privilege. Many of the tweets I saw in the topic and shared described hetero men, but to be clear, gay men can also be misogynistic and can have male privilege. Not a single word in my tweets above are exaggerated (not even the last one), and I have written essays on most of what is covered in the tweets. I WISH misogyny and misogynoir (some things that I tweeted are particular to the impact of White supremacy, racism and anti-Blackness on misogyny, thereby impacting Black women differently, and impacts how Black men target anti-Black misogyny or misogynoir towards Black women) were “made up.” Sadly, some men of colour who know racism is real were angered by this trending topic on sexism and misogyny. Everything is okay to discuss until the specific privilege that someone has is in question. Oppression is not linear though. And of course a lot of trolling and attacks by White men occurred. But again, as I mentioned before, people with privilege aren’t used to being checked or disagreed with. Social media has upset the order. Knocked a few gems off their crowns. The silence that the privileged love so dearly is being upset by a large voice made up of smaller ones. (Must note that some men called misogyny out as well; not all trolled, which was great. Also, some people called out others being cissexist and specifically associating cis men’s bodies with all men; that’s not helpful in calling out male privilege and patriarchy.)

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i’ve experienced just about all of these both online and offline. thank you for writing this. these motherfuckers.

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Look Who Greeted CeCe McDonald Upon Her Release From Prison..

Happy beautiful black womyn!!!

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Diana, Chicago, 2013

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shout out to people who are scared to call others out, whose hands shake when they try to explain what’s wrong, whose throats threaten to close up with thoughts of ‘what if i’m just overreacting’, whose hearts are pounding out of their chests because they just stuck their necks out for their beliefs, who have lost friends and respect and safety for aligning themselves with causes

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"We teach girls to shrink themselves to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, ‘You can have ambition but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful otherwise you will threaten the man.’ Because I am female I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. A marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they can not be sexual beings in the way that boys are. Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes."

***Flawless - Beyoncé ft Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a now that can breed futures like bread in our children’s mouths so their dreams will not reflect the death of ours *** For those of us who were imprinted with fear like a faint line in the center of our foreheads learning to be afraid with our mother’s milk for by this weapon this illusion of some safety to be found the heavy-footed hoped to silence us For all of us this instant and this triumph We were never meant to survive. *** And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid. *** So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive.

Audre Lorde (via queerwoc)

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This is Totally Your Grandma€™s Social Movement: Women in Indigenous Nationhood Struggles by Annita Lucchesi

Stepping up and being a leader—carrying your people in your heart—requires each one of us to be mindful that fights for indigenous nationhood and decolonization are, fundamentally, “women’s issues.” Our nations will be crippled and toxic until we actively fight violence against Native women, as well as empower and respect Native women as nation-builders and community leaders.

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Mi'kmaq Anti-Fracking Protest Exemplifies Women on the Front Lines

Because womyn are always on the front lines...

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Renisha McBride was a 19 year old woman was got in a car accident in Dearborn Heights Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Her cell phone battery ran out so she went to a home to ask for help, when the owner came to the door with a gun and shot her in the face before she had the chance to ask.

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Camas para Sueños, 1985, Carmen Lomas Garza

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Meztli Cualo

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single motherhood is such a threat to the patriarchal structure of child-rearing that single mothers are held to such impossible standards as a means of punishment for the transgression 

single mothers are one of the most hated and disadvantaged members of society

if you think you could do the work of a single mother you’re delusional