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In today's blog entry I talk about the final day (7/23) of the Resistencia: Sangre indiegogo campaign. The challenges, the search for suppressed histories and the vision for liberation after decolonization. The future.
http://philosophactivist.blogspot.com/2013/07/resistencia-final-day-of-fundraising.html
Final day of indiegogo fundraiser for play/novel Resistencia:Sangre
Hey all,
It’s the final day to contribute to the indiegogo campaign for Resistencia: Sangre- a community, liberatory play about queer, brown resistance and the reclamation of our heritage and the exploration of our suppressed histories. Please spread the word on this last day and contribute if you are able!
www.indiegogo.com/projects/resistencia_sangre
Q/POC are Overworked and Underpaid
"Queer folks of color at the intersections of race, gender and sexuality are up against multiple layers of discrimination based on appearance and something as small (or large) as other’s perceptions. Like many POC, we work extremely hard and get paid astronomically less. Many times we are expected (consciously or unconsciously) to work 10X harder by our white (and sometimes even brown) supervisors. Many times we are seen as mere work horses. This is all tied to perceptions of people of color as lazy, underachievers. People (maybe not even people) to bear the brunt of hard labor like we've done for centuries. Sometimes these perceptions are even tied to beliefs that we should be grateful that they’ve hired us or let us work there instead of a white person. And essentially they’re doing us a favor by working us into the ground. We should definitely thank them.
A lot of times we internalize this. We carry these toxic beliefs within ourselves. These beliefs that we have a horrible work ethic and that we must work like a dog and be underpaid and be appreciative for whatever scraps we can get. Sometimes we even feel that it’s normal to be constantly depressed with chronic pain. As a person with lupus, I must say that I know what this is like firsthand. As a person who has worked in a number of predominantly white corporate and non-profit environments, I can vouch for many of these sentiments. "
- From Philosophactivist Blog
Zines, anthologies, chapbooks, excerpts from my new play.
"I am in such deep gratitude of the support I've received in pursuing my herbal education so far and I thank those co-visionaries walking this journey with me. I ask that you please continue to spread the word that I am collecting love and solidarity offerings in order to finish paying for my herbal education so that I can continue to bring it back to our community in the form of zines and pop-up libraries, skillshares and freedom schools, and free/low-cost holistic health pop-up clinics and holistic health fairs. Here is my fundraising website"
Queer. Brown. Herbalism.
Free intro herbalism links, articles, and access geared towards POC medicine histories. Enjoy!!
Caminante, son tus huellas el camino y nada más; Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace el camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante no hay camino sino estelas en la mar.// Wanderer, your footsteps the road, and nothing more; wanderer, we have no road, we make the road by walking. As you walk you make the road, and to look back is to see that never can we pass this way again. Wanderer, there is no road, only traces in the sea.
-Antonio Machado
Survivin'-A poem about being brown and genderqueer and surviving in this society. Text below for hearing impaired.
"Tired of survivin’/strivin’/ bribi’n …you to see my potential/credentials/my mentals/tired of survivin’/strivin’/to stay alive when/some peeps got this privilege/and all I got’s my soul to give/never thought about sex work til the economy tanked and went bisserk/became comfortable in my gender/inhabiting spaces/places/you wouldn’t wanna be/havin’ brown skin and bein’ queer/you can’t see me/invisible/and divisible/my community -is…tired of survivin’/strivin’/hard to stay alive when…all you ever hope for is to take another breath/that you don’t catch your death/no time to worry about cultural theft/bereft/of heritage/society’s no longer sparin’ kids/so why me? You buyin’ beamers a schemer with an HDTV and all I wanna do is breathe/some fresh air/eat food with no toxicity/complicity/you blame us for/but this capitalism is pimpin’ you/yep your the whore/and …my people…are…tired of survivin’/strivin’/to stay alive when you got ends and wealth/but we have to live our lives in stealth and assimilate/to keep food on our plate/fork and knife/we get tired of life/strife/ all these signs/the confines/bein’ on the grind/ and you can’t see the injustice/ of the majority of brown men bein’ in the prison system/ and you pushin’ for the expansion of ‘isms/ DAMN I’m tired of JUST survivin/strivin’/to stay alive when all you can think about is amassin wealth and gettin benefits/when the only benefit I get is grime and grit/and my will to uplift/my people/to awaken sheeple and zombies/but you want to be wearin’ abercrombie/and handin’ us your truth/ while poisonin’ our youth…Man I’ma survive/stay alive/fight with each breath til the day that I die/for justice/and the end to your privilege/and white-given birthright/til the day we all know we’re descendants of kings and queens/and our spaces reflect this/til poverty and inequality/we wreck this/check this…you got a powerful enemy…but if you wanna work through this you got a friend in me…cuz we will survive! And with each death we cultivate the will to stay alive/your foot won’t be on neck for long/ we’re gonna right all these wrongs/ this isn’t rhetorical/or metaphorical/ this sh* is going to end/the patriarchy, xenophobia, homophobia, racism, will fall…it’s up to us brown folks to pick up the phone …answer the call Get involved, get this sh* solved..we barely survivin’ but without comin’ together we can’t run…but crawl."
where it all began...
