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I wonder how many people haven't been there before..
Check out Freckles' new video "Uh Huh" from her forthcoming album, The Experiment. Many may have already heard of Freckles. She is an accomplished writer, who has written hit songs and worked many of your favorite artists from Shanice to Janet Jackson.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Mafalda
I'm not sure why I haven't talked about Mafalda before now... Little boys have Calvin and Hobbes. Little girls have Mafalda. Qino (Argentinian cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado) started drawing Mafalda in 1964 and the comic ran until 1973. The strip features a 6-year-old girl named Mafalda, who is deeply concerned about humanity and world peace and rebels against the current state of the world. She's cynical, honest and hilarious. The strip, as far as I know, was never translated to English except for two of the ten volumes. Trust me when I say this is for the best. A lot always gets lost in translation. You might as well brush up on your Spanish now. A little idioma always does one some good.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Providence Youth Student Movement is Hiring!
PrYSM is Hiring for 2 Positions
please help spread the word
Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) is a grass-roots Southeast Asian youth organization committed to positive youth development and social change. Our purpose is to mobilize Southeast Asian youth into community organizing campaigns which foster the process of healing and dialogue, build support and love for those who are isolated and marginalized, and build power in the Southeast Asian community. Visit www.prysm.us.
1. Seeking a Lead Organizer to mobilize Southeast Asian youth into community organizing campaigns for social justice
Full Time, $35,000 – 40,000 with benefits, commensurate with experience
Providence, Rhode Island
The role of the Lead Organizer is to coordinate and oversee all of PrYSM’s social justice campaigns and projects, and connect projects and campaigns to PrYSM’s overall vision for social change. He or she will work directly with the program staff to coordinate and support youth involvement in both the planning and execution of organizing activities.
The lead organizer is responsible for the planning, development and implementation of PrYSM’s campaign work. This work will include but is not limited to issue identification, research, campaign strategy, base-building, involving supporters and coalitions, and soliciting press. The lead organizer shall keep the campaign strategy current and relevant and incorporate feedback and direction from youth. The other major part of the job is to prepare, support, and connect youth to the campaigns. The lead organizer will do this by utilizing a political education curriculum and conduct trainings for youth on topics that are related to the campaign- ranging from technical organizing skills (such as public speaking) to political education topics (such as racism and racial profiling). The organizer will empower youth to take an active role in the campaign by facilitating meetings whereby youth will make key decisions about campaign strategy and tactics.
The lead organizer will be assisted by part-time program staff, one coordinating SOUL (Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation) and the other coordinating seaQuel (Southeast Asian Queers United for Empowerment and Leadership). These staff will be responsible for leading youth meetings, communicating with youth, and providing mentorship and assistance to support youth to participate fully. The organizer will work and be in close communication with program staff to coordinate scheduling, agendas, and planning.
The lead organizer will report and be supervised by the Executive Director, and from time to time, will help with grant reporting.
Required Qualifications
- Knowledge about the tactics and strategy of community organizing
- Knowledge and passion about social justice issues and topics
- Experience or demonstrated capacity to work well with diverse individuals and communities, such as at-risk youth, LGBTQ, immigrants, and people of color.
- Demonstrated capacity to manage and coordinate medium to large-scale projects, that involve detailed logistical coordination as well ‘big picture’ thinking
- Excellent writing skills aimed at diverse audiences, such as media and press, foundations and donors, constituents and allies.
- Demonstrated ability to inspire and motivate constituents and allies to support PrYSM’s organizing agenda
- Demonstrated experience or capacity to supervise 1- 2 staff
Recommended Qualifications
a. Demonstrated passion or connection to the constituents that PrYSM serves – Southeast Asian, LGBTQ, and youth – and/or the issues PrYSM organizes around – racial justice, immigrant rights, youth empowerment, LGBTQ equality.
b. Knowledge of Southeast Asian culture, politics, or language
c. Knowledge of the political, civic, and social landscape of Rhode Island (Providence in particular)
d. Experience and demonstrated success in supervising
e. Actual experience and demonstrated success in leading a grass-roots community organizing campaign
f. A Bachelors or Masters Degree in a related field
How To Apply:
Submit Resume and Cover letter addressing the question “Why do you want this job and why is it right for you (right now)?” If you are a good candidate, we will ask for references, a short writing sample, and call you in for an interview. Submit your application to Anthony@prysm.us.
2. Seeking a Program Coordinator to facilitate leadership development and mentor LGBTQ Southeast Asian youth
Part Time, 20 hours/week, $19/hour
Providence, RI
Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) is a grass-roots Southeast Asian youth organization committed to positive youth development and social change. Our purpose is to mobilize Southeast Asian youth into community organizing campaigns which foster the process of healing and dialogue, build support and love for those who are isolated and marginalized, and build power in the Southeast Asian community. Visit www.prysm.us for more information.
The seaQuel Program Coordinator will coordinate PrYSM’s Southeast Asian Queers United for Empowerment and Leadership (seaQuel) program. seaQuel is a program for LGBTQ Southeast Asian youth and heterosexual youth allies to develop their leadership skills by planning events that bring diverse communities together. These events have the purpose of addressing the intersectionality of oppressions – racism, classism, homophobia, and sexism – as well as to bring different communities – immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ, youth, and adults – together.
The seaQuel Program Coordinator is responsible for facilitating 2-3 meetings per week with a team of 6- 8 youth leaders. These meetings will include leadership trainings, educational trainings, and supporting youth-run and youth-facilitated meetings. Successfully coordinating and running these meetings will require good communication with youth leaders, logistical coordination, and your ability to serve as a role model and mentor.
The seaQuel Program Coordinator will also be supervised and assisted by PrYSM’s Lead Organizer in curriculum development, workshop delivery, and coordination of large projects and events.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability and/or experience in engaging, communicating with, and empowering young people
- Demonstrated ability to serve as a mentor to young people
- Demonstrated ability and/or experience in facilitation and workshop delivery
- Demonstrated passion to work on LGBTQ-equality and a range of other social justice issues
- Experience or demonstrated capacity to work well with diverse individuals and communities, such as at-risk youth, LGBTQ, immigrants, and people of color.
- Experience of demonstrated ability to coordinate big projects – such as conferences, rallies, or group art projects.
Recommended Qualifications
- Artistic ability – in any area, such as play-writing or theatre, murals, painting, sculpture, decorations, singing, dancing, poetry, etc.
- Demonstrated experience in event planning – such as planning conferences, performances, rallies, weddings, etc…
How To Apply:
Submit Resume and Cover letter addressing the question “Why do you want this job and why is it right for you (right now)?” If you are a good candidate, we will ask for references, a short writing sample, and call you in for an interview. Submit your application admin@prysm.us.
So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
via NPR
Review:
I am not the kind of reader that goes in for gimmicks or noticeable literary devices — I also don't tend to read anything that could find its way into the "thriller" section of the bookstore. I should have picked up So Much Pretty and put it right back down again. But I didn't! I stayed up all night reading it, and then the next day, I found myself so sucked into Hoffman's world that I forgot to eat lunch. Sleep and nourishment aside, I don't regret taking a chance on it — I am already anticipating Hoffman's next book so I can do it all over again. Criticisms first: Hoffman does employ a kind of debut novelist's gimmick here. She writes each chapter from a different point of view, giving the book a "Greek chorus" feel (another sign of a first writer: She uses invented court documents and letters to fill in plot holes in her characters' knowledge) — but I didn't mind it after a while and found myself happy to hear several voices take on what in the voice of only one observer may have felt like an insurmountable tragedy. So Much Pretty is certainly a thriller (it made me double check my door locks), but it is more challenging than that would imply; Hoffman uses terrifying events to scratch at some darker issues beneath the surface, and like any promising novelist, she does so with more showing than telling. She points out the ways in which small-town communities rally around their own after a crime, and often let the truth (and in this case, women's rights) fall to the wayside. As the young Alice writes in a letter before her disappearance, "I think I have fallen through the hole in all the logic in the entire world and I can see now that nothing holds up and I am going to keep falling." This is, in essence, what reading So Much Pretty feels like.
- Rachel Syme, books editor, NPR
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
I'm not sure what this is... but I think I like it.
Mashi Miu is her name. And I dig it. Even after reading her bio, I'm still confused. Regardless, she might have tipped my scale with photos of Davonee from Gimme Sugar. And let's be real... even if she isn't your "type," you can't deny that God broke the mold on that one.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Happy International Women's Day!
...Which apparently a special day in International Women's Month. It's the 100th Anniversary(!); so make sure to check your area for events! For my fellow Atlanta womyn:
| Date+time: | 08 March 2011, 6.30 to 8.30 pm | ||
| Event: | TONY & JANINA'S AMERICAN WEDDING- FILM SCREENING-ATLANTA PREMIERE ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY | ||
| About: | This film follows one Polish American woman's struggle through the red tape of the current U.S. immigration system. This film tells the universal untold human rights story of post 9/11, that every undocumented immigrant in America faces today and reframing the conversation for change. | ||
| Venue: | Plaza Theater 1049 Ponce de Leon Ave Atlanta, GA 30306 +1 (404) 873-1939, Atlanta, GA, 30306 | ||
| Organisation: | Ruthless Films in association w/ Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO): Owned & operated by women, Ruthless Films focus on the struggles of working class women, whose lives have often been shaped by a lack of opportunity, but who are survivors. | ||
| Info: | Click here |
Also, if you go to Google's Homepage, you can click on today's fancy banner and it will bring you to a list of places to which you can donate (I mean, if you're into that. I am when I have money). If you're looking for reading material to get you into the feminist mood, Autostraddle turned me onto this article by Eileen Myles: Being Female. It's good. Trust. And with that, I bid you a Happy International Women's Month! Today, may you feel loved.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Yansan: 100 Years of Womyn's Struggle, Ceremony, and Sword
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., March 4 until Tue., March 29 @ Sellars Project Space, Denver, CO
“If someone asked me at the end of the day, ‘Ashara, what do you want to be?,’ I would say that I want to be a curator. I’d have the unmitigated gall to think I could curate a show. But it’s true: When I grow up, I want to own a gallery where I’d show works by African and African-American women.” So says “artivist” Ashara Ekundayo, who now spreads herself thin between Denver and the Bay Area, disseminating the word about community, cultural diversity and urban gardening wherever she goes. But even before she finishes growing up, Ekundayo, who founded Denver’s Cafe Nuba (among so many other things), has gotten to try her hand at curating with the new exhibit Yansan: 100 Years of Womyn’s Struggle, Ceremony and Sword, which opens today at Sellars Project Space, 4383 Tennyson Street, in celebration of the not-insignificant hundredth anniversary of International Women’s Day.
The title Yansan, chosen in tribute to the Yoruban female orisha (or deity) Oya, “who guards and organizes chaos, transition and change, and whose element in nature is the tornado,” Ekundayo explains, is meant to convey the idea of self-actualization for women in modern society. To further that theme, she’s chosen works by a conglomeration of women artists of color from Denver, the Bay Area and New York, including mixed-media Amana Johnson, outspoken photographer Kim Mayhorn, activist poster artist Favianna Rodriguez, local sculptor Li Hardison and others, all women who, she says, are “amazing griots and storytellers who embody the energy that is transcendence” — the spirit of Yansan.
Attend a reception for Yansan from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight; tomorrow at noon, Ekundayo and some of the artists will join together for a free informal Talk Talk Talk panel. Yansan runs through March 29; for more information, visit www.sellarsprojectspace.com or call 720-475-1182.
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