Turquoise Traipsing
I walk many lines but I do so while wearing a little turquoise.
Recovering grad school student, activist, craftivist, mechista, xicana, queerspawn, 2nd gen queer, food lover, cis, jew,, gorda/fat girl and loud!
I co-moderate three other tumblrs but this one gets the most action. Here are the others.
http://fatpeopleofcolor.tumblr.com
http://joteria.tumblr.com
http://povertydiet.tumblr.com
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My little brother graduate from college on Monday. I’m so proud of him. He truly is a man I respect.
Some background, my mom left my brother and I living with our abusive other mom when I was 19 and my brother was 16—she had to leave or I don’t think she would have survived. 3 years later, for my own mental health and survival I had to move out and I left him living with our abusive and disabled mom when he was 19. Despite taking care of a very hard to love and demanding parent, working anywhere from 2-5 jobs and 25-60 hours a week, financially supporting my mom, going to school full time, majoring in Chemistry, dating his high school sweetheart, handling our mom having cancer and our other mom having multiple strokes, and being a martial arts prodigy, he managed to graduate from college in six years and debt free. He also looks good in a suit:)
My brother is a remarkably resilient young man and I hope the future is bright for him.
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And even a bonus slide for any remaining queries:
Share amongst your friends.
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…up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and poor public services took to the streets. Protesters in Rio de Janeiro burned cars and looted buildings as police attempted to disperse them with teargas and rubber bullets. Aerial images showed thousands of people attempting to storm the congress building in Brasilia. The rallies…are some of the biggest ever seen in the country…
more.
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Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a pinch of ethnic salt); there is youth culture and drug culture and queer culture; but there is no such thing as white culture. Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position. It is nothing but a reflection of privilege, and exists for no reason other than to defend it. Without the privileges attached to it, the white race would not exist, and the white skin would have no more social significance than big feet.
—http://racetraitor.org/abolishthepoint.html (via whitedenial-ontrial)
This is so true! Don’t be intimidated by white. Be proud of your melanin and know that it means so much more than culture or color!
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AfroLatina Student Midwife Fund
My name is Ynanna Djehuty, also known as Carmen Mojica. I am reaching out to you today to ask for your help on my journey to become a midwife. I have just been accepted to Maternidad La Luz, a midwifery school and birth clinic in El Paso, Texas. I am overjoyed and overwhelmed with excitement as I prepare for my studies to begin in September. I need help securing donations, grants and scholarships for my tuition, books, room and board.
I am an Afro-Dominicana born and raised in the Bronx. I am a certified birth doula and artist. I am a member of the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC). The focus of my work is the empowerment of women and people of the African Diaspora, specifically discussing the Afro-Latina Identity. I utilize my experience as a birth doula to raise awareness on maternal and infant health for women, highlighting the disparities in the healthcare system in the United States for women of color. Becoming licensed as a midwife is my direct and physical contribution to ensuring future generations are born into peace and calm environments.Midwifery is my calling. I see a huge need for compassionate, woman-centered care for women of the African Diaspora and am stepping up to serve my community. I have been particularly interested in being trained in a bilingual environment so that I may use my native Spanish language to assist women who otherwise would not have access to compassionate midwifery care. Women who are native Spanish speakers often are not truly listened to and in turn are not completely informed during their birth process. My presence in the global community is essential to adding to the number of Spanish-speaking midwives.
As a student, I will be serving a mostly Spanish-speaking population of Mexican and Mexican American women. Attending Maternidad La Luz would allow me to be licensed as a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) by the end of 2014. I have chosen this particular path to midwifery because I am interested in providing birthing women of color with a option of care that is mother-centered. I have dreams of opening up my own birth clinic in the future, and studying at a birth center such as Maternidad La Luz is excellent training for this endeavor. I am currently fundraising on my own via the link I’ve enclosed as well as reaching out to individual people and organizations like you to reach my goal by this September. Your support is a large contribution to reducing the perils women of color are facing currently in the world. Thank you for your time. Be blessed!
Fundraising Campaign: http://www.gofundme.com/thesewatersrundeep*SIGNAL BOOST PLEASE!!!*
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If you’re in the Boston area. This Sunday, June 23rd, 2pm @ Harvard Square.
Solidarity with the uprising in Brazil!
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