fuck yeah, women of the rainbow.: Archive

fuck yeah, women of the rainbow.

June 2012

May 2012

Komagata Maru Play Volunteers Call Out

racismfreeontario: For the Brown Canada Project. Komagata Maru Play Volunteers Brown Canada: Komagata Maru Plays Volunteer Posting (Part Time – Until end of June) Start & End Dates : May- end of June 2012 Brown Canada, lead by CASSA, is a community-led history project to encourage South Asian communities to create and document their histories in Canada creatively, through...

oh-delial: Honour student who works two jobs to support her siblings after her parents split up and left town is put in JAIL for missing school due to exhaustion stfuandlistenwhitepeople: pieties: nom-chompsky: paach: Diane Tran, 17, thrown in jail for one night because of repeated absences from school Honours student has been working two jobs to keep family afloat since parents’...

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

moniquill: supersoygrrrl: lettherebecramp: THE WORD “GYSPY” IS A RACIST SLUR USED TO BELITTLE AND ABUSE ROMANI PEOPLE DON’T TAG PICTURES OF YOU DANCING IN THE WOODS WITH SPARKLY SCARVES AS “GYPSY” DON’T TAG PICTURES OF ANY OF YOUR OTHER HIPPIE SHIT AS “GYPSY” DON’T USE THE WORD “GYSPY” THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Don’t name your whimsical blog/store anything with the...

Rocking Girls & Thundering Women: A Fundraising...

racismfreeontario: Rocking Girls and Thundering Women Type Arts & Culture Date Friday, May 25, 2012 Time 7pm Location The Projection Booth Description Fundraising Night for Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers. “Girls Rock!” The Movie [“Battling over band names, lyrical intent, microphone time, musical direction, and loose ideas of artistic merit (Amelia is a child who treasures her...

Brown Canada Creative Arts Workshops. Legacies of...

racismfreeontario: browncanada: Legacies of the Komagata Maru: Digital Storytelling workshop with Mariam Ahmad & Asam Ahmad, Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 & Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 5-8pm @ Don Montgomery CRC Workshop content provided by: Asam Ahmad, Graduate of Asian Arts Freedom School, Mariam Ahmad What: In these workshops we will explore the marginalized and/or hidden histories of the...

how to not be a White Savior when in Africa

queerhairyvag: Don’t assume those you intend to help even wanted your help. You are not there to ‘help’ anyone. Help assumes you are in authority and they depend on you. You are there to work with people. Those people are not charity cases: they are human beings with feelings history and personal identities. Like you. Treat them as such. That means stop thinking its so goddamn ’beautiful’ to...