tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62120839518898992542024-02-20T05:15:26.010-08:006-sided mega-womanI rather be a tree then a flower.wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-67084203469996857132013-04-25T08:03:00.000-07:002013-04-25T09:51:31.137-07:00DEAR MEDIA: THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT !!!<span style="color: blue;">Take notes this is how you Talk about female Athletes. </span><br />
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<span class="authors">Jake Simpson, March 21, 2013: The Altantic</span><time datetime="2013-03-21T16:01:30-04:00"></time><br />
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few inches above their knees. The men are fully-covered, although in form
revealing garments. The women? Their uniforms consist of midriff-bearing tops
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Female Athlete Is Left to Finish Last: The Lack of Access for the Invisible
Woman,</span></span>wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-65031273049821539982013-04-22T17:02:00.002-07:002013-04-24T21:12:45.899-07:00<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/a-question-of-gender-the-sex-testing-of-female/4087112">http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/a-question-of-gender-the-sex-testing-of-female/4087112</a><br />
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the myth: olympic sex testing and the category “woman”, Women's Studies
International Forum, Volume 26, Issue 6, November–December 2003, Pages 553-560,
ISSN 0277-5395, 10.1016/j.wsif.2003.09.009." T</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">he assumption that there are, and should be, two and only two forms of the human body—male and female."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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10, 2012 "Swagger"<span style="color: cyan;"><b> </b>“Basically, it boils down to athletes selling sex. If
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: orange;">The world is changing. This is a good thing. Athletes are leading the way –and female and African-American athletes have long changed white attitudes, simply by showing up and showing off their athletic skills.Black Power, Female Athletes, and a Controversial Poem Called “The Change”March 15, 2011 — Mariah Burton</span> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Calibri;">The season turned like the page of a glossy fashion magazine.<br />In the park the daffodils came up<br />and in the parking lot, the new car models were on parade</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Calibri;">Sometimes I think that nothing really changes—</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="color: orange;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The young girls show the latest crop of tummies,<br />and the new president proves that he’s a dummy.</span></span></span><br />
</span><span style="color: orange;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">But remember the tennis match we watched that year?<br />Right before our eyes</span></span></span><br />
</span><span style="color: orange;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">some tough little European blonde<br />pitted against that big black girl from Alabama,<br />cornrowed hair and Zulu bangles on her arms,<br />some outrageous name like Vondella Aphrodite—</span></span></span><br />
</span><span style="color: orange;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">We were just walking past the lounge<br />and got sucked in by the screen above the bar,<br />and pretty soon<br />we started to care about who won,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">putting ourselves into each whacked return</span></span></span><br />
</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">as the volleys went back and forth and back<br />like some contest between<br />the old world and the new,</span></span></span><br />
</span><span style="color: orange;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">and you loved her complicated hair<br />and her to-hell-with-everybody stare,<br />and I,<br />I couldn’t help wanting<br />the white girl to come out on top,</span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: yellow; font-size: xx-small;">because she was one of my kind, my tribe,<br />with her pale eyes and thin lips</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">hitting the ball like she was driving the Emancipation Proclamation</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">down Abraham Lincoln’s throat,</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">like she wasn’t asking anyone’s permission.There are moments when history</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">you can smell its breath,</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">you can reach your hand out</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">and touch it on its flank</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">and I don’t watch all that much Masterpiece Theatre,</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">but I could feel the end of an era there<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">in front of those bleachers full of people</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">in their Sunday tennis-watching clothes</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">as that black girl wore down her opponent</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">then kicked her ass good</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">then thumped her once more for good measure<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><o:p><span style="color: yellow;">and stood up on the red clay court</span><span style="color: lime;">holding her racket over her head like a guitar.</span></o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: lime; font-family: Calibri;">And the little pink judge<br />had to climb up on a box<br />to put the ribbon on her neck</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: lime; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>still managing to smile into the camera flash,<br />even though everything was changing</o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="color: lime;"> <span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">and in fact, everything had already changed—</span></span></span></span></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><o:p><em><span style="color: lime;">Poof</span></em><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: xx-small;">, remember? It was the twentieth century almost gone,<br />we were there,and when we went to put it back where it belonged,<br />it was past us<br />and we were changed. </span></span></span></o:p></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: lime;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><o:p><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><o:p> <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/tag/the-change/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">"The Change"</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">, </span><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/tag/tony-hoagland/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">Tony Hoagland</span></a><o:p></o:p></o:p></span></span></span></o:p></span></span></span></span>
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wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-74667722388642700392011-12-06T22:40:00.000-08:002011-12-06T22:40:27.816-08:00Connections: Oral History By Valerie J. Janesickafter re-reading the text i thought about what it would mean to each of us to have our story told in a way as to reflect our own personal thoughts and beliefs as explained and understood by another hopfully opposing person. or maybe i meant our controversal thoughts and beliefs, if this was so maybe we would make some important connects in resolving some of our world issues. <br />
when reading this i noted that the author said that she uses poerty to reflect a persons views in some of her Stories, this touched me emincly as i enjoy writing poerty as a way to express my views and yes, sometimes my opinions. <br />
I know that throught out history there were are oral histories that needed to be told, shakespearean time and in many African cultures families (esspecially weathy families) had their own story tellers (called Griots). so i see the importances of this.<br />
how ever as we processed into the future we increased our options of genres, however i personally am not in favor of most things visional (other then readings) i just think (visional) video things limits our imagnation. <br />
many years ago i started to listen to audio books: i now own over three hundred titles, and have borrowed another hundred or more from libraries all over the U.S, i learned that this allows you to hear and invision a life or experience that you wouldn't otherwise imagine. <br />
one of the first historial tapes i listened to was an oral history called " THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR." about Samuel D. Proctor: An African -American Preacher, college Professor, college administrator, and Associate Director of the Peace Corp. if my life could be told via my choice of techinques it would be audio, i would like for someone to lay back with their eyes closed, and imagine what it was like for me. what my house, kids, etc looked like rather then seeing picture.wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-1016334916288088142011-12-01T19:24:00.000-08:002011-12-01T19:24:18.379-08:00How far are we from jim crow laws?<div class="caption fn">a rose by any other name...</div><div class="caption fn">Below is a clip from a news story 12-1-11, from Associated Press.</div><div class="caption fn"> </div><div class="caption fn">Stella Harville and her fiancé, Ticha Chikuni are seen in Richmond, Ky., in a November 2010 photo provided by Stella Harville. Stella’s childhood church in Pike County, Kentucky, the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, voted to ban interracial couples from becoming members at the church after the pair sang a song during a visit to the church over the summer. (AP Photo/Stella Harville)</div>wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-29590729816515791022011-12-01T18:25:00.000-08:002011-12-01T19:19:07.909-08:00Legal issues<div class="caption fn"></div><div class="caption fn">Jim Crow Laws: so of the most oppressive laws to ever be in affect are the Jim crow laws, these were a group of laws compiled by most of the southern states in the United States. they were laws that effected the personal lives of both blacks and whites however they were inforced only against the blacks or Nergoes.</div><div class="caption fn">these were laws that said your money is as good as anyones else so yes, you can pay us, you can buy our goods at the same price or more but you can not share space and time with us as you do it. </div><div class="caption fn">there were issue like if you were an African-American you can pay to ride our bus, but you must come to the front and put your money in, go back out and enter the back door and sit in the back of the bus, and if the bus is full you are mandated to give your seat up to a white rider. most of us know this story, we also know that Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat and thus started the Bus strike of Alabama. however Jim Crow Laws ran further and deeper then that. many people don't know that one of the greatest Blues and Jazz Singers died because of a Jim Crow Law.</div><div class="caption fn"></div><div class="caption fn">Blues singer Bessie Smith (aka) "Empress of the blues" the highest paid Black entertainer in the 1920's was leaving a club when she was in an automobile accident, there was a call for an ambulance when it arrive there were white EMT's who refuse to treat or transport the singer because she was African-American and no one told them. the second call out for an ambulance driven by a black driver, that took Ms. Smith to a black Hospital futher out then the white only hospital when she had lost so much blood and died with out regaining conscienceness. </div><div class="caption fn">These laws went so far as to out-law the promotion of equality between black and white, so far as to say that even after you are dead blacks could not be buried in the same cemetaries, and white's could not be handled by black undertakers. </div><div class="caption fn"></div><div class="caption fn">It was these oppressings that facilitated the civil right movements. These laws started in the 1800's as the Black codes and were late enacted as Jim crow laws in the 1880's and was enforced until the civil right act of 1964 and the voting rights of 1965.</div><div class="caption fn">amongst the states that had interracial marriage laws were; Fla., Miss., Az.,Missouri, Georgia, Maryland and Wyoming. Check out my Next blog and tell me have we really changed that much? </div>wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-3090539084302298252011-11-16T21:35:00.000-08:002011-11-16T21:35:28.489-08:00Occupy Providence Part 3This week-end i visit Occupy Providence for just a short time, as there has been a lot of out-side issue that appeals to be redirecting the focus of the movement. I spoke to a couple of people as there was some on-going conversations on what was happening in other cities and what to expect in the near future for Providence.<br />
One very important thing that did happen earlier this past week, that plays right into how any of this reflects on the feminism movement in 2011, is that there was a vandal, who ran through the camp ruining tents, <br />
signs, and the kitchen area. he was caught by security that was set up by the movement and turned over to the police. (I was not there for any of that) but there was talk this week within the camp itself about safety. on saturday night a group that was 90% women talked about there feeling of safety. it was decided that it was important to stick together both literally and figurtivly. <br />
i feel that it was an important decision for women to continue to take part in this movement, as we need to be visible in any movement that promotes any kind of equality we can't expect to come in as a foot note and still expect the same credits.<br />
In the text Privilege and Power by Allen Johnson, Mr. Johnson suggests that we must put put aside our baises in order to deal with the issues that needs to be addressed. In the occupy movements all baises has to be second to none in order to deal with the bigger issue of being one of the 99% . which in turn suggest that we are all in this together and we are all allies in this as well. this is a movement that umbrellas all inequalities as an extension of it's base. <br />
but what i see over all is that as prilivege goes, we are all still ruled by the "Swammp" who decides who, what , when and how... We, society, can do or say. and they the leaders across the country is telling us that they are done.... enough is enough. Bloomburg said " They have had two months to occupy wall street and i ALLOWED IT'. <br />
now there are government movements to end the occupy movement.<br />
it is time that we take a real look at how we vote and for whom we vote. then know why we vote for who we vote for. <br />
it goes with out saying that our representatives does not represent us well. if they can not hear us (long before now) saying that we need to make a living to stay alive then we will never be more then the 1% that we are.wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-90937114196433368802011-11-16T20:07:00.000-08:002011-11-16T20:07:52.518-08:00Sexy from the start.Scanlon painted a good picture of the change in the movement, but i don't quite know where she her self stands.<br />
But it is clear to me that i am at least confused between "Girl Cuture" and Thrird wave "Feminism". Or at least what others thinks of it. For sometime many have looked at Feminies as "Women who wants to be men" and i believed or at least hope that they were as i saw myself as "Women who wanted the opportunuies that any other person would have been afforded as a citizen and a human without reference to who or what else i am" I.E a Woman, a Black Woman, a Mother, etc.<br />
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As reflection of her childhood are very harst ideologies to live by, i will bite if offered as views that are the lesser of two evils. <br />
But i can't buy into developing a whole new society/ community as the answer to an unjust society that will reverse the victim.<br />
I ask does second wave Feminist's want equality, inclusion or dupication?<br />
and only when we get this answer will we know where we are as third wave Feminist. <br />
Why can't we Women Be "ALL THAT WE CAN BE" ?wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-56186780568449755082011-11-09T05:00:00.001-08:002011-11-09T05:00:34.001-08:00who am i, what am i ?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Who am I? What am I?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not our talk that makes us strong</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor our walk that took so long.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not the fight that took our lives</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not the rights that we compromises</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor the light that left our eyes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not the winning or the losing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That matters so much.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is nothing…no-thing of the sort.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the call to order, the answer,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stand. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the action, the reaction that </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We demand.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is we, united, going over and above</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Us conquering and achieving, that makes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Us strong.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the pride, the praise, and the victory</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The song!</span></div>wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-80931218232259585082011-11-09T04:57:00.000-08:002011-11-09T04:57:38.059-08:00Had it in me all the time.After reading over my site i realized that i just need a name to pull this all together for me. The many texts we have read and the many discussions we've had in class, excited me more and more each week. It opened up my eyes, it is what i have been living for so long. trying to see myself as who i am, all of me as a whole, all at one time. I've often felt broken up into little pieces so as to be explained. Much of this comes from with in myself and still more from society. Being from a large family no matter how nice it was left my identity shaky at the least, then being a young mother ( well most of us knows what we will give up for a child) it's not always tangible or clearly outlined, and never regretted. On my site back in <em><strong>Power and Privilege...</strong></em> i incented a part of a essay ( INSTITUTIONAL RACISM) i wrote back in 1998, i wrote this just because it was on my mind at the time. again i share a poem that i had written in 2009 (SISTERHOOD), i would like to share In my next two blogs that deals with the subjects we address in class. the first is (UNITED) This one was written in the early 90's and the last is a more complexed poem about being who and what you individually needs to be for yourself, this one i wrote in 1991 for a group of a athletes at the wholwe scholar games at URI. <br />
I'm sharing all of this because i believe i've had it in me all along, and this class give me a voice, to speak out what i been writing for so long. it also gave me the "Substance of things hoped for" that in the future by and by equality would make us all whole.wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-13545200391505738942011-11-08T20:29:00.000-08:002011-11-08T20:29:33.852-08:00hyperlinks: Abstince-only (M.J Wagle)<em> </em>It was appauling to read in this text that educational programs of all things knowingly teaching youth false facts and information. Can you imagine when they find out that the infor they were given was mis-leading PURPOSELY !!! So when they stop believing in the information that was given to them on Abstinence who will teach them about safe sex? ( MAYBE THEIR 14 OR 15 YEAR OLD FRIEND WHO HAS BEEN ACTIVE FOR A WHILE, AND JUST BLESSED ENOUGH NOT TO HAVE CONTRACTED ANYTHING OR GOTTEN PREGNANT). Then she tells her friends "You can't get pregnant if you are on top" or some other crazy rumors she's heard. It is just as bad to mis-inform a young man or woman as it is to not inform at all. The sad results could be real babies having babies. Because teens are not babies as much as we would like for them to be. They are young adults with hopes, dreams, and life goals. They are in the process of planning their lives and this (proper) information could be used in this planning process.<br />
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Friday night:<br />
I was talking to my brother about the snow coming saturday, and he brought up "the people in that park downtown" how they will all be going home tomorrow because of the snow, and i said i didn't think so. So that give me the idea to take a drive by to see how thing was progressing. about 8:15 pm i got there and they were at the statue, they were passing along information (by echoing each other). I just listened for a while, learned that they had a petition at one of the booths that turned out to be a sort of information booth. I read then signed it, walked around for an hour or more (until i couldn't feel my feet). as i was walking though many people passed me and told me food was being served. I was surpised that they were so organized, they have set hours for meals,meetings and other things. The information booth could tell you were to find what is going on within the camp as well as what is planned (something at india piont park saturday). I left with a good feeling, i liked what was going on, but i had not interacted just been a spectator.<br />
I went home and packed my car with items to give,i wanted to be invovled. <br />
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Saturday morning i arrived about 9:30 am, car load, as i was unpacking my car i had my trunk open getting things out a meter reader came by walked past me still in my trunk and stopped at the front of my car and give me a $25 ticket. Normally as i visit the library weekly they see you , they say something if you are there and parked wrongly,she said not a word and did not even look at the meter which had time on it but she saw me pull up and not put anything in the meter. I put down the things, walked to the front of my car and held my hand out for the ticket, i did not say a thing, she gave me the ticket all the while refusing to look at me.I looked at the meter and it still had 8 minutes on it but i could not complain she saw me drive up and not put any thing in the meter. she moved on and started tell a group of people that they could not stand on the street, that they should not have their children out here. (they seem to have been holding a parking spot for someone by standing in the spot).<br />
Any way i went up to a man cooking and asked what could i do to help,he told me he had just came to give support, he was a chef at a hotel and he was cooking ormelets to order. He called another man and introduced him (Mike)in charge of and volunteers, who asked me if i cooked (My speciality) but i was not about to try to cook beside a chef, i cut veggies for him, after meeting (Dave) who was in charge of organizing the donations. I turned over my load. Asked what did they need the most and if anything else i could do? sugar,tuna, plates. he also said that some people were coming by daily and picking up supplies and cooking at home and bringing it back. i volunteered for Sunday's dinner i would supply the food. <br />
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Saturday night.<br />
I arrived as promised with supplies ( sugar, tuna, fruits, plates ect.)and my husband in tow, he is always amazed at what America allows.(he didn't want me to go because he heard that the police was evicting them and i might get arrested). When we got there it was about 7pm we walked around, my husband is bold and more outgoing asked a lot a questions and at one piont took off with some guy name Kenneth to meet and talk and listen to the drums they were playing. There were a rap session going on and he was in ah'. We read and ken explained all the signs posted around the park. We both could not believe how many people was staying out there that night in all that cold rain and snow. <br />
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Sunday night:<br />
I raced home to cook and arrived with food right at 8:06 pm, dinner time, With my husband. We stayed only a short while, but while we were there they were having announcments(again by echo-gramming) they were informing people of the up coming deadline to move out of the park. And the civil protest laws and if anyone for any reason could no longer be invovled they should do what is necessary for their well being (so to speak). Again the police is out giving tickets (did not get one this time) and just standing around waiting for anything to happen. So far i see only a peaceful gathering, how ever i noticed that alot of the regular homless has joined them. a man Bobby was standing by me they were asking people why they came, what they thought of the movement etc. he did not go up their but he was telling my husband and my self that he and his wife came from Conn. they were homless their and just thought they would come here. but his wife had gotten sick as she has MS. (I suggested that tho' the movemnet was great maybe it was not for her that maybe she should try to get into a shelter just for the night. also told him about a clothing bank as he mentioned he had pretty much whats on his back.) one thing i didn't notice was if they had resource infor for this purpose?wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-69760283339155533252011-11-01T20:35:00.000-07:002011-11-01T20:35:30.296-07:00Connections.Andrea Ayvazian's Interrupting the cycle of oppression:<br />
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This text is a living document, it is a great out-line for who,when and how to be a positive part of a movement. <br />
I have been blessed and i learn more and more everyday just how be a ally. I spoke last time in class about one of my sons "Claytonius". Claytonius was a child that kept me in Ah' and grew to be a young man literally ahead of him self. I was less protective of him because i didn't know how to protect a presence so large. Where he got his ideas from? I have no idea where Claytoius got some of ideas and thoughts from. He was so young. At 13 years old he was a youth Board Member for D.A.R.E (Direct Actions For Rights and Equality)daretowin.org And at 15 assisted in finding PrYSM at PrYSM.us. Claytonius enjoy making a difference, making changes,and helping everybody. He believe in progress, and equality over all things. Claytonius is the epitome of an ally, he see the need for support and he gives it. More over he was the one that taught me about being an ally, with one little phase. When i asked him one day about protesting for illegal deportation, "why are you going to this rally, you was born right here in Virgina?" He said MoM!, politcal injustice is every bodies' business." from that day forward i have always tried to be aware and assist.wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-48069853400957189822011-10-27T21:32:00.000-07:002011-10-27T21:32:51.999-07:00summit: two small steps for mankind...Just thought this was interesting. BBC news reports Summit to discuss changing laws that out-laws homosexuality.<br />
And giving the royal families' daughters equal rights to succeed to the throne as the royal families' sons .<br />
The Queen kicks off this 2 day summit today.....<br />
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issue to be discussed include the human rights record of Sri Lanka - which is due to host the next summit - and moves to get rid of laws in some member states which discriminate against gay men and lesbians, our correspondent says.<br />
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He adds that there will also be discussions on proposals to change the laws of succession to the British throne, to give females heirs the same status as males. we have so far to go...wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-32049311676464713352011-10-26T21:09:00.000-07:002011-10-26T21:09:22.200-07:00Cinderella Ate my Daughter. reflections of...The question was What's wrong with Cinderella? The answer is Nothing! It should be what's wrong with us? <br />
There is nothing wrong with cinderella if we stop projecting everything on to our children or on to each other.<br />
Cinderella is just a story just like "Polar Express" "God,it me Margret," and "Huck Finn". These stories are meant to entertain chidlren, they are not meant to be a study guide for kids with giant imaginations, depressed pre-teens or advantagerous boys during the great depression.<br />
The largest part of the problem is that we just will not think for ourselves. And we tend to live our lives behaving ingenuious to what is implied,when we allow our kids to feed into this bull. We knew from the start that these stories were not just meant to entertain girls or boys. it is implied that girls should, work hard at home(slaving for her family) endure mistreatment with grace and wait to be saved by the most handsomest rich guy you can imagine. And just because you have him and you suffered gracefully, you will live happily ever after. This is true in Cinderella, Snow white, Sleeping beauty and even the new version of rahpunzia. And on the other hand it implies to boys they every girl is weak or lost with out them and their LOVE. That they are doomed to housekeeping, sleep/death, and/or (locked away)trapped. That only their Kiss (acceptance) can save us. HUH!!!wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-60781433775993580292011-10-26T05:11:00.000-07:002011-10-26T05:14:51.853-07:00Just wanted to share a thought.We talked about Allies in class and it got me to thinking. We should think about what and how we sometimes oppress/suppress ourselves and/or each other. <br />
I use to facilitate a Woman's Group called "Babylon Sisters" and our focus was on our responsiblity to women "both ourselves and others". I wrote this poem as a creed for our group. <br />
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The creed of Sisterhood<br />
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Sister<br />
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I am a friend to you, I am a friend to your soul, I offer you Peace, patience, Understanding, Empathy, Support, and Love.<br />
I will not let you be a vermin nor a victim.<br />
I will support your heart, your health, and your happiness<br />
I will stand by you, and with you, but I will never support your habits. <br />
I will never exploit you nor expose you.<br />
I will do with you, for you, and because of you.<br />
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I will not harm you in words or in deeds.<br />
I will not lie to you, for you, or with you.<br />
I will always raise you up and never put you down.<br />
We share a role in sisterhood all that is good for you is good for me.<br />
I hurt if you hurt; I am healed when you are healed<br />
Unity is the brace that holds us together.<br />
With camaraderie, and solidarity I will protect your spirit, your legacy and your existence.<br />
For I am:<br />
A small part of you and every other woman that exist,<br />
And you are a small part of me and every other woman that exist. Only together are we whole. <br />
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Sheila Robinson-Young<br />
written 2007 © 10-21-09wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-45451606068990168562011-10-18T13:47:00.000-07:002011-10-19T04:47:30.605-07:00Quotes from M. Kimmel: What are little boys made of?Reading this was like looking at one of those pictures that if you look long enough you see other things that stands out ,though you did not see it when you first looked. So this is a text written by a man about the dominate gender "males". after reading the text i just set and steared at it and here are a few quotes that jumps out of the page at you. Quotes like "There's a virtual war against boys", "America has been so focused on girls that we've forgotten about the boys" and "Feminists has wrecked boyhood" these qoutes are in reference to women fighting for equality, which is to say that the favoring of boys that has been going on over the years that leads to the need to fight for equality in the first place has done no harm to girls. <br />
Other qoutes like "our educational systems forces naturally rambunctious boys to conform to a regime of obedience. With testosterone surging through their little limbs, boys are commanded to sit still, raise their hands and take naps". (just as little girls are.)"testosrone equals vitality,(it is as important in boys as estorgen is to girls). All we have to do is honor it and steer it into healthy directions". And the most far fetched quote was from Biddulph who explained boys refusal to listen to adult authority, by reference to the fact that "their ear canals develop in irregular spurts,"leading to a period of hearing loss". If this was true in any way it would not then be irregular as it would be a developmental stage for the human male speices. And Kindlon and Thompson writes in Raising Cain "the way to put boys on the path to a manhood of integrity, "we must contend with the culture of cruelty, that forces a boy to deny emotional neediness...". Emotional neediness is what we see when we insist that little girls not try to self pacifiy, when they want or need anything they can not have and we toddle them,pick them up and hug,rub and sooth them .<br />
With all of this said there was a few quotes that stood out that was an asset to the subject. they were "the cause of all this posturing and posing is not testosterone of course, but privilege. " The real boy crisis usually goes by another name. We call it "teen violence, youth violence, gang violence, and violence in schools." Because lets face it boys are responsible for 85% of all violent crimes in American. And thanks to Paul Kivel who said "Raising boys to manhood means confronting racism, sexism, and homophobia both in our communities and in ourselves". <br />
In all of this if we don't resolve ourselves to equality in the sexes (and in gender roles)doing the growing, learning and developing years we are short changing both our girls and our boys, understand that they will need each other as they proceed in this life.wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212083951889899254.post-71064695724342537592011-10-11T14:42:00.000-07:002011-10-11T14:42:22.718-07:00Gloria Yamato... something about the subject make it hard to name.Racism's first name is Supremacy,<br />
with out supremacy that is White Supremacy rascism can not exist.and we are all so clearly aware that it does exsit. and it is for the united States the foundation of the very instiutions in which the United States has been built on. But it is what it is, and to name it any thing else would be White washing it (no pun intented). I agree that Ms.Yamato has made a fine point in classifing rascism but i think that we are way past the point of needing to know what category someones hate for us, falls in. Rascism is by far one of, if not the worse afflictions on man, it's not only about opression but it is also about the moral depletion of a race based on the self-rightousness of another. It has been up-held for so long that society has become blind to it. They call it laziness, that call it unqualifed, they call it under-educated, they call it low-class, they call it lack of connections , they call it everything they can to keep the un wanted color out of the administrative level of most corprations, businesses, and instuitions.there is two organizations that works on dismantling racism one is www.westernstatescenter.org. the other is http://dismantlingrasicism.org for a short time i was in a change group for dismantling rascim in the workplace. it was not an easy task to undertake and was soon dismantled it self as as it was so rootfully put " an interference to the morale of the company. How easy it was to find a name to shut it down. P.s i partically agreed r disagreed with one thing Ms.Yamato said that "people who have not thought about or refuse to acknowledge the inbalance of power/privilage often wants to talk about the rascim of people of color. people of color accept blame out of habit. i find that it is not accepting blame out of habit more then out of servival.wordwizard66http://www.blogger.com/profile/13997932207465443043noreply@blogger.com3