David Choe immortalizes the Chinese student from the viral video, who got beat up by others in Chicago. Check out the article on Hypebeast.
A blog dedicated to the memories of the women of Juarez who’s lives were taken unjustly, and to the women and their families who are fighting to have their experiences not be in vain.
boooost.
zuky:
Spread widely: The Fuckin’ Loudest Asians’ statement on the anniversary of Vincent Chin’s murder. No justice 29 years later. Hit us up at thefckingloudestazns@gmail.com for the pdf - print and post it at school, at work, and in the community.
The Fuckin’ Loudest Asians. Some folks think Asians are quiet, but that’s not true. We just have dramatic contrasts. And we remember Vincent Chin.
[image: looks like a scan of a typewritten letter with a simple line drawing on the bottom. text reads: “we ask, ‘where is the memorial for our daughters, mothers, neices, grandmothers, aunts, partners and sisters.’ and we implore you to ask the police department ‘who do you serve’ and ‘who do you protect’. not everyone. violence against women happens everyday and the police are either perpetrators or not adequately addressing the problem. we need to be accountable to our own neighbours and fight back against violence against women. it isn’t the police who make our communities safe but it can be us. WOMEN ON WATCH FOR ONE ANOTHER”
it makes me real sad that there are some people who follow me who will scoff when they read this. feel lucky that you have enough privilege that the police protect you, feel lucky that you’ve never had to come in for hours of questioning about yr sexual assault, feel lucky that you don’t get queer bashed in a government office. feel lucky and recognize and fight for the pain of those who aren’t as privileged as you.
huge boost for this. thank you so much for posting.
who do you serve.
who do you protect.
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Image- a scan of a newspaper clipping with the following text bordered in a blue highlighter box: “I don’t care if you are the bastard child of Paris Hilton and Voldemort and your full-time job is as a stripper and you are the only girl for miles - you still do not deserve to be assaulted or raped.”
Tiara is so quotable!
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"As a Muslim feminist woman of color, I cannot relate to Slutwalks as it caters mostly to the definition of emancipation set by white women. Slutwalks deviate in terms of delivering the message against sexual assault. It turns a blind eye to women of cultures where flimsy clothes don’t necessarily lead to rapes. Muslim women get raped too. Nassim Elbardouh is right. “Do Not Rape” Walk sounds better. This isn’t to say that I don’t support Slutwalks. I simply can’t relate to a liberating movement that does not liberate nor acknowledge me. Western feminism, despite its undeniable achievements, still perpetuates the image of a white woman as the liberated one. If these feminists do claim to represent all women, they need to understand the dynamics of the cultures other women hail from. Don’t care if you’re wearing a thong or burka, no one has the right to rape you. Burka clad brown Muslim women get raped too. Represent us. I want a movement that represents me regardless of my color and creed. End victim blaming and rape culture by representing everyone."
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Mehreen Kasana (via politikalnohow)
^THIS
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A good point.
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fantastic.
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a) Some Muslim feminist women dress like “Sluts” (and if you are in a more conservative/traditional environment the standards for “slut” get exponentially wider) and get abused for that too! Not all Muslims as modest headdress-wearing types and to assume that is just another form of slut-shaming.
b) This is also assuming that all Muslim women dress the same way, and conflating religion with race.
d) There are organised efforts in some SlutWalk cities for a “Hijab, Hoodies, and HotPants” group, signifying the fact that clothes don’t draw assault onto you, and that just because you’re in one group doesn’t mean you don’t respect those who wear something significantly more modest or more revealing.
e) You don’t have to go to support *your right to be a slut* (whatever the word means to you); you can go there as an *ally*. A lot of people are assuming that they can only walk if they identify with the word thoroughly - but really, it’s important that non-sluts march too because the big issue isn’t necessarily just the assaulters, it’s the rest of society that gives this kind of atrocity a free pass.
f) I’ve said this before but I’m annoyed at how some people (White folks especially) will cherry-pick random WoC anti-SlutWalk comments to justify their distaste for the project, usually in the guise of “look how not-racist I am!”. If you don’t like it, feel so on your own terms - don’t use us as a cover, because not all WoC think the same, and SWoC are especially being erased in this movement by debators. (Funny how I got more flack from anti-SlutWalkers claiming I’m a token than from the pro-SW people for being brown…)
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thank you, tiara.
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i had the opportunity to meet Dr. Chang a few years ago at the premiere of the Iris Chang biopic in 2007. i’m excited to have the opportunity to hear her speak again.
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And make no mistake about it: we can be called sluts for nearly any reason at all. If we’re dancing. If we’re drinking. If we have ever in our lives enjoyed sex. If our clothes aren’t made of burlap. If we’re women of color, we’re assumed to be sluts before we do a single thing because we’re “exotic.” If we’re fat or disabled or otherwise considered undesirable, we’re assumed to be sluts who’ll fuck anyone who’ll deign to want us. If we’re queer boys or trans women, we’re called sluts in order to punish us for not fearing the feminine. If we’re queer women, especially femme ones, we’re called sluts because we’re obviously “up for anything,” as opposed to actually attracted to actual women. If we’re poor, we’re gold diggers who’ll use sex to get ahead. And god forbid we accuse someone of raping us – that’s the fast track to sluthood for sure, because it’s much easier to tell us what we did wrong to make someone to commit a felony violent crime against us than it is to deal with the actual felon.
There’s a word for all of this. And that word is bullshit. But there’s also a phrase for it: social license to operate. What that means is this: we know that a huge majority of rapes are perpetrated by a small minority of guys who do it again and again. You know why they’re able to rape an average of 6 times each? Because they have social license to operate. In other words: because we let them. Because as a society, we say “oh well, what did she expect would happen if she went back to his room? What did she expect would happen walking around by herself in that neighborhood? What did she expect would happen dressed like a slut?”
"— Jaclyn Friedman at Boston’s Slut Walk (via somechattybroad)
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