On WOC & Writing

As a young woman it's been important for me to discover that self care is a powerful political tool and great method of resistance. #Resistencia con #AudreLourde #Repost @culturestrike ・・・ via blacklivesmatter.tumblr.com: Today’s #VisionsOfABlackFuture poster is honoring both survivors and those who have fallen to #domesticviolence. Quote from #AudreLourde. It was created by Sandra Khalifa sandra-nadine.tumblr.com. #BlackFutureMonth #BlackLivesMatter #activism #activistart #artivism #artivist #art4 #art4change #humanrights #latism #politicalart #racialjustice #socialjustice

Violeta Parra, Árbol de la Vida (Tree of Life), 1963

Really cool video produced by the Global Action Project & The Point CDC youth about Stop and Frisk in NYC. Shout out to the great activist youth in the video and those behind the scene! Know your rights! 

Schools will now close for Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, making New York City the largest school district in the nation to recognize the two holidays on the official school calendar! “We’re here today to make good on a promise to our Muslim brothers and sisters that a holiday of supreme importance to the Muslim community will be recognized in our school calendar so that children can honor the holiday without missing school,” the mayor said.“I want to thank Mayor de Blasio for adding Eid-al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr to the public school holiday calendar,” said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. “Islam is one of the largest religions in the world, and the Muslim community is thriving not just in The Bronx but throughout the city of New York. This decision allows our city’s Muslim community to fully practice their faith without it interfering with their school attendance and education. As I have said in the past, by recognizing these two important holidays, we show that not only are we welcoming to everyone’s religious beliefs but that we respect everyone’s Constitutional right to freedom of religion.”

About time! Big celebration Muslim brothers and sisters.

De Blasio Announces Addition Of Muslim Holidays To NYC Public Schools Calendar

Amen.

Hermosura 😍

Simiatug, Ecuador

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we’re all interconnected by the beauty and surreal power of our Mother Earth. 

Wisdom.

http://crashinglybeautiful.tumblr.com/post/21368577710/above-all-else-we-need-to-nourish-our-true

Above all else, we need to nourish our true self—what we can call our buddha nature—for so often we make the fatal mistake of identifying with our confusion, and then using it to judge and condemn ourselves, which feeds the lack of self-love that so many of us suffer from today. How vital it is...

“Because to suffer for love is good. The pain all sweet somehow. In the end.”

-Sandra Cisneros [[Woman Hollering Creek]]