#Repost @favianna1 Our Voice Matters Today And Always. Nuestra Voz Cuenta Hoy Y Siempre. A Todas Las
#Repost @favianna1 Our Voice matters Today and always. Nuestra voz cuenta hoy y siempre. A todas las guerreras de todos los mundos, you matter. To all the fighters around all the worlds, tu cuentas. Blessed to be a woman! #InternationalWorkerWomensDay ・・・ Today is International Women’s Day. Women’s voices matter – but around the world, women are threatened or face violence for speaking up and demanding change. The most marginalized women are silenced or ignored by society; and women's voices are left out of media, politics, science, the arts - the list goes on and on. But we must never be silent about our stories. Voices are power. Art is power. Your truth is power. Your story is power. I recently created this piece for The @globalfundwomen #InternationalWomensDay #DiaInternacionalDeLaMujer
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Yup. I remember being so confused at the age of 12 when my 7th grade homeroom teacher introduced me as DAIANA (Eng pronunciation: Diana) to the rest of my class. It was my first grade in U.S.A. I had to play it cool because I was learning English and this was the States after all, so I had to start with my name, right? It wasn’t until college I reclaimed my name back: Diana (Spanish pronunciation please, Deeana). Many white folks and color folks ask me why do I bother on correcting people every time they mispronounce my name (which is about 90% of the time) and I say because DAIANA is not my name and I refuse to give up my real name, not anymore. I don’t need a mispronounced name, I have one of my own. Say it right.
A message to teachers who refuse to pronounce the names of their students of color correctly.
In a new video, Adam Levine-Peres, an educator in the Bronx, talks about the importance of teachers, especially white teachers, learning how to pronounce the names of Black and Brown students properly. He says pronouncing the students’ names correctly “will go along way in the classroom”, otherwise there might be lack of trust, students might end up giving up on things like their teacher gave up on saying their name the right way.
Full video Follow Adam on Twitter @projectbronx
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YES!
So I’m done.
That simple. An instinctive act of kindness has led to the creation of Las Patronas, a charitable organisation helping tens of thousands of Central American migrants…awarded Mexico’s most prestigious human rights prize.
They determined no probable cause existed to charge Darren Wilson.
Bob McCulloch announcing that no charges will be filed against Darren Wilson. (via socialjusticekoolaid)
So beautiful you are Inti-Sun-Sol. Painting the canvas of my life with bright colors and pure light. Your stillness aids me to quit the aching from the memories and the mind. I am aware of your light for its essence and beyond without attaching any label to it anymore. I now see your light like no other time before. I feel your light. O, shine upon me! Cover me in your pure light, Sol And become one. Here, Still, Now. I Am Your Light. I Am Light. I Am Now. I Am.
If you wait to do everything until you are sure it’s right, you’ll probably not do much of anything.
Win Borden (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
I am an indigenous-mestiza-afrodescendent trans-national Latina sister from the picturesque South American city of Guayaquil and brought up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. I love and respect my journey in exploring my browness and my womanhood.
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