Support Radical Women of Color Media Makers

hey everyone. please take note of the new sidebar item i added over there ——–>

in support of the women raising money for their travel costs to detroit for the 10th annual Allied Media Conference. please click on the links to support them and forward the info. if you want to post it on your website or blog copy and paste the following into an html field or a text widget (on wordpress):

<a href=”http://www.alliedmediaconference.org/“><img src=”http://alliedmediaconference.org/files/AMClink.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”Come to Detroit! June 22nd!”></a><br>
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<b>Get these women of color to the AMC! Visit their websites and donate to their travel funds!</b><br>
<a href=”http://kameelahwrites.blogspot.com/2008/04/hi-my-name-is-and-this-year-i-am.html“>kameelah writes</a>.<br>
<a href=”http://thatlittleblackbook.blogspot.com/2008/04/helping-us-get-to-amc.html“>little black book</a>.<br>
<a href=”http://amcrgv.wordpress.com/“>RGV goes to the AMC</a>.<br>
<a href=”http://crip-power.com/2008/04/02/allied-media-conference/“>cripchick</a>.<br>
<a href=”http://writeoussisterspeaks.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/my-amc-plot-update/“>Writeous Sister Speaks</a>.<br>
<a href=”http://mamitamala.com/?p=734“>Mamita Mala</a>.<br>
<a href=”http://www.tigeraconsciente.blogspot.com/“>Tigera Consciente</a>.<br>
<a href=”http://www.myecdysis.blogspot.com/“>A Womyn’s Ecdysis</a>.<br>
<a href=”http://guyaneseterror.blogspot.com/“>Having Read the Fine Print</a>.

thank you!

Golfing for Michigan Migrant Legal Aid

via adele. fwd this to people you know with $ who like golf:

> I need your support on behalf of Migrant Legal Aid, a great charity.
> This is a really fun golf outing.
>
> If you like beer, prizes, golfing or driving the cart, and eating
> grilled steak, please join us May 23 for The Cup of Justice scramble.
> It’s a charity golf outing that benefits Migrant Legal Aid so I can keep
> helping the migrant workers in Michigan. We need more foursomes!
>
> To sponsor a hole for $150, just call us with your credit card number,
> or send $150 and your company will be featured at the tee! Plenty of
> business owners and attorneys will see it.
>
> This outing is our best chance to get the support we really need, we
> don’t get it from any government sources.
>
> Very Truly Yours,
>
> Teresa Hendricks
>
> Director
> Michigan Migrant Legal Assistance Project Inc. (Migrant Legal Aid)
> 648 Monroe Ave NW Suite 318
> Grand Rapids, MI 49503
> (616) 454-5055
> (616) 454-7022

i have been searching and scouring the internet looking for queer arab women in detroit, dearborn and the entire metro area. all i found were a handful of lesbians on myspace that i feel creepy approaching. so let it be known, all michigan arab queer women, i am looking for you! i wanted to put this out there so that you could find me if you’re like me, searching the internet with no results.

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UPDATE: speak it into being! i found the local organization AL GAMEA on myspace, messaged them, and got a response back saying that they are in the middle setting up a meeting of queer arab sisters for sometime soon. they also have monthly meetings in ferndale, check the website for details!

detroiters …

You are invited to attend an AMC local organizing committee meeting on Wednesday, May 7th 2008 at 6pm (3rd floor of 2nd building in Russell Industrial Complex, 1610 Clay Ave. Detroit MI - please call ahead for assistance with elevator).

The AMC is a grassroots effort with a need for all different levels of participation. Whether you can coordinate tours of the city, assemble registration materials, or give a ride from the airport, your help is vital! If you are interested in helping out, come to this meeting!

Please forward this to your contacts and, if you are on Facebook, check: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12054433818

irak

from globalgraphica.com:

loving you darling / makes me so confused

my life is the isht. i get paid to do community service with intelligent, curious, hilarious young people (mostly young women) of color who’s parent’s say things to me like, “you’re the coordinator? oh my goodness you look just like a little girl!” and who’s classmates say, “who’s the new girl?” when i meet up with them at their school.

Wake Me Now:

On a blog called No Snow Here, a post titled “Being Mixed Arab American” caught my attention. Questions of my personal racial identity have been swirling around in my head for years, but the quest for answers hasn’t been a pressing one. My ethnic background just isn’t something I tend to focus on, and most folks don’t know what I am either. Brown? White? Obviously mixed, but with what? Most ask if I’m Mexican. A few assume Native American. Those more traveled comment on my “Mediterranean features.” My mother says I’m half-Saudi but that is a part of my heritage I know nothing of having never met my biological father or been raised around other Arabs. Islam is a foreign religion to me. No clue how to put on a burka nor have I ever owned one.

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this is just …

from Casey Kasem’s “I Want My Son to be Proud” (emphasis mine):

Joseph Jacobs grew up in Brooklyn, where the goal was to blend in as Americans. He worried less about taunts like “camel jockey” and more about whether his mother spoke Arabic in front of his friends. Today, he says he feels lucky to have his heritage: “The ethics, pride and sense of honor I learned in my ethnic community were important contributors to my business career.”

Businessmen and intellectuals were Jacobs’ role models. He recalls that many uneducated immigrants like his dad made great successes of themselves: “What business are you in?” was a question I invariably heard asked when a Lebanese came to visit us.

Jacobs became a professor of chemical engineering, but his mother insisted he’d never be a success until he went into business for himself. So, in 1947, he started a one-man consulting firm. Today, Jacobs Engineering Group, based in Pasadena, is one of America’s largest professional service firms - a billion-dollar international corporation.

Any racism he experienced as a youth, Jacobs says, gave him “additional incentive” to accomplish something and get the respect of your peers.” He adds, “Being accepted and respected in the American culture was a powerful motivator for me.”

mourning for tashina general

and so so many other women.