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I am writing to invite you to contribute an essay piece / memoir to The Ruby Sandal, an anthology of original essays, monologues and poetry by women in the Middle East / of Middle Eastern origin. The anthology draws upon candid interviews and original contributions from modern women with unique personal histories, true-to-life anecdotes and frank observations on the themes of love, marriage, interracial relationships, motherhood, feminism, infidelity, divorce, polygamy, gender violence and inequality, and sexuality in the modern Middle East. With so many ineffectual, politicized campaigns calling for the “empowerment” of women in the region, my intent is to demonstrate that female empowerment doesn’t begin in the boardroom; it begins in the bedroom, and in every woman’s psyche.
Submission guidelines for contributions are detailed on http://therubysandal.blogspot.com/. Please do not hesitate to contact me on rubysandal@gmail.com should you require any further information or guidance on your submission.
http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2007/august#001042
I thought you might enjoy this piece.
Hi, I just wanted to say that I am starting to write my blog again
Thanks for reading…And also, thanks for writing yours. I am really connecting to your words.
Peace,
Amir
Thanks for the back up sister.
Thanks for the back up, sister.
Thanks for the support on the Wayne State campaign over at struggleforpalestine.blogspot.com.
I think we’ve appeared before in Critical Moment as well regarding censorship at Wayne State.
Solidarity,
Mike, ARA
Please retract your statement to reflect the facts as to what actually occured with the tee shirts. Debbie Almontaser was not spotted by a reporter wearing the tee shirt. She was interviewed by the NY Post about the tee shirt. Please review the Aug. 5 NY Post article. Do keep in mind that it’s a cheap tabloid practicing yellow journalism.
Hello,
I am doing a project on the racism that arab-american children undergo throughout their youth in schools, their communities, and in their lives in general. Do you have any ideas of websites or sources that could tell me more about it?
Thanks so much!
Tessa
Hello,
My name is Fallon and I’m organizing with other women of color around the Dunbar Gang Rapes and West Virginia Torture/Rape case. Well, I was wondering if you have time to participate in a phone conference on Friday, September 28, 2007 at 9pm/central about organizing to end silences surrounding Megan Williams’ torture and rape in Logan and the gang rape of several Black women in West Palm Beach Florida as well as stories that go unheard because it involves a woman of color such as the Newark imprisonment of the four lesbians for protecting themselves from a male aggressor.
Well, I’ve been circulating a 2 minute movie entitled, “How do you keep a Social Movement Alive.”
http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=E44BFBCE67BF11DC9030000423CF037A
This movie documents the silence surrounding Megan Williams’ torture and rape in Logan and the gang rape of several Black women in West Palm Beach Florida. The purpose of this movie is to document the silences within our relationships, within our homes, within our families, within our communities, within our jobs, within our schools, within our churches, temples, and synagogues, within our governments, and within our world.
We have a blog, but given the organizing we are trying to do, I need to reorganize the blog and use wordpress instead of blogger. This is the current blog,
http://documentthesilence.blogspot.com/
If you can’t do the phone conference would you interested in being apart of the Women of Color Bloggers Breaking the Silences Contingency on the Web which would mean inundating the web with information about Wearing Red Campaign on October 31, 2007 as well as circulating clips and other media trying to inundate the web with stories of violence committed against women of color.
I look forward to connecting with you,
Fallon
You can email me at beboldered@gmail.com.
I sent you an e-mail, read it^_^!
are you still looking for a job? Because the place where I work is hiring. It’s part-time (20-30 a week) and 12$ an hour.
here’s the organization website: http://www.buildingwithbooks.org.
I love my co-workers a bunch but I would love to work with people with a more radical take on things.
“INCITE! also condemns “Israel’s” colonial and racist violence because it gives rise to domestic violence and sexual assault within Palestinian communities.”
Domestic violence and sexual assault don’t just “rise,” they are perpetrated by men. I would like to suggest that it is men who make the choice to be abusive, to repress their wives and girlfriends, to batter women, to sexually assault and rape women. Some of us work in batterer intervention programs and other programs that help men with sexual violence and abuse. Men need to directly confront their choice to oppress and abuse women.
No matter where they are, in Israel, in Palestine, in Canada, in Nigeria, in Japan, in the United States, whether they are Muslim men, Christian men, Jewish men, Hindu men, agnostic or atheist – men choose to abuse and rape. It is their responsibility and they should be held accountable. Minimizing their behavior by blaming colonialism, or a bad childhood, or because they lost their temper – all avoid the real issue, namely men’s culpability for violent and abusive behavior toward women. There are plenty of men who have been abused, who have been oppressed, who have been the victims of apartheid or colonialism and they do not abuse their women. We cannot excuse those who do by blaming anything or anyone but them.
A woman’s right to be safe and free from abuse will never be attained if we don’t hold the men who abuse them directly accountable. Let’s not excuse men’s violent behavior by giving them some excuse like colonialism to be violent towards their women. There is never a good reason for violence against women.
Violence against women – domestic assault and abuse, rape, trafficking, child sexual abuse – these are human rights violations. Men who perpetrate violence against women must be held accountable for their human rights abuses. Most men are not violent, but most men are silent. We need to find ways to end men’s silence so we can enlist them in the work we need to do to end men’s violence against women.
There are millions of men around the world not living in colonial occupation who abuse their women. None of them has an excuse either.
Thank you.
Stephen McArthur
Hotline Worker & Violence Prevention Educator
Battered Women’s Services & Shelter, Vermont
“Sexism isn’t just the denigration and devaluation of women; it’s the myriad ways the system is set up to benefit men over women. It takes no hateful behavior on my part to reap the rewards given to men at the expense of women. But to choose not to work for the full equality of women in this culture is to be sexist.” Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson
I love your writing. Would you like to contribute to my site http://www.palestinethinktank.com? If so, please leave a note in the contact page, or a submission.
mary
I read a couple of your No Snow Here zines a few years ago and they were too brilliant for words. I’m so glad I came across your blog, I’ve looked for more of those zines for a while but it seems they don’t make it up here to Canada.
Do you mind if I put you on my blogroll?