A safe space for women of color. Our bodies are not land for colonialism. We're not going to perpetuate sexual stereotypes created by racist pornography.
We're not uncivilized, hypersexualized, exotic women. Our voices WILL be heard and we WILL fight back. Contact: angrywocunited@gmail.com
They’ve Always Been Watching Us: From COINTELPRO and Martin Luther King, Jr to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.
This is on behalf of every Middle Eastern and Arab who is tired of hearing other people telling us what we’re “supposed to” look like. Every single person above is from a Middle Eastern country, or a country considered part of the Arab World. All the women above are Arabs, except the two outer ones in the last row, the left is a Persian and the one on the right is Turkish. Not every Arab is a Middle Eastern, and not every Middle Eastern is an Arab. “Middle Eastern” isn’t even a race. The Middle East is a vague political region, NOT an ethnicity. There are Arabs, Persians, Kurds, Turks, and a multitude of other groups. This photo set does not even show 1/10 of the diversity within the region. The first two women in the black veils are from the same country, and yet had they been living in the U.S., they would be considered part of two different ethnicities.
No one is waiting for Americans to tell them what they’re supposed to look like. The U.S. has been too lazy to accurately represent race and ethnicity in its census, and that’s because if the government tried, they would end up with a headache. Now, for all the Arabs and Middle Easterners who are told to check off “white” - YOU ARE NOT WHITE. I don’t care if you have pale skin, blonde hair and blue eyes, you are not white. If the U.S.or another Western country is funding or even remotely involved in a war in your native country, you are not white. White people will hate each other, but they will not kill each other - they’ll kill you instead.
Google Doodle celebrating the birthday of Japanese geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007). She was the first woman awarded a PhD in Chemistry in Japan. Katsuko made some of the first measurements of carbon dioxide levels in seawater and her work showed the spread of radioactive fallout.
Some social work classmates
and I are conducting a study on the effects of racism and
discrimination on the mental health of the African American and Latino
communities. If you are African American and/or Latino, please take our
ANONYMOUS survey! Also, if you have African American and/or Latino friends,
please share this survey with them.. It is available in English and
Español!
