i just sent a thank you email to five beautiful wise older women in my life with these words from sudy (which where inspired i think from daisy who left an UNBELIEVABLY insightful comment on sudy’s page).
AGE.
It’s utterly important to feminism. Feminism without older feminists, I’ve realized, is a like a chair with no legs. There’s no difference between the seat and the floor if it’s not raised up. The legs, the older womyn, are required. There’s memory, wisdom, knowledge, and did I mention memory? Aged womyn are the sacred in learning. They a make sure we see what has always been there, how history repeats itself; how young women after us will think the same things as we did.
I don’t want to be one of those under 30 folks that speaks too soon, thinking I have something to share when in actuality it’s been said about fifty times over by someone else. Learning patience, learning how to be educated a...
Content suppressed by ://URLFAN, for full article visit source
Documentary on Internalized OppressionFrom: crip-power.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 16:30:37
The documentary, The Modern Racist Paradigm , is a free documentary available on streaming google video (couldn’t get it to embed here). It’s a 75 minute film about how the media shapes our view on race and how we internalize oppression. Very painful but so real. Some things covered are the good doll/bad doll test used with children, the high number of APIA women who have eye surgery to make their eyes look bigger (a surgery my own mom had when she was young), Hol...
more Video ThursdayFrom: crip-power.com
Post Date: 2008-03-06 18:56:49
One of my favorite blog features are the music posts Kai puts out. I’ve come across so much good music through his blog so I thought I’d do something similar and do a “Video Thursday” where I post a music video, spoken word clips, or music reviews here. Hopefully, you know, I won’t forget about this next Thursday. Or the Thursday after. : )
The first ever Video Thursday is a song called “Blink” by Blue Scholars , a hip hop duo from Seattle. B...
more Not Too Late to Apply for ADAPT Youth SummitFrom: crip-power.com
Post Date: 2008-03-10 12:36:00
ADAPT is a national non-violent direction action disability rights organization. Yes, every time you see pictures of disabled people taking over buildings, chaining themselves to buses, that’s ADAPT. As an organization they’ve done some amazing work and are a huge part of making public and private transit accessible, getting community-based PA [personal assistant] supports,
and so many other things.
This year is the 25th anniversary of ADAPT and they’re hosting a Youth Su...
more 
Websites mentioned in article
Buzz Words mentioned in article:
How popular is crip-power.com?
