I'm gonna miss you! :-(

I won't be able to do a big "link dump" this weekend because I'm moving to my new apartment! [Yay! :-D]

But I don't have internet access. [Boo! :-( ]

Or my own computer. [Aww! :-( ]

I do hope to update soon...That is, if my dad doesn't change the locks so I can get to the computer...[Oy!]

Sigh...

Why do I even bother with "Feministing"? I wouldn't call myself a masochist, but every time I go over there it's like getting punched in the gut over and over and over.

Idaho Planned Parenthood Agreed to Racist Donation
Tidbits from the comments section:

...I want to give the PP woman the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they edited it to make it sound/look like she was agreeing with the entrapment dude.

I'm grapsing at straws, aren't I?

Yes. Yes, you are.

What I am most appalled about is the fact that this was a SET-UP!!

What was the employee supposed to say? "We don't accept donations from racists!?" They need the money! She was trying to be politebut she was obviously uncomfortable. I probably would have reacted the same way - shocked, but eager to complete the transaction.

The set-up is what upsets her the most. Not the fact that the woman claimed she was "excited" about accepting the person's donation. Y'see how much - or how little - logic plays into this situation?

Before sending hate mail to the poor woman who is now at the center of this unfortunate anti-choice hate-driven cyclone... take a minute to experience being
her...

...Give PP of Idaho a break. Everyone here knows that PP is about as non-racist as you can get...

That "poor woman" put herself at the center of that "hate-driven cyclone" when she opened her mouth and out came stupid.

And how am I, and other Women of Color supposed to take anybody's word that the organization is non-racist when shit like this hits the fan?

But the money would not have gone towards eliminating black babies...I'm sorry, I just don't see why we can't accept donations from racists who don't understand our mission. Boohoo on the racists.

No, "boohoo" on the next Black woman who wishes to use PP of Idaho's services, only to find out that they will willingly take money from people who are eager to see her abort because of the color of her skin.

What's wrong with taking donations from racists?

The less money racists have the better.

*sigh...There are - of course - many, many of these kinds of comments. way to many to highlight them all.

This post from ratcity pretty much sums it up for me:

The defense of this woman & her actions is over the top. This mistake is being compounded here. This thread justifies the criticisms of mainstream feminism by people of color.

The defense here sounds too much like: a racist feminist? That's unpossible!

I too can see the possibility that a good person made an uncharacteric mistake. But that's not really the only way to look at. What she said was offensive & many people won't be as quick to assume it's meaningless. Many people won't be as quick to assume that the most important thing here is to deal with the anti-choicers rather than the racist actions by PP...

And sure, this shouldn't be used to justify unfair statements about PP. But minimizing the racism of the employee is minimizing the issues of people of color to support feminism in general. There couldn't be a more clear example of this sort of thing.

Some of you sound so sympathetic towards this woman. What if she'd said something offensive about something you cared about?

"Ain't I a Woman?"

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, to over mud puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?
~ Sojourner Truth (ht to Racialicious)

Willow asks,
"What The Fuck Is Up With This Picture?"

"Who is that behind Wonder Woman?...last I checked, Vixen was not a white woman."

Plain(s)feminist discusses,
"Racism, Feminism, and The Issue of FGE"

It used to be that we - "we" being Western feminists - used the tern FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)...Only - surprise! - African women don't like being told they have mutilated genitals. And, too, they didn't appreciate the Western imperialist approach that cast their societies as backward and evil...

...and debates
"The thing about 'barbaric'"

In the discussion on FGE that I mentioned, one angry woman, who didn't understand why Western women's opposition to the practice was perceived as imperialist, challenged someone else's comment that barbaric was an offensive term. Why, she asked, did we consider "barbaric" to be imperialist and offensive?

Shark Fu memorializes,
"Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees..."

I am sick and tired of people casually discussing lynching another person.

Jenn announces,
"War on Asians Leads to Diversity Training"

...Karson is not merely waxing philosophical on race in America; he is inciting his readers to violence, be it rape against women or a modern-day lynching against Asian Americans. At what point does the university step in and acknowledge that while speech should be free at an academic institution in Boulder, the university has a responsibility to protect female and minority students from threats of physical violence?

Belledame222 tells us to,
"read it and weep"

...Sanesha Stewart, a young trans woman of color, was stabbed to death on Saturday. An alleged sex worker, which, if true, would of course mean she had it coming even more than she already did.

And, to end the weekend on a positive note:

Sudy declares,
"Top 10 Things on Being Filipino"

Being Pinay, a Filipino American womyn, is a secret treasure that not many people know much about. Often, Pinays get thrown in under the Asian American umbrella, as if China, Thailand, Japan, the Philippines, Korea, Sri Lanka, India, and other fine countries can be swiftly help together with one flimsy string.

...and Angry Asian Man introduces,
"the real fifth beetle"

Good Stuff!

I know! I know! I'm late. But I did find some really good stuff! Check it out:

Sudy,
"Demolishing the OneRace = HumanRace Argument"

Naamen Gobert Tilahun guest-blogging on The Angry Black Woman,
"The Privilege of Politeness"

Blackamazon,
"If you think it's about you it probably is"

via Automatic Preference,
Indigenist Intelligence Review, "Saying Sorry is a Symbolic Sham"

Kathryn Joyce (TheNation),
"Missing :The 'Right' Babies"

It's "the baby bust," "the birth dearth," "the graying of the continent": modern euphemisms for old-fashioned race panic as low fertility among white "Western" couples coincides with an increasingly visible immigrant population across Europe. The real root of racial tensions in the Netherlands and France, America's culture warriors tell anxious Europeans, isn't ineffective methods of assimilating new citizens but, rather, decades of "antifamily" permissiveness--contraception, abortion, divorce, population control, women's liberation and careers, "selfish" secularism and gay rights--enabling "decadent" white couples to neglect their reproductive duties.

Anne Bratskeir, Newsday.com
"Diversity may be Fashion Week's latest victim"

"Some shows had just one black model," [Nigel Barker, the photographer and judge on TV's "America's Next Top Model"] says, adding that he found the shows monotonous, visually unexciting and depressing. "Fashion is about fantasy, and everybody's fantasy is not to be 6 feet and white."

via La Chola, (ht to Joan Kelly's Weblog)

New Website to support the New Jersey 4:

Justice 4 New Jersey 4
http://www.amyewinter.net/nj4/

via Alas, a Blog,
"MLK Talked Nichelle Nichols out of quitting 'Star Trek'"




via Vox Ex Machina,
"Friday Night Dance Party: Hip-hop meets tinikling"



Also:
Tyra Banks tends to grate on my nerves but I love Alek Wek!

Welcome!

The spark for this blog came after reading a post by Shark-Fu at The Angry Black Woman:

Just imagine how much better we’d understand the issues important to women if women of color were included in the analysis of “the women vote” rather than lumped into the 18 – 70+ broad as hell and insultingly generic “Black vote” or “Hispanic vote”.

Have you ever clicked on a link to the comment section of a site and thought, "I know this gonna piss me off"?

Have you typed until your fingers were sore because you tried to beat a little knowledge into someone who refuses to pull his/her head out of his/her ass long enough to see clearly past their shit-covered noses?

Are you tied of listening to the media refer to "the female population" and "the minority community" as if they were two completely different things?

Whether you're a feminist, womanist, or undecided; whether you're a "breeder" or LGBT; whether you're religious, agnostic, or none of the above; the voices of Women of Color will not be silenced here!

**Pass along ideas and links to great blogs, articles, stories, artwork, etc. by Women of Color and allies!