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December 26, 2011   14 notes
raimentsandrose: Kwanzaa celebrates what its founder called the seven principles of Kwanzaa, or Nguzo Saba (originally Nguzu Saba—the seven principles of African Heritage), which Karenga said “is a communitarian African philosophy,” consisting of what Karenga called “the best of African thought and practice in constant exchange with the world.” These seven principles comprise Kawaida, a Swahili term for tradition and reason. Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles, as follows: Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up. Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems, and to solve them together. Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together. Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Imani (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

raimentsandrose:

Kwanzaa celebrates what its founder called the seven principles of Kwanzaa, or Nguzo Saba (originally Nguzu Saba—the seven principles of African Heritage), which Karenga said “is a communitarian African philosophy,” consisting of what Karenga called “the best of African thought and practice in constant exchange with the world.” These seven principles comprise Kawaida, a Swahili term for tradition and reason. Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles, as follows:
  • Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
  • Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up.
  • Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems, and to solve them together.
  • Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
  • Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
  • Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
  • Imani (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

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December 26, 2011   27 notes
contemporarynegro: Happy Kwanzaa People!

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Happy Kwanzaa People!

December 24, 2011   754 notes
streetetiquette: Temptations 

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Temptations 

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Hey Fran Hey: Hey Fran Hey Xmas Giveaway

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As a personal Thank You for all of your loyalty, kindness & support, I wanted to show my appreciation by giving one lucky reader my absolute fav item!

A Huetiful Hair Steamer <3

If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you’d know by now that I rave about this steamer almost weekly!…

December 3, 2011   4,327 notes

Feminist texts written by women of color

mylifeasafeminista:

This list is stil a work in progress, but I really wanted to get it posted.  I have either read parts of/all of the texts below or they have been recommended to me.  Please reblog and add your own suggestions to the list.  Each time someone adds something new, I’ll go back to this original post and make sure to include them.  Thanks and enjoy!

Books

  • Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
  • Women Culture and Politics by Angela Davis
  • Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
  • Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua
  • Aint I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
  • Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
  • Feminist Theory from Margin to Center by bell hooks
  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
  • Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  • Medicine Stories by Aurora Levins Morales
  • Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home by Anita Hill
  • Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
  • Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith
  • Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions (Feminist Constructions) by Maria Lugones (submitted by 

    oceanicheart)

  • Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism by Jessica Yee (submitted by 

    oceanicheart)

  • Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks (via easternjenitentiary)
  • Nervous Conditions by Tsisti Dangarembga (via easternjenitentiary)
  • A Taste of Power by Elaine Browne (via tinajenny)
  • Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism by Aileen Moreton-Robinson (via jalwhite)
  • I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle  (via jalwhite)
  • Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics by Joy James (via jalwhite)
  • Re-Creating Ourselves by Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (via reallifedocumentarian)
  • Chicana Feminist Thought by Alma M. Garcia (via eggplantavenger)
  • Queer Latinidad by Juana Maria Rodriguez (via eggplantavenger)
  • The Truth That Never Hurts by Barbara Smith (via sisteroutsider)
  • Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions by Maria Lugones (via guckfender)

Anthologies

  • Companeras: Latina Lesbians by Juanita Ramos and the Lesbian History Project
  • Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism edited by Daisy Hernandez
  • This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
  • this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation edited by Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating
  • Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critial Perspectives by Feminists of Color edited by Gloria Anzaldua
  • Women Writing Resistance: Essays from Latin America and the Caribbean edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
  • Unequal Sisters edited by Ellen DuBois and Vicki Ruiz
  • Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings edited by Alma M. Garcia (submitted by oceanicheart)
  •  Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice (submitted by oceanicheart)
  • The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
  • I Am Your SIster by Audre Lorde (via marlahangup)
  • Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, Jean Barman (via jalwhite)
  • Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire edited by Sonia Shah (via jalwhite)
  • Pinay Power: Feminist Critical Theory: Theorizing the Filipina/American Experience edited by Melinda L. de Jesus (via titotibok)
  • Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire edited by Sonia Shah (via titotibok)
  • MOONROOT: An Exploration of Asian Womyn’s Bodies (more Asian Pacific Islander American ones here) (via titotibok)
  • Making Space for Indigenous Feminism edited by Joyce Green  (via

    jalwhite)

  • All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women’s Studies, more commonly known as But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scot, and Barbara Smith (via jalwhite)
  • Homegirls: A Black Feminist Anthology edited by Barbara Smith (viasisteroutsider)
  • Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women edited by Stanlie James and Abena Busia (via sisteroutsider)
  • Black Woman edited by Toni Cade Bambara (via ancestryinprogress)

Essays

  • “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.” by Kimberle Crenshaw
  • The Combahee River Collective Statement
  • “Tomboy, Dyke, Lezzie, and Bi: Filipina Lesbian and Bisexual Women Speak Out” by Christine T. Lipat and others (via titotibok)
  • “Rizal Day Queen Contests, Filipino Nationalism, and Feminity” by  Arleen  De Vera (via titotibok)
  • “Pinayism” by Allyson G. Tintiangco-Cubales (via titotibok)
  • “Practicing Pinayist Pedagogy” by Allyson G. Tintiangco-Cubales and Jocyl Sacramento (via titotibok)
  • “Asian Lesbians in San Francisco: Struggle to Create a Safe Space, 1970s – 1980s” by Trinity Ordona (via titotibok)
  • “A Black Separatist” by Anna Lee (via girlsandgifs)
  • “For the Love of Separatism” by Anna Lee (via girlsandgifs)
  • “Separation in Black: A Personal Journey” by Jacqueline Anderson (via girlsandgifs)
  • “Separatism is not a Luxury: Some Thoughts on Separatism and Class” by C. Maria (via girlsandgifs)
  • “Coming Out Queer and Brown” by Naomi Littlebear Morena (via girlsandgifs)
  • “Internalising the Lesbian Body of Color” by Jamie Lee Evans (via girlsandgifs)

Other authors and poets you should know

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