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| Blog Name: |
The Jaded Hippy |
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http://jadedhippy.blogspot.com |
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English |
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feminism, politics, race |
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Fighting kyriarchy one issue and one day at a time, from a radical, socialist, intersectional, sex positive, anti-racist, eco-feminist perspective. |
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32 Followers |
I almost never write poetry...
I was having an argument about this story about Alma Chacon and was musing on the pure absurdity of national borders and who is "legal" and "illegal" within those artificial boundaries and my brain just started getting all poetical, so....thought why not share... (If it's not clear, I was thinking about these things from Alma's and other mestizas and indigenous folks' perspective.)
"Illegal"
How can I be
Illegal
On the land my people come from?
"Illegal"
You declare me
As you pave over the bones of my ancestors.
A line
The Abuse of an Asylum Seeker
Via Questioning Transphobia and VivirLatino I found the story of Esmeralda:
Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda, a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice. Kept in a se
Electronic Civil Disobedience - the Transborder Immigrant Tool
Via my tumblr blog Rags 'n' Bones:
thecurvature:
abbyjean:
From a group calling themselves Electronic Civil Disobedience comes the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a simple mobile application intended to aid and abet border-crossers from Mexico to the United States by mapping the safest routes to take.
Thanksgiving/Day of Mourning
Thanksgiving in my family has always been a time, some years the only time, when most of us come together and spend time with each other. This, and that this all revolves around food, has made it my favorite holiday for a very long time.
The Thanksgiving Mythology has never played a big role in this family celebration.
Though elementary school was a different matter...
These days I still love my family holiday but I also feel more and more that there is a political element to the very fact that the holiday exists that I do not want to ignore. That I can't ignore.
I haven't figured out, yet, what this means for me, or what practical steps
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