VL At The Cine: The Fourth Kind
6 Nov 2009
***Spoilers Ahead***
I like to think that being raised by an artist helped me learn to appreciate the craft of many other artists. Perhaps this has allowed me to suspend logic in some ways; enter my adoration of magical realism. In short: I like to be entertained and The Fourth Kind was entertaining and troubling.
Horror, mystery, sci-fi, these are all the categories where the film The Fourth Kind is included. I’d like to add this film to the very small category of “Directors & Screenwriters of Color who found and earned major distribution for their films in 2009.” Olatunde Osunsanmi is a Nigerian director and screenwriter and The Fourth Kind is his first film distributed by a major corporate company.
Rihanna interview
6:11 pm By la Macha · Celebrities| TV| Violence| Women
5 Nov 2009This just broke my heart. Broke my heart.
From Huffington Post, a preview on the Rihanna interview:
I think that it is really generous and loving of Rihanna to think about girls at a time in her life when she is hurting and confused and devastated and even humiliated. But that section quoted above–that part where she says, “her selfish decision to love”….Oh, how my heart breaks.
It is not Rihanna’s job to stop violence against women. It’s not any woman or girl’s job to stop violence against women and girls. Even if she stayed with Chris Brown forever–it would never be her fault that women are being killed by men. It is manipulative and even violent to say it is. It is not selfish for a woman or girl to love. Dear god, no.
It is selfish to beat a woman. It is selfish to scare and intimidate her. It is selfish to take her love and use it against her, it is selfish to beat a woman who loves you because you know you can.
It is Chris Brown’s job to stop violating women. It is men’s job to stop violating women. It is men’s job to stop twisting and FUCKING with love so freely and generously given. It is the job of men to grow the fuck up and get into some kind of healing/therapy so that they can teach *little boys* how to not beat the holy fuck out of a person who loves them.
And it’s media’s job to stop putting the lives of little girls onto the shoulders of survivors. They have enough shit to worry about. It’s time to start putting responsibility where it belongs. On the fists of men who make the choice to use them whenever they feel like it.
One of Marcelo Lucero’s Attackers Pleads Guilty
4:11 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Justice| New York| Violence| crime
5 Nov 2009
While I was writing my reflections on the anniversary of the hate motivated killing of Marcelo Lucero, , one of his attackers plead guilty to a variety of charges. Nicholas Hausch, 18, pleaded guilty to first-degree gang assault, fourth-degree conspiracy, second-degree assault as a hate crime and second-degree attempted assault as a hate crime.
Hausch’s plea is apparently part of a deal in exchange for information on what happened the night Lucero was brutally attacked. Hausch had no problem yelling slurs at Lucero almost a year ago, but had problems speaking up before a judge.
In a barely audible voice, Hausch answered a prosecutor’s questions about the events that led to the slaying, admitting that he and his six co-defendants set out to search for Latinos to attack.
“Keep your voice up, young man,” the judge said to Hausch twice during the teen’s admissions.
Responding to questions from Assistant District Attorney Meghan O’Donnell, Hausch detailed three attacks he was involved in on Nov. 8, including the Lucero killing.
Before coming across Lucero, Hausch said the group pursued another man. “I got out of the car and I chased him. We were yelling at him,” calling him a derogatory name, he said….
Hausch faces 5 to 25 years in prison on the gang assault charge and will not be sentenced until the prosecution of the other six defendants is completed.
Via / Newsday
Remembering Marcelo Lucero : One Year Later, The List of Hate Crimes Grows Longer
12:18 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration| Justice| New York| Violence| crime
5 Nov 2009
There is much remembering that one year ago the United States elected it’s first person of color president. The U.S. was overwhelmed with bold, bright promises of hope and change. People wept, and I was among them. The start of the Obama era marked the end of the Bush era and hopefully would mean policy changes that would directly impact the everyday lives of all people pero yes, for people of color and immigrants there was a special hope. Hope that immigration reform that would keep all families together and value the lives of people who live and work in the shadows and out in the open.
But then something happened that many thought wasn’t supposed to happen anymore. Weren’t we post-racial? Days after Barack Obama became the president-elect a group of teenagers in Patchogue, Long Island, NY hung out doing what they did about once a week. “Beaner jumping”. That’s what they called it when they went out looking for anyone who looked Latino (they don’t care what kind of “beaner” you are) so they could assault them. That night the young men were out for blood though and they killed Marcelo Lucero.
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Rihanna Speaks
4 Nov 2009Remember Rihanna? Remember how her then boyfriend, Chris Brown, beat the holy crap out of her? And how Rihanna got a lot of grief from fans and the police and even feminists for not “speaking out” after the attack?
Well, Rihanna will be speaking about the incident to Diane Sawyer on Friday:
In an exclusive interview, music superstar Rihanna sits down with Diane Sawyer revealing publicly for the first time what happened last February with singer and ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. The incident resulted in the couple’s seemingly fairytale relationship being shattered and Brown being sentenced to community labor, five years of probation and one year of domestic-violence counseling. During the in-depth interview, Rihanna also talks candidly about growing up in Barbados, her family life, and how she has been doing over the last nine months. The interview will air on “20/20,” FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. Portions of the interview will also air on “Good Morning America” on Thursday, November 5 and Friday, November 6.
Will you be watching?
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A Message To Maine
8:49 pm By la Macha · Uncategorized
4 Nov 2009As a queer in a state that pulled the same trick Maine just did, I know the only think that helped me feel better post election was a nice dose of scathing bitter humor.
Stephen Colbert delivers.
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I must say, I love seeing a little male on male ass grabbing on national television. Thank You Stephen.
Maine Voters Said Yes on 1 and Yes to Marriage Inequity
3:32 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Family| GLBT| Immigration| Maine| Politics
4 Nov 2009
In more bad election news, yesterday voters in Maine said yes to Question 1, overturning the state’s marriage equality law.
Prerna Lal at Dream Activistreminds us how this ties into the immigration issue:
Why should an average non-gay DREAM Act student care about my queer rants? Because like your families, like the Mejia-Perez family, our non-straight families are also scrutinized, separated and pulled apart since the law refuses to recognize them and grant them full and equal rights. Quite like President Obama delivered change for your families and has yet to deliver, he is also largely ignoring LGBT families.
When you do eventually gain the right to vote on other types of families at the polls, just remember what your own family, especially those who lived in mixed-status families, have had to endure. After that, question your ‘faith-based leaders.’ Ask them why they exclude same-sex families when they talk about ‘family unity?’ The Catholic Church, on one hand, stands up strong for the rights of undocumented workers. On the same page, it denounces civil rights for gay couples. Ask your pastors and priests, your clergy and pundits whether ‘God’ would deport a gay immigrant over a straight immigrant. Ask them whether some rights are more important than others. Ask them to support all families.
New York City Wakes Up to Four More Years of Bloomberg
12:17 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York City| Politics
4 Nov 2009It was a close one, 51% to 46%— a difference of less than 51,000 votes. For a moment I thought that New York City would have a new mayor but instead it looks like NYC’s billionaire mayor has won a historic and controversial third term. Certainly the fact that he reportedly spent $100 million, $15,000 an hour to Thompson’s $7 million over all, had nothing to do with it.
I was thinking about what bothered me so much about Bloomberg’s third term. Wasn’t the issue of third terms at the center of so many problems in Latin America, from Honduras to Venezuela to Colombia? Claro the fact that my politics differ is part of it but reality is a bigger part. In Latin America, at least the leaders in question attempted to have some sort of vote or referendum on the issue of additional terms, something Bloomberg did not do. Instead he went over the heads of the NYC people and went ahead and changed the term limits law. His justification, saying the city needed his help because of the economic crisis, makes no sense looking at how the economic conditions for Latinos in NYC has worsened. And it’s not just the economics that bother me. While Bloomberg doesn’t have the rabid personality of his predecessor, Giuliani, Latinos and other people of color have experienced some of the same “community policing” tactics but with a nicer facade.
Maybe I really do need to move out of NYC.
Via / The Daily Mail
Who’s Your Mama : Event at Food for Thought in Amherst on November 13th
11:41 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Books| Events| Family| Women| boston
4 Nov 2009
I met the organizer of this event, TK, at the Allied Media Conference this past summer. Another amazing mami media maker puts together an amazing event. Those in the Amherst area represent and support.
NOVEMBER 13, 2009 * 7PM
Food for Thought BooksPlease join us for a very special evening of women’s voices and responses to benefit To Tell you the Truth. Featuring Who’s Your Mama: Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers (Edt. by Yvonne Byone) Contributors: JLove Calderon (We Got Issues!/ That White Girl), Marcella Runell Hall Hall (Hip Hop Education Guidebook) and Marla Teyolia (Empowered Mama!). On site childcare provided.
A Favorite Latina on the Web Needs Our Support
10:46 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Blogs| Linking Latinos| Media| VivirLatino| Women| media justice
4 Nov 2009I’m really honored that Guanabee named yours truly one of their favorite Latinas on the web.
Some deal explicitly with Latino issues, some don’t. Some are funny, some are creative, some are activists, all are uniquely amazing, inspiring women who, we think, are some of the best at what they do.
I am especially honored by some of my company on the list, including dear mami amiga, Noemi Martinez of Hermana Resist. As a single mami media maker, I appreciate what Noemi does and understand the struggle it is to express yourself in a given medium with no source of funding and with kids yelling, learning, laughing and getting sick as your background soundtrack. Which is why I am asking you to help my mami hermana.
Hola!
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- Rihanna interview
- One of Marcelo Lucero’s Attackers Pleads Guilty
- Remembering Marcelo Lucero : One Year Later, The List of Hate Crimes Grows Longer
- Rihanna Speaks
- A Message To Maine
- Maine Voters Said Yes on 1 and Yes to Marriage Inequity
- New York City Wakes Up to Four More Years of Bloomberg
- Who’s Your Mama : Event at Food for Thought in Amherst on November 13th
- A Favorite Latina on the Web Needs Our Support
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