Archive for May, 2009
Doctor Who Provided Abortions Shot to Death at Church
3:53 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · crime|Women · 5 Comments
31 May 2009
While I was in church this morning, Dr. George Tiller was shot and murdered inside the church he worshiped at in Wichita, Kansas. Dr. Tiller was killed because he did something legal, he provided abortions.
Tiller, 67, was one of the few U.S. physicians who still performed late-term abortions. He survived a 1993 shooting outside his Wichita clinic.
At this time it appears that someone is in custody and it’s being reported that some parishioners recognize the suspect as someone who has protested the doctor. This story is developing.
What I have never understood, is how people who hate “murder” so much, have no problem using it themselves carrying a bible in one hand and a gun in the other.
If Tiller was slain because of his work, he would be the fourth U.S. physician killed by abortion opponents since 1993. In addition, a nurse at a Birmingham, Alabama, clinic was maimed and an off-duty police officer was killed in a 1998 bombing by Eric Rudolph, who included abortion among his list of anti-government grievances.
If?
Via / CNN
Tom Tacredo Says NCLR=KKK=Sotomayor is Racist
9:49 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Media|Politics · 2 Comments
31 May 2009Ay the fun never stops with racists. Here’s our old amigo Tom Tancredo on CNN.
Now going back into my head of history, last time I checked, part of the power of the KKK was the hooded gear and nooses, not to mention support, protection, and cross membership with government agencies including law enforcement. So a ver, I’m not apologist for the NCLR who in my opinion aren’t radical enough, pero I never have been on a call with them that focused on how to kill whitey (or did I miss that call?).
Tancredo clearly has no concept of what raza is and how it goes way beyond the concept of a “race” the way he defines it. Way back in March of 2006, Tancredo said that he didn’t like being called a racist, but it’s ok for him to?
Spanish Language Ad Supporting Sonia Sotomayor
30 May 2009I’ll admit that I haven’t been paying close enough attention to how the Spanish language media has been reporting on the Sonia Sotomayor nomination.
Americans United for Change have put out a Spanish language ad urging people to call their senators to support Sotomayor.
Read the script in Spanish and English after the jump.
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell Asks Attorney General Eric Holder to Pursue Civil Rights Charges Against the Murderers of Luis Ramirez
9:30 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Justice|pennsylvania · Comments Off
30 May 2009
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendel sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder recommending that the Department of Justice pursue civil rights charges against the murderers of Luis Ramirez, Piekarsky and Donchak.
While this is good news, as any movement towards justice is, after reading the letter, I remain concerned with how Ramirez’s death and the actions of those who killed him are framed in isolation. Ramirez’s death is framed as a hate crime, with the governor drawing connections to the Yankel Rosenbaum and Rodney King cases. However where is the mention of the long line of anti-Latino/immigrant hate crimes? Where is the line connecting Ramirez’s death to the anti-immigrant and anti-Latino rhetoric that we are seeing now used even against Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor?
The entire letter is after the jump.
Mindless fun Friday
29 May 2009Yeah, it’s hard for me to concentrate on Friday, how about you? As such, in the name of beginning an early weekend of no concentrating and lots of fun, I leave you with this. PLAY ME OFF KEYBOARD CAT!
The SPEAK CD is waiting for YOU
12:01 pm By la Macha · media justice · Comments Off
29 May 2009from Flip Flopping Joy comes the link to this SUPER review of the SPEAK CD, of which our lovely Mamita Mala is a part of! A taste of the review:
Most of the pieces rely on minimal sounds – light percussion, synthesizers, background noise – if there’s any sound besides the speaker at all, so E. Rose Sims’ “On Cartography and Dissection” is a jarring change of pace, with an orchestrated score that matches the dark tone of her exploration of monsters. The piece is a brilliant series of connections between colonialism and transphobia and racism, with mapmaking serving as a metaphor for the naming and conquering of the human body. Flags are planted, already-established realities are ignored, and healthy, natural identities are twisted, by colonizers, into “a wrongness, a distortion.” Sims’s voice brims with sadness and anger as thunder crackles behind her and she ponders what Medusa felt the first time she saw her own reflection.
There are delightful moments of humor in the collection, too. BabyBFP, giggling, reads a poem about her cats, and the CD begins to draw to a close with a spirited rendition of “I Feel Pretty.” When I saw the title on the track listing, I was afraid it would be corny, but these ladies pull it off.
So what are you waiting for??? GO BUY THE CD!!
Mañana in NYC: LIPS LIKE MY SUGAR WALLS
10:02 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Arts|Culture|Events|GLBT|Lo Que Hay|New York City|sex · Comments Off
29 May 2009Sounds like amazing, sexy fun and it features some amigos/as.
Dixon Place Presents
HOT! Shots: LIPS LIKE MY SUGAR WALLS
Guest Curator: Edwin Ramoran
Saturday, May 30, 2009
8:00 pm
Dixon Place
161 Chrystie Street
New York, NY
Prices: $15.00
student $12.00
senior $12.00featuring:
Designer Imposter, KAREN JAIME, Jayson Keeling with Alison Ward and The Ruffian Arms, Rachel Mason and Mark Golamco, Ivan Monforte, and Charlie VázquezLIPS LIKE MY SUGAR WALLS promises an evening of world premieres by emerging artists working in New York City. As a curatorial concept “Lips Like My Sugar Walls” acknowledges the primacy of our outer layers, lips, foreskin, culo, mandala, epidermis, and labia. They propel us. We use them in so many ways. We spit, suck, sing, slurp, squirt, lick, fuck, eat, blow, flirt, and kiss. What can a post-punk, Prince-influenced mash up look, feel, sound, taste, smell like? Does it hurt, love, fear, accept? This performance showcase brings together a raw, innovative mix of New York artists. All are contemporary artists who use interdisciplinary practices to produce performative works in video, poetry, photography, and song.
The world premiere of Ivan Monforte’s short video “Tres Veces” reveals the artist and three other men in a racy interpretation of Paquita La Del Barrio’s ranchero song of revenge “Tres veces te engañe.” For the first time, Jayson Keeling collaborates on a slide show and text performance with the punk antics of Alison Ward and her rock group The Ruffian Arms. Bringing the immediacy of the edgy East Village scene, performance artists Karen Jaime and Charlie Vázquez, both dynamic writers and spoken word poets who recently performed for Hispanic PANIC! at the queer bar Nowhere, will deliver new works, including a rare appearance by Vázquez as “Spittles the Clown.” Designer Imposter (aka Ramdasha Bikceem), known on the queer club circuit for her fierce mix of dance music at parties like Pantyho’s, will perform new original songs. Rachel Mason and Mark Golamco, who have worked together since 2003, will play a set of their experimental, collaborative music with viola accompaniment.
Cry Me a Reverse Racism River : Sonia Sotomayor Scares the White People
9:17 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Politics|Women · 3 Comments
29 May 2009Want to scare some white people? Put a Latina on the cusp of history and watch the “media” who have made their career on using stereotypes against people of color, lately immigrants, suddenly cry oppression.
Yes , yes as much as we all know that race is an artificial construct, suddenly those who have benefited the most from that construct are acting as if the fact they are white men has nothing to do with their position.
Vargas Llosa Detained in Venezuela
4:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bolivia|Controversia|Latin America|literature|Peru|Politics|society|Venezuela · Comments Off
28 May 2009Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa didn’t have such a good time today at Caracas International Airport, Maiquetia, upon arriving to Venezuela from Colombia. Accompanied by his wife for a conference, Vargas Llosa says he was detained for an hour and a half by police who allegedly held him because a “as a foreigner he didn’t have the right to make political statements” in Venezuela. Spain’s Estrella Digital reports:
“They said that very politely and I responded that being in the land of (…) they shouldn’t try to hinder free thinking,” said Vargas Llosa, in the middle of a press mob that surrounded him upon leaving the airport. Álvaro Vargas Llosa, son of the writer, was also arrested for several hour by airport authorities on Monday, when he arrived in Venezuela to participate in the same conference, along with intellectuals from various countries.
Vargas Llosa’s statements to press can be seen in the video above (in Spanish). Estrella Digital also reports that conference organizers said that police would accompany he and his wife to their hotel “so he wouldn’t make statements to press” and that he had already been warned about making political statements.
What’s unclear to me is what political statement he could have made getting off of a plane? It seems like if you were going to do something messed up like detain someone for speaking their mind, you’d do it after they had already done so, not before. Apparently Bolivian ex-president Jorge Quiroga also got the same warning, but wasn’t detained. But actually is already making statements, particularly saying that Evo Morales is merely a pawn of Hugo Chavez.
Via / Estrella Digital
Abu Ghraib Photos Revisited
28 May 2009British papers are all talking about the Abu Ghraib photos that Obama recently made the decision not to release to the public. **trigger warning on info that follows** Read more…
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