12:10 pm By la Macha · media justice|Music|society|Women · Comments Off
6 May 2009Just discovered Mahina Movement, an awesome all woman group that is based in New York. From their website:
Mahina Movement is the phenomenal 3 women trio who combine poetry and song to create passionate music tied to flesh and bone, straight from the heart. Mahina Movement’s extraordinary melodies tell stories of the personal and political wrapped with courage, strength and awareness of human struggle and connection. 3 voices and one guitar blend into a powerful force, mixing folk, rock and rhymes in English, Spanish, and Tongan simmered with indigenous roots and culture. Mahina Movement’s rare sound and vision not only creates a raw, fierce artistic “movement” combining traditional and contemporary poetry, music, painting, theater, and ritual but also, is constantly generating a strong, steady “movement” for community—consisting of radical love, unstoppable activism and ruthless compassion.
I found this video online, which shows a bit of their song black and white/Jasmine. It cuts off at the end, but otherwise–wow. I love it.
11:31 am By la Macha · GLBT|Women · 4 Comments
6 May 2009Miss California, of the “gays can’t marry” infamy, just won’t go away. After lecturing the world on how God made marriage for a man and a woman, it has now been discovered that Miss California has semi-nude pictures floating around–oh, and those pictures are of her.
Now, I’m the very last person to sit judgment on women taking any type of pictures of herself. In fact, the reason I personally think the various beauty pageants out there are bullshit and deserve to be closed down is because of how they blatantly insinuate that virginity is what makes a woman beautiful. They play on the belief that a woman should be a virgin until she finds the right man–and then she should be a whore. Just for him.
So I sit no judgment on Miss California posing for pictures. BUT–I do wonder at the hypocrisy of a woman who poses semi-nude, prances around in front of huge audiences (which include men) half naked, gets breast implants (to be more alluring to men?), and also manages to say it’s against God’s will for gays to marry.
When did God say it was ok for women to be running around half naked with the object of giving men hard ons so the women can be dubbed most beautiful?
A little consistency might make me take Miss California more seriously.
5:56 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Education|Events|youth · 1 Comment
6 May 2009I won’t be doing much posting today and it’s not because I’m nursing a Cinco de Mayo hangover.
I’m spending the day speaking to some high school students about media and identity politics.
So while I go to shape young minds, portanse bien.
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