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The National Queer Arts Festival and Mangos with Chili presents: QPOCALYPSE NOW

1:30 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Culture|Events|San Francisco|Women · Comments Off

18 Jun 2009

Mala always knew that mangos with chile were the bomb pero this brings the tastiness to a whole new level. If you are in the Bay Area support!

The 2009 National Queer Arts Festival and MANGOS WITH CHILI
the floating cabaret of queer and trans people of color bliss, dreams,
sweat, sweets & nightmares proudly present:

QPOCalypse NOW!

June 20 – One night only
SOMArts, 934 Brannan St, SF
Doors at 7:30, Show at 8pm
Tickets: $13 – $20
No one turned away for lack of funds

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66089

The end times. 2012. The revolution. Terror. The chosen people.
Disaster. Militarism. Revelations. Plague. The dawn of the 5th World.
Space colonization. Making new homes and surviving new worlds.

In this highly anticipated divine new Mangos With Chili performance
spectacular, come see the Bay Area’s noted and notorious QTPOC
performance ensemble present an evening of all new collaborative work
and hybrid performance exploring our visions of the end of the world
and what comes afterwards.

From growing up in the apocalyptic worlds of Brooklyn, Scranton,
Oakland, and Beirut, to the myths of the end times our ancestors told
us, to the last crazy QTPOC dance party before The End, to living
Octavia Butler’s dreams now, the Mangos With Chili crew will give you
dreams and nightmares about revolution and our changing world through
our high-intensity theater, dance, spoken word, drag, song, and more.

Featuring:
Charleston Chu
Nico Dacumos
Maceo Cabrera Estévez
Ms. Cherry Galette
Zuleikha Mahmood
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Amir Rabiyah
Yosimar Reyes
Thisway/Thatway
King TuffNStuff
and TBA

PLUS: a live score mixed by DJ Emancipacion, video by Alexis Pauline
Gumbs, Ami Puri, and TBA, an interactive altar, the Four Gay Unicorns
of the Apocalypse, and other surprises!!!

Mangos With Chili: the floating cabaret of QTPOC bliss, dreams,
sweats, sweets and nightmares is a Bay Area based arts organization
committed to showcasing high quality work of life saving importance by
queer and trans artists of color to audiences in the Bay Area and
beyond. Founded by writer and spoken word artist Leah Lakshmi
Piepzna-Samarasinha and dancer, choreographer, and burlesque artist Ms
Cherry Galette, Mangos with Chili began as an annual touring cabaret
of queer and trans people of color performance artists, and now
presents year round productions in the Bay Area in addition to our
annual touring cabaret.

The troupe has performed to sold out houses across North America,
wowing audiences in world class theaters, underground performance
spaces, bars, community venues and campus halls with their hot, high
intensity, and breathtaking performance, politics, and craft,
reflecting the lives and stories of queer and trans people of color
and speaking out in resistance to the daily struggles around silence,
isolation, homophobia, and violence that QTPOC face.

Mangos with Chili is a fiscally sponsored project of CounterPulse.
Production of QPOCalypse Now! is made possible by the generous support
of the Horizons Foundation, the Queer Cultural Center, the San
Francisco Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the
generous support of our community of donors.

For more information: http://mangoswithchili.wordpress.com

New Sotomayor Stereotype : The Latina Housekeeper

11:52 am By Maegan La Mala · Media|Politics|Women · 4 Comments

18 Jun 2009

Ah I knew we were missing a stereotype. Sotomayor has already been sexualized,objectified and dehumanized . She’s been called angry and a reverse racist. And now, yes she’ll clean up after you too.

Transcript:

Today, my friends, we turn our attention to the latest revelation from Judge Sonia Sotomayor. It appears that Ms. Sotomayor, the model of diversity and inclusion, has some explaining to do regarding her membership in a club.

Not just any club — a club whose members are all female. In documents provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the honorable judge wrote this: “I am a member of the Belizean Grove, a private organization of female professionals from the profit, nonprofit and social sectors. The organization does not invidiously discriminate on the basis of sex. Men are involved in its activities — they participate in trips, host events and speak at functions — but to the best of my knowledge, a man has never asked to be considered for membership.” (I don’t blame ‘em!)

The group includes over 100 high-level executives and upper-crust women from the corporate and government worlds.

However… the Code of Judicial Conduct bars judges from belonging to any organization that practices discrimination based on race, sex, religion, or national origin.

I wonder. If Justices Roberts or Thomas belonged to an association that discriminated against females, if Justices Alito or Scalia were discovered to have membership in a group that excluded females, how would liberals have reacted? Would they have forgiven the judges’ involvement in an “old boy’s club”? Or would they have erupted in a full-blown, five-alarm rage?

Safe to say, any conservative in this situation would find their nomination dead in the water. Clubbed — like a baby seal. No question about it. I think I’m going to send Sotomayor, and her club, a bunch of vacuum cleaners to help them clean up after their meetings.

Well Rush, at least you didn’t say she was your drug dealer.

Via / Media Matters

Bilingual Education: The Debate Continues

10:52 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bilingualism|Controversia|Education|society · 1 Comment

18 Jun 2009

MSNBC has an interesting piece on how increased immigration to formerly non-Latino areas of the country is affecting the educational landscape of public schools, and the contrast with areas of the country where English Only has succeeded in being instated and has subsequently failed students.

Have a look at the video and let us know what you think about this continuing debate. What’s best? Bilingual education? Immersion?

Via / MSNBC

6 Months and 10 Days : What Courts Value Latino Lives At

18 Jun 2009

This morning in my inbox I received another email telling me, and whoever else was on this advocacy org’s coveted mailing list, that I should be vigilant about the rising tide of hate crimes and yet again the point of reference was the Holocaust Museum shooting.

Do I really need a reminder? Do I need to hear the frenzied 911 call of a mother after seeing her husband and daughter shot and killed? I know that audio is going around some blogs and media sites and I have refused to listen for my own personal sanity as a Latina mother but also as a statement against the exploitation of the pain of Latinas for the sake of “the story”

Would Hate Crimes legislation made a difference? Would it have prevented a Latino young man from having a noose placed around his neck and dragged around a parking lot in Ohio? Maybe if the young man would have died his lie would have been worth more than the paltry sentence his horror was met with.

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio – A central Ohio teenager accused of putting a noose around a Hispanic boy’s neck and dragging him in a parking lot has been sentenced to 10 days in jail.

The 18-year-old was sentenced Wednesday in juvenile court in Mount Vernon, a city of 15,000 residents an hour’s drive northeast of Columbus. He dropped his original plea of not guilty and pleaded no contest to ethnic intimidation.

A charge of aggravated menacing was dropped.

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Archive for June 18th, 2009

The National Queer Arts Festival and Mangos with Chili presents: QPOCALYPSE NOW

New Sotomayor Stereotype : The Latina Housekeeper

Bilingual Education: The Debate Continues

6 Months and 10 Days : What Courts Value Latino Lives At

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