1:44 pm By BiancaLaureano · Uncategorized · 3 Comments
7 Apr 2010I was contacted by Gabriela Lazzaro, the Bilingual New Media Coordinator at Planned Parenthood about this exciting internship opportunity for Latino youth/college students in NYC! If you know of someone who may be interested please share this with them!
Contact Gabriela directly at: mailto:ppnewmediaintern@gmail.com and apply online here.
Summer Latino Engagement Intern position (possibly paid, TBD)
**Don’t be shy! If you heard about this internship here tell Gabriela in your cover letter! You can mention me, Bianca, or say you read about it on Vivir Latino or Latino Sexuality!
***The commitment would be full time and this person would have to be fully bilingual in English and Spanish***
*This person will work closely with the Director of Latino Engagement on a number of projects related to Latino Outreach at a national level for Planned Parenthood. Since Gabby will also be out on maternity leave this person will have the opportunity to handle several responsibilities with regards to Latino social media outreach as well as major projects with the Spanish language Planned Parenthood website. Read more…
1:22 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Arts|Immigration|New York City · Comments Off
7 Apr 2010Calling all New York City Artists! Fight Bigotry and Throw an Event at the Same Time!
The Artists Against Anti-immigrant Bigotry Coalition is sponsoring events all over NYC April 3rd – 16th.
Artists have historically been at the forefront of countering bigotry in the United States. Now, artist communities from across the country are standing up once again to renounce hate and bigotry.
Center for New Community, a national civil rights organization and the blog Imagine 2050 are sponsoring 25 events around NYC with $200.00 each. One of them could be yours.
Out of those 25 events, the one that displays “Artists Against Anti-Immigrant Bigotry” most creatively will win an additional $500!”
Proof of sponsorship should be sent to imag2050@gmail.com with photos attached or a link to video footage of the event.
Mas informacion at Imagine 2050
11:13 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Education|New York City|youth · Comments Off
7 Apr 2010*The Coalition of Latino/a Scholars (CLS)*
*cordially invite you to: *
Jóvenes Latinos: Enfocándonos en Nuestro Futuro
*~~~
Latino Youth: Focusing on our Future **When**: **Saturday, April 10th, 2010**
Where: 281 Grace Dodge Hall*
* Teachers College, Columbia University*
* 525 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027**
Time: 9:30am-10:00am Breakfast** 10:00am-2:00pm Workshop*
***Breakfast & Lunch will be provided.**
*The purpose of this workshop is to inform, expose, and empower Latino youth to learn more about the high school requirements so that they can apply to college. The workshop will focus on New York college preparation requirements, college admissions, financial aid, and scholarships.
As you may know, Latinos are greatly underrepresented in higher education. Therefore, it is important that Latino youth are exposed to other Latinos who are going to college. At the workshop, youth will have an opportunity to interact and ask questions of other Latino undergraduate and graduate students about their experience in navigating the K-16 educational pipeline.
Please feel free to forward the invite to students, parents, and other
community members who may benefit from this event. If you would like more information or to RSVP, please e-mail us at cls.tccu@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you.Regards,
Coalition of Latino/a Scholars
9:46 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|Arts|Family|history|Justice|Media|media justice|New Mythos Tour|Women · Comments Off
7 Apr 2010A few weeks ago I shared an exciting project with you, one that gets to the very heart of why I do what I do and how I live. Consider this your update and call for support.
I am writing because I’d like to tell you about a new project I am working on called The New Mythos Project. This project is building a network of phenomenal sistaz who are engaged in social justice work through spiritual and creative ways, in their everyday lives.
I’ve been working with a phenomenal crew of mamaz to identify the variety of communities and movements we are participating in and leading, and what ways we can more fully support ourselves as mamaz, social change agents, artists and truth-tellers.
We come from a variety of different backgrounds, share a variety of lived-experiences and are all interested in learning from each other and growing with each other. We are invested in radical movements AND we believe that there is a radical platform- a new articulation of our age- that we engage in from a holistic, spirit-based place; informed by our ancestors and our visions of our futures. In our lives, work, community care-giving and mama-ing we are manifesting feminist prophecies.
We are invested in building a network to share with other radical m/others, mamis and community caregivers to fortify our collective lives and work. We are excited to continue to learn and grow with you!
To this effect we are all participating, supporting and collaborating in The New Mythos Project— an ongoing national collaboration that began over the past few months and that we are designing to support ongoing participation, networking, visibility raising, resource-sharing and truth-telling between radical m/others, mamis and community caregivers. We are investing in this project to support our communities and ourselves and we are asking for your support to do this!
6:20 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Poetry|Women · Comments Off
7 Apr 2010I seem to be choosing many poems about religion and ritual. My Pentecostal abuelita would probably say it’s a sign I need to find God. What I found today was in my yellowed and worn copy of “The Latin Deli” by Judith Ortiz Coffer (no relation).
From “Some Spanish Verbs”
Orar : To Pray
After the hissed pleas, dununciations-
the children just tucked in -
perhaps her hand on his dress-shirt sleeve,
brushed off, leaving a trace of cologne,
impossible, it seemed, to wash off
with plain soap, he’d go, his feet light
on the gravel. In their room, she’d fall
on her knees to say prayers composed
to sound like praise; following
her mother’s warning never to make demands
outright from God nor a man.On the other side of the thin wall,
I lay listening to the sounds I recognized
from an early age: Knees on wood, shifting
the pain so the floor creaked, and a woman’s
conversation with the wind-that carried
her sad voice out of the open window
to me. And her words-if they did not rise
to heaven, fell on my chest, where they are
embedded like splinters of a crossI also carried.
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