Archive for April, 2010
I’ve partnered with an amazing media maker and radical educator: SuperHussy to help her find, edit, and publish an anthology focusing on women of Color, sex and sexuality! Here’s the Call for Submissions:
Alright ya’ll, it’s time to expand the reach of Super Hussy Media. You know there;s the blog, and the film projects in the works, but wait, here it comes…our first call for submissions for our annual publication, The Compendium.
Our first issue, The Talk, focuses on self-identified women of Color and how they learned about S-E-X. Here are the details:
The Talk: Women of Color On Sex is an exploration of how self-identified women across the Diaspora came to learn about sex and what it meant to have a sexual relationship. Did your mom, aunty or tia sit you down? Were your homegirls or hermanas responsible for giving you the blow by blow? Was Cinemax After Dark, Youtube or a telenovela your sex ed instructor?
Super Hussy Media seeks fresh and daring writers who can coax the reader into an intimate understanding of not only how they learned about sex, but how that knowledge impacted their sexual exploration. We want submissions that are funny, sad, enraging, and transformational.
The Talk is ultimately about our testimonies regarding how we were taught or chose to learn about our sexuality. How we are continuing to learn, lessons we wish we could share with other women of Color, introspective activities of reflection. This is all about us.
Submission Requirements
• Deadline: July 1, 2010
• No more than 2 previously unpublished short stories per submission
• Simultaneous submissions okay, but notify if your work is accepted elsewhere
• 4,000 words or less
• Double spaced
• Poetry and non-English submissions accepted as long as they are accompanied by an English translation
All contributors will receive a copy of the anthology.
Submissions
All submissions must be sent electronically using .doc or .pdf to submissions@superhussy.com.
Title of submission should be placed in the subject line. Please include your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and short bio with your submission.
Superhussy Media publishes work that celebrates girls and women of color everywhere!
We look forward to reading your submissions.
National Poetry Month : Dia 6, Pedro Pietri, January Hangover
7:18 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Poetry · 4 Comments
9 Apr 2010This morning’s poema comes after I have just written a fragment about how I hope I have squeezed the poetic juice out of a relationship. Pedro Pietri, el padrino de la poesia Nuyorican, answered me with this:
January Hangover
Pedro Pietri
To be with you is my desire
To stay away from you is my ambition
The magic of your great moments
Awakens the superior inspiration
Responsible for perfect compliments
We have many things to talk about
And we have nothing to talk about
The religion of the sleepless candle
Detaining the discovery of daylight
When the definition of madness is love
Was lit by your knowledge of darkness
Your comfort corrects all the mistakes
I was born to make in this world
You are a very simple person
With a very complicated personality
Uninvited visitors with visions
Of watering your plants everyday
Commit suicide to write poems about you
It is impossible to love you madly
Without actually loving you madly
For the best results of your secrets
Of summer I will sacrifice my sanity
And become brilliantly absentminded
To remember how much I adore you
From bum rush the page
Mother of Gay Undocumented Latino Hate Crime Victim Speaks Out in His Defense
1:55 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · GLBT|Immigration|New York City · 7 Comments
8 Apr 2010The other day I wrote about a gay Latino was assaulted here in NYC and after going to the police found himself facing criminal charges and deportation. Ricardo Muñiz’s mother spoke at a press conference in front of the Brooklyn Supreme Court.
The video, from Univision is in Spanish pero I will translate after.
Mala’s translation:
Anchorwoman: A Latina mother says that her son was savagely beaten for being gay and that when he went to press charges, he was the one that ended up behind bars and now could be deported. From New York, Natalia Cruz gives us more details on this case.Natalia Cruz: With tears, this Mexican mother begs for her son not to be deported.
Jorgelina Aguirre: My son is unjustly in jail, just because he is homosexual. They took all these things to use against him.
Natalia Cruz : The mother says that her son, 23 year old Ricardo Muñiz, went to press charges saying that he had been savagely beaten for being homosexual. The police, allegedly according to Muñiz’s mother, painted Ricardo as the villain.
Jorgeline Aguirre: We came from my country because they would attack him. They discriminated against him. They would beat him. It was never like this though.
Natalia Cruz : Muñiz told the police that last July 18th, he was dancing with a friend in an area bar and there two men starting screaming anti-gay insults at them. When Muñiz walked out on the street with two friends, the alleged aggressors intercepted them with their car.
Karina Claudio from Make the Road NY [full disclosure, I know Karina]: The men got out of the car and started to insult Muñiz and his friends again.
Natalia Cruz: According to Muñiz, he was attacked with fists, a bat, and a belt buckle. However, the alleged attacker, who appears in reports as Jose Cruz, is listed in papers from the District Attorney’s office as the victim. Cruz says that Muñiz and other men attacked him. Cruz was taken to a hospital and put in an induced coma. Jorgelina asks the the case be cleared and the charges dropped against her son.
The police confirmed that Muñiz was arrested August 6th of last year with 4 assault charges, one in the first degree. Muñiz returns to court May 5th. In the meantime, his friend, Danny Valdez, who was also arrested for the incident, was already deported to his country, El Salvador, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office
National Poetry Month : Dia 5, Fragment of Tomás Riley’s the movement: freestyles for the dying sun
8 Apr 2010For our first non-female identified poet of the month I bring you Tomás Riley, one of the original Taco Shop Poets, and a fragment from his work the movement: freestyle for the dying sun.
movement
march
panzon to guitarron
and liquified p-funk
maintain
norteños mas allá
vicente fernandez
chilling in his b-boy stance
talking trash about
“que de raro tiene”
no
es mas raro que tenemos
tony lamas
timbos
tripping
ain’t no half stepping
in the movementmariaci muse(sic) riffs
against the twilight
of an olmec head nod
hands fly
flecha fast
to dominate the plate
rotating the dark
obsidian
outcast on the remix
overrun by selva sagrada
con su machete
en la mano
mascarada“nosotros,
hombres y mujeres
íntegros y libres,
estamos conscientes
de que la guerra que declaramos
es una medida última
pero justa”
If you want to read the rest check out the book Primera Página.
Internship! Latino Engagement
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…
Hey New York! Artist Against Anti-Immigrant Bigotry
1:22 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Arts|Immigration|New York City · Comments Off
7 Apr 2010
Calling 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
NYC Event This Saturday : Latino Youth: Focusing on our Future
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
Update on the New Mythos Tour
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!
National Poetry Month : Dia 4, Judith Ortiz Coffer’s “Orar: To Pray”
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.
Quick Update
7:54 pm By la Macha · VivirLatino · 1 Comment
6 Apr 2010Just so everybody knows–Mala and I are both dealing with Having Kids Who Are On Spring Break this week! That means that posting/commenting is going to be a bit slow(er) this week. The world will right itself on Monday!
Until then,
Salma says your patience is appreciated!
Hola!
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