Posts Tagged ‘Latina women’
Celebrating the Latina Mujer This Friday in NYC
9:23 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York| Women · Comments Off
23 Mar 2009There is a saying que la patria es una mujer : that homeland is a woman and given the strong leadership role that Latina women have taken up in various struggles, it’s time that people step back to give some of these mujeres some props.
This Womyn’s History Month, join The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign as we honor the contributions of Boricua/Latina Women to the Puerto Rican INDEPENDENCE Movement ¡QUE VIVA LA MUJER!
Recipients of the Doña Adelfa Vera Award for 2009:
Yasmin Hernandez, Artist/Activist/ Educator
Teresita “Lah Tere” Ayala, Poet/Activist/ Rebel Diaz
Claudia de la Cruz, Pastor of La Iglesia San Romero de Las Americas/UCCMistress of Ceremony:
Haydee Morales, Casa Atabex Ache Co-FounderKeynote Speaker:
Prisionera, Poet/Activist/ Partido Nacionalista de Puerto RicoSample Work Presentation:
Our Women, Our Struggle (working title) is a 70-minute long documentary that chronicles the life of Puerto Rican revolutionary – Isabel Rosado, — who dedicated her life to the Puerto Rican Independence movement and has become a symbol of the island’s patriotism. Other women such as Lolita Lebron and Dylcia Pagan will also be highlighted. All three women were subjected to FBI surveillance and each spent many years in prison as a consequence of their radical political actions or as some might refer “terrorist activities”.
Melissa Montero is a Latina filmmaker living in Queens, New York of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian heritage. She has co-produced and directed a non-broadcast ten-minute promotional video/documentary on Casa Atabex Ache, a non-profit organization that does healing and transformation work for women of color.Poetry by:
Mariposa and PrisioneraHand crafts and Natural Products:
OLGA AYALA HANDICRAFTS (HECHO A MANO)
Botanicafe (Lourdes Garcia)FRIDAY MARCH 27, 2009 AT 7PM!
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church 521 W126th St.
Between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway Take the 1 train W125th St.
Suggested donation: $5 (no one will be turned away)
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED!
For more information contact ProLibertad: 718-601-4751 * www.ProLibertadWeb. com
What Do Latina Women Want From Our Next President?
1:40 pm By Maegan La Mala · Events| New York City| US Presidential Race 2008 · 1 Comment
16 Oct 2008Two nights ago, a group of woman gathered in LaGuardia Community College in Queens, NYC to address the presidential wannabes and voters themselves to say what they wanted. Part of the nationwide This is What Women Want speak out, Latina voices were loud and clear and presente.
Luz Rodriguez, of SisterSong, Women of Color Health Care Collective, speaks of human rights.
See more Latina women, including Kety Esquivel and VL Editor Maegan la Mala, speak what they want after the jump.
Black and Latina Women are having more Abortions than White Women
7:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health| Women · 1 Comment
24 Sep 2008
More Latinas and black women are having abortions than white women, says the latest survey conducted by the Guttmacher Institute. According to the survey:
Statistically one in three U.S. women will have an abortion in her lifetime, the study found, but that risk does not apply to all women equally. Women who choose abortion are more likely to be in their 20s or 30s than in their teens or 40s; they’re more likely to have children already; and they’re also more likely to be black or Hispanic than white. The abortion rates in 2004 were 50 abortions per 1,000 black women and 28 abortions per 1,000 Hispanic women, compared with 11 out of every 1,000 white women.
I noticed two interesting things about this passage. First, since when was getting an abortion considered something that women were “at risk of”? And similarly, if having an abortion is ‘risky’ then why isn’t what causes so many abortions (poverty, abuse at home, lack of resources, etc) considered ‘risky’? Why isn’t it considered a national health crisis that so many women in the U.S. are suffering through conditions that make ‘risky’ behaviors like abortion a necessity?
Second, the ‘experts’ quoted in the article just couldn’t seem to figure out why it is that there is such a racial disparity between black/Latina women and white women. Maybe, say the experts, it’s lack of education on family planning?
I personally wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that black/Latina women make less money that white women do (on average) and are always hit first during economic crisis (like the one we’re in now) and may actually desperately want the the pregnancies that they experience, but can’t afford to carry it through?
Could having a baby, in these cases, be privilege that black and Latina and all women of color, simply aren’t entitled to because of draconian back to work laws and the racism that puts them on the lowest rung of the economic ladder?
Someone Needs to Tell Jessica Alba the Best Ass is Latina Ass
10:57 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Uncategorized · 1 Comment
11 Jan 2008
I feel guilty about giving any play to Miss Alba, who clearly has identity issues to work out, but she’s quoted in a British rag talking about the often lauded assets of Latina women.
“I prefer some ass,” she tells Britain’s OK! magazine. “I think women that have a body, that are feminine, with a little shake – that’s what a woman is about.”
And just who does Jessica cite as her female inspirations? Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel and Angelina Jolie. Not a Latina or an ass in sight.
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