by Vijaya Nagarajan | Jul 8, 2020 | Book Reviews, Personal Essays
Brutalities are there all over the place. There are specific kinds of Brutalities emerging from the imbalance of power–––between men and women, between the white race and the black race, between the dominant stories of whiteness and people of color, between the human...
by Aya de Leon | Jul 6, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
One of the biggest challenges of organizing for the climate movement is that the information about the the climate crisis is terrifying. For some people, terror can be a motivating force. For most of us, it is immobilizing. How do you organize people when the...
by Aya de Leon | Jul 2, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Opinion, Personal Essays
When we developed a family-friendly action, FREEDOM FRIDAYS: A Family Walk & Chalk for Black Lives, we had no idea that chalking the sidewalk was legally considered graffiti in Oakland. I would like to begin the defense with Exhibit A: Sidewalk Chalk. This chalk...
by Aya de Leon | Jun 25, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Opinion, Personal Essays
The text of this spoken word piece was originally published by The Acentos Review, a quarterly literary and arts journal that promotes and publishes Latinx work, in their June 19 issue, titled Black and Glorious: Towards Black Liberation. For so many of us Black...
by Aya de Leon | Jun 18, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Personal Essays
I have no training as a filmmaker, no real equipment, and not much time to make videos. And it shows! But social media isn’t about the quality of the work, it’s about the message and its ability to resonate with people. I LOVE Angie Powers’ video...
by Aya de Leon | Jun 15, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
Part of the pattern of intimate violence is when an abuser tests his partner to see how much he can get away with. Early in a relationship, he might hit her “in jest” but it’s a little bit hard, what will she do? Will she leave the date and tell him that she won’t...
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