scar mirror star. s.hammad
Emmy Award-nominated Liza Garza is a poet, vocalist and songwriter. Infusing the cultural soul of Mexican folk tunes in modern ballads with the intricacy of Hip Hop rhyme schemes, she bridges the ancestral with the modern. With perfomances that include The Lincoln Center, The Apollo, the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture, HBO Def Poetry Jam and numerous stages world wide, diverse people are finding a home in her voice. [x]
Liza is amazing. This Mexican-American Muslim Latina sings about social inequities and structural violence. She has performed with artists such as Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Amir Sulaiman, Mos Def, and Jill Scott. Garza graduated from the University of Michigan, where she formulated her own degree in Performance Activism. Watch to her perform “My Everything” on HBO Def Poetry. You can also learn more about her here and follow her on tumblr here.
Oh! And she also makes and sells some seriously cool earrings.
Me post-show. I never take pictures so this is a big deal! (And I’m wearing a dress!) #thefindingaid
Thanks for coming folks — It was awesome. I am very self-critic so I have many notes on what I could have done better, but I’m really excited that the event went well and I can get back on a regular sleeping pattern :) More to come soon!
Sad I missed it. I was hard at work. You look fab!
Yay! Congrats Sister Comrade Archivist In Front of the Camera for Once!!! Love you!!!!
Black women archivists #TheFindingAid #schomburg
photo by Caits Meissner
We’re so proud of Mambu Badu’s own Kameelah Rasheed for a successful event on the intersection of arts and archiving at the Schomburg Center tonight! Click here for more photos from The Finding Aid!
Nichelle Nichols at Wonder Con 2013 (by hamish11)
The original, the best. Y’all better recognise.
SHE’S EVEN WEARING THE STARFLEET NECKLACE LEAVE ME I’M DONE
Capitalism would have us believe that we only deserve to be here because of what we produce, and even in our counter- cultures, even in our movements we reproduce the same idea. We only deserve to be here because of what we can produce that other people will buy with their money, time or attention. Our experience of our own lives is secondary, it is only the means of production, it is the products that matter, and unless we make ourselves into both factories and widgets we are not valuable.
— Alexis Pauline Gumbs (via satyacake)
lydd. 49.
Photos of South African women protesting in the streets against the Apartheid government.
1980s.
Read more about the critical roles women played during the anti-Apartheid struggle.
Why I love Recess, especially Miss Grotke
Images 1, 7, 8: she’s a feminist
Image 5: notice how she’s talking about endangered species and on the wall, there is a poster of Earth Day
Image 6: she’s aware of and against white supremacy and eurocentrism
Images 2, 3, 4, 6: history teachers are technically not allowed to give their opinion they’re just supposed to teach what’s in the books, but she doesn’t care and makes sure her students know it
Black and white version here [x]
Reblogging again for that commentary.
I am her right this minute. Y’all have no idea, lol.
miss grotke!!
