Quote #17: Gifts

"When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves."

Culture Finds: Obey Aung San Suu Kyi

The Boston Globe's, "The Big Picture" feature highlighted Thailand's growth and obstacles this week in "Scenes from Thailand".

Day 12: Art against femicide (Part II)

Co-Curators Dolores Mercado and Linda Xochitl Tortolero, discuss the exhibition Rastros y Cronicas: Women of Juarez. Unsolved murders of the women in this border town are brought to light through the works of artists featured in the exhibit.

Day 11: Art against femicide (Part I)

Honeyspace’s fourth show was called Portrait of Silvia Elena, a memorial to 17-year-old Silvia Elena Rivera Morales who was killed in 1995 — one of the first victims of the unsolved femicides taking place in Juarez, Mexico over the past 10 years.

homegirls & handgrenades: BloomBeautiful

for L, my sister who is unwittingly teaching me forgiveness

homegirls & handgrenades: Sunni Patterson

So you tell me
what's the difference
between
two women
in New Orleans
shot point blank
in the back
of the head

and

two women
bombed
in their car
in Baghdad

homegirls & handgrenades: Comandante Ramona

When Mexico's balaclava-clad Subcomandante Marcos launched his Zapatista rebellion in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas in January 1994, a tiny woman in gaily embroidered native huipil blouse was often seen alongside him, all but her eyes masked by a pink bandanna. She looked as though she had never used the Vietnam-era rifle that almost dwarfed her, and some say she never did.

homegirls & handgrenades: Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez is one of the most deeply moving and committed poets to emerge from the Black Arts Movement in the late sixties and seventies. A poet, activist, playwright, editor and teacher, Sanchez has significantly influenced African American literature and culture by the urgency of her sustained and powerful voice.

Quote #9: Women's History Month 2009

“I am here because I shall not give the earth up to non-dreamers...” — Sonia Sanchez, author & poet, homegirls & handgrenades