The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) organizes every year an Indigenous Fellowship Programme, which is an extensive training programme aimed at strengthening indigenous representatives’ knowledge of the United Nations system, general Human Rights mechanisms and other mechanisms more specifically dealing with indigenous issues. This programme is exclusively for indigenous persons. It is implemented in close cooperation with University partners and other UN agencie... Read Full Story
2/24/09
What turns me on? Gio wants to know. Really I want and need to know. What are my sexual fantasies? Good question.
I love being on top of a woman, staddling her and letting the tips of my breasts run along her body. Up past her breath and kisses on the way back down. My nipples whisper long-kept secrets everywhere on her lucious warm flesh. You don’t know how excited you make me. That keloid makes me wet. The soft flat part between your breasts makes me curl at the stomach, eyeli... Read Full Story
I had a conversation with a friend a while back about how white people often put two hands up in defense when talking with people of color. I’m not saying that other people don’t do this either, but since it’s been brought to my attention, I’ve noticed it repeatedly during certain kinds of conversations. These conversataions usually have to do with white privilege in some way, whether that’s the term being thrown around or not.
Recently, I was at a conference fo... Read Full Story
It was a late night. I probably smoked a j. But for some reason I got the urge to create a post called “The Most Brilliant Video I’ve Ever Seen” and never finished it. Why? I’m not so sure anymore. I thought maybe you could help me.
Looking at it now, I do remember that I was primarily going to comment on the dudes dancing from Rotteram, Netherlands. What are they doing? It’s so funny to me to see how this how these individuals interpret the beat. I try to focus... Read Full Story
http://www.blackwomen2009.org/
The Conference
On March 28, 2009 the Graduate Center for Worker Education at Brooklyn College will welcome some of the leading activists and scholars to take part in a national conference that will discuss the historical and current accomplishment of black women in the United States.
Black women have been leading the struggle for social transformation dating from the American Revolution to the present struggle for the presidency of the United States. This con... Read Full Story
You know what, we don’t look at the night sky enough. Many of us in the city have given up on it, but I know in my part of BK I can actually see something other than fog at night. Instead of assuming that we can’t see the stars, let’s at least try.
One of my favorite things to do in the world is to look at the night sky with someone else who is in another place. It seems so amazing that we all can witness the same thing. Jupiter, Venus, and the crescent Moon will appear clos... Read Full Story
I think we all have the potential to love any and everyone. What makes that “special person” significant is that they make you want to acknowledge, to evaluate, to work on that potential love. That’s being in love. This process, of moving to fully loving a human being, is a humanizing process, for both that person and you. In it you see that the person, you and others are truly human in all capacities, including the potential for mistakes and the potential to learn and the p... Read Full Story
Clearly, the “revolution” has yet to come. Change is not going to be dropped off by the stork on our doorstep, so we need to do more thinking about and more acting on how we can adopt it. These are a few thoughts I’ve been having about reformation and revolution. They are directed to those who consider themselves revolutionaries and to those who want change but wouldn’t necessarily hold up their fist with the aforementioned.
1) Reformation and revolution do not occur w... Read Full Story
The Barnard Center for Research on Women, in conjunction with The Cooper Union, The Center for the Humanities at CUNY, The College and Community Fellowship Program at CUNY, and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU, presents:
Abolition Democracy and Global Politics
a lecture with Angela Davis
Thursday, October 30
7:00 pm
The Great Hall, Cooper Union
Since well before the publication of the feminist classic, Women, Race, and Class in 1981, Angela Y. Davis has been concerned about... Read Full Story
