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Delightfully Cranky blog post by Lisa Jervis, July 18, 2008 - 12:48pm; tagged: 2008 campaign, fundraising, media justice, racism, read it!.

Last night I co-hosted a fundraising house party for the kick-ass feminist media organization Women in Media and News. I've been involved in the organization since its planning and launch, and am proud to be its founding board chair.

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And speaking of MySpace...

Love / Shove blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 12, 2008 - 4:50pm; tagged: music, music videos, Myspace, performance artists, racism, resisting myspace, vloggers, you tube.
but on a more positive (well, admirable at least) note....

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Resisting and organizing through creative media

Minnesota Nice blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 5, 2008 - 4:42pm; tagged: AMC 2008, classism, community organizing, Detroit, documentary, gentrification, hip-hop, music, music videos, racism.

I'm back in Portland, still processing and reflecting on my trip to the Midwest. I'll be posting more about that soon, but in the meantime, I wanted to share this video about displacement/gentrification in Detroit, featuring Detroit-based female hip-hop artist, Invincible. It's a beautiful example of how powerful a story becomes when different forms of media are combined.


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Feminism In/Action: Detroit report back

Minnesota Nice blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, May 8, 2008 - 7:43am; tagged: ally-hood, classism, Detroit, discussions, events, feminism, on the road, privilege, racism, so-called feminism.

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Thank you, TrumbullPlex folx, for letting us use your space for Sunday's discussion. Thank you, Adele, Clara, and Jess for making the event happen here, and for getting the word out (and special thanks to Clara for the tour and history of the TrumbullPlex, a radical housing collective in the Woodbridge neighborhood of Detroit). And a huge thank you to everyone who attended.  I didn't count, but I think between 20 and 25 people came. I felt honored to be in the presence of so many people committed to honesty, sincerity, openness, and creating a safe space to share what are sometimes difficult and differing perspectives.  

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Some thoughts on privilege, agenda-setting, and what to do next

Delightfully Cranky blog post by Lisa Jervis, May 5, 2008 - 12:17pm; tagged: ally-hood, feminism, privilege, race, racism.

So The Angry Black Woman has called this Carnival of Allies, which these days feels to me like the best idea ever, because I really need some guidance. One of the many, many things the events of the last month and change have taught me is that, um, to put it mildly, my anti-racist ally skills could use some honing.

What that means is that right now I need to listen to people who know more than me: to their analysis, to their experiences, to their strategies (not that I'm expecting anyone to hand me the answers on a silver platter, or that I think it's up to other people to tell me all about what's wrong with the world I live in, or that I plan to rely on others to do my intellectual heavy lifting, or that...yeah, you get the picture). And I'm eager to read what the carnival brings forth.

But if I just want to listen, why the hell am I talking?

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Come talk about the action – and inaction – of feminism

Minnesota Nice blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, April 29, 2008 - 6:13pm; tagged: ally-hood, classism, events, feminism, feminisms, on the road, privilege, racism, reimagining feminism, so-called feminism.
a bitch project

Please join these participatory discussions about how—and whether—feminism can become a transformative, justice-centered movement for social change.

  • How can we drive attention to the power, privilege, and marginalization that continue to play out in feminist communities, and how can those of us with power and privilege become genuine and effective allies to those without it?
  • How can we collectively create a feminist/media/justice movement that doesn't rely on white supremacy, class privilege, and economic exploitation?
  • Can the idea of feminism shift to foreground an uncompromising, transformative commitment to systemic social change, or is it time to evolve to new language?
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Report back: Tim Wise Speak Out (special guest dispatch)

Minnesota Nice blog post by Kyla Wagener, April 25, 2008 - 9:44pm; tagged: 2008 campaign, ally-hood, events, race, racism.

Special guest report from friend of Bitch Kyla Wagener...

I have yet to read Tim Wise's White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (Soft Skull Press) or Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (Routledge), but have heard tons of praise for his work. So I was excited for his appearance at the First Unitarian Church of Oakland earlier this month, an event sponsored by Speak Out!. I was a little wary when he took the mic and started speaking; his manner initially conjured up memories of some egotistical, "Check me out, I'm one of those aware white folks—I'm down!" types I've run into. But he ended up being sharp, funny, and—most important—aware of his role as an ally rather than a leader in the antiracist movement, acknowledging that the majority of his sources for information about race have been people of color. He was loud, but in a good way—not arrogant-bratty-white-boy loud.

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More reading and listening and thinking

Delightfully Cranky blog post by Lisa Jervis, April 18, 2008 - 3:57pm; tagged: ally-hood, feminism, race, racism, read it!.

Here are a few of the amazing, insightful, powerful, not-to-be-missed things I've been reading over the past few days.

On some of the work that is cut out for feminists committed to making anti-racism and anti-imperialism central to our movements: Diary of an Anxious Black Woman on International Women's Day, She Who Stumbles on tactics and privilege.

On how white feminists need stop fucking up: An Open Letter to White Feminists. (Though I have to add how sickening it is that this essay is even necessary.)

A coda from Brownfemipower.

And one thing that you can act on right now in a small but concrete way: Diary of an Anxious Black Woman on rape in the Congo and the corporations who benefit (with addresses for your letter-writing ire).

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Hope/politics of place

Minnesota Nice blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, April 13, 2008 - 8:57am; tagged: bookstores, class, classism, documentary, feminist bookstores, gentrification, independent bookstores, movie, nonprofits, politics of place, race, racism, watch this!.

Here in Northeast Portland is a place called In Other Words Women's Books and Resources, a nonprofit bookstore founded in 1993. I've only lived in Portland for a year, so most of what I know I've learned from talking to people and reading news articles, like this.

A few nights ago I went to a screening of a short documentary called Moving In: A nonprofit feminist bookstore and the politics of place. The documentary, created by Dawn Jones (who's on the board of Bitch; photographed below), examines the bookstore's 2006 move, which resulted from being economically displaced from their original neighborhood, to a historically African-American neighborhood. The film is fantastic; you should see it if you have the opportunity.

Dawn Jones

 

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Some thoughts on silence, and breaking it

Delightfully Cranky blog post by Lisa Jervis, April 11, 2008 - 4:16pm; tagged: ally-hood, feminism, grief, horror, privilege, racism.

The sound of respectful listening is silence. The sound of complicity is also silence. I've been silent a lot lately. And sometimes I can't tell which is which.

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