Women & Welfare: The Personal is Political
“Poverty is not a crime,” is a popular message ringing through the blogosphere. According to this article, a woman named Kirsten Arianejad, a flight attendant for Compass Airlines, did an interview...
View ArticleMissing Link Between Feminicide & Mexico’s Drug Wars
Installment #1 for The Personal is Political blog series: The drug wars in Mexico have become so dangerous that El Diario de Juarez (one of the largest newspapers in Mexico) will cease to cover them...
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Yuri & Angela: Our Revolutionary Mothers
Installment #2 for The Personal is Political blog series: Angela Davis answering audience questions at Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland Last Friday, I had the pleasure and privilege to see a recently...
View ArticleBirth Rape 101
Before I gave birth to my first child two summers ago, I imagined a birthing experience that I could control and determine, one that did not fit into the multitude of horror stories passed on from one...
View ArticleAudre Lorde: “We Were Never Meant to Survive”
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) –aside from being one of the leading voices shaping a new feminism in writings such as Sister Outsider— is a woman who still leaves her mark upon a new generation of women of...
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Celebrating the Sacred: Art’s Purpose in the Lives of Women of Color
Two women of color artists, Angela Angel, 29, and Robin David, 22, known as Bulan Adi Ko.llective (which translates into My Sister Moon in Ilocano, a Filipino dialect), share their experiences as...
View ArticleFor Colored Girls: The Politics of Representation
“I found God in myself and I loved her, I loved her fiercely.” Ntozake Shange For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, a cherished book/choreopoem/play by Ntozake Shange,...
View ArticleKid-Free Flights: Separate But Equal?
Let me begin by saying that I am a San Diego native, through and through. When I first moved up to San Francisco at 18 years old for my first semester in college, I flew home almost every two weeks,...
View ArticleVideo on Women & Holistic Health
Cara Sandau, 30, and Leslie Dale, 31, talk about their paths to holistic health and healing through Reiki, herbology/herbalism and yoga. Both women discuss the benefits of holistic practices versus...
View ArticleAudio: Women & Social Justice Education
Liza Gesuden, 31, a teacher at Oakland School for the Arts, talks about how she got into teaching in the Bay Area and shares her ideas about what it means to be an educator who teaches with a...
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