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@chiefelk
I have an “ego” because I do not want to be plagiarized.
I have an “ego” because I do not want to be asked and demanded for my content to be used in spaces where my actual body is not welcome. Because I want people to recognize that this is not random abstractions when people like me write...
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Continued Donations
SXSW was amazing and thank all of you who helped support it’s happenings. We are continuing to accept support for and through April which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. You can continue to help grassroots work and creations here: http://save-wiyabi-project.tumblr.com/donate
This year at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas we will be presenting on a panel called “Technicians of the Sacred” about our use of digital feminism and technology to address violence against women and girls. This will be during the SXSW Interactive week. Part of the presentation will include the re-launch of our updated and revitalized map and database of missing and murdered Indigenous women, which we’ve been working hard on re-designing and expanding. [To see part of the map & database, which is currently under construction, please visit: missingsisters.crowdmap.com]
If you are attending SXSW make sure to come see us on our panel!
Additionally we are beginning to plan and grow our educational efforts again, particularly for the upcoming Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April.
If you’d like to support these efforts, especially assisting in us getting to SXSW in Austin, you can donate and support here: http://save-wiyabi-project.tumblr.com/donate
We are not a 501c3, all of our work is grassroots and community-based, so any and all contributions are very much appreciated. Thank you!
Much like everyone else, I joined Twitter and Tumblr as a random person yelling into the openess. It was in April 2011, right after I ended my first civil trial experience. I had been immersed in criminal proceedings and the different facets of the law for sexual assault for years prior, but this...
#ThisTweetCalledMyBack in my own words.
As we write this piece, we have to turn our phones on silent to drown out the frenzied buzzing of our inboxes and texts. We’ve gone on strike. It’s not the kind of strike you are used to, like an MTA shutdown or a crowd outside of Walmart with picket signs. We are Black Women, AfroIndigenous and...
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For #GivingTuesday fund grassroots work, not the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. You can donate to Save Wiyabi Project here: http://save-wiyabi-project.tumblr.com/donate
And you can give to blackfoxx, blackamazon, janetmock, gradientlair, so-treu, and bad-dominicana as listed above.
Please feel free to fund our grassroots work here!
There is still time left today for #GivingTuesday. You can donate to Save Wiyabi Project here, and fund grassroots movements outside of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.
Summer School Episode 1: #AbuserDynamics and Gender Violence
Video, Storify, and Full Transcription: http://freepdfhosting.com/8c4dc6eef2.pdf
Tonight on Summer School with Suey Park and I we [along with Daniel Older] will be discussing movement and work co-opting/stealing/derailing/stifling, courtesy of the non-profit and academic industrial complexes. While we will be covering the full spectrum of how organizing gets usurped and controlled by larger powers, I will be dedicating this to/focusing on the ongoing situation with the California College of the Arts - hence the background image of the above advertisement being our map. Thank you so much for all of the support so far and if you have not yet donated to our fundraiser but would like to, we would love your help. Every tiny bit counts: http://t.co/jBWGE8rcpQ And for more readings about the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, here is our list from #DecolonizeSAAM and "Decolonizing the Anti-Violence Movement" http://t.co/eZ45F78C3x
#GiveItUpCCA
On July 12, 2014 it was brought to our attention that a group of students (Cohere) at the California College of Arts took some of save-wiyabi-project’s work and passed it off as their own for a grant. The work is our interactive map and database: missingsisters.crowdmap.com.
Since then I have been in limited contact with the school. This was first completely dismissed by the Center for Art and Public Life, and then ignored by all of the Board of Trustees and Design Strategy Advisory Board. When I was able to reach members of the administration they responded with “plagiarism aside” and “putting plagiarism aside” to my concerns and complaints of the stealing. They also said this was explicitly not about the actual cases or data, and that it was just “storytelling” - which was the point they reiterated when deciding it was not plagiarism by their standards (which they subsequently deleted from their website). To the contrary, the lead organizer of this storytelling project openly stated that this was about data collecting, data retaining, and database building. So we think that they not only copy and pasted our layout, design, language, functions, and entire purpose, but that they possibly pulled our cases and data. However we’re not entirely sure because since this was brought forward their entire online presence has evaporated.
In the midst of the school trying to dodge and deflect they admitted that they were very aware of who we are AFTER beginning all of this as if it was a brand new introduction to our organizing. We have now decided to fundraise for the amount the students were awarded (and then additionally crowdfunded for) in an effort to expand our own educational outreach and teach-ins, and also to continue challenging the school. We will be planning demonstrations in the month of August, so stay tuned.
This ongoing pattern of railroading, bulldozing, and co-opting of Indigenous peoples work is a serious and tiring problem (in addition to and outside of VDay and One Billion Rising). I would say this extends to all of the appropriation and stealing people of color constantly experience. The violence done to what we create is an extension of colonialism and imperialism, and part of the constant agendas imposed on us, and attempts at dominating and assimilating our activism. It's also important for us to note that to this day we have not sought money in any form for our work. If we wanted this type of recognition or grants, we would have been active in getting them. We have made the strategic and political decision to self-fund as we know that the Industrial Complexes intent on controlling the direction of this organizing are also abusive institutions. Since the launch of Operation Thunderbird (what the map and database originally started as), there have been a number of attempts at discrediting and dismissing this. Operation Thunderbird, now called The Save Wįyąbi Mapping Project, is a place where decades of data and research are housed, stories by families are shared, and a large illustration of the bigger picture of violence against Indigenous women can be seen. This is also where have been able to locate and identify problems to then be able to address them better, for ourselves as Indigenous people. We have even examined more of the deeper variables that demonstrate why and how this violence and the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women is so deep (for more info about the ‘Triple Disappearance’ phenomenon please see: http://www.salon.com/2014/02/14/the_missing_women_you_dont_hear_about_how_the_media_fails_indigenous_communities/).
We are aware of the depth of the investment there is to control the narrative of this violence we organize around, and that white supremacy usurping this is a tactic to protect the entities to which our work is a threat to. And with that we will also be challenging the corporations that finance this school and this particular “storytelling project”. The White-Savior-Academic-Non Profit-Prison-Industrial-Complex has got to go!
For more information about how to support our fundraising and an article write-up on the situation, please see: http://save-wiyabi-project.tumblr.com/post/93412275436/teach-in-summer-fundraiser. Thank you so much for your support.
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Summer events are in full swing. We are excited to present throughout the month of July a series of teach-ins on colonial violence and missing and murdered Indigenous women. While many will be taking place across Montana, these are also being planned in states and communities across the U.S. Our first event will be this Wednesday July 2, 2014 in Lame Deer, Montana (Northern Cheyenne reservation) at the annual fireworks show to honor the life of Hanna Harris. More dates and information for other locations will be posted soon.
If you are interested in doing a teach-in, here is the PDF of the info/resource/outline of curriculum we developed and are using: http://www.pdf-archive.com/2014/06/30/teach-in1/teach-in1.pdf
And here is the PDF/pamphlet from 2/14 Global Day to Honor Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women you can also use again: http://freepdfhosting.com/3262cbec1f.pdf
No Selves To Defend Anthology: A Legacy of Criminalizing Women of Color for Self Defense
"I was motivated to create the ‘No Selves to Defend Anthology‘ as a fundraising tool and also as an educational and consciousness-raising one. The anthology locates Marissa’s [Alexander] case within a historical context that criminalizes and punishes women (particularly of color) for self-defense.” - Mariame Kaba
http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2014/06/10/no-selves-to-defend-anthology-now-available-for-purchase/
No Selves To Defend also features Yvonne Wanrow (Colville) with the contribution by Andrea Smith.
The publication is available today for $50 from the Free Marissa Alexander online store: http://www.zibbet.com/FreeMarissaAlexander/artwork?artworkId=2318730
You can also continue to support Marissa Alexander’s defense fund directly here: http://gogetfunding.com/project/marissa-alexander-freedom-fundraiser
Starting this Sunday, Suey Park & I will be having a weekly Summer School show. We're starting with the recent discussion on #AbuserDynamics and will continue with lots of other issues related to gender violence and organizing. There will also be lots of fabulous guests.
My work poses the following questions: how might examining the ways that Black femaleness is formed at intersection of slavery and settler colonialism tell us more about how the landscapes of slavery and settler colonialism are created? What analytical tools and vocabulary do we need to develop...
The final #DecolonizeSAAM week is hosted by LA Coil, Dignity and Power Now, People’s Education Movement, and L.A. INCITE! (along with many other fabulous contributors) on Friday 4/25 at 8am PST
Decolonizing the Anti-Violence Movement & Sexual Assault Awareness Month Reading List
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Decolonizing the Anti-Violence Movement & Sexual Assault Awareness Month Reading List.
Week 3: The NPIC
1. History of Rape Crises Movement http://www.sfwar.org/pdf/History/HIST_CALCASA_11_09.pdf
2. Up Against A Wall: Rape Reform And The Failure of Success ...
On February 21, 2014, Antonio Lopez was shot to death by San Jose State University police officers. While the police contend Lopez charged at them with a weapon, the medical examiner concluded he was shot twice in the back. The family believes this is a cover-up and the campaign Justice For Josiah [the name of Antonio Lopez’s son] has formed to demand answers and launch their own people’s investigation into what happened. The topic of this week’s “Decolonizing the Anti-Violence Movement” series is carcerality and militarism. As we re-conceptualize violence, and particularly focus on the state as being a perpetrator of it, addressing police brutality against people of color is important to center. It’s also necessary to see how the harsher criminalization of college campuses and the empowering of school police forces [especially under the guise of targeting race, gender, and sexual violence issues] corresponds with justifying shooting and killing people deemed threatening. Justice For Josiah plans to join the 4/12 #DecolonizeSAAM conversation on Carceal Feminism, as part of their community-building efforts, online and on-the-ground. We encourage you to support them. For more information about the case:
San Jose, CA: Anatomy of a Police Murder and Cover Up http://www.constantinereport.com/san-jose-ca-anatomy-police-murder-cover/ Family Demands Answers in Fatal San Jose State University Police Shooting http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Antonio-Lopez-Fatal-San-Jose-State-University-Police-Shooting-253830371.html
Justice for Josiah is a San Jose, CA (Santa Clara County) based campaign struggling for resolution, prevention, justice, and healing for the communities, families, and victims of police violence, abuse, and murder. We are centered on the love we have for one another, not a hatred of those whose aim seems to only be doing our communities, our families, and our loved ones harm.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Josiah
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JusticeJosiahSJ
We've been addressing the problems with the increased criminalization of college campuses under the idea that this is what schools need to stop sexual assault. Part of the increased criminalization under new policies has resulted in expanded and more empowered police forces - which always backfire on people of color. Here is an incredibly unfortunate example. Please spread the word and please continue to join us this month as we reassess what anti-violence means and navigate it outside of the state, even as mainstream white anti-violence continues to adore the legal system and reinforce it at every step.
