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“With the traveler inside me that chooses strength over power; kindness over weakness; truth over evidence; love over need and risk over comfort. I keep feet on the ground and kiss the moon.” Vijaya Chikermane
In celebration of our Dec 4th launch of Heartbeats: The IZZAT project comic we asked South Asian community members how they honoured their heartbeat in the face of violence.
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“Perhaps the greatest redemption, though, has been finding my voice and actively organizing for gender justice and social change.” Harsha Walla
In preparation for our Dec 4th launch of Heartbeats: The IZZAT project comic we asked South Asian community members how they honoured their heartbeat in the face of violence. Rosina Kazi is one of the performers at our launch.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.” Jiddu Krishnamurti submitted by Rosina Kazi
In preparation for our Dec 4th launch of Heartbeats: The IZZAT project comic we asked South Asian community members how they honoured their heartbeat in the face of violence
A reflection, while sitting in quiet-tude:
“I gaze towards ancestors & feel an inwards pull towards wise whispers of belonging. Truth & comfort lives here. No story needs to be held alone.” sairupa durga #izzatproject
In preparation for our Dec 4th launch of Heartbeats: The IZZAT project comic we asked South Asian community members how they honoured their heartbeat in the face of violence
“I got through everything with book. They gave me hope of another type of world, that’s why I didn’t give up easily. I knew someday I would get out of it” Mona #izzatproject
In preparation for our Dec 4th launch of Heartbeats: The IZZAT project comic we asked South Asian community members how they honoured their heartbeat in the face of violence
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I have been doing some research on sex and disability, and thought I would share some of the links I have found. This will be useful for me in the future as a resource, and hopefully to others too.
Disability and Sex General Links
Disability Dharma: What Including & Learning From Disability Can Teach (Everyone) About Sex
How to Meet, Date and Have Sex When You’re Disabled
Sexual Pleasure & the Disabled Adult
Disability and Body Image
Sex and Disability
Good Sex Positions for Disabled Sex
Let’s Get Physical
Disability and Orgasm: Your Orgasmic Potential
Practical Sex Tips for Disabled People
No Big Deal: Sex & Disability
Self-Advocates Speak Up About Sex
Sexuality and Disability Myths and Facts
Disabled and No Sexual Pleasure
Sex, Disability and the DSP: Ethically Supporting Sexual Choices
Sex and Disability: Impacts of Disability on Sex
Sexual Expression for Adults with Disabilities: The Role of Guardianship
Disability and Sexual Activity: The Mechanics of it All
Contraception for People with Disabilities
Disabled? Discovering Your Sexual Self
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual
Talking About Sensitive Topics
Personal Relationships and People with Physical Disabilities
Physical Problems and Female Sexual Dysfunction
Talking about Disability on a Date
Lovers with Disabilities Become Liberated with Tantric Sex
My Partner is Scared to Try
Getting Assistance: Having Sex and Using Your Sex Toy
Physical Disability and Sexual Intercourse
A Sexuality Policy That Truly Supports People with Disabilities
Two Lovers With Disabilities Need Help
How to Meet, Date and “Do It” When You’re Disabled
Sex and Disability Webliography
Eli Clare - Challenging Our Differences Sex, Disability and Young People
Sex Education for Physically Disabled Teenagers
Growing Up: A teachers’s guide to Sex and Relationships Education for Young People with Physical Disabilities
Sex and Your Child with a Disability
Talking about sex and relationships: the views of young people with learning disabilities
Sexuality Education for Children and Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities
Sexuality and Persons with Disabilities
Sexuality Meets Intellectual Disability: What Every Parent Should Know
Sexuality and Cystic Fibrosis: Information for Adolescents Medications and Sex
Sexual Side Effects of Medications: How prescription and OTC medications can have sexual side effects Effects of Medications on Female Sexual Response
Researching Sexual Side Effects of Prescription Medications
Sexual Side Effects of Prescription Medications
How To Manage Sexual Side Effects of Prescription Medications
Physical Sexual Side Effects of Medications Disability and Sex Toys
Top 10 Ideas on Adapting Sex Toys
Making Sex Toys Accessible
Sex Toys and Disability
Disability and Sex Toys
Research Before Adapting Sex Toys
Accessible Sex Toys
Adapting Toys for Decreased Sensation
Adapting Toys for Increased Sensation
Fatigue and Sex Toys
Adapting Toys for Mobility and Motor Control
Paraplegic Sex and Quadriplegic Sex: Good Vibrations
Adapting Sex Toys for Privacy
Sex Toy Accessibility Checklist
Adapting Sex Toys for Fatigue
Sex Toys and Allergies Fatigue and Sex
Sex and Fatigue: How Do You Stay Sexual When You Have No Energy for Sex?
Sex and Fatigue
Your Sex Drive With Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Fatigue and Sex Toys
Sex, Fatigue and Depression
Adapting Sex Toys for Fatigue Multiple Sclerosis and Sex
Multiple Sclerosis & Sex
My husband has MS and doesn’t like sex anymore. Why?
My wife has MS and doesn’t want to have sex anymore. Why not and what can I do?
Multiple Sclerosis and Sexual Problems
Top 10 Sex Tips for Men with Multiple Sclerosis
Sex and Multiple Sclerosis Arthritis and Sex
Love, Sex and Arthritis
Sex and Arthritis Spinal Cord Injury and Sex
The ABCs of Sex After Spinal Cord Injury
Sexuality in Spinal Injury: The spinal cord injured female: Orgasm
Sexuality in Spinal Injury: The spinal cord injured female: Fertility, Childbirth and Contraception
Sexuality in Spinal Injury: The spinal cord injured female: Sexual Behaviour and Activity
Best Sex Positions for Spinal Cord Injured Women
User’s Guide to the Paralyzed Penis: Sex after Spinal Cord Injury
Paraplegic Sex and Quadriplegic Sex: Good Vibrations
Sexuality in Spinal Injury: the spinal cord injured male: Erections
Sexuality in Spinal Injury: the spinal cord injured male: Ejaculation, Orgasm and Coitus
Sexuality in Spinal Injury: the spinal cord injured male: Sexual Drive and Activity
Intercourse & Pleasure With a Spinal Cord Injury
Sexuality and Fertility - Impact on Men with SCI
Sexuality and Fertility - Impact on Women with SCI Cancer and Sex
Cancer and Sex: How Cancer Affects Your Sex Life
Intimacy and Sexuality for cancer patients and their partners Diabetes and Sex
Sex and Diabetes
Diabetes and Sex: Does It Have to Doom Your Sex Life?
Sexuality and Diabetes
Erectile Dysfunction Treatments for Patients with Diabetes Fibromyalgia and Sex
Fibromyalgia and Your Sex Life Parkinson’s Disease and Sex
Parkinson’s Disease and Your Sex Drive
Parkinson’s Disease and Sex ALS / Lou Gehrig’s Disease and Sex
ALS & Your Sex Life Learning Disabilities and Sex
Talking about sex and relationships: the views of young people with learning disabilities
Sex and Learning Disabilities
Sexuality Meets Intellectual Disability: What Every Parent Should Know Ostomy and Sex
Sex and the Person with an Ostomy Continence and Sex
Continence and Sex Cystic Fibrosis and Sex
Sexuality and Cystic Fibrosis: Information for Adolescents
Sexuality, Fertility and Cystic Fibrosis: Information for Adults Back Pain and Sex
Sex Tips for Back Pain Sufferers
Ways to Enjoy Sex While Helping Your Back Augmentative and Alternative Communication and Sex
Promoting Healthy Sexuality and Safeguarding in Youth who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Sexual Health Education for AAC Users - Speak Up Findings
Promoting Healthy Sexuality and Safeguarding in Youth who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Sexual Health: Knowledge and Skills for People who Use AAC
Sexual Health Issues for People who Use AAC
“To not lose and honour my heartbeat….I had to find my voice. And I most certainly did! I am an activist warrior resisting oppression and co-creating liberation.” - deb singh #izzatproject
We asked in preparation for our Dec 4th launch of Heartbeats: The IZZAT project comic we asked South Asian community members how they honoured their heartbeat in the face of violence
To celebrate the upcoming Heartbeats: The IZZAT Project Comic Book Launch Pomegranate Tree Group asked members of the South Asian community how they honoured their heartbeat in the face of violence. Each day we will be posting responses.
Winter Skin: Using Natural Oils
Winter is a terrible time for my skin. My naturopath suggested switching to oil for skin moisturizing and it has really helped. Below are some oils I use.
Organic unrefined coconut oil - derived from the fruit of the coconut palm. Rich in antioxidants and can provide fantastic benefits on making your skin younger. Softens skin and it forms a barrier against infection, softens and moisturizes, and prevents wrinkling, sagging and age spots. It even naturally protects from UV rays. My favorite reason for using it? It smells like coconut! LOL
Jojoba Oil – technically a wax, it is chemically very similar to the human body’s own natural oils, which is why it penetrates the skin so well and leaves hardly any residue. It does not turn rancid or need any refrigeration.
Grape seed Oil – Grape seed oil has the same poly-phenols (which are antioxidants) as green tea, black tea, berries and red wine. Poly-phenols can help slow the process of aging, as well as having anti inflammatory and anti oxidant properties, which makes it great for helping clear up acne. Using this oil will help prevent pores clogging and breakouts, it is good for oily skin as well. I personally use it at night around my eyes to fight wrinkles.
via Savvy Brown Blog
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Dear Daughter
The women in our family are known for their lucid hearts For the frightening vigour with which they love And they way they let men eat from their open chests As if their insides alone could offer redemption As if their flesh could create portals for men to...
Tradition and the Anti-Politics Machine: DAM Seduced by the “Honor Crime”
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Supported by UN Women (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women), the [DAM] music video faithfully follows the script of an international campaign against the so-called honor crime. The “honor crime” has a history in the UN. It emerged as a potent cultural-legal category in the 1990s to become a popular international cause for feminists and progressive men. After all, who could be “for” familial violence? But violence against women is never as simple as the seductive category of the honor crime would have us believe. Violence is dense and multifaceted. It is economic, political, military, and sexual. Most of all, violence against women in the name of honor has a history. The category of the honor crime highlights violence in certain contexts while obscuring it in others. It locates the cause in barbaric cultures and enduring tradition, out of time but in particular places. The history of the laws that enable this category and the fact that they are derived from the Napoleonic Code is once again forgotten in lieu of an easier answer: traditions and cultures of violence." Excerpt from
Lila Abu Lughod and Maya Mikdashi article "Tradition and the Anti-Politics Machine: DAM Seduced by the “Honor Crime”
watch the video here
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Apple Braid - Fall Baking
Fall and winter is my baking season. I made this over the weekend, it looked so pretty and was yummy.
Apple Braid via http://www.eatliverun.com
Makes 1 bread (approximately 12 servings)
For the Apple Filling
3 medium-size Granny Smith apples 3 tablespoons granulated sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon 2 teaspoons lemon juice
For the Bread
2 1/2 cups bread flour 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1 tablespoon instant yeast (I prefer SAF Instant Yeast) 3/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup warm water 2 1/4 teaspoons vegetable oil
For the Glaze: 1/3 cup confectioner’s sugar, sifted 5 teaspoons whipping cream 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract Pinch of kosher salt Pinch of nutmeg
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Make the Apple Filling: Peel, core, and slice the apples into thin slices, then cut the slices in half. Toss the apple pieces with the sugar, cinnamon, and lemon juice. Bake the apple filling in an 8-inch square baking pan (or 9-inch pie tin) for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside. (Note: Do not turn the oven off at this point. You will be using it to bake the finished braid.)
Make the Bread: While the apple filling is baking, begin preparing the bread dough. Mix the dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. Add the water and oil and mix the dough for 6 minutes using an electric mixer on medium-high speed.
Spray a smooth clean surface with cooking spray and turn the dough out onto the surface. Knead the dough briefly to give it a smooth surface (this will only take several turns of the dough to accomplish). Spray a rolling pin with cooking spray and roll the dough out into a large rectangle, about 12-inches by 16-inches in size. Lift onto a greased baking sheet.
Using a pizza cutter or sharp knife, cut each side into strips about 1-inch wide down each side, leaving the center third of the dough uncut. Spread the apple filling down the middle third of the dough. Fold strips of dough into the center, crisscrossing the filling by alternating strips from each side. Lightly press ends to seal, and straighten out the braid with your hands, if necessary, to straighten.
Bake the braid in the oven for 25 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from the oven and let the braid cool for several minutes.
Make the Glaze: Whisk together the glaze ingredients in a small bowl until blended and smooth.
Brush the glaze in a thick coat over the entire surface of the apple braid while it is still cooling. Carefully transfer the braid to a cooling rack set on a baking sheet (to catch drips) to finish cooling and prevent the bottom of the braid from becoming soggy from sitting in any pooling glaze. Slice and serve.
This goes out to the circle of daughters of immigrants, beautiful muslim women in my friend group who feel like the fuck ups and weirdos of our fams, the sluts, dykes and partiers who wear abayas at the mosque and hit a bong together after
Who sneak out in tunics but wear booty shorts to the club Who want so badly to be the women their families want them to be but keep falling short
There is an unspoken brown gurl code between us that is vital to our survival. We know:
-thou shalt not reveal your sisters’ “sins” to aunties, mosque goers, MSA officials, haraam policers, and most of all parents! Under no circumstances is it ok for you to approach xy’s mama in the masjid and tell her, “You know, I used to be friends with your daughter until I discovered some of her life choices” as a way to get at her. So manipulative and it will most likely fuck up her life bigtime. Just don’t. -deny all evidence. For example, my dad told me he saw one of my Good Muslim friends holding hands with a b o y on campus the other day. “Does this mean she has a boyfriend? I should tell her parents, no?” I immediately respond “Nope impossible no such thing never would she ever.” Regardless.if she did or not. You never reveal crushes or relationships because even though we are in our late teens and early twenties, we are still monitored by our communities. Once my sister was turned in by a Mormon neighbor who saw her holding hands with a boy in the mall and the next two years of her life were hell. Her secret rendezvous were revealed to the community, she was shamed and humilated, grounded for two months and broke bonds of trust in our family that still haven’t healed. Which later led my parents to control my teenage years with an iron fist as result. It’s not just gossip-it can be hugely triggering and harmful if you rat out your friends partners. Or tag them on Facebook in posts that say they’re queer and with so-and-so. Then act like it’s their fault for not complying to western rituals of “coming out” and living a fractured life. Fractured life can kiss my ass.
-More on social networking: don’t explicitly post those ratch photos of your fellow brown gurls gittin it when we already know you are friends with aunties or your parents watch your fb page. We all know privacy settings dont do shit. -if you have a secret safe house for one of your girls to get away from parents who are tracking her do not fucking reveal the location to her parents because you think it’s in the best interest of her safety! What’s in the best interest of her safety is protecting her from manipulative parents who guilt her into coming back into an abusive home time after time and publically shame her for being in “deviant relationships.” I know this is oddly specific but this has happened MULTIPLE times with my sister’s friends by people they thought they trusted in the community -if you get caught do NOT point to your friends as the reason for your partying/queerness/immodesty/smoking pot. Turning in a laundry list of their misdeeds to make yours seem small in comparison is fucked up and selfish -dont “out” your friends to people. Ever. Or criticize them for being “hypocritical muslims” just because they exist in conventially deviant ways. Low blow. That’s not up to you to judge in the end. You can still be an amazing person-a trustworthy, humble, honest muslim and do all those things listed above. You can also be a conventionally “good” practicing muslim and be an all around horrible person too. Just a reminder.
-don’t assume, but always watch out. Meaning if you know your fellow brown gurl is drunk out of her mind and being led to the bathroom by that creepy guy who grabbed her ass earlier, tell him you have to tell her something important asap and casually pull the situation away. Or if your friend who you know is in a long term loving relationship and is gonna hookup with that stoner dude because she’s lost it, its ok to remind her of her girlfriends name just once or twice. There’s a difference between judging your gurls’ choices and encouraging them to steer away from the shit that may harm them hugely in the long run
-love each other, unconditionally. There will be drama. There will be turn-ins and turnt up fuckery but it in the end you gotta love each other, keep each other in check, don’t blame each other for the depression and the self destructive behavior but seek help. Don’t make fun of your sister for not being able to put in a tampon even though she’s 22 cos she was socialized to think tampons are for whores. Respect where you come from but don’t give into that Western individualism bullshit either. You are a tribe, a village, a community.
You maybe frustrated and exhausted but your complexities are what make you so fucking beautiful. Plus everyone knows that when we brown gurls enter the room we freak up the dance floor like no other, laughing at the people who think they’re holding our asses in place, whispering “Grind baby grind,” while we twerk and bellydance with each other, shaking our asses for the institutions tryna keep us chained down, for the times we’re called exotic or ghetto or too white or too smart or treated like ethnic commodities, at the parents, cultures, and religious practices we know and love, for the humble beginnings, for speaking Urdu, Turkish, Wolof, Arabic, Bengali, Kurdish, Hindi at home but still being able to communicate, for the times we’ve hit rock bottom, for the times when we’ve held each other in our arms and sobbed like children, we shake our asses knowing,
Fuck that. I’m not even doing this for them. I’m doing this for my girls. I’m doing this for me.
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this reflection of subtraction
discounted life pressed to spin
all ready know what cease fire
means shock living stop all thinking
imagine din grinding heads
what de-escalation means
families lowered ground covered
all ready been peace processed
means eat this salt degradation
