Youth Voice @vozdelosjovenes - Tumblr Blog

"largest mass shooting in u.s. history"

Pulse of Orlando“This is the largest mass shooting in U.S. history” -the news<a href=“http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/florida-nightclub-massacre-deadliest-mass-shooting-u-s-history-n590476” target=“_blank”>Found here</a>, <a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/06/12/shooting-orlando-club/85785254/” target=“_blank”>here</a>, <a href=“http://www.kgw.com/news/fla-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-in-us-history/240672412” target=“_blank”>here</a>, <a href=“http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7401248/orlando-nightclub-shooting” target=“_blank”>here</a>, <a href=“http://thetimes-tribune.com/50-killed-at-florida-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting-in-u-s-history-1.2054432” target=“_blank”>here</a>, and I’m sure bunches of others sources.50 dead, 53 murderedNote: As a wikipedia contributor myself, I really appreciate the hard work and research that goes into building these pages, and understand how difficult it is to remain published if there is anything erroneous in the content we provide. So a lot of my blogs will cite wikipedia. I truly believe that refusing to allow wikipedia as a reputable source is elitist (: And this isn’t a research paper, so I’m going to cite it all up and down this ish.Mass shooting: (wikipedia definition) Mass shooting refers to an incident involving multiple victims of gun violence.U.S. History: who knows what people mean by this?? I’m going to assume that it’s post invasion of colonists, so either 1492 or 1776 or some shit. But let’s just use 1776.~~Just a few fun events to reflect on:December 29th, 1890, Wounded Knee Massacre, U.S. backed mass shooting, resulting in 130-250 Sioux deaths.March 8, 1792 N<a href=“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnadenh%C3%BCtten_massacre” target=“_blank”>adenhütten massacre</a>, Pennsylvania Militia, resulting in 100+ non-combatant Christian lenape.November 3rd, 1813, “<a href=“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tallushatchee” target=“_blank”>Battle” of Tallushatchee</a>, 980 Tennessee troops under General John Coffee, attacked an unsuspecting Creek town, resulting in 186-200 Creek deaths.November 29th, 1813, Autossee Massacre, Tennessee troops under General White launched an attack on a Creek town, killing 200 Creek people and setting their village aflame.Okay. That’s enough to say that this ‘largest mass shooting’ business is an incorrect statement, right?! Well, these events are not the extent of U.S. backed and facilitated mass shooting attacks on Native folks. Check out this wikipedia <a href=“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre#List_of_massacres” target=“_blank”>page</a> for more info on the above and other mass deaths.Note: I’m sure there are other identities that have experienced series of events like this. I’m honestly very lazy, and am going to leave that research up to you. But I in no way think that Native folks are the only ones that experience this.Also, I am not in any way saying that we should not mourn the monstrosity and the size of this terrible tragedy. All of these tragedies are equally wrong. I’ve cried my way through this this morning. I mourn those that have been lost from our community. I mourn the loss of the already scant feeling of safety in queer spaces. I mourn. I mourn. I mourn. I just challenge us all to push the media and entertainment industry to report accurately, taking into account even the actions of our federal government. (And I know they probably don’t know anywho. With Native experiences are constantly erased from textbooks and classrooms, how would they know? I can talk all day about cultural exchange and responsible and responsive education, but that’s a whole different article.) Don’t keep Americans in the dark. We need honest, comprehensive, coverage. We need educated reporters and writers, and in turn an educated society.

•18+ Adults Only

Watch Anya Live on Cam

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.

✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions

Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming

The National Women’s Law Center is submitting an amicus brief on behalf of 48 organizations committed to obtaining full legal, economic, and social equality for women and economic security for women and families. This brief highlights the negative impacts that the restrictions at issue in this case have on women’s economic security and equal participation …

I helped write this(:

reading-blog-deactivated2023082

[W]here white women are depicted in pornography as ‘objects,’ Black women are depicted as animals. Where white women are at least depicted as human bodies if not beings, Black women are depicted as shit.

Alice Walker, quoted in “Racism in Pornography” from Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography (via nervous-lesbian)

The Art of Social Justice

”by Maria Martinez

“and louder and louder are the groans from our neglected, abused, and increasingly pissed-off Mother Earth.”

“Health disparities, in fact, all social disparities, are maintained by walls and boundaries that make it all too easy not to see or hear our brothers and sisters. We come to believe that those who are socially excluded are somehow responsible for their status, and we don't recognize that, at least over generations, we will all share the same fates. Public health is now trying to bridge this divide by providing scientific proof that social inequities are the causes of avoidable health impacts, and we hope that others will follow through with policies and laws, but until we connect to each other and feel the injustice of unnecessary suffering, change will not happen.”

“Makuakane believes that culture is a lifeline to our ancestors: only with it do we understand who we are and where we are going. “

“So, what role can art play? The purpose of community art is to engage participation. Art rooted in neighborhoods mirrors, activates, stimulates, educates, agitates, delights, promotes, prevents, provides options, intervenes, inspires, transforms, crosses cultures, honors traditions, unites, entertains, and heals?in safe, accessible, and relevant ways.”

The Art of Social Justice

By Maria Martinez

“Hundreds of people walked down 24th Street to Garfield Park, where artists wrapped their poems, dances, and music around the community and the families of lost children to affirm our young people and to help them heal.”

•18+ Adults Only

Watch Anya Live on Cam

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.

✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions

Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming

When racism and sexism are no longer fashionable, what will your art collection be worth?

Guerilla Girls

INTRODUCTION: A THREE-PART SERIES Vanderbilt today would have been unrecognizable to Dean K.C. Potter in 1987. Rainbow flags hang from fraternity houses. The Office of LGBTQI life sits prominently in its own building off Alumni Lawn. The Lambda Drag Show turns 21 this week. But none of that would have been

What happens when a father, alarmed by his 13-year-old daughter's nightly workload, tries to do her homework for a week

•18+ Adults Only

Watch Anya Live on Cam

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.

✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions

Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming

var hupso_services_t=new Array("Twitter","Facebook","Google Plus","Pinterest","Linkedin","Tumblr","Reddit","Email");var hupso_background_t=…

theijeoma-deactivated20180827

1. You must let the pain visit. 2. You must allow it teach you 3. You must not allow it overstay.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo, three routes to healing (via crystalmread)

You might be surprised by the celebs who made this list!

"I'm doing this because I have never seen so many people on the street.. pregnant women, and babies, and sick old men. No one is helping them." The...

The “Enough is Enough” poverty at Vanderbilt piece is very close to my heart. I was a dining worker for two years, and know a lot of the people featured in the video personally. I have also worked with the dining workers during the Justice for Dining Workers campaign at Vanderbilt, supporting them through their union contract negotiations last Spring.

One thing that stood out to me in the video was when one worker explained that she made a little over $15,000 in one year, in a family of four. As we went over in class, the poverty line for a family of four is $23,850. That is absolutely disgusting. The institution of Vanderbilt holds their own community members under the poverty line as the top employees of the school make huge paychecks.

An interesting experience that sticks out to me that I believe correlates with the video is when my friend Dante, who has been working at Vanderbilt for years, and is one of the most brilliant and kind minds I’ve met here, applied for a newly vacant position as general manager. When he asked for the application, the higher ups laughed at him. Because he works as a laborer, and, I believe, his mannerisms that derive from Black cultures, the managers did not take him seriously. When talking to Dante about this, he said that he had been a manager before, and he only speaks and acts the way he does because he is with his own people while doing the manual labor at Vanderbilt Dining. He commented that he could “act white with the rest of them” if given the chance.

I think that this experience with Dante highlights the inherent racism that is tied into the realities of Vanderbilt Dining. Even if workers want to make their way up the chain, and work for promotions, they are ridiculed based on ___ that derive from their Black identities. They have no cultural privilege in the space of Vanderbilt Dining. Although many workers know who to call (the union rep), many feel that they don’t know how to really address an issue, and feel stepped on by the management by way of their working class and Black identities.

A direct action that students did in order to bring light to this issue was doing a huge announcement during a pretty large scale executives conference that was held at Vanderbilt. They interrupted the mixer in order to state their truths, including that it would take dining workers to work two months to make the same amount of money that our chancellor makes in one hour. That is unacceptable. If Chancellor Zeppos wants to truly pay attention to diversity and social justice, he needs to open his eyes to the injustices happening on his own campus, and by empathetic to people that sustain this community.

•18+ Adults Only

Watch Anya Live on Cam

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.

✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions

Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming

Police in Texas have arrested a 14-year-old boy for building a clock. Ahmed Mohamed, who lives in Irving and has a keen interest in robotics and engineering, put the device together on Sunday...

Do you know what to do in a situation like this? This article advises against the usual approach of villainizing an abuser or not believing a survivor, to help you deal with the complex reality of partner violence.

Trending Blogs

Last Seen Blogs

Youth Voice