From Shanghainese artist Fan Shisan’s series titled “Two of us.” The series is made up of more than 50 photographs. In each a young Chinese person is shown with an alter ego, a double posing in a different position — a commentary on China’s one-child policy.

via China’s post-1980s artists and the one-child policy

Left: ‘A young dandy wearing a formal suit and Top hat, circa 1890’ Right: ‘Conroy Campbell, a pupil at Willesden High school, 1973’

I just rediscovered this book; Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy put it together in 2007. It uses press photos to document post-war black settlement in Britain during the twentieth century. Instead of just recording the immigrants’ settlement the book paints a really beautiful picture of people’s lives. via Black Britain: A Photographic History | Teenage

Tammy Rae Carland, Cell 69 / Enlargement from [i think] her Queer Youth series.

nezua:

queerdesi:

Out of the shadows and into the streets!

Tania Chairez and Jessica Hyejin Lee, openly undocumented and unafraid mujeres, block traffic in an act of civil disobedience in front of ICE headquarters in Philadelphia. They risked deportation to free Miguel.

Photo Credit: Jessica Hyejin Lee

Today in the USA, heroes are arrested and nobody notices, while Snooki is a household word. Kali Yuga has a sense of humor, too

Coney Island, 1947. © Sid Grossman The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951 Exhibition on view: November 4, 2011–March 25, 2012

The Jewish Museum of New York will be exhibiting The Radical Camera, a collection of photographs from the influential Photo League. Based in New York City, The Photo League consisted of young, politically progressive artists (many of whom were first generation Jewish Americans) that were shooting from the mid 1930s to the early 1950s. Interested in capturing their direct surroundings, League members documented the urban landscape of New York City during the turbulent times of the late Depression, World War II, and early Cold War eras.

via Exposures » Blog Archive » New York’s Photo League at The Jewish Museum)

producermatthew:

Cupertino high school student Angela Zhang may know the cure for cancer: As a freshman, she started reading doctoral-level papers on biological engineering. By her sophomore year in high school, she managed to convince Stanford University to let her use their laboratories, and by junior year, she began doing her own research that led her to develop a recipe that boggles even her chemistry teacher.

Zhang’s recipe won her a $100,000 award at a national science competition sponsored by Siemens.

Her method of curing cancer by aiming an infrared light at mutated cells killed cancer in mice; it will be a few more years before it can be determined if the method works in humans. Nevertheless, Zhang’s three years of research is considered a breakthrough. [CBS News]

(via Out of the closet twice: Cartoonist Julio Salgado on coming out as undocumented and gay | Multi-American)

The art of illustrator Julio Salgado has become synonymous with the immigrant rights youth movement, that embraced by U.S.-raised young people who were brought here illegally or stayed on with expired visas after their parents brought them to the U.S. as children.

His bright, chunky characters, sometimes depicted in graduate cap-and-gown attire, are found on posters and t-shirts advocating for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, proposed federal legislation that would grant conditional legal status to young people who arrived before age 16 of they go to college or join the military. Last year Salgado created “Liberty for All,” an online political comic strip about a young college graduate named Libertad, or Liberty, who can’t find work beyond menial jobs.

Here is Salgado’s take on what it’s like to come out twice – or not

clicky for interview!

sexartandpolitics:

mijajaja:

!!!!!! UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH & ORGANIZERS ARRESTED FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN MONTGOMERY ALABAMA YESTERDAY, IN DEFIANCE AGAINST HATE LAW HB 56. !!!!!! THEY NEED HELP BEING BAILED OUT

Martin Unzueta, long-time Chicago community organizer and parent participated in a civil disobedience in Montgomery, Alabama. He was arrested along with 3 other undocumented parents, and 10 undocumented youth protesting the increasing criminalization of immigrants.

They need funds to be bailed out, PLEASE DONATE IF YOU CAN:

https://action.dreamactivist.org/bail/

$1, $5, anything you can! 

These people are fighting so that people in this country can have access to WATER and HEAT..and be treated with dignity. In 13 states the DREAM Act has passed, which generally means that states can set up private donation-based funds for undocumented youth to receive scholarships for college. In some states, their DREAM Acts also provide a pathway to citizenship. However, no such thing has passed in Alabama, and Alabama is in fact regressing. On top of the fact that many undocumented youth cannot go to college, their whole families are now being denied water, heat, and electricity. This is why these undocumented youth & parents have convened in Montgomery. It’s very important that they continue to do this work

What happened: 

13 undocumented youth and parents, including Chicago organizer and parent Martin Unzueta, took a stand against hate perpetuated by HB56 in Alabama yesterday and were arrested in a civil disobedience in Montgomery. HB56 has allowed Utility companies to deny HEAT, WATER & ELECTRICITY to those who cannot present documentation!  

The undocumented youth & parents- all organizers/DREAMers, publicly declared their undocumented status in defiance of HB 56, which is considered to be the harshest anti-immigrant bill in the country. It makes it possible for utility companies to deny anyone they presume to be undocumented gas, electricity, and water. If you cannot provide documentation, you do not get service. “We want to remind the immigrants of this state that they have a voice and it’s time to use it,” said Belen Rebelledo, an undocumented mother of three. 

WHY

I am risking deportation because I’m tired of seeing the suffering of our children, tired of the lies of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We do civil disobedience because we are not afraid of those who persecute us” said Martin Unzueta, community organizer at Chicago Community and Workers’ Rights who was arrested during the civil disobedience, and parent of two undocumented youth organizers of the Immigrant Youth Justice League.

The civil disobedience targets the climate of fear that undocumented immigrants are facing due to harsh anti immigrant laws like Alabama’s HB 56, and calls for the community to take action. HB56 passed. Under this legislation police are required to investigate the immigration status of people who are pulled over for routine traffic stops, and makes it a felony for undocumented immigrants to do business with the state. There have been wide- spread reports that undocumented immigrants are leaving the state and of children being harassed at school for their perceived immigration status.

The civil disobedience took place during a national convening of undocumented organizers part of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance.

Whats happening: Montgomery police chief Kevin J. Murphy said those arrested would be asked to provide documentation, which could lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be contacted.

CLICK THE LINKS BELOW FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

http://www.iyjl.org/?p=2758

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20111115/NEWS/111115017/Arrests-made-immigration-law-protest?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFrontpage

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/11/07/363096/alabama-utilities-denying-service/

God damn I love the young immigration rights fighters.

dahlias-y-rosas:

[photo: cinnamon skinned, muscular, long black haired, bearded mexican man wearing all black sits on a grey concrete, leaning up against a white concrete wall, his arms wrapped around his knees, looking up with a slight smile at a horse, who is picking their head through a window in the wall, tenderly nuzzling the sitting man.]

amerikkkanstories:

fuckyeahbrownpeople:

andythenerd:

This kind of story happens all the time:

My pal Antonio is an undocumented farm laborer, horse whisperer and superhero. He can clear an acre of brush in a single day with a machete and talk a psychotic horse down off the ceiling.

The other day the cops pulled him over for no reason, impounded his car, and threw him in jail. He was late for work and got in trouble with his boss.

His honky boss, for whom he has worked since leaving Mexico at the age of 17, is invested in keeping him dependent because he couldn’t run his farm without his indentured labor. Antonio owes him thousands of dollars for dental work that insurance would have paid for if he’d been a documented worker. His boss takes most of his paycheck to pay for the dental work, leaving him to live on $30 a week. He lets Antonio live in a crumbling old house on the property, but he won’t let him fix the bathroom or the furnace because then he’d have to pay taxes on a habitable dwelling. His boss has told him that he thinks of Antonio “like family.”

“But,” Antonio observes, “my boss’s daughter don’t live in no shithole casa.”

(via Barn tableau)

Can I marry this man?

An yet your Amerikkkan history books tell you slavery ended - that this is a bold, brave new world instead of a sad, slave new world order.

There’s too many stories like this. 

etiquette-etc:

We as Indigenous peoples who have current and/or former life experience in the sex trade and sex industries met on unceeded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver on Monday April 11th 2011. In a talking circle organized by the Native Youth Sexual Health Network we wish to share the following points about our collective discussion so that we may speak FOR ourselves and life experiences:

-We recognize that many of us have multiple identities and communities that we belong to – some of us take up the title of “sex worker” while others do not see themselves this way.  We have a myriad of experiences in the sex trade, everything from violence, coercion, to survival, getting by, empowerment, and everything in between.   We want to give voice to these issues so that those who are CURRENTLY involved in sex work and the sex industries feel supported and are the primary place where decisions surrounding our lives are made.  We should not be made to feel judged, blamed, or shunned from ANY of the communities we belong to or are coming from. We are the best deciders of what we want our lives to be.

-Despite the heightened statistics of the many realities we face as Indigenous peoples, we are not significantly represented in the leadership or decision making tables of sex work organizations and other social justice groups alike. By this we do not mean solely having one Indigenous coordinator or a few outreach workers – we mean meaningful, non-tokenizing, multiple positions and visible leadership roles across organizations, groups, collectives, and at any place where the sex trade is discussed. We are not interested in being included after the fact or having to continuously take a seat at a table we had to fight to be at in the first place – we want to be the center in which all decisions about our lives are coming from.

-We collectively and steadfastly resist the so-called “rescuing” and “saving” approaches to the issues going on in our lives that comes from the (in)justice system, social service agencies, prohibitionist groups, and many other areas.  What we are asking for is not to be saved or rescued or consistently painted as victims – we come from generations of peoples who have resisted this approach for the last 500+ years so we could be here today. We are asking for support that is unconditional and meets us where we are at.

-We are living through legacies of colonialism and genocide – which are extremely present today. When various individuals and organizations say things like “we are all oppressed in the same way” or refuse to take a stance on colonialism – this directly silences and further oppresses us. Just because we as Indigenous peoples may be involved in the sex trade as well does not mean that we are all oppressed in the same way as other peoples who are involved in the sex trade or even within our own communities. We demand the right to self-determination about what is specifically true for us as individuals and we refuse to be constantly grouped in “the other” or “unknown” categories – whether from well-intentioned allies or those who have never even considered our realities as Indigenous peoples.

-We want to address the rampant amount of homophobia, transphobia, cissexism, and heteropatriarchy that we witness from Indigenous and allied people alike.  Many of us are proud to be Two Spirit, trans, gender non-conforming, and many other identities that the English language cannot contain.  We hold both our Indigenous community members and allies accountable to respect who we are and understand that these identities for many of us prior to colonization were honored and respected – and we take this seriously as we seek to reclaim who we are.

-While it is true that we may experience violence on bad dates, on the street, and in other places where we are, we want to state that VIOLENCE SHOULD NOT INHERENTLY BE PART OF THE SEX TRADE. What remains unchallenged and inadequately criticized are the role and actions of the state, the police, and social service agencies that create and allow the conditions that create violent situations for us to begin with. The very creation of Canada and the United States is based off of the genocide and land theft of our peoples and fast forward to 2011 this is still happening. It is now sanctioned through the law, in the court system, and other organizations wishing to further control and exploit us by continuing to remove us from our homelands, or our communities of choice, or warehousing us in jails and prisons

-There is a severe lack of resources and support for those of us on reserves, in northern territories, and in rural and remote areas. So much of the dialogue about the sex trade is urban and metropolitan focused when so many of our rural and remote communities have the evidence to prove the urgency of shifting the dialogue to listen and support what is going on in the north and on the reserves.  Where can sex workers go when there are no supports in their own communities? Why should they always have to come to the city?

-While the criminalization of the sex trade is indeed harmful to us and we consistently resist the regulations forced onto us by a colonial white law and order system, we want to move beyond just discussing criminalization and decriminalization. There are many other factors that contribute to the realities of our lives specifically as Indigenous peoples that are being largely ignored because of these kinds of debates constantly happening

-At public events or in the media, supposed ‘experts’ or ‘allies’ often focus exclusively on violence and victimization, over-representation and exiting strategies. While these issues are important, we want to move the dialogue beyond this focus on ‘being saved’ and instead to hear from sex workers themselves about all the complex realities and needs they face. Why is it that in public forums, the only voices we hear are those wanting to save sex workers from violence rather than from sex workers themselves? Sex workers should be invited to speak to their own issues, representing a diversity of perspectives and experiences. For example, sex work is often seen as an exclusively urban issue. In reality, lots of people in rural areas are trading sex for money, rides, clothes, and many other reasons – but because of shame and silence, this aspect of sex work remains invisible.  Expanding our understanding of Indigenous involvement in sex work will entail including a diversity of perspectives, allowing these voices to inform policy and programs.  

-Sex workers and those involved in the sex trade are part of our communities – all of the things we are advocating for in terms of Indigenous rights and land sovereignty sex workers need to be part of as well. Internationally sanctioned Indigenous rights are determined by states – so how do we see our own rights in our own territories within the sex trade? We aren’t going to have only one approach – Indigenous peoples have never only had one approach. There are multiple nations, multiple view points, and multiple ways of dealing with things – Indigenous peoples are not one homogenized group and we need to move forward being accountable to all of these differences.

-There exists an extreme amount of stereotypes surrounding Indigenous sexuality and our bodies that have been used to legitimize violence against us and make the settlement of our territories by the colonizers possible. Distancing ourselves from stereotyping has in many cases also meant distancing ourselves from sexuality and ultimately from sex workers. This is just not about our own individual stories – we need to look at how are we treating all our relations and that especially means people who are most pushed aside by those in our communities. 

-We want to move forward to a place where we can discuss sex work and sex trade sovereignty – having autonomy of our bodies, our spaces, and the right to govern ourselves. We want to talk about our humanity instead of talking over people who are involved in the sex trade. We are more than just the numbers or statistics coming from the realities in our lives. We have voices, we are Indigenous peoples involved in the sex trade and sex industries, and we need to be heard

Written by the Native Youth Sexual Health Network and co-signed by:
Sarah Hunt, Kwakwaka’wakw
Bambie Tait, Gitxsan nation
Ivo Haggerty (Cargnelli)/Sta’xai’luum Blackstone
Lyn Highway

almaswithinalmas:

Watch This Face - Yassmin Abdel-Magied - emel Magazine

At 19, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is about to enter the fourth and final year of an engineering degree at Queensland University, having enrolled when she was only 16.

The daughter of Sudanese migrants, she moved to Australia at a very young age and as a proud Australian Muslim, Yassmin is keen to engage in society and feels that her Islamic identity should not be viewed as a hindrance. Her achievements bear this out: she was presented with the ‘Young Queenslander of the Year’ award in 2010 for her contribution to the community; aged 16 she founded Youth without Borders, an advocacy group designed to empower youth and she also coaches a football team for Muslim girls called ‘Shinpads and Hijabs’.

Being involved with so many organisations and initiatives, she says, is a matter of efficiency, time-management and always trying to keep herself busy. Boxing is one of Yassmin’s numerous other activities but it remains something her mum is less supportive of!

If that isn’t enough, she also aims to use her degree to go into the field of motorsport, and perhaps become the first female Muslim Formula 1 driver. In the more distant future, her friends see a political career beckoning, and something she sees as a very real possibility.

So many major youth overacheivers at UQ. Intrigued by what party she would join.