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Tag Archives: feminism
SHOWING UP #5: STARING BACK AT THE LOOK SO MANY PEOPLE GIVE YOU
Showing Up #5: Staring Back At The Look So Many People Give You By Jorge Antonio Vallejos I’m used to people staring at me. It happens everyday. And there are different reasons: my limp my colour my body my handlebar … Continue reading
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Tagged "The View", 60 Minutes, Ableism, Affirmative Action, Colonialism, Descant, feminism, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Latino writers, Puerto Rican Pride, racism, Scott Pelley 60 Minutes, Sonia Sotomayor, Sunny Hostin, The Kenyon Review, The Yellow Medicine Review, United States Supreme Court
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VLOG: MY WINTER 2013 READING LIST
This video blog is the companion to my last post: My Winter 2013 Reading List. I go more in depth in this video than I do on the blog post. There’s poetry, fiction, memoir, spirituality, and writing reference discussed here. … Continue reading
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Tagged African Literature, Book Haul, Chicano Literature, Edwidge Danticat, feminism, Latin American Poetry, Luis J Rodriguez, Mario Puzo, Michael Ondaatje, One Day I Will Write About This Place, Philp Yancey, Reading list, Russel Banks, Sam Harris, The Best American Essays, The Collected Works of Billy The Kid, The Godfather
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DECEMBER 17: INTERNATIONAL DAY TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS
Today is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Here is a poem I wrote for sex workers: White Van. Watch, SHARE, Tweet, be an ally. Subscribe to the Black Coffee Poet YOUTUBE Channel: 140 videos: Poetry, … Continue reading
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Tagged "White Van", Anti Colonial Literature, Black Coffee Poet, December 17, Decolonize, End Violence Against Sex Workers, feminism, Hookers, International Day To End Violence Against Sex Wokers, post colonial literature, Prostitution, Rebellion Poetry, Rebellion Prose, Resistance Poetry, sex work, Violence Against Women
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A POEM BY CHRYSTOS FOR THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN OF DECEMBER 6TH
Hundreds of candlelight vigils were held yesterday for the 14 white women that were killed by Marc Lepine in 1989. It was a horrible, sexist, misogynist killing. Thousands of Aboriginal Women, Women of Colour, Queer Women, Disabled Women, Transgender … Continue reading
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Tagged "Not Vanishing" by Chrystos, 14 women killed December 6th 1989, Chrystos, December 6 1989, December 6th Candle Light Vigil, Ecole Polytechnique, feminism, First Wave Feminism, Marc Lepine, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, The Forgotten Women of December 6th, Violence Against Women, Women Won't Forget
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HONOURING THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN OF THE DECEMBER 6TH VIGIL: INDIGENOUS, OF COLOUR, DISABLED, QUEER, TRANSGENDER, SEX WORKER…
Every year in the land now known as Canada a vigil is held for the 14 white women killed in 1989 at Ecole Polytechnique in what is called The Montreal Massacre. These women should be, and are, remembered. So … Continue reading
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Tagged December 6th Vigil, Ecole Polytechnique, feminism, First Wave Feminism, Marc Lepine, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, Montreal Massacre, National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, Racism in Feminism, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, Transphobia, Violence Against Women, Women Won't Forget
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CHALLENGING THE WHITENESS OF THE DECEMBER 6TH VIGIL
This video interview with Deb Singh of the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre Multicultural Women Against Rape was filmed in 2010. It was part of a special week challenging the whiteness of December 6th called Remembering The Forgotten Women of … Continue reading
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Tagged December 6 1989, December 6 Vigil, Ecole Polytechnique, feminism, First Wave Feminism, Marc Lepine, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, Montreal Massacre, National Day of Remembrance and Action Against Violence Against Women, Racism and Feminism, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, Violence Against Women, White feminism
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STEFOKNEE WOLSCHT READS A POEM
Stefoknee Wolscht is fun to hang out with and watch in action. The documentary based on her life, Living 2 Lives/Dying 1000 Deaths, sheds much light on who Stefoknee is and where she came from. My interview with Stefoknee … Continue reading
REMEMBERING HELEN BETTY OSBORNE: A THANK YOU LETTER FROM A YOUNG CREE WOMAN
Nineteen-year old Cree woman Helen Betty Osborne was murdered by 4 white men November 13, 1971. Osborne’s death and case have been labelled a “conspiracy of silence”. We hounour Helen Betty Osborne this week on blackcoffeepoet.com via an Opinion Editorial, … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonialism, Conspiracy of Silence, Cree Nation, feminism, First Nations Women, genocide, Helen Betty Osborne, Indigenous Women, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, Missing and Murdered Native Women, No More Silence, Norway House First Nation, Sisters In Spirit, TEDx, The Pas Manitoba, Violence Against Women
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REMEMBERING HELEN BETTY OSBORNE: OP ED: “LEST WE FORGET”
Nineteen-year old Cree woman Helen Betty Osborne was murdered by 4 white men November 13, 1971. Osborne’s death and case have been labelled a “conspiracy of silence”. We hounour Helen Betty Osborne this week on blackcoffeepoet.com via an Opinion Editorial, … Continue reading
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Tagged "Lest We Forget", Aboriginal Justice Inquiry in Manitoba, Colonialism, Conspiracy of Silence, Cree Nation, feminism, First Nations Women, genocide, Helen Betty Osborne, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, Missing and Murdered First Nations Women in Canada, Missing and Murdered Native Women in Canada, No More Silence, Norway House First Nation, Opinion Editorial, Patriarchy, Remembrance Day, Robyn Bourgeois, sexism, Sisters In Spirit, The Pas Manitoba, Violence Against First Nations Women, Violence Against Women
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