| #61: Thursday Night = Educate |
[July 10th|3.03pm] |
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Every Thursday I'll try to post readings I've read that touch on subject matter that should be discussed amongst ourselves and in the public in a candid matter.
The first in a multi-part series.
Featured Reading: White Supremacy: Beyond the KK by Mary Oishi
Preview: Like most Americans, I bought into the notion that white supremacy was the exclusive domain of the KKK, the Aryan Nation, and other hate groups. I have since come to recognize that those groups are merely a grotesque caricature of subtly pervasive racism. Their most important function is to provide an extreme that more educated andwell-meaning people can point to and say, "Surely I'm not like them." This perpetuates racism much more than the hate groups' rhetoric could ever do, because the white supremacy we have all internalized never gets examined, named, and exorcized.</font> White supremacy is the bedrock on which this country was founded.
( Read more... )
Comments, concerns and critcisms welcome.
Flames will be extingushed.
Dictated, not read.
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| #60: Open letter |
[May 21st|5.44pm] |
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Hey everyone,
As you have noticed, this journal is on hiatus/friends-locked = scarity of entries.
Explanation below:
Due to a trolling/hacking incident on my previous journal, most of my entries on my current journal have been friends-locked, and I realize that the ones that are public do not give much insight into my personality. Several family incidents occurred a few months ago and due to the stress of these events, which are ongoing, I have not had time to update my journal as much as I want to. On my friends-locked entries, I have posted diatribes on racist, sexist and homophobic behavior that I've seen in the media and I want to cultivate my ideas into something more cohesive.Presently and when I am able to, I use my journal for commenting on communities, as I am more into the community aspect of livejournal. On my campus (Wesleyan University), I am involved in femnet (which is the campus' feminist student group), spectrum (the queer student group), the women of color collective (which empowers women of color on campus) and diversity educators (which fosters a safe space on campus and leads discussions with freshman on systems of oppression/privilege and how to combat them) and they have all had a profound impact on my life and I wish to share that with others. These communities and the issues they combat mean alot to me and are a big part (but do not comprise the entirety) of my identity. No one, given the private nature of my journal, will fully know all of my interests from my profile (which is a hold-over from my rather impressionable high-school days), and I apologize for that.
I assure you that I am not a troll and I have spent a total of 4 years (with two different journals) on lj with no complaints.
I feel a bit overwhelmed that I need validation in order to allow myself to use these labels to describe myself.
It hurts that people can not and will not believe me.
But at the end of the day I am still me, and I have to live with the choices I make and the words I wish to share.
Please understand that, unless I feel comfortable in a safe space (which communities provide), I am not yet ready to share the entirety of myself and my experiences (which for the most part are unreconciled) with the greater, unregulated and very public livejournal community.
Just know that I will try my best to be honest with myself and my peers and will answer truthfully any inquires about myself.
Take care.
love and peace,
me.
EDIT: Actually, you know I think I figured it out. It's my fault that I:
a. Do not control my friend's interests, because obviously you are all my slaves and anything you like is a reflection on me.
b. Have a friends-only journal: Yes, because I really should feel comfortable telling ANON about my personal life and the very hurtful things I experience in my life, even after I was hacked.
c. Am not active in other feminist communities: well, I need validation in order to join and if those communities don't like me or "my agenda" then I can't be in those communities to be active, now can I?
Well, at least there are communities for queer people of color.
Whatever.
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| #59...Ready...set...BREAK |
[November 12th|4.32am] |
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I'm taking a break from LJ, life is too overwhelming.
Take care of yourselves and you better be here when I get back!
JOKE!
Love.
Me.
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| This is the last goodbye |
[September 15th|5.04pm] |
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I really think that I had so much material to put on livejournal, but life gets in the way.
I barely find time to post or be on the internet, even though I have so many entries written on paper and text files in little blurbs.
I write entries in my head, and if they don't get published, then that's where they will stay.
But I've lost all motivation and so this is goodbye.
You made me better.
I don't need this place as my outlet, not now.
Maybe I'll come back here, but I hope you enjoyed the ride.
Much love,
Q
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| #53: Attn NYC Residents! |
[May 14th|8.45am] |
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Summer Youth Employment Program
Applications Available
Applications for the 2007 New York City Summer Youth Employment Program
(SYEP) are now available on-line at the Department of Youth and community Development (DYCD) website - http://NYC.gov/dycd. This marks the first year that young people can apply online. Hard copies of the application and instructions can also be downloaded for printing. The deadline to submit a completed application is May 18, 2007.
SYEP is a seven-week program that will run from July 2, 2007 through August 18, 2007. Last year, approximately 41,650 youth were enrolled in SYEP. Participants work up to 25 hours a week while earning $7.15 per hour in assignments at government agencies, hospitals, summer camps, nonprofits, small businesses, law firms, museums, as well as in sports and retail or you can apply online or print out an application to fill out by hand. If you complete an online application, you will be asked to select the SYEP Provider you want to work for. We provide you with online information to help you select the SYEP Provider. If you print out an application, you will complete the application by hand and bring it to the SYEP Provider you want to work for. We provide you with online information to help you select a SYEP Provider. Please note that you may only submit one application for SYEP. Selection into SYEP is based on a lottery. Submission of an application does not guarantee that you will be offered a job.
Disclaimer: I am not a spokesperson for this organization, I can only say that it's legit, because it's funded by the city of NY, and there's an FAQ if you need questions.
You need alot of shit [SS card, passort, utilites bill, 2006 w2 and pay stub], so if you want to apply now, you better get on that shit.
Also, if you're under 18, you need your working papers.
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Hopefully this is some good news to all you hustlers!
XD
-Q
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| #1: Out of the Ashes |
[January 24th|9.07am] |
So out of the ashes of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) blaze_sama comes this journal, which I will use to chronicle my life and my story. And being that a wise word should be enough, I'm saving my entries on hard copy, so that the travesty that happened to my previous journal doesn't happen here.
Until I find a banner, this journal is friends only
If you want to be added, I honestly don't know who would want to be, because I really don't talk much about anything important...just comment here
-Steph (tsukinohime)
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