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Holding Our Own Offers Movement Building Grants

Posted on June 27, 2018

Holding Our Own, Movement Building Fund from Megajoule Media on Vimeo. Holding Our Own invites applications to our new Movement Building Fund.  The Fund is an emergency grant fund that makes grants up to $1000 available on a rolling basis to fund or sponsor actions, activities, and organizing efforts community-wide to respond to the ongoing attack on […]

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Posted in Activism, Economic justice, Environment, Human Rights, Immigration, Local Feminists, Local Issues, Militarism, Political Education, Poverty, Prison Justice, Social Justice, Uncategorized Leave a comment

adaku utah: healing resources to support us as we rise up

Posted on July 17, 2015

<3 “being oppressed in this world means endlessly having one’s heart break on many fronts simultaneously — yet a healed heart that reopens again and again after it has been broken is larger, stronger, and takes on the lessons of resilience.” ~ blkcowrie http://blkcowrie.wordpress.com <3 <3 “Contributed with fierce, magnanimous Black love from fellow Black healers […]

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Posted in Activism, Political Education, Social Justice Tagged activism, Black lives matter, blkcowrie, body image, feminism, feminist events, grief, healing, local feminism, love, mental health, power, protest, protests, safety, self care, she breathes, solidarity, spirituality, sustainability, trauma Leave a comment

interstitial stitching: checkin’ for real womanist solidarity with trans kin

Posted on July 17, 2015

from genesissy & on the eighth day, God said let there be fierce & that’s the story about the first snap, the hand’s humble attempt at thunder, a small sky troubled by attitude // & on the ninth day, God said Bitch, werk & Adam learned to duck walk, dip, pose, death drop, Eve became […]

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Posted in Activism, Body Image, Creative Writing, Gender-based Violence, Human Rights, Political Education, Relationships, Social Justice Tagged autonomy, blkcowrie, body image, community, feminism, gender, gender non-conforming, gender queer, gender violence, heterosexism, identity, self determination, sexual identity, she breathes, solidarity, trans, transgender, transphobia, womanism Leave a comment

alla dem gag at serena’s brilliance & resilience

Posted on July 17, 2015

Serena-goddess, Serena-sis, please know i am still in a ruby red rage cloud over the racist, misogynistic, BESTIAL treatment you received on July 11, 2015 at the hands of The New York Times. fresh off the court where you left your latest historic notch, i can’t imagine how you must have felt to have to […]

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Posted in Body Image, Creative Writing, Gender-based Violence, Political Education Tagged blkcowrie, body image, feminism, gender noncomforming, gender violence, misogyny, racism, sarah baartman, serena williams, she breathes, sports, transphobia, venus hottentot, women, women of color Leave a comment

intersectionality: weaving many roots into one tree

Posted on April 24, 2015

a natural outgrowth of the groundbreaking Black feminism of the Combahee River Collective et.al. in the 1980s, intersectionality is a 30-year old concept developed by Kimberle Crenshaw and shared by many activists and organizers across and within multiple contemporary movements. i tend to think of it as the ability to think, walk, and chew gum […]

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Help send a Capital Region Delegation to INCITE!

Posted on March 4, 2015

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Posted in Activism, Local Feminists, Political Education, Sexual Assault, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged activism, angelica clarke, feminism, gender-based violence, holding our own, local feminism, mass incarceration, prison justice, sexual assault, women of color Leave a comment

Spotlight on Barbara Sutton

Posted on May 15, 2014

In an effort to give Holding Our Own network members an opportunity to get to know each other just a little better, we will be spotlighting a couple of local feminists each month. We hope that this will help give you more opportunities to connect, collaborate and leverage your resources. Do you want to be next, […]

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Spotlight on Blue Carreker

Posted on April 2, 2014

In an effort to give Holding Our Own’s network members an opportunity to get to know each other just a little better, we will be spotlighting a couple of local feminists each month. We hope that this will help give you more opportunities to connect, collaborate and leverage your resources. Do you want to be next, or […]

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Posted in Activism, Local Feminists, Political Education, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged blue carreker, citizen action, communications, external affairs, fair elections, feminism, gay marriage, grassroots organizing, local feminism, new york inequality campaign, non profit, open relationship, planned parenthood, polyamory, public relations, racial justice, reproductive health, suicide prevention, tax cuts, volunteer management Leave a comment

Port of Albany and more…

Posted on January 8, 2014

Note: This post is a follow up to Grace Nichols’ post yesterday, “Environmental Defense.”  As promised, we will share links and resource information on the Albany Port issues. On Monday night, January 6th I attended a meeting of the Albany Common Council. My main reason for going was that I had heard via social media […]

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Environmental Defense by Grace Nichols

Posted on January 7, 2014

Editor’s Note: We will post additional resources, references and article links in a separate post tomorrow, Wednesday,  January 8th. Please feel free to comment (be patient, all comments are moderated and you must be logged in to comment) or log in and Submit a Post of your own on this issue. There are numerous threats […]

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Posted in Activism, Local Feminists, Political Education, Poverty Tagged albany ny, bakken oil, environmental injustice, environmental justice, global partners llc, holding our own, nys department of environmental conservation, port of albany, she breathes, tar sands, tim truscott 3 Comments
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