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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

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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Posted in Activism, Political Education, Social Justice Tagged activism, blkcowrie, intersectionality, power, she breathes, women of color Leave a comment

Spotlight on Jessica Pino

Posted on April 25, 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, Local Issues, Poverty, Reproductive Justice, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged activism, albany, breakfast in the classroom, feminism, hunger, hunger solutions, jessica pino, local feminism, new york, power, SNAP, social work Leave a comment

“women’s work” (for asmaa mahfouz* and israa abdel-fattah**) by blkcowrie

Posted on March 8, 2013

  “habibti?”  “yes, mama?” “come.” she checks my hijab for glimpses, and says that we are to walk the streets with respect. we are to buy groceries, not sell ourselves. “today,” she adds, “we do women’s work.” * at the market, she pounds fruit for their secrets and examines vegetables for their lies. i am […]

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Posted in Activism Tagged activism, arab spring, blkcowrie, international women's day, power, protest, she breathes, women, women's work 12 Comments

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