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Ancestral Vessels of Feminist Resistance

Posted on March 10, 2017

Ancestral Vessels of Feminist Resistance:  An Immersive Healing Experience for Survivors In the series Ancestral Vessels of Feminist Resistance, Rosy Sunshine creates an immersive healing experience through video, song and color-filled Goddesses that explore the power to reclaim the physical realm and thrive after acts of gender-based violence. Exhausted by countless stories of objectification, gender […]

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Posted in Activism, Events, Gender-based Violence, Local Feminists, Uncategorized Tagged activism, capital district art, feminist events, holding our own, she breathes, troy night out, women of color Leave a comment

Holding Our Own’s Statement on UAlbany Bus Students

Posted on March 3, 2016

Holding Our Own stands with the young women of color from UAlbany who reported an assault on a bus on January 30th, and who are now being prosecuted for false reporting and assault. It is our unwavering position in all instances of gender-based violence, sexual assault, and racist violence to support those who are systematically […]

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Posted in Activism, Local Feminists, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged #defendblackgirlsualbany, albany ny, Black lives matter, feminism, gender-based violence, holding our own, racism, she breathes, women of color Leave a comment

Say Her Name: Women, Mass Incarceration, and Violence – Part I

Posted on January 11, 2016

Fewer than 5% of those incarcerated in the prisons of New York State are women. Therefore, our movement for justice in the criminal justice system should devote less than 5% of its time, energy, and resources to issues of incarceration and women — right? Wrong. But it often seems like that’s what we do. Here […]

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Posted in Gender-based Violence, Local Feminists, Prison Justice, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged albany ny, feminism, gender-based violence, naomi jaffe, nys prisoner justice, prison justice, she breathes, women of color 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

LadyFest–the Artist Behind the Curtain–Sean,aka bell’s roar

Posted on November 21, 2014

The tenth  in a series of Artist Spotlights brought to you by Lady Fest Upstate! For details on Lady Fest Upstate go to their Facebook Page For the Schedule of Events Get Tickets! Ladyfest Upstate is brought to us by the visionary artist, Sean Desiree. When Sean is not organizing radical cultural events, she is […]

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Posted in Activism, Events, Local Feminists, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged activism, albany, albany ny, bell's roar, feminist events, gender noncomforming, holding our own, LadyFest Upstate, local feminism, sean desiree, she breathes, trans artists, women of color Leave a comment

LadyFest Artist Spotlight #6: Amani Olugbala

Posted on November 21, 2014

The sixth  in a series of Artist Spotlights brought to you by Lady Fest Upstate! For details on Lady Fest Upstate go to their Facebook Page For the Schedule of Events Get Tickets!   ARTIST SPOTLIGHT #6: AMANI OLUGBALA A radical of the heart and pacifist of the mind, Amani spends much of her time […]

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Posted in Activism, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged amani alubala, feminist events, gender noncomforming, holding our own, LadyFest Upstate, she breathes, trans, trans artists, transgender, women of color Leave a comment

LadyFest Artist Spotlight #5: Sweet Chocolate

Posted on November 20, 2014

The fifth  in a series of Artist Spotlights brought to you by Lady Fest Upstate! For details on Lady Fest Upstate go to their Facebook Page For the Schedule of Events Get Tickets!   ARTIST SPOTLIGHT #5: SWEET CHOCOLATE Niroma Johnson a New York Native, resident of Albany, NY. When she appeared on the Amateur […]

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Posted in Events, Uncategorized Tagged capital district against fracking, comedian, feminist events, holding our own, ladyfes upstate, LadyFest Upstate, local feminism, she breath, sweet chocolate, trans, women of color Leave a comment

LadyFest Artist Spotlight #4: Moor Mother Goddess

Posted on November 20, 2014

The fourth in a series of Artist Spotlights brought to you by Lady Fest Upstate! For details on Lady Fest Upstate go to their Facebook Page For the Schedule of Events Get Tickets!     ARTIST SPOTLIGHT #4: MOOR MOTHER GODDESS Moor mother goddess is a musician, beat maker, event curator, poet,writer, and workshop facilitator […]

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Posted in Activism, Uncategorized Tagged activism, feminism, feminist events, gender noncomforming, holding our own, lady fest upstate, moor mother goddess, she breathes, trans, trans artists, transgender, women and poverty, women of color Leave a comment
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