Filed under: women of color
After a touch of “buyer’s remorse” over the URL of this blog, I’ve decided to change over to a new URL. All blog posting will be continued on The Feminist Texican from here on out!
The new name is more me, what can I say? So please (continue to) check me out, in all my indecisive glory! 
It’s official. The U.S. death toll in Iraq has hit the 4,000 mark.
At this rate, if John McCain wins and we’re there for “100 years if necessary,” that’ll bring our tally up to at least 80,000 deaths in this hundred-year war (and probably just wipe out all of Iraq, seeing as how iraqbodycount.org has a minimum of 82,349 documented civilian deaths to date).
I wonder where the candidates stand on repealling that ban the Bush administration put back into effect that bars photos of soldiers’ coffins from being published. Anyone know? Hit me up.
Filed under: Stupid Ads, women of color | Tags: brujas, lactose intolerant, leche, Milk, PMS, witches
Because we all know PMS-ing women are brujas. *eyeroll*
And as Jezebel pointed out, aren’t women of color more prone to lactose intolerance? Nice research there on your sexist ad, California Milk Processor Board.
Filed under: Reproductive Rights, women of color | Tags: abstinence-only, immigrant women, Medicaid, reproductive health, sex education, United Nations, United States, women of color
It’s a no-brainer that women of color often don’t receive a high standard of health care in the United States, but it’s not often that the United Nations chimes in on that fact:
[O]ne day before International Women’s Day, a United Nations committee expressed concern about “wide racial disparities” in sexual and reproductive health in the United States. The Committee was responding to pervasive and dramatic disparities between the reproductive health of women of color and white women…
Filed under: Friday Funny | Tags: Colbert Report, Colberto Reporto Gigante, Fence, Immigration, Lou Dobbs, Stephen Colbert
I love this man (Colberto, not The Raging Racist…although I of all people should appreciate that Dobbs is answering to Spanish questions in English. heh).
Filed under: Latin@ Art & Lit | Tags: Alfred J. Quiroz, Alma Lopez, Chicana, cunt, feminism, Jane Fonda, labia, V to the Tenth, vagina, Virgen art, Virgen de Guadalupe, Yolanda Lopez
Okay, so I know this is all late and that the V to the 10th events were last week and everyone is over all the Vagina Monologues talk and the fact that Jane Fonda said “cunt” on live TV (oh, the horror.), but I wanted to post some of this Virgen de Guadalupe art as a belated Chicana homage to Vagina Power. I first came across it while I was working on my MA thesis last year, and ever since then I’ve wanted to show it off to the world. So here goes.
We’re all familiar with the iconic Virgen de Guadalupe imagery, right?
Filed under: Border Wall Watch, Rio Grande Valley | Tags: Boeing, Border Wall, CAFTA, Daniel Garza, Eloisa Tamez, Eminent Domain, Lou Dobbs, Melissa del Bosque, NAFTA, Rio Grande Valley, Texas Observer, University of Texas at Brownsville
Melissa del Bosque has a terrific article up at Texas Observer about how the government is taking away land and property from homeowners and the University of Texas at Brownsville (who depends on federal funding) to build the border fence in the Rio Grande Valley. Meanwhile the wealthy surrounding areas go untouched:
[Eloisa] Tamez, a nursing director at the University of Texas at Brownsville, is one of the last of the Spanish land grant heirs in Cameron County. Her ancestors once owned 12,000 acres. In the 1930s, the federal government took more than half of her inherited land, without paying a cent, to build flood levees.
Now Homeland Security wants to put an 18-foot steel and concrete wall through what remains [a whole three acres].
