Nubian’s Still Black
Just saw this over at Nubian’s place. Her film Still Black, “a visual portrait of black trans men,” will be getting some previews this month. If you’re in Illinois, you’re in luck:
April 9th @ 8:30 p.m. at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s “Reel Queer Film Festival”
April 25th @ 8 p.m. at Northwestern University’s Queertopia!–$5 students/$10 [...]
Stop NAACP Funding
Image via Ultraviolet Underground. Please circulate widely.
See also:
What about Our Daughters
Electronic Village
Ultraviolet Underground
Black Women Vote
Stop NAACP Support of Rapists
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Update: Stop NAACP Support of Rapists
A woman is brutally raped and tortured for hours in Dunbar Village by 10 teenagers. Her son is also tortured, and to make it worse, the woman is forced to perform oral sex on her own son. Four of the assailants have been arrested, but there are still six running [...]
World Aids Day 2007
Today is World Aids Day. I encourage everyone to head over to the World Aids Campaign site and Take their Leadership Pledge.
To celebrate the 2007 and 2008 World AIDS Day theme of leadership, the World AIDS Campaign (WAC) is launching the Stop AIDS Leadership Pledge. In collaboration with national, regional, global and constituent partners, this [...]
More Attacks on Women of Color
Sokari has a good post up that shows that for all the good that can be gained from the internet and online social media, the haters will still infiltrate and try to spread their diseases.
Recently a FaceBook group was created to highlight the crimes committed against Megan and the silence of the mainstream media [...]
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Today is the 9th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day “to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice.”
Hate crimes are on the rise again these days, across the board, and it is important to stand up for those who are victims of these crimes. Across the board. We must [...]
What About Dunbar Village?
From What About Our Daughters:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON, D.C.-November 13, 2007- When Rev. Al Sharpton descends on the Department of Justice headquarters on Friday, November 16, 2007, he’ll be greeted by counter protesters asking why he and other African American leaders have refused to publicly comment on a horrific crime against humanity committed against a Black [...]

















