Comprehensive Sexual Assault Statistics.
Gender Equity!
The Gender Equity Center is the collective voice for gender equity and justice at CSUSM.
Follow us to keep informed about news, events, and issues impacting women's rights and gender equity on campus and around the world.
They’re All So Beauitful
Episode 5- Dating, Relationships… Marriage?
They’re All So Beautiful
Episode 4: Do Asian Women have “White Fever”?
They’re All So Beautiful
Episode 3: What do Asian Men think about “yellow fever”?
(via omnivincitamor)
What I do on stage, you won’t catch me doing off stage. I mean, I think deep down I’m still kind of, like, timid and modest about a lot of things. But on stage, I release all that; I let it go. - Selena
(via rebeccaliliana)
Love your body!
As we celebrate Mother’s day, we also honor all the moms who can’t be with their children today because of detention and deportations: Not one more mother taken away!
You can be part of keeping one mom, Sandra Figueroa, with her daughter Katherine by signing the petition at: http://bit.ly/katherinesparents
Hoy celebramos el día de las madres y también honramos a todas las madres que están separadas de sus hijos a causa de detención o deportación. Ni una más!
(via furbyhater)
What snacks would you like us to have next week?
5 Things We Can Do to Reclaim Cinco de Mayo
It’s pretty much official. In the United States, Cinco de Mayo has become the Mexican version of St. Patrick’s Day.
Multi-national corporations like Budweiser and Kraft have effectively turned it into a pseudo-ethnic holiday used as another excuse to get drunk and consume. La Batalla de Puebla is hardly mentioned, including by many Mexicans.
Still fresh in our community’s collective memory, however, is a time before corporations even seemed to care about Mexicans and our traditions and when Cinco de Mayo was a day of community and cultural affirmation.
Kids would dress up as china poblanas and charros, folklórico and danza azteca groups would perform, grills would be ablaze and maybe a parade and a car show would entertain families on this day.
Of course, these traditions are very much alive and are still observed every year in our communities — as the photo above from West St. Paul’s Cinco de Mayo event shows.
The big difference is that today there are entire events posing as Cinco de Mayo festivals but which are actually corporate festivals held to promote products and brands.
Can we take back from multinationals something that has belonged to us for decades?
Can we reclaim Cinco de Mayo as a day that celebrates Mexico’s heroic victory for democracy and freedom over French imperialism in the La Batalla de Puebla?
Of course we can!
Here are 5 things we can do to make it happen:
1. Support events hosted by and for the benefit of local non-profits and community based organizations.
2. Don’t go to corporate Cinco de Mayo events. No matter how much free shit they give away.
3. Remind white people Cinco de Mayo celebrates the killing of white people!
4. Know the history of Cinco de Mayo and La Batalla de Puebla.
5. Promote Mexico making Cinco de Mayo a national holiday, removing the silly claim it’s only celebrated in the US.
Photo: A dancer marches in the Cinco de Mayo parade Saturday, May 4, 2013 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Credit: MPR Photo, Nikki Tundel.
thiiis
especially number 3.
(via omnivincitamor)
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
(via furbyhater)
Cost Of Birth Control Higher In Some Low-Income Neighborhoods Than In Wealthy Ones
Researchers focused on the price of seven commonly-used contraceptives — including various forms of the pill as well as transvaginal options like the ring. They cross-referenced the price information across various counties with median household incomes from the 2010 census.
Nearly every prescription contraceptive was more expensive in low-income zip codes, the researchers found.
In most cases, price differed by just a few dollars. For two of the contraceptives, the cost was significantly less in the wealthiest zip codes.
Researchers said they don’t know the reason for the price discrepancies. Certain neighborhoods may not have a large, chain pharmacy that offers lower prices and runs specials, Zite speculated.
“There is other research that has shown that a lot of needs for health, like fruits and vegetables, are more expensive in lower-income neighborhoods,” Zite added.
Mississippi to Execute Willie Manning Tonight After Rejecting DNA Tests & FBIâs Admission of Error
The state of Mississippi is preparing to execute an African-American prisoner tonight, despite an unusual admission from the FBI that its original analysis of the evidence contained errors. Willie Jerome Manning was convicted of murdering Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, two white college students, in 1992. The execution is going ahead after prosecutors and state courts refused to allow new DNA testing that could prove Manningâs innocence. The Justice Department sent a letter saying one analystâs testimony at trial “exceeded the limits of the science and was, therefore, invalid.” Manningâs attorneys argue that no physical evidence ties him to the murders and that testing hair samples and other evidence could identify a different killer. But in a 5-to-4 decision last month, Mississippiâs state supreme court refused to grant a new DNA test, citing what it called “conclusive, overwhelming evidence of guilt.” On top of the denied DNA test, Manningâs attorneys say prosecutors relied on two key witnesses whose credibility has since come under question. Concerns have also been raised about alleged racial bias in the selection of the jury that found Manning guilty. “We need someone to step in,” says Vanessa Potkin, a senior staff attorney at The Innocence Project. “It is unconscionable that an execution would go forward where there is biological evidence that can cut to the truth and show whether or not he did the crime. What is anybody afraid of?”
