May 2010
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ask me ask me →
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Realization! DUH!
While taking a break from studying Chinese herbs (huge midterm on Monday!), I looked at pictures of myself on Facebook. Before the camwhore shallow BZ shoutouts come out, I just want to clarify it was because I missed the other people in those pictures. But what I realized when looking at pictures (taken in NY, Vegas, LA, the Bay Area, Toronto, DC, and more) is that I am surrounded by beautiful...
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On Monday I went to the UCLA Center for EthnoCommunications Retrospective (EthnoLA) at the Hammer Museum. Among the films featured was <I>810LOGY</I>, a film about a Westside Long Beach skate crew. The film was made by the homie/brotha ET. Shot and cut like a visual mixtape, it’s an instant favorite in my book!
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Vibes & Stuff Radio (5/8/10) →
My supafly sis (and DJ!) DJ EM-1 was featured! Catch her set at around 1:16:00, then catch her live at BRIDGES, and then book her! Sistah is wassup!
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I was of the first class at Sarah Lawrence to graduate with a concentration in Ethnic Studies. Aside from the 13 years of struggle to get faculty of color tenured; teach-ins on racism; student of color spaces; etc, it took us two years (my freshman and sophomore year) to struggle and finally get ethnic studies as a recognized discipline in the course book and faculty recognized under this...
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Gingee "Decolonize Your Mind" →
Brother ET put me on to this on my birthday. Gingee is wassup!
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Reflections on the Tao
Though I haven’t talked about it much, I’m currently in my secon trimester of my first year of a four year Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Grad School program. Last term was pretty rough and has forced me to refocus. One of my courses this term is Intro to Taoism and today I had my second class. It’s an interesting thing, the Tao, as it’s both philosophy and spiritual...
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Latest Updates from People's International... →
Foreign observers monitor disenfranchisement, violence
Reference:
Dr. Judy Taguiwalo, Pagbabago! Movement for Genuine Change, 0916-7829666
The first ever automated election in the Philippines was still marred by fraud and violence, this was the initial report from the field made by delegates of the People’s International Observers Mission (PIOM). The delegates also reported that the ...
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