February 2012
7 posts
WatchDarnell Moore is Mobile Homecoming family! We love you soul brother! <3
Black History from Young Black LGBTQ folks →
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Pariah Personals
latinosexuality:
Salon.com partnered with New America Media to run a series of coming out stories by LGBT youth of Color and LGBT immigrant youth titled “Pariah Personals,” the series is inspired by Pariah the Movie.
Read the Pariah Personals .
January 2012
10 posts
Send Lex and Julia some gas money to get to... →
Lex and Julia are travelling to Baltimore to participate in a Queer People’s Movement Assembly and to conduct a 3 hour skillsbuilding workshop about documenting and amplifying LGBTQ Brilliance! Send us some gas money! :)
Thanks for the shout out Elizabeth Anderson and... →
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Jamaican Female Prime Minister Stand up for Gay... →
*note The Mobile Homecoming project does not agree with The Advocate’s presumption that Jamaica is one of the “most homophobic nations on earth.” But we do affirm Portia Simpson Miller in standing up for what is right and we hope that this message from a black woman leader that LGBTQ Jamaicans can and should serve in leadership positions in their country will help to stop cycles...
Celebrating Kwanzaa in the Gay and Lesbian... →
In this Huffington Post article Mobile Homecoming elder superstar Imani Rashid describes how she first encountered Kwanzaa and her work to bring Kwanzaa into the Black Gay and Lesbian Community in NYC.
20 Years of Black Lesbian Cinema →
December 2011
33 posts
WatchFood and intergenerational relationships. Check it out!
“we arrived spectacular, tendering
our own bodies into dreamery
as meat, as...”
– Dionne Brand, Inventory
Ujamaa. Is there a form of economic participation where we are not for sale? Check out the Real Reading Rainbow Kwanzaa edition here: http://vimeo.com/34218165
“May we always resist what we know in our hearts to be wrong. May we do right...”
– Nikky Finney’s introduction to her Carolina epic RICE
Ujima. Collective work and responsibility. Let’s all work to nourish each other with love! <3
WatchMe & my bois…spotlighting masculine center people of color on the west coast.
“Hate is not fuel. Hate is the leak that stops you from touching people’s...”
– Marvin K. White Our Name Be Witness
Kujichagulia. Towards Queer Black Self-Determination.
See my video on Black Queer Poets challenging and clarifying the principles of Kwanzaa: http://vimeo.com/34218165
See my review on Engenderings (London School of Economics Online Journal) on this...
WatchReal Reading Rainbow: Queer Black Intergenerational BookLUST Kwanzaa edition!
“It is not enough to mention names
to know location of past iniquities
of...”
– -from “because this whole earth is ours” by Letta Neely
Umoja challenge. My relevant measure of when we will have achieved Black and LGBTQ unity is when Black transwomen and Black genderqueer people are safe, free and cherished everywhere from bathroom to bus stop all times of day...
WatchUmoja!!!! Living Room Love. The mobile homecoming project is committed to bringing together Black LGBTQ community across generations! Happy Queer Kwanzaa everyone!!!! <3
Native American Youth to Diane Sawyer: We’re Not... →
Youth speak up for accountable media, through accountable self-determined media. We love it! <3
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Film Review of "Pariah" (from Racialicious)
There’s a new film coming out about an African-American lesbian! A coming-of-age story! Folks like us on the screen! I can’t wait! Racialicious contributor Spectra blesses us with a review of the movie.
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The New Digital Divide (from COLORLINES)
For many working class folks of color, discount smartphone phone plans have become the primary way we connect to the Internet. However, the actions of telecommunications carriers and decisions made by Congress prioritize the needs of home Internet users over mobile data customers, leading to separate and unequal access to the information superhighway.
COLORLINES has just published a special...
WatchMobile Homecoming LOVES Detroit!
Yvonne Welbon writes about the Mobile Homecoming... →
Oh we fancy now! <3
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Trans Women in DC (From COLORLINES)
Pass the Mic: COLORLINES Staff Writer Akiba Solomon interviews transgender women from Washington DC to talk about their experiences living in Chocolate City:
Because violence and terror and discrimination isn’t the sum total of people’s lives, I’ve asked a range of transgender women of color living in D.C. to tell their own stories. I wanted to know everything—the experiences they’ve had...
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Black Women, Romance Bling, and the Holiday Season
For all you lovers—-queer and straight—-thinking about commitment, I recommend reading this first. From Crunkista at Crunk Feminist Collective:
I was really moved by CF Eeshap’s most recent post […] Her words made me reconsider my own purchasing practices. On the one hand, I know that I will never purchase or accept a diamond. I also know that if I decide to get married, I...
COLORLINES: Obituary for Martina Davis-Correia
Martina Davis-Correia, anti-death penalty activist and sister of the late Troy Davis, recently passed away from cancer. COLORLINES has published a remembrance from contributor Jen Marlowe:
It’s impossible to find adequate words to describe Martina Davis-Correia. Indomitable. Courageous. Warrior. Hero. Words don’t do justice to force of nature that was (that is) Martina.
May her memory be...
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Race, Gender, and Comics
From Racialicious: “Rock, Paper, Scissors: Choosing Between Race and Gender in Comics
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Comics, completely consumed by superheroes, has only two active fandoms—Marvel and DC. Given that my budget allows for only one ongoing series and I don’t feel right illegally downloading comics, I’ll have to pick one fandom in which to participate.
I’ve chosen my comic. It’s Wonder Woman....