If you’re in NYC on June 6th and thinking about possibly running a Kickstarter project, come to the second Kickstarter Open House! Kickstarter staff and successful project creators will be around to hang out and chat about whatever project ideas you have, big or small. Our first event in February was a blast, so we’d be thrilled to see you in June!
“So this studio head says to me ‘Black people don’t like science fiction.’ I said thanks and goodbye. When my husband and I left that meeting, we were mad. This (white) executive was telling me, a major sci-fi geek, and my husband Tony, a pioneering black sci-fi screenwriter (he wrote Eraser), what we and people like us did and did not like. We got mad, and then we got down to work. Along with my brother Robert, we created Concrete Park, a sci-fi story full of people of color.
-Erika Alexander from Showbiz Is Glamorous
As many of you know, our friend Rosa Sparks is having a real shit time of it lately. The most recent in a long string of personal upheavals is that the house where she and her daughter live was just robbed, and many of their personal…
neonV is a biannual magazine for the contemporary peculiar woman. assuming an uncanny perspective, the magazine offers women a compelling storyline of traditional and innovative content by exposing the cultural and subcultural continuums in fashion, art, beauty and travel.
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paintings by Erin Currier; top to bottom, left to right: Nataly Medrano, Liliana Elizabeth Sanchez, Silvia Sanchez Viesca Ortiz, Alma Marguerita Lopez Garcia, Perla Ivonne Aguirre Gonzalez
The phenomenon of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, called in Spanish the feminicidios (femicides) and las muertas de Juárez (The dead women of Juárez), involves the violent deaths of hundreds of women since 1993 in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, a border city across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. The victims of these crimes have preponderantly been young women, between 12 and 22 years of age. Many were students, and most were maquiladora workers. A number were relative newcomers to Ciudad Juárez who had migrated from other areas of Mexico and Central America. The estimated homicide toll is speculated to be around 400, but many local residents believe that the true count of los feminicidios stands at an estimated 5,000 victims. Most of the cases remained unsolved as of 2011.
Half of the proceeds of the sale of this work will be donated to Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa for the purpose of finding the missing, and holding those responsible for the dead accountable.
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we gon talk about how Tim Wise has raised more than $13,000 in just a couple days on his kickstarter for his new documentary called “White Like Me”…
People of Color are more than capable of doing that same work.. And many are doing that same work… And they don’t garner that…
Until Monday morning, Kiera Wilmot was a well-behaved student at Bartow High School in central Florida with good grades and an interest in science. But that morning, she mixed some chemicals together in a small water bottle that caused a tiny explosion. There was a bang and some smoke, but nobody was even close to being hurt.
I remember doing experiments like that in high school. But Kiera was immediately called to the principal’s office, expelled from her school, and arrested by the police (accused of an adult felony charge). If she gets convicted, she could even lose voting rights and have lots of trouble finding employment and housing in the future.
I’m inspired by the people (especially scientists) speaking out on Twitter with solidarity for Kiera. One look at the hashtag #KieraWilmot shows the outpouring of sympathy for what’s happened to her. Curiosity is not a crime, and we shouldn’t be treating it like one!
To help her out, I want to collect some funds for Kiera’s family for the large legal bills that will surely come up as she fights her case in court. She deserves a top lawyer! If we manage to raise any money beyond her legal needs, it should go towards a scholarship fund for her. We need more young American women studying science, and they shouldn’t be afraid of taking chances.UPDATE: This campaign has been verified by Crowdtilt, let’s start raising some funds for Kiera!
She is just a kid. Please help out, donate, spread the word and reblog.
Seriously, I did plenty of science experiments as a kid that ended in property damage and occasional burns, and I never got in trouble for it. Honestly I got praised for it, I was just being a dumb ass in the name of science. Being a dumb ass for science is just the first step to be a genius for science.
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An episodic TV series documenting the lives of Queer Black Visionaries.this looks awesome
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* I changed my url name to gardeniasandgoldchains.tumblr.com so I was hoping that you would re-submit my project under that name.
Hi, my name is Tiara Peeples, and I am a junior of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati. I have been writing since I was in elementary school, and I have always had a love/hate relationship with myself and my writing that caused me to go through spurts of writing and presenting my poetry until I would become afraid and stop. After becoming an Africana Studies major, I realized the importance of women of color sharing our work and our experiences, shared and separate. Unfortunately, it is often hard to find safe spaces for queer women of color, and our absence from media and academia makes it hard for a lot of us to find a voice and/or share that voice with others.
This is why I would like to attend the VONA/Voices Summer Writing Workshop (http://voicesatvona.org/Applying_for_VONA_Voices.html) for women of color writers this summer. The application, tuition and board will cost $2,250*, and I would also like to raise $250 in order to travel by bus or car. I will be sharing my writing, as well as my inspirations, while I’m hosting this fundraiser. I hope that you all enjoy it, and that you give in anyway that you can.
*I’ve corrected the math here because I thought the cost of board was $600.00, not $650.00.
Fees for Tuition and Board
*Regular: Weeklong workshop $800
*Residency: $700
*Room and Board: $650 (includes meal card)
*A $100.00 non-refundable deposit is required
I created this blog in order to have an online space for Kick Starter and Indie Gogo projects created by Black girls. #GetFunded.
