r.i.p.

So I've come to the sad realization that my literary quest for books on 1st generation youth is futile. This comes from the ambiguity with defining what is actually "1st generation", who identifies as this, if it's an acceptable term of identification, etc. Sigh ( Read more... )

Ooh, shocking ( Read more... )

Yo pals,

1.I'll be in Lextown for the holiday break for a week, from the 24th to the 31st. Kashmir, anyone..?! bueller?

2. Does anyone have book or article suggestions on growing up as a 1st generation child? Thanks in advance!

March for MUMIA tomorrow at 11:30am - from City hall to the AFSC building, where Ward Churchill will be speaking outside.

See you there!

http://www.freemumia.com

http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/002070.html

Canada based Somali hip hop artist K'naan and his crew brutalized by Swedish cops and bounces after his performance. (Share this link with everybody)

What the fuck for!

Check these hip hop artists out:

Son of Nun Support Palestine!

Head Roc Unslave your mind

I just finished watching these ppl perform. It was amazing "for 7aifa, for rafa7.."I loved everything but the obnoxious white man who kept shouting "Yeah, mothafuckaz!" and interrupting very profound speeches the singers were delivering with pseudo-racist ( Read more... )

AHHHHHHHHH!

My friend Kate and I will be saving money to go to N.Africa next summer, hopefully. Her cousin's in town and I've attempted to converse with him in Arabic and he's found no problems with my speech so far. I decided finally that the job I need is to work with refugees and asylees, to listen to their stories and not to push them into assimilation, ( Read more... )

I just found out one of my friends died of a heroin overdose last night. A lesson I'm learning more and more as time grows is to resist pushing people further into margins. She had a lot of concealed sadness inside her and opened up to anyone who would listen. No one really attempted to encourage her happiness and many downplayed her misery. R.I.P.