More of that Helen Zia Genius Stuff

If you're a regular reader of my blog, you know that I tend to freely admit my idolatry for Helen Zia.  That practice is what I call 

Zialotry: noun.  The continued practice, thought process, advocacy, and idolatry of Helen Zia.

Origin://The Sudy Verr Online Dictionary of Feminist Verbs//

Zia is the host for As I Am, an hour-long radio program that speaks from and to the Asian American experience, which an unbelievably rich and untapped garden of stories.  Gain insight, think of your own culture, and learn from one of the most inspiring feminists alive, tune in to As I Am.

H/T to Jenn at Reappropriate who always shows me more hope in this world.

A Split Sister

I often write about biculturalism. I am Filipina. As a Pinay, there are not that many seekers out there looking for the same thing - truth of identity, complexity, and shifting explanations of self, home, and resistance.

Thank you, my dear Nadia, for showing me Jen Clare Garawan, who uses art to explore her Asian American identity. My sister, your work is beautiful!

Mabuhay!

And the spotlight is on...

Patti Duncan.

In my endless surfing of women of color on the net, I have found Patti Duncan.

A woman who, from what I've read, has dipped her personal identity to mingle with her scholarship has published a book that has come out this past spring.

A woman who focuses on women of color organizing.

Enough.

That deserves some spotlight.

Spotlighting WOC Feminist Authors

Because if one more person gives me a book about feminism written for young women in which YOUNG women of color are given a sideglance

Because if I bitch anymore without offering options

Because if I don't do my part in highlight women of color who are standing up and speaking out

I MIGHT GO NUTS BEFORE '08 GETS HERE.

Want to give young women of color books to read where they may feel more at home with the author?

Here's an option, order a copy or download the entire work of a woman from Advocates for Youth

Marcela Howard's, "Walk in My Shoes: A Black Activist's Guide for Surviving the Women's Movement."

I have yet to finish it in its entirety, but this is a series of essays meant for a younger crowd, a telling of why one woman of color stayed with the Women's and Reproductive Rights Movement despite its history of racial exclusion.