#WhitePrivilege Tweets 7.23

#WhitePrivilege Tweets 7.23

Andy Lopez mural goes up in Roseland

 

Three miles from where 13-year-old Andy Lopez was shot and killed by a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy nearly a year ago, a mural of the boy went up.

Santa Rosa artist Mario Uribe installed Friday the temporary 8-foot-by-16-foot mural along the side of a vacant gas station at West Avenue and Sebastopol Road in the heart of Roseland. It’s one of the busiest intersections in the southwest Santa Rosa neighborhood, which was rattled by the fatal Oct. 22 shooting by Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Erick Gelhaus, who reportedly mistook the airsoft BB gun Lopez was carrying for an AK-47 assault rifle that it was designed to resemble.

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My life as a colony: a self-portrait in four parts -by Claire Marie O’Brien

 

It’s funny how much people hate

to see me standing at the Gates,

presuming  I can give expression

to real,  system-wide oppression.

To them I say,” Well you tell me

why nothing here applies to me.

Why every  fundamental right

applies to everyone  in sight

except for those you single out

as people who just do not count.”

 

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Source: electricinthedesert.wordpress.com

 

Check the whole post to get the full impact.

 

It’s haunting and powerful.

 

Everyone and Their Mother, and Apple, Want Emojis to Be More Diverse

Across mobile, and especially in iOS, people use emojis to express deep and complicated emotions. But the lack of diversity in the human-related emojis makes it hard to accurately represent life through these pictograms. For the most part (see above), they either depict white people/disembodied white hands, or the traditional…

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Mindy Kaling on the cover of Elle

Mindy Kaling, best known for being in “The Office” (2005-2013) and “The Mindy Kaling Project” (2012- ) on American television, made the cover of the February 2014 issue of Elle magazine in America….

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Gradient Lair – Kick Ass Blog

“ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s Street Art Confronts Sexual Harassment”
STOP STREET HARASSMENT. Love this campaign.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

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http://vintagegoodness.com/new-goodness-at-auction-on-ebay-this-week-6/ Favianna Rodriguez artist. agitator. techie. I make art about womyn, love, sex, sluts, queers, migration, revolution & justice. I work for global social justice. http://www.favianna.com

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

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