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UBUNTU...BETTER TO SPEAK...'s Interests
General
Wishful Thinking... For Black Women at Duke and NCCU especially
1. you wake up each day
as new as anyone
there is no reason to assume
you would be supernaturally strong.
there is no reason to test your stregnth
through daily disrespect and neglect.
you don't need to be strong.
everyone supports you.
2. if you say ouch
we believe that you are hurt.
we wait to hear how we can help
to mend your pain...
Music
“What would happen in one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.”
- From: "Kathe Kollwitz" by Muriel Rukeseyer
Movies
Television
Books
Surviving the Silence, This bridge called my back, The color of violence, The Big Box, The Giving Tree
Heroes
Audre Lorde, Fannie Lou Hammer, Harriet Tubman Ntazake Shange, Aishah Simmons, Charlotte Pierce-Baker, YOU AND ME
About me: UBUNTU is Women of Color and Survivor-led. This means that we emphasize people most affected by sexual violence as public representatives of the group (i.e., media, mobilizations, public meetings, events, etc.), and in the group’s internal structure and processes (membership/composition, roles, and decision-making). This is our way of reclaiming power. The name UBUNTU reflects a commitment to a traditional sub-Saharan African concept of the same name, which roughly translated means "I am because we are".
We have joined together through our rage, our pain, and our hope to generate strategies and actions that prevent, disrupt, transform and heal sexual violence. We are committed to challenging oppression in all forms because we recognize that none of us is free until we all are.
"...but when we are silent WE ARE STILL AFRAID
So it is BETTER TO SPEAK
remembering
WE were never meant to survive" -Audre Lorde
Who I'd like to meet: YOU...YOU...YOU...YOU...YOU....YOU...YOU...YOU...AND DID I SAY YOU...YOU...YOU...YOU... ASSATA SHAKUR...AND YOU...
CHECK US OUT, ALSO AT: iambecauseweare.wordpress.com
SpiritHouse and UBUNTU at he United States Social Forum. What a treat!!!
NEED time: Friday at 20:30 PM (8:30) location: Horizon Theater room at the Little Five Points Community Center
This workshop will invite participants to interact with a performance of Audre Lorde’s Need: A Chorale for Black Women’s Voices as a forum to discuss the war on women and how we can overcome the silence that perpetuates violence in oppressed communities.
We want the participants to leave with strategies for breaking silence in their communities. We want them to leave enabled to use art as tool to engage with issues and problems in their own communities, relationships and personal lives. We also intend for participants to take away their own copy of Need and the sample curricula that we have developed and the art that they will have created in conversation with the piece.
The presenters will perform the piece NEED and lead a discussion in which participants discuss their responses to the piece. Then the participants will break into groups to explore sample workshops that they may be able to use in their communities.
Our workshop/performance will be conducted in English. We do not have a sign language interpreter or a vocal translator who has signed on so far. We are very open to being paired with people who could provide these services. (This workshop is co-facilitated by SpiritHouse and UBUNTU. And is listed in the USSF schedule under SpiritHouse)
Feminism: Gender, Race and Class time: Saturday at 18:00 PM (6:00) location: Atlanta Ballroom B room at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown
The Feminism: Gender, Race and Class workshop will initiate a strategic process for rebuilding/building the women’s liberation movement. Solidarity, a national co-sponsor of the USSF, is lead organization. This workshop acknowledges attacks on the gains of the women’s liberation movement and the impact of gender, race and class contradictions inside the wom
"Woman's strongest vindication for speaking [is] that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half of the human family be stifled."
Anna Julia Cooper
"Speak yo' speak ... 'cause when you don't, it becomes a lump in your throat, and then, it becomes a lump in your lymphatic system."
Momma Wit, from Toni Cade Bambara's mother to her ...
What a joy to be in UBUNTU family.Proud, full, satisfied. All good. Could never say it as beautifully as Nina Simone said it, like it was written for y'all: "Don't you know you're Life itself?"
Yesterday's Day of Truthtelling was such a brimming success! Mad props to the folks who worked so hard to make it beautifulpowerfullovingecstatic! I am proud of our fam.
Text msg from R to me:
Rise and shine, love. It's a good day 4 people to tell their truth. Thanks to you and Ubuntu, 4 all your work 4 sisters' self-determination. Que viva Ubuntu! Que vivan las mujeres!
(Stay safe. Please. Use ur friendly cop voice with them if u have to talk with them. Oh... and f* the police.)
sending you bouquets and bouquets fierceness from all the people who are inspired by you but who can't be there tomorrow. from one such individual in los angeles, xo, c
