Another treasure: http://skizzlikesgirlsandbball.tumblr.com/
Well , heller theree. My name is skyler, i’m 16. I’m puertorican and i’m loud. Whenever i laugh i end up crying. I’m athletic and my life revolves around sports. I live in Ohio, i don’t like it here, I wanna move somewhere that its always hot. I like girls. And i like meeting new people. There’s not much more to it. Talk to me >;D
You can follow me on twitter and i’ll follow back @skizzisaboss10.
Here’s my facebook page tooo. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000077823032&ref=tn_tnmn
skype : skylerortiz10
I never get tired of seeing Latinas who are out and proud. It makes my heart happy.
02/05/12
West Side Story - ”A Boy Like That”
Interesting factoid: In 1995 Selena recorded “A Boy Like That” for the various-artists compilation album The Songs of West Side Story, which was a benefit for AIDS Project Los Angeles.
02/04/12
disgirlslife:
Arturo Alfonso (January 24, 1874 –June 8, 1938) Schomburg was born in Puerto Rico on January 24, 1874. He began his education in a primary school in San Juan, where he studied reading, penmanship, sacred history, church history, arithmetic, Spanish grammar, history, agriculture and commerce. Arturo’s fifth-grade teacher is said to have told him that “Black people have no history, no heroes, no great moments.” Because of this and his participation in a history club, Schomburg developed a thirst for knowledge about people of African descent and began his lifelong quest studying the history and collecting the books and artifacts that made up the core of his unique and extensive library.
He came to New York in April 1891 and lived on the Lower East Side. He was involved in the revolutionary movements of the immigrant Cubans and Puerto Ricans living in that area, regularly attending meetings and working at odd jobs while attending night school at Manhattan Central High School. Schomburg became a Mason and met bibliophile and journalist John Edward Bruce. “Bruce Grit” introduced Schomburg to the African-American intellectual community and encouraged him to write about African world history and continue to increase his knowledge.
Arturo Schomburg would look everywhere for books by and about African people. He also collected letters, manuscripts, prints, playbills and paintings. He was especially proud of his collection of Benjamin Banneker’s Almanacs. In fact, his library contained many rare and unusual items from all over the world. The history of the Caribbean and Latin America and the lives of heroic people in that region was also an area of special interest to Schomburg. And he actively sought any material relative to that subject.
Schomburg’s collection became the cornerstone of The New York Public Library’s Division of Negro Literature, History, and Prints. He frequently loaned objects from his personal library to the 135th Street Branch of The New York Public Library, which was a center of intellectual and cultural activity in Harlem. In 1926 his collection of 10,000 items was purchased by the Library with the assistance of the Carnegie Corporation. He was later invited to be the curator of the new division which included his collections. He became involved in the social and literary movement that started in Harlem, known as the “Harlem Renaissance.” which spread to African-American communities throughout the country. Schomburg fully shared his knowledge of the history of peoples of African descent with the young scholars and writers of the New Negro movement. One of his primary motivations was to combat racial prejudice by providing proof of the extraordinary contributions of peoples of African descent to world history. Schomburg wrote, “I depart now on a mission of love to recapture my lost heritage.”
Today, the Schomburg Center contains over 10,000,000 items and provides services and programs for constituents from the United States and abroad. They also host great events. Check out their calendar.
02/03/12
This isn’t usual Oh, Mija fare but we love M.I.A. so BOOM! Here is is. M.I.A.’s new video for “Bad Girls” premiered today on Noisey’s YouTube channel.
If you like, leave a comment or video response within the next few days (on the YouTube video, not here). M.I.A. could respond to it with a video shout-out on Feb 10.
The question we posed:
In the video, M.I.A.’s not the only female who is actually drag racing. In real Saudi drag racing culture, do women participate? If not, is the video a nod towards a future that she would like to see? A Saudi culture where women have the same rights as men?
Other commenters have questioned the excess in the video, as well as whether it’s a statement about how being “bad” as a women in an oppressive culture does lead to dying young.
What do you think?
02/03/12
