Tag Archives: Indigenous Issues
Australia’s Indigenous incarceration crisis
TweetAn indigenous Australian is 15 times more likely than a non-Aboriginal Australian. Indigenous Australians constitute 2% of the country’s population, and 25% of its prison population. And of the 2056 inmates to die in custody in Australia between 1982 and 2008, 379 of them – that’s 18% – were Aboriginal. Those numbers represent a crisis [...]
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CLPP 2011: Colonized Spaces, Criminalized Bodies
TweetThe ongoing legacies of colonialism are tied into the aggressive over-policing of communities of color and criminalization of poor people, immigrants, and sexual minorities. Panelists will talk about activism and personal work to expose and resist the effects of current and historical colonial occupation. Falguni Sheth, a philosopher teaching at Hampshire College, moderated the panel [...]
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The Feministing Five: Jessica Yee
TweetJessica Yee is the Founder and Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, a North America-wide organization devoted to reproductive justice, sexual health and youth empowerment. It’s for youth, by youth – its oldest employee is twenty-five and its youngest is fourteen. Half of America’s indigenous population is under twenty-five, and Native Americans [...]
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Peruvian Organization Threatened with Violence After Protesting Racist TV Show
Tweet In Peru, a debate is raging over whether the two disturbingly racist television characters pictured above should be banned from television. I think it’s time that those who defend the racism and sexism of these characters be forced to do so on the international stage. As pictured above, the characters “El Negro Mama” and [...]
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Quick hit: Rally held in Sydney to protest police violence against Indigenous community