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By Verónica Bayetti Flores • @veroconplatanos • 9 years ago

Feministing Jamz song of the week: M.I.A.’s “Borders”

Last week, a day after teasing her fans with new artwork, the talented and always politically vocal M.I.A. shared a new song.


Following this summer’s Matahdatah Scroll 01 Broader Than a Border, Borders is a continuation of her recent examination – and questioning – of the concept of borders. The song, widely believed to be part of her upcoming audio-visual album Matahdatah, brings a number of current political issues to the forefront:

Borders
What’s up with that?
Politics
What’s up with that?
Police shots
What’s up with that?
Identities
What’s up with that?
Your privilege
What’s up with that?
Broke people
What’s up with that?
Boat people
What’s up with that?

Take a listen!

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Verónica Bayetti Flores has spent the last years of her life living and breathing reproductive justice. She has led national policy and movement building work on the intersections of immigrants' rights, health care access, young parenthood, and LGBTQ liberation, and has worked to increase access to contraception and abortion, fought for paid sick leave, and demanded access to safe public space for queer youth of color. In 2008 Verónica obtained her Master’s degree in the Sexuality and Health program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She loves cooking, making art, listening to music, and thinking about the ways art forms traditionally seen as feminine are valued and devalued. In addition to writing for Feministing, she is currently spending most of her time doing policy work to reduce the harms of LGBTQ youth of color's interactions with the police and making sure abortion care is accessible to all regardless of their income.

Verónica is a queer immigrant writer, activist, and rabble-rouser.

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