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Mariela Flores replied to the topic Week 9 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 4 months ago
In Friday’s discussion someone mentioned that they vaguely remembered an armed confrontation between the U.S. government and Native Americans. I also vaguely remembered a similar event but could not pinpoint what indigenous nation was involved and what was the source of the conflict. However, I now was able to research that the event I was trying…[Read more]
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Mariela Flores replied to the topic Week 8 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 4 months ago
For this week’s photo share I wanted to focus on the controversy that surrounded Aurora Perrineau’s own #MeToo story. Perrineau is a Black actress who in 2017 came forward to say that she had been raped by Murray Miller, a writer on the HBO show Girls, in 2011 when she was 17 years old and Miller 35. Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, an actress and…[Read more]
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Mariela Flores replied to the topic Week 7 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
After this week’s and particularly Friday’s discussion of the Black Lives Matter movement and the way Black women are often undermined in it, I wanted to focus on the role of Black women in current movements for Black lives. I included a 2015 picture of Brittany “Bree” Newsome who scaled flagpole at a South Carolina statehouse and took down the…[Read more]
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Mariela Flores replied to the topic Week 6 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
This week I also wanted to relate our discussions about the student activism surrounding Ethnic Studies departments our own campus’ history. I have recently learned more about UCSD’s own extensive history of student and campus community activism despite its rumored reputation to be “socially and politically dead”. I wanted to use a graphic that…[Read more]
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Mariela Flores replied to the topic Week 5 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
This week I wanted to focus on the growing underground movement of Black women rappers. As we discussed in class, some rap has been historically laden with often violently misogynistic sentiment, specifically against Black women. This in turn has made rap nearly exclusive to men and therefor very difficult for women to find platforms or even…[Read more]
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Mariela Flores replied to the topic Week 4 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
After our discussion about the Black Panther Party on Wednesday, my peer at the Cross-Cultural Center also presented on the Black Panther Party and their publicly unrecognized works. My peer focused on the party’s radical work in medicine and healthcare, specifically in sickle-cell disease, which had been significantly ignored by the U.S.…[Read more]
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Mariela Flores replied to the topic Week 3 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 6 months ago
This week I choose to share a picture from a dialogue between the eminent poet and activist, Nikki Giovanni, and James Baldwin which was televised on PBS Soul! in 1971. Giovanni’s earlier famous works such as Black Feeling, Black Thought (1968) and Black Judgement (1968), were influenced by the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. In the dia…[Read more]
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Mariela Flores replied to the topic Week 2 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 6 months ago
I chose this image of James Baldwin, a prominent Black American novelist and social critic, because his presence was essential in the turbulent times of the civil rights movement and beyond. I chose this specific image of Baldwin next to Martin Luther King Jr. because I think their different perspectives regarding the civil rights speaks volumes…[Read more]
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Mariela Flores joined the group Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 6 months ago