Because no woman is an island....
This site argues that issues of race, gender, sexuality, and class are all tightly interlinked in American society. These are not exclusive issues, and we always want to remember that a gain for Chicanas is always a gain for other groups as well, whether it's poor women, white women, men of color, white lesbians, or Arab immigrants. This page makes some of those connections clear by focusing on groups and issues that work as allies to Chicanas and Latinas. Que siguen luchando, amigas!
Women of Color at the Global Reproductive Health Forum, a project of the Harvard School of Public Health. The single best Web collection of resources on reproductive issues for women of color, including recent work on Norplant, forced sterilizations, abortion access issues, sexuality, and addiction issues as well as classic and theoretical texts from Angela Davis, Gloria Anzaldua, Ana Castillo, Kim Crenshaw, Patricia Hill Collins, and Bell Hooks.
Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of different organizations and people committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry. The group is based on the "radical" idea that workers "should be earning a living wage in a safe and decent working environment, and that those who benefit the most from the exploitation of sweatshop workers must be held accountable." Be sure to check in and browse these different labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, and religious & student organizations....this is a powerful coalition site.
Run, don't walk, to James Crawford's excellent and informational website on national bilingual policy issues. Independent academic, and former editor of the Washington's Education Week, Mr. Crawford's site offers clear and grounded reporting and analysis of the English Only movement, English Plus, bilingual education, efforts to save endangered languages, and language rights in the U.S.A. Frequently updated, this is a must-see for anybody who cares about bilingual issues.
About
Face is a San Francisco-based grassroots
group that seeks to create "an about-face 
in
stagnant attitudes about women in our culture, to encourage young
girls to feel good about themselves and their bodies." The
website is dedicated to identifying negative and distorted corporate
advertising images of women with its gallery
of offenders; to acknowledge those companies
helping to forge positive change in women's images; and to
educating and empowering women in all our sizes, colors, and
forms. This is a terrific site that offers lots of practical
ways to support their project.
Nawal
El Saadawi is a leading Egyptian feminist, sociologist,
medical doctor (psychiatry), and writer. 
She
is one of the most widely translated contemporary Egyptian writers,
with her work available in different languages worldwide. She is
the author of a classic work on women in Islam, The Hidden Face
of Eve, and of many other published works, including plays, collections
of short stories, non-fiction, and novels, many of which are now
translated into English, including Woman at Point Zero, Death
of an Ex-Minister, and The Fall of the Imam.
~ African-American feminist legal scholar Vernellia Randall has created an excellent website with substantive information, references, bibliographies, and links on Gender & the Law, Race & the Law and other legal issues. Her site also includes this terrific bibiliography on Reproductive Issues and Women of Color.
~ Chicano!
A History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement, a terrific
PBS Documentary. Make your local school or library order a copy
and support PBS. This site also features short
bios of Chicana/o and Latina/o community leaders, organizers, artists,
etc. Be sure to notice how Chicana feminist issues surface
only briefly in the discussion of the Movimiento.....sigh.
~ Worse Than Queer, a web site for South Asian & Asian/Pacific Islander feminist sources-- queer, art, academics, zines, magazines, authors (i.e. fiction & poetry), resources, pop culture, bibliographies, allies, and more, more, more!!! This is a beautifully designed site with zillions of nooks and crannies to explore, as well as links to the newest and hippest stuff on the web. Created by Mimi Nguyen aka slantgirl, who has an amazing postcolonial webpage of her own....spend hours on these sites, at least....i'm still discovering new parts myself.... Woo hoo! Women of color are taking over the web, a page at a time!!!
SF mag for Asian and queer women at http://www.exoticizemyfist.com/
~ Planned Parenthood USA's website includes information on women's health, contraception, and reproductive issues as well as info on education and advocacy. Definitely check out the page on Your Contraceptive Choices. For excellent general information on reproductive health, contraception, and emergency contraception (in English and en espanol, check out this site by Princeton's Office of Population Research.
~ One of the oldest feminist organizations in this country, The National Organization for Women has a complete website including substantive sections on Abortion and Reproductive Rights, Affirmative Action, Economic Equity, Global Feminism, Young Feminism, and more...
~ Isis -- a page dedicated to the art and culture of women of the African diaspora. At a new address, so not fully functional, but definitely worth a visit.
~ Check out some recent articles by one of my favorite African-American feminist scholars, bell hooks. In "Sisters of the Yam," bell insightfully critiques Katie Roiphe's The Morning After, and in "Misogyny, Gangsta Rap, and The Piano," bell carefully teases out issues of gender, race, and class in the media.
~ ACLU Website on Women's Rights We should all be proud card-carrying members.... be sure to check out their excellent and concise discussion of affirmative action. Oh heck, it's worth quoting here: Affirmative action does not penalize white males. Fairness requires ending biased practices, not perpetuating them, and that includes ending the unjust advantages traditionally enjoyed by whites and white men. The conscientious effort to hire or admit women and people of color is a way for employers and schools to break their habit of favoring whites and males, and a way to facilitate the transition to nondiscriminatory practices. Restructuring a discriminatory status quo to create a nondiscriminatory environment isn't "reverse discrimination," but it may feel that way because something is being lost: White people are losing the favoritism they so long enjoyed in a system that discriminated on the basis of color and sex. Continued at ACLU site...
~ Check out SAWNET,
the
South Asian Women's Network Website with its excellent selection of resources
beginning with this bibliography of
South Asian Women's Writing and author
profiles, as well as news, articles, announcements, and info on health,
careers, and domestic violence. This is probably a good place to
mention a terrific anthology of writings by women of the South Asian diaspora
titled Our Feet Walk the Sky by aunt lute press (1993). Look
for it--or demand it--at your local bookstore and library.
~ There are some terrific women's resources on the 'Web, but unfortunately some of them just don't realize that we're not all 'just women.' (meaning white women). Some of us are women of color, some of us are lesbian, some of us are working class...this is the 90s, ladies.....and feminist scholarship _must_ engage issues of race, class, and sexuality as well as gender. That said, go ahead and check out Feminist Com. Mimi Nguyen reminded me that they also have a good selection of information on AIDS, Baby Care, Birth Control, Eating Disorder Treatment Centers, Women's Health Clinics and more....
~ Frontera Magazine.
Music, arts, culture and politics for Latinos on the cutting-edge. A sample
of the irreverence, wit and humor of the print version, online!
~Han
Queeran (= queer + korean) . Okay, this woman is Her-sterically Smart,
Funny, and Together (with a the capital T). Check out this amazing site
full of commentary, essays, and bibliography focused on issues affecting Korean
gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and otherwise queer folk. Like
I said, women of color are taking back the web....woo hoo!.
~ Okay I lied. I will try to do justice to the new WNBA. I must confess to little crushes on MVP Cynthia Cooper (right) of the Houston Comets, and also on the L.A. Sparks' own Lisa Leslie (lower left). Cynthia holds league records for most points per game and three point field goals, and is in the top ten for many others, including free-throw percentage, steals, assists, and minutes per game. And did you know Lisa holds the record for most points ever in any (men's or women's) high school basketball game? Playing for Morningside High School in Inglewood, California, she scored 101 points against South Torrance High School in the first half alone. She later of course went on to play in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta for the USA Basketball Women's National Team and now, the L.A. Sparks.
~ President's Interagency Council on Women, US Department of State. It is our government too....check out this impressive list of government resources on women and women's issues......
~ The United Farm Workers are currently in the midst of the Strawberry Campaign to improve wages and working conditions for California agricultural workers. Founded by Cesar Chavez and currently headed by Arturo Rodriguez and Dolores Huerta, the UFW has a long history of struggle for the rights of immigrants and people of color. See their current research links and UFW history.
~ In Motion Magazine is a multicultural, online U.S. publication which promotes progressive social change among communities of color and working people.
~ Lesbians of
Color History Project at USC. Review coming soon...
~ Creative,
funny, thought-provoking, and right on target--the Guerrilla
Girls have declared themselves "the conscience of the art world."
With lines like "Guerrilla
Girls proclaim internet too pale, too male!"--these savvy activists
are challenging racism and sexism in America's art scene....and beyond!
Browse their amazing poster collection, travel diary, and event log....
~ Pocho Productions provides
critical humor and analysis of 
racism
in the U.S. in this beautiful, new-and-expanded website....yes, of course,
they can be pretty sexist, so think "coalition" and look for
the brilliance in this amazing collection of satire and parody (here's
a Village Voice article about them). These guys are geniuses....and
if you don't know how to laugh at yourself (and that chorizo stain on your
shirt), you'd better stay away.
~ The Abortion Rights Activist Yay to Adam Guasch-Melendez for putting together this excellent site of abortion info and resources.
~ MANUSHI - an Indian Women's Feminist Journal
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