This month we've made several exciting changes to bustingbinaries.com. 

 

We have new critical writing up:  Fundamentalism in the Heart of Empire.

 

The new site features several exciting additions including: 

We encourage you all to check it out and to share your thoughts with us and each other.  


We've also added new work by Guest Writers:

The word “Lihish’tah'weel" is defined as: “a movement for two Rights of Return: for Palestinians to return to places that were stolen from them, for Jews to return to the expansive roots of Jewishness that have been stolen as well, and with equally devastating results.”   This brilliant piece is a MUST READ for anyone committed to binary busting and to true peace in Palestine/Israel. 

We also want to share the other writings and art work of Ricardo Levins Morales at: www.ricardolevinsmorales.com.  We are big supporters of the Northland Poster Collective.  So, if you have not seen the movement art that this amazing collective has produced over several decades please check it out at:  http://www.northlandposter.com/.   By the way, Ricardo is the artist who created the artwork on the BustingBinaries website. 

  • We want to welcome a new writer to our site, Michelle Dietert. Michelle’s critically important research on male-identified transpeople is another MUST READ.  Her research is entitled: “Living in a Gender Dichotomized Society: The Experiences of Male-Identified Transpeople.” This is Michelle’s dissertation for her doctorates in Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Texas Woman’s University.  We want to thank Michelle for generously sharing her research with us over the past year. 

Comments from our readers:

Hi folks...

Just finished reading an essay collection I thought might be appropriate for your site...which looks great, by the way....

Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects, ed. SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Spiers, foreword by Naomi Zack. Austin: U of Texas, P, 2004

A lot of the essays are responding explicitly to the 2000 census and its "new" categories, and then jumping off into ways that multiple identities are mediated by media, psychology, culture...they are particularly adept at negotiating the personal with the political and the academic...

cheers,
Randi


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Lauren Jade Martin"
laurenjaded@riseup.net

lisa,

hey there. sorry it's taken so long to reply to your email. thanks for the kind words re: the website. i'm always glad to hear from other mixed-race queers. and i'm psyched to explore your website more, too. next time i update mine, i'll add a link. take care,

lauren


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Dear Lisa and Ana,

Hello!  How great to get your email. I'll definitely spread the word.  Also, I'm making a website right now and will add you to my links page.  The website will have a page for Colonize This! and other writings.  Feel free to add it to your info page: www.bushrarehman.com.

LOVe,
Bushra

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Hi Lisa,

I met you at NOA (last year maybe??) in North Carolina.  I was with a group

of other mostly young organizers from FIERCE and we were talking about sustainablity within organizing.  I was the black girl with the curly fro. I wanted to let you know that I left FUREE in October in order to salvage my health and sanity.  Now I work part-time at ALP around police, state, and hate violence.  And spend the remainder of the time figuring out how to deal with some stress related health issues. An email about busting binaries came across my email and I wanted to holla and say the website looks great and to keep up the good work.  Over the last year I've remembered a lot about that conversation and realized a lot of what you said firsthand, that no one would take care of my personal health but myself.


I hope you're well.

Take Care of Yourself.


In Struggle,

Ejeris

Ejeris Dixon

Program Associate: Organizing

(Anti-Police/State Violence)

Audre Lorde Project

(718) 596-0342 Ext. 22

Fax: (718) 596-1328


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Great site Lisa – congratulations!

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