Perhaps some of you are planning to join the demonstration, In Defense of Black Bodies #PhillyDIEIn, scheduled @ 4 p.m. today @ 30th Street Station, Market Street, Philadelphia. The organizers have been thoughtful in structuring the protest around different identities and solidarities--although from the Facebook page, it looks as though thoughtful is also problematic: blacks lie down, while non-black POC and white allies sit up? And biracial people? What about the huge gender divide here? Shouldn't women of all colors sit up, while the black men lie down?

Check out this article about teaching about Ferguson, mostly in secondary schools:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20141202_ap_b094dd8878d84685866ecc1baba11677.html

and this one about Asian Americans and Ferguson:

Hey all,

Here is the link for the facebook event for the DIEin tomorrow, Wed 12/3

https://www.facebook.com/events/1596568243905072/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Here are some zine making resources! Can everyone bring us magazines that theyre not using? We will need to cut them up!!

http://www.autostraddle.com/how-to-make-a-zine-82249/

http://www.rookiemag.com/2012/05/how-to-make-a-zine/

http://www.creativebloq.com/print-design/make-your-own-zines-11410390

Reading bridgetmartha's post sparked a desire in me to return to Nnaemeka's section on western feminism compared to nego-feminism. Re-reading this section highlighted for me some of my own presumptions, which came from approaching her work with a western feminist eye. Nnaemeka quotes a theorist (Steady 1987) who writes, "Neither sex is totally complete in itself. Each has and needs a complement, despite the possession of unique features of its own." This phrasing of "incompleteness" made me assume that Nnaemeka and Steady were assuming heterosexual relationships and the need for a man and woman to be partnered together. This is something I felt resistance to immediately. After reading through this section several more times, however, I caught myself.