Category Archives: Feminism

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : Video-Lyrics

Indian legislation on the desk of a do-right Congressman

Now, he don’t know much about the issue

so he picks up the phone and he asks advice from the

Senator out in Indian country

A darling of the energy companies who are

ripping off what’s left of the reservations. Huh.

1.

I learned a safety rule

I don’t know who to thank

Don’t stand between the reservation and the

corporate bank

They send in federal tanks

It isn’t nice but it’s reality

chorus:

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

Deep in the Earth

Cover me with pretty lies

bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Huh.

2.

They got these energy companies that want the land

and they’ve got churches by the dozen who want to

guide our hands

and sign Mother Earth over to pollution, war and

greed

Get rich… get rich quick.

chorus…

3. We got the federal marshals

We got the covert spies

We got the liars by the fire

We got the FBIs

They lie in court and get nailed

and still Peltier goes off to jail

chorus…

4.

My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium

Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped

The FBI cut off her hands and told us she’d died of

exposure

Loo loo loo loo loo

chorus…

We had the Goldrush Wars

Aw, didn’t we learn to crawl and still our history gets

written in a liar’s scrawl

They tell ‘ya “Honey, you can still be an Indian

d-d-down at the ‘Y’

on Saturday nights”

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

Deep in the Earth

Cover me with pretty lies

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Huh!

via Buffy Sainte-Marie: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : Video-Lyrics.

Janice Suhji Lucha Libre

Janice Suhji is currently working on a project that involves home-made Luchador masks and vintage dresses in order to commemorate every woman who is fighting the unseen fight, taking her stand as a woman in this world. From hijabs, wedding veils, to recent beating of Pussy Riot in Sochi, Russia, mask has been and still is playing a significant role in the history of women.

In Máscara Contra Máscara, process is everything. First, comes the thrifting of feminine and domestic-looking dresses. Then, Suhji applies a skill that traditionally has always been a woman’s responsibility–sewing–in making one of the most masculine and violent symbols, a Mexican wrestling mask, that would go with the dress. Each home-made mask has its own wrestler name, is photographed on a female model, in an environment where the woman is camouflaged with the background. Each final image is a composite of minimum twelve photographs.

via Janice Suhji.

Prominent Iranian activist arrested in Tehran – Al Jazeera English

Iranian security forces have arrested a prominent activist just days after she was charged in court with crimes “against national security”, a human rights group has said.

Narges Mohammadi, a senior leader of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Centre, was “forcibly arrested” early on Tuesday from her house in the Iranian capital, Tehran, according to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group.

The report said that security forces entered her house and arrested her, after she refused to open her door.

via Prominent Iranian activist arrested in Tehran – Al Jazeera English.

MyStealthyFreedom – MSF

MyStealthyFreedom - MSF

“I hate all the fake hijabs, all the meaningless beliefs cruelly forced upon us, all the funny ‘musts’ that have turned into laws. Please listen. The sunshine is mine as well. Don’t be surprised if you see a girl who is tempted to escape from these cruel, nonsense obligations that originate from your mind. The air is her’s as well. She feels hot as well. She would like to spend the summer, pleasantly, coolly. A woman who has rotted under a burden of fake hijab. A woman who is still naked in your eyes besides all this covering. My heart feels broken in this weather.”

via MyStealthyFreedom – MSF.