June 20, 2007 by elenamary
Thanks to my friend Zero for forwarding me a wonderfully awful music video. This chick may be more obsessive than I am, BUT she has only had a crush on him since the 2004 Democratic National Convention I had a crush on him way before the convention.
Enjoy!
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June 18, 2007 by elenamary
Maury Povich can host a show “who is the baby’s daddy” where they test multiple men all having unprotected sex to see if they are the daddy. This airs at 4pm in the afternoon when kids are getting home from school BUT God forbid they air condom advertisements at night. From the NY Times:
In a written response to Trojan, though, Fox said that it had rejected the spot because, “Contraceptive advertising must stress health-related uses rather than the prevention of pregnancy.”
That is right Fox & CBS refused to air condom adds because condoms should only be used for health related uses. What pregnancy isn’t a health-related issue? This wreaks, stinks, of patriarchy bullshit. Do we really believe Sexuality is for procreation, condoms should only be used for prevention of STDs, and that women and sex can be used to sell alcohol but not contraceptives?
Guess what I got this little bit of reality for you CBS & Fox; pregnancy is an STD and that is why I volunteer at an abortion clinic.
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June 8, 2007 by elenamary
I think about this quote often. I’ve shared it here before but it is good enough to be shared multiple times. I hope my sisters enjoy this!
“Once , watching a porn film, I saw a sight that terrified me. It was the film star’s panocha—a tidy, elliptical opening, pink and shiny like rabbit’s ear. To make matters worse, it was shaved.
I think what startled me most was the realization that my own sex has no resemblance to this woman’s. My sex, dark as an orchid, rubbery and blue purple as a pulpo, an octopus, does not look nice and tidy, but otherworldly.
When I see La Virgen de Guadalupe I want to lift her dress as I did my dolls’ and look to see if she comes with chones, and does her panocha look like mine, and does she have dark nipples too? Yes, I am certain she does.”
Sandra Cisneros
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February 11, 2004 by elenamary
I’ve never understood the obsession with La Malinche until now, and only because I am using her as an icon in with whom I can identify with, who can help me define my behavior, my sexual relationships, my personal identity—yes ladies and gentlemen, I have become Xicana.Who is La Malinche? She is a women known by many names; Mother of Mestizos, La Primera Madre de nuestra nacionalidad (the first mother of our nationality), La Madre Violada (the raped mother), Malintzin, La Chingada (the fucked/raped one), Doña Marina, the traitor, the womb, the tongue…
Malinche was a translator for Hernan Cortez. Some texts will argue that she was an Aztec princess sold to Hernan Cortez, she was neither Aztec nor a princess. A description of her as princesses was not used until she had a child by Cortez, and was needed to be described as “noble” by Spanish historians after the conquest. Also, most texts of that time make note that she was not Aztec but Chicanos have made her Aztec, they pretty much have made almost all Mexicans Aztec—which we are not—but that is another story.
So, La Malinche is this women who has been sold as a slave since childhood between many tribes. She learns not only their languages but the ethos of their languages. She is sold to the Spanish where she learns Spanish and is then given to Hernan Cortez with another 20 or so women. It is here that it is noticed that she can be valuable as a translator for Cortez. She warns Cortez of an uprising against him. Cortez using this knowledge goes out and slaughters a whole town where the uprising is supposed to be coming from, and this is argued, is what leads him to take full control of México. La Malinche gives birth to what is argued is the first Mestizo child (Cortez being the father) and this child is taken away from her and to Spain where he can be raised correctly. All of this is oversimplified but you all get the jist.
So, Xicana feminists love reclaiming La Malinche because she is the virgin/whore dichotomy in one. She is super intelligent and yet portrayed as a whore. She is thought of as a traitor to her race (the indigenous people of Mexico) and yet as the mother of La Mestizaje. She is referred to in text as only body parts, tongue and womb. Her tongue a tool used to bring down the people and equated with evil, her womb equated with goodness and the carrier of the Mestizo people. She is a whore and a mother. She is referred to as La Chingada (the fucked one), Cortez as El Chingon (the fucker) and her children as the hijos of la chingada (children of the fucked–the byproducts of rape).
I like la Malinche because she is really misunderstood (not that i think she will ever be understood). But for christs sake, my people, the Purepecha, like others could be blamed for the fall of the Aztecs. The Aztecs sent messengers to the Purepecha for assistance, and the Aztec messengers were sacrificed. It wasn’t one person like La Malinche, or one group of people like the Purepecha that brought the fall of multiple nations, but many factors.
Sometimes, Mexican or Chicana women who date or marry outside of Latino are referred to as Malinchistas. I like this in that it gives me something I can grab a hold of reconstruct and return to the world. Go ahead, I want to be a MALINCHISTA! I am hija de una chingada. But I will not be a chingada nor will I be a virgin, nor am I Eve your temptress. I am smart and quick tongued, and all the goodness and sexuality of the womb.
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February 5, 2004 by elenamary
Today, Phil was offered the job in Austin. It was wonderful news at first but now is somewhat bitter sweet. It is awesome for him, however I’ll be losing my friend. And up until yesterday I thought I’d be moving to Austin too (not until September). However, it is beginning to look like I may end up moving to Puerto Rico to finish my sciences.
To celebrate Phil’s awesome news we went to the Wexner center to see Leningrad Cowboys Go America and during a scene on La Frontera with La Virgen de Guadalupe in the backdrop, Phil leans in and whispers “Every time I see Virgin Mary, I see Vaginas. It is all your fault. I am serious.”
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