The House of Womyn's Power

mujerinterrumpida:

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine

mujerinterrumpida:

Come join me at Word Up Books for a special reading of selections from my first book, “Hija De Mi Madre”, as well as poetry from “Odas De La Mujer De Miel”. I will also be sharing new poetry and prose in progress that continues the story I began to tell in 2007 when I sat down and began to put together the experience of an Afro-Latina from my own life.

More details to come soon! =)

When: May 17th, 2012
Where: Word Up Books - 4157 Broadway @ 176 Street, Washington Heights, NYC
Time: 7pm - 9pm

mujerinterrumpida:

Come join me at Word Up Books for a special reading of selections from my first book, “Hija De Mi Madre”, as well as poetry from “Odas De La Mujer De Miel”. I will also be sharing new poetry and prose in progress that continues the story I began to tell in 2007 when I sat down and began to put together the experience of an Afro-Latina from my own life.

More details to come soon! =)

When: May 17th, 2012
Where: Word Up Books - 4157 Broadway @ 176 Street, Washington Heights, NYC
Time: 7pm - 9pm

Peace fam,

I am contacting every single person I can think of to help me connect with opportunities to get speaking engagements this year. I can email my CV to interested folks and below is what I am about. Love you very very much!

I am an Afro-Dominican woman born and raised in the Bronx. I am a writer and certified birth doula. I am a member of the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC), a sister of Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Inc., and the Intangible Collective. The focus of my work is the empowerment of women and people of the African Diaspora, specifically discussing the Afro-Latina Identity. I utilize my experience as a birth doula to raise awareness on maternal and infant health for womyn of color, highlighting the disparities in the healthcare system in the United States. In October 2009, I completed and self-published my literary work called ‘Hija De Mi Madre’ (My Mother’s Daughter), which is a combination of memoirs, poems and research material that not only explain the effects of race on identity from an academic standpoint but also shares my life as a living example. I am working on returning to school to become a certified nurse-midwife to continue to advocate for womyn and their overall well-being.

My bit on African hair at a panel discussion at Cornell University on “good” hair and “bad” hair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taf1HuWAtrM

Excerpt from Syracuse University: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ71sGYLkaY

Digiprose poem, “For the Leaping Tongues of Fire Womyn”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76FIk8tMbDs

Link for Hija De Mi Madre purchase: http://www.amazon.com/Hija-Mi-Madre-Carmen-Mojica/dp/1453832963

(Source: mujerinterrumpida)

mujerinterrumpida:

Peace fam,

I am contacting every single person I can think of to help me connect with opportunities to get speaking engagements this year. I can email my CV to interested folks and below is what I am about. Love you very very much!

I am an Afro-Dominican woman born and raised in the Bronx. I am a writer and certified birth doula. I am a member of the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC), a sister of Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Inc., and the Intangible Collective. The focus of my work is the empowerment of women and people of the African Diaspora, specifically discussing the Afro-Latina Identity. I utilize my experience as a birth doula to raise awareness on maternal and infant health for womyn of color, highlighting the disparities in the healthcare system in the United States. In October 2009, I completed and self-published my literary work called ‘Hija De Mi Madre’ (My Mother’s Daughter), which is a combination of memoirs, poems and research material that not only explain the effects of race on identity from an academic standpoint but also shares my life as a living example. I am working on returning to school to become a certified nurse-midwife to continue to advocate for womyn and their overall well-being.

My bit on African hair at a panel discussion at Cornell University on “good” hair and “bad” hair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taf1HuWAtrM

Excerpt from Syracuse University: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ71sGYLkaY

Digiprose poem, “For the Leaping Tongues of Fire Womyn”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76FIk8tMbDs

Link for Hija De Mi Madre purchase: http://www.amazon.com/Hija-Mi-Madre-Carmen-Mojica/dp/1453832963

mujerinterrumpida:

kemetically-ankhtified:

my mom and brother back in The Bronx are grinding on around $150 monthly food stamps that run out in 2 weeks, and they just lowered it by $7 last week.

We used to get around $500, but now that I’m away at school the gov brought it down. I don’t understand how you can take away $350 from food stamps just because one person leaves the household for 8 months a year. shit doesn’t make sense.

I just wanna adequately feed my mom and bro.

Help us out please, in any way you can.

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Peace n love.

help my brother out!!!