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Monday, January 14, 2008
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Gloria Steineim has a lot to learn about the intersection of race and gender! Duh!
Current mood:  ecstatic
Gloria Steineim was checked on her white feminist racism by an awesome women of color on National TV!! Check it out!
Here is a link to a New York Times op-ed article that Gloria Steinem wrote last week:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/opinion/08steinem.html
Essentially, her cutting edge idea is that gender is more important than race. Here are some of her quotes:
"gender is probably the most restricting force in American life"
"why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one"
"Black men were given the vote a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark a ballot, and generally have ascended to positions of power, from the military to the boardroom, before any women"
HA!
Democracy Now totally comes to the rescue by inviting Steinem and this other awesome Black feminist from Princeton, Melissa Harris Lacewell to talk it out.
Watch the streaming video and read the transcript, but if you don't want to read watch the video.
Here's the link:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/14/race_and_gender_in_presidential_politics
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Monday, January 29, 2007
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Chica Boom in featured in CURVE magazine
Chiquitos,
Get yourself a copy of the February issue of CURVE magazine and check out the Queer Femme Follies of the US! Check out Chica Boom, The Harlem Shake, The Von Foxies, Indigo Blue and many more queer burlesque beauties!
Con mucho amor,
Chica
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
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Calling All Radical Feminist Queer Women and Trans People of Color
Calling all Radical Feminist Queer Women and Trans People of Color... Queer Women of Color International Encuentro/Exchange Organizing Meeting Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:30am-1:30pm @ The Village, 1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, California 90038-1212 We are currently in the preliminary stages of organizing a Queer Women of Color International Encuentro/Exchange (working title), which will consist of a series of events, workshops and performances addressing the themes of immigration and sexuality.
The Encuentro/Exchange will take place in Los Angeles, CA and has been tentatively scheduled for late-August or early-September 2007 in Los Angeles, CA. We are inviting all radical & feminist queer women of color and trans-people of color to help in the visioning, organizing and building of a radical queer feminist movement of dialogue and action. An encuentro is a gathering, a get-together, a meeting, an opportunity to exchange, converse, strategize and act in collaboration with other activists, community members, students and artists around central topic(s) or theme(s). We use the term to forefront the radical potential of collaborative dialogue and action. The initial idea to organize a Queer Women of Color International Encuentro/Exchange in Los Angeles came about during the International Meeting of the 2006 Marcha Lésbica in México City. For three years, the Mexico City Marcha Lésbica has been a transnational event that attracts queer, lesbian, and bisexual women from Latin America, the United States and Canada. The Mexico City Lesbian March is an explicitly radical and feminist political gathering and is the largest public action of its kind to be held in Latin America. As the organizing of such an event takes a tremendous amount of energy and resources the organizing committee of the Marcha Lésbica posed the possibility of the March taking place in another location, namely, Los Angeles. As the Marcha has historically been a radical response to the political and cultural climate within which lesbianas live their daily lives, we have decided to organize an Encuentro/Exchange that speaks to ours. We are calling all radical, feminist and queer women of color and trans-people of color to come together to dialogue, speak out and take to the streets of L.A.!!! For more information please contact: toungesmag@yahoo.com
or visit our website at: www.tonguesla.org Tongues (a project of VIVA)
The Village, 1125 N. McCadden Pl., Ste 148
Los Angeles, CA 90038-1212
(323) 957-2136
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Saturday, September 09, 2006
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Incite Anthology is Finally Published!
Amores,I am a national steering committee member of Incite!Radical Women of Color Against Violence and our anthology is finally out! Now we are the largest multiracial, grassroots, feminist organization in the United States, INCITE! boasts chapters in more than 20 cities. Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology presents the fierce and vital writing of 32 of these visionaries, who not only shift the focus from prisons and rape, but also map innovative strategies of movement building and resistance used by women of color around the world. If you'd like to pick it up, check out South End Press and buy a copy for yourself! Chica Boom helped write it!
Rebeldia y Amor,
Chica BOOM
Color of Violence The INCITE! Anthology Incite! Women of Color Against ViolenceINCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, a national organization of radical feminists of color, announces the launch of an anthology of critical writings demanding that we address violence against women of color in all its forms, including interpersonal violence, such as sexual and domestic violence, and state violence, such as police brutality, militarism, attacks on immigrants and Indian treaty rights, the proliferation of prisons, economic
neo-colonialism, and violence from the medical industry.
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology presents the fierce and vital
writing of 33 visionary radical women of color and trans people of color.
These writers not only investigate the intersecting ways in which violence
and oppression exist in the lives of women and trans people of color, they
also map innovative strategies of movement building and resistance. Of the
many topics they address, Color of Violence asks us to consider that
• Women and trans people of color and their families often experience police
brutality, even arrest, when they call 911 for assistance in domestic and
sexual violence incidents (p. 150);
• At the increasingly militarized U.S./Mexico border, immigrant women risk
sexual and physical assault by civilian "vigilantes" and border patrol
officers – along with the threat of arrest and deportation (p. 120);
• As the war in Iraq rages on and casualty rates soar, reports of sexual
violence by occupying U.S. troops against Iraqi civilians and U.S. women
soldiers – the majority of whom are women of color – continue to emerge (p.
116)
Color of Violence calls on both racial justice and anti-violence movements to
collaboratively "develop strategies that challenge the criminal justice
system and that also provide safety for survivors of sexual and domestic
violence" (p. 223). Engaging the intersectional nature of violence against
women of color, Color of Violence both expands the definition of violence
against women and places women of color at the center of a movement to end oppression in all its forms.
And unlike most examinations of violence against women that recast them as
"victims," this pathbreaking collection highlights the work of survivors and
activists in creating strategies of resistance.
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities through direct action, critical dialogue, and grassroots organizing. For more information about our work and mission, including how to get involved, please visit www.incite-national.org.
0-89608-762-X | paper | South End Press | 336 pages | $20
For more details about the book, including info about the history of the
anthology and the table of contents, check out:
http://incite-national.org/resources/covanthology.html
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Monday, May 15, 2006
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Miss Exotic World in Las Vegas
Halo Divas and those alike,
The Miss Exotic World Competition promises to be a diva-lightful event this year in Las Vegas. Performers from all over the states and world will be performing. Come out and support the world's largest burlesque competition at the Celebrity Theater in Las Vegas! Your lovely Chica Boom will be performing with the best and the show will be hosted by Margaret Cho and mi rey, Elvez!
Vamos!
Chica Boom
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Monday, March 13, 2006
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South of the Border Burlesque in Vancouver
Halo mis amores,
Once again Senor Chaz Royale has put toether a deliciously pleasurable show with the dizzyingly exuberant Chica Boom and founder of the Fluffgirl Burlesque Cecilia Bravo. Y esta vez, the show promises to be a smash hit with ELVEZ my favorite Chicano Elvis ever! Featuring the Femme Fatales and other sin-sentational performers.
Saturday April 8th
Lamplighter Lounge
210 Abbott St. Gastown, Vancouver B.C.
$15 in advance
$20 at the door
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Monday, September 26, 2005
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Chica Boom by Popular Demand on the Fluffgirl Burlesque Fall Tour
Amores,
I am back by popular demand on the Fantastic Fluffgirl Vaudeville and Burlesque Tour! I love all of you Chica Boom fans! View my calendar on my myspace home page for further details or check out fluffgirlburlesque.com
Come feast your eyes on La Marichi Marimacha, Candy Striper Gone Bad, and the Dirty Mexican House Wife. A very caliente line up chiquitos, you can't miss it!
Come out to the show and get your blood boiling and bubbling for more of Cecilia Bravo, The Indra, fetish model Angela Ryan y of course your Xicana Burlesque Mistress, Chica Boom! and hosted by Tyler Fyre (host of Exotic World 2005).
I hope to see you all very soon! Wish me luck!
Your tassel twirling Chica,
Senorita Boom
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
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Chica Boom performing on Gay Latino Cruise!
Halo Mis Chiquitos,
Come and enjoy the tantalizing Chica Boom on the Gay Latino Cruise, "Fiesta Loca"! On Saturday Septemeber 3rd. The cruise ship departs Seattle on Pier ..56 at 9:30p. The Latino Cruise will have Seattle's hottest Latinos y Latina shaking and bumping all night long to the lovely south of the border musica, regeton, cumbia, y salsa. Perhaps you will ask La Chica Boom to dance?
Find more information at www.entrehermanos.org or call 206.322.7700.
See you there amores,
Muah!
Chica Boom
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Monday, August 15, 2005
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Tease-o-rama in San Francisco!
Hello kittens, I will be performing at the amazing Burlesque Convention, Tease-o-rama in San Francisco in September. I am so enthralled about being in close proximity to hundreds of fabulously talented burlesque gurls! It will be a great time, hope you can make the show!
www.teaseorama.com
Muchos Besos,
Chica Boom
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Saturday, August 06, 2005
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Jungle Exotica Summer Tour Review from Satan's Angel
Halo Amores,
I am having a wonderful time on the Jungle Exotica tour. Meeting all the lovely accumulating Chica Boom fans and making new friends. I have met so many wonderfully brilliant people. I met Satan's Angel (classic burlesque star) in Arizona and below you will find her review of the show. I love all of her and her partner Vic is very nice too!
I will soon post the article written by Michelle Baldwin on the Jungle Exotica Tour. For your lovely eyes only!
So come on out and check out the naughty show at your nearest location! You'll love it, as will your friends!
Muah!
La Chica Boom
"I ALSO MET FOR THE FIRST TIME CHICA BOOM....AND BOOM IT IS....WHEN
SHE HIT THAT STAGE, IT WAS LIKE A WHOLE FOURTH OF JULY SHOW HAHAHA EVERYBODY'S EYES WHERE ON HER, AS SHE DANCED. A VERY BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LATINA BEAUTY, WITH A BUTT THAT DEFINATLEY GOES POW (STEALING TOOT'S LINE). THE TINIEST WAIST! EXCELLENT BODY, AND GREAT WARDROBE TOO! VERY ENTERTAINING LADY!!!! AFTER THE SHOW WE CHATTED A LITTLE, AND I FOUND THAT I TOO LOVED HER! YOU'LL BE SEEING A LOT MORE OF THIS LADY, I GUARANTEE IT!"
~Satan's Angel
FLUFFGIRL BURLESQUE
'JUNGLE EXOTICA' Summer Tour.
Starring:
Cecilia Bravo, Vancouver
The Indra, San Francisco
Chica Boom, Seattle
Desire D'Amour, Tucson
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