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	<description>Your Voice is the Most Important Part of Any Movement</description>
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		<title>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day from a Queer African Daughter to Her Mama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 17:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this poemthing I wrote about Mother's Day in my journal from about 2 or 3 years ago. I hadn't officially had "the talk" with my mother, and though she already knew I was dating women, she seemed determined to avoid talking about it. So, instead, we talked about food, the weather, and Oprah. It was hilarious, and painful. Forward this to someone you know who's dealing with something similar. And if that someone is you, you are not alone :) ]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections from a Woman of Color on the War on Women: &#8220;My Sisters-in-Arms, We Are Not United&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm sharing the remarks I gave at the MA Women United Against the War on Women rally in Boston (in poem-ish form). I found myself thinking about the concept of "unity," and the fact that so many women of color, immigrants, transgender women etc are often left out of mainstream women's movements. There isn't just a war on women, but a war amongst women slowing our progress. Until we end that, we are not united. ]]></description>
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		<title>The African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women: Progress and Pitfalls for LGBT Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.spectraspeaks.com/2012/03/the-solution-to-homophobia-in-africa-not-liberia-president-sirleaf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women is the first comprehensive legal framework for women’s rights in Africa that seeks to "improve on the status of African women by bringing about gender equality and eliminating discrimination." Except, it doesn't explicitly name protections for LGBT African women. Moreover, Liberia President Sirleaf isn't the only African woman who needs convincing that it should be included. ]]></description>
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		<title>Racism and LGBT Rights: Where are the African Films in the South African LGBT Film Festival?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa's 19th Out in Africa LGBT Film Festival opens this weekend and there is certainly no shortage of films about women, quite an achievement to note given how often the LGBT community is depicted as male. Yet, within the context of Africa, the LGBT community is also frequently perceived (and depicted) as white and western. So, my question is: where are all the black South African films in this "African" LGBT festival?]]></description>
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		<title>A Word to the Wise On The Culture of Naming (and Divisive Labels)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to tweet about "The Culture of Naming" one evening, and am sharing the archive via this post. My main point was that naming can be as powerful as it can be silencing, and that we should consider the purpose of them before blanket use; for affinity groups, naming is essential, but for engagement/education, probably not so much. It's a theory in progress. What do you think?]]></description>
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		<title>Ugandan LGBT Activists Sue American Evangelist for Inspiring &#8220;Kill the Gays&#8221; Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.spectraspeaks.com/2012/03/ugandan-lgbt-activists-sue-us-evangelist-scott-lively-for-inspiring-kill-the-gays-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spectraspeaks.com/2012/03/ugandan-lgbt-activists-sue-us-evangelist-scott-lively-for-inspiring-kill-the-gays-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Lively is one of three American pastors who visited Uganda in 2009 and whom gay activists accuse of helping draft the original version of Uganda’s infamous “Kill The Gays” bill, which called for the death penalty for LGBT people in the country. So now, Sexual Minorities Uganda, a non-profit umbrella organization for LGBT advocacy groups in Uganda, is suing his ass. ]]></description>
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		<title>We Are Not Invisible: 5 African Women Respond to the Kony 2012 Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.spectraspeaks.com/2012/03/5-african-women-respond-to-the-kony2012-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spectraspeaks.com/2012/03/5-african-women-respond-to-the-kony2012-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've compiled a list of responses from African women responding to Kony 2012, a controversial campaign launched recently by Invisible Children to raise awareness of child soldiers in Uganda. I'm amplifying their responses because almost overnight, the web became flooded with so much commentary from western media on the erasure of African voices that it became challenging for me to even locate African voices. Go figure.]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from my Mother: African Women and Feminism</title>
		<link>http://www.spectraspeaks.com/2012/03/africa-activism-and-feminism-lessons-from-my-mother/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spectraspeaks.com/2012/03/africa-activism-and-feminism-lessons-from-my-mother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in Nigeria, the idea that improving the lives of women was a cause worth fighting for didn't just come from organizations, or brochures, or formal programming; I had strong women around me who constantly put this into practice in the every day, including my own mother.]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Herstory: Food Justice and Rebel Toddlers</title>
		<link>http://www.spectraspeaks.com/2012/03/a-brief-herstory-food-justice-and-rebel-toddlers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother calls me an exhibitionist, but it's for this reason that I publish so much on the web -- when I'm long gone, I won't have anyone speaking for me, including suggesting that I wasn't always a protesting food justice advocate.]]></description>
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		<title>For Women&#8217;s History Month: Writing Our Way to Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.spectraspeaks.com/2012/03/for-womens-history-month-writing-our-way-to-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spectraspeaks.com/2012/03/for-womens-history-month-writing-our-way-to-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to address the dearth of women's histories -- our stories, and voices being undocumented, under-valued, and falsely represented without reprimand -- women must begin telling their own stories. We must essentially write our way back into history.]]></description>
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