Black Looks

• Gaza what you’re not supposed to see

  Posted: December 29, 2008, 9:08 pm by Sokari

  Gaza massacre slideshow BubbleShare: Share photos - Find great Clip Art Images. Via Sabbah Links: Call for action and what you can do Check site for Action in London and other European cities 1. Join or organize emergency protests and direct actions in partnership with Palestine solidarity and social justice organizations in your area. Click [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Gaza what you’re not supposed to see", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/gaza_what_youre_not_supposed_to_see.html" });

• Gaza massacre

  Posted: December 29, 2008, 5:09 am by Sokari

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• Saturday music by Simphiwe Dana

  Posted: December 27, 2008, 3:13 pm by Sokari

  Tags: Simphiwe Dana South Africa SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Saturday music by Simphiwe Dana", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/saturday_music_by_simphiwe_dana.html" });

• Justice has come to Uganda

  Posted: December 23, 2008, 11:53 am by Sokari

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  The shouts of excitement and tears of joy from African transgender, lesbian, and gay Human Rights Defenders can still be felt from the court room and all around the continent. Yesterday, the High Court of Uganda ruled on Victor Mukasa and Oyoo’s case, declaring that Ugandan constitutional rights apply to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT/Kuchu) [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Justice has come to Uganda", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/justice_has_come_to_uganda.html" });

• South Africa sides with anti LGBTI rights in UN declaration

  Posted: December 22, 2008, 10:10 pm by Sokari

  South Africa along with the US sided with the usual anti-same sex equality suspects in the recent UN declaration to decriminalize homosexuality. It is rather disconcerting that the only country in Africa to show support for equality and human rights chose to ignore calls by LGBTQI groups and the weight of conscience applied [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "South Africa sides with anti LGBTI rights in UN declaration", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/south_africa_sides_with_anti_lgbti_rights_in_un_declaration_.html" });

• Victory for human rights in Uganda

  Posted: December 22, 2008, 7:20 pm by Sokari

  It is now over three years since Victor Mukassa’s home in Kampala was illegally invaded by the Ugandan police and her guest Oyo Yvonne was detained and abused. Victor and Oyo decided not to take the easy option and walk away but instead chose to sue the Ugandan Attorney General for violating their [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Victory for human rights in Uganda", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/victory_for_human_rights_in_uganda.html" });

• “Hear us speak!”

  Posted: December 20, 2008, 3:21 pm by Sokari

  I had the honor of joining radical women of color (many of who are your favorite bloggers, BrownFemiPower, Black Amazon, Little Light, Mamita Mala, Sudy, Nadia, and sooo many more) in putting together an amazing album that chronicles experiences around struggle, love, motherhood, redemption, healing and community. You can cop the CD in January, along [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "\"Hear us speak!\"", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/hear_us_speak.html" });

• Info-activism

  Posted: December 19, 2008, 2:19 pm by Sokari

  Info-activism - 19th feb - 24th fev SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Info-activism", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/info-activism.html" });

• This Alien Legacy The Origins of “Sodomy” Laws in British Colonialism

  Posted: December 19, 2008, 3:23 am by Sokari

  Human Rights Watch have released a 66 page report describing the sodomy laws created by the British colonial governments and continued today in over 36 countries from India to Malaysia, Nigeria and Uganda. The report explains how one sodomy law imposed on India in 1860 formed the basis for all other anti-homosexual [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: " This Alien Legacy The Origins of \"Sodomy\" Laws in British Colonialism", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/_this_alien_legacy_the_origins_of_sodomy_laws_in_british_colonialism.html" });

• Half-Hour for Haiti: Invest in Hope and Justice for Haiti

  Posted: December 16, 2008, 12:53 pm by Sokari

  2008 has been a year of great tragedy, but also great hope, for all of us at the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH). The bad news from Haiti kept coming, from April’s food crisis to August’s hurricanes and November’s school collapse. As usual, it was [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Half-Hour for Haiti: Invest in Hope and Justice for Haiti", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/half-hour_for_haiti_invest_in_hope_and_justice_for_haiti.html" });

• Beyond Rape in the Congo

  Posted: December 16, 2008, 4:13 am by Sokari

  I and I think many other bloggers wonder which media we can trust which makes it difficult to post and or comment on what we read in papers such as the Guardian, Independent, NYT etc. I read this story two weeks - an awful awful account of the most hideous rapes by women survivors [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Beyond Rape in the Congo", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/beyond_rape_in_the_congo.html" });

• Intersexuality - XXY

  Posted: December 15, 2008, 2:35 am by Mia Nikasimo

  In XXY, a film from Argentina, Alex, the film’s protagonist, is a 14 year old intersex child who comes face to face with society’s prejudice.1 The close knit community of this small fishing village is populated by people this child would have viewed as neighbours. However because of the child’s intersexuality which in this [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Intersexuality - XXY", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/intersexuality_-_xxy.html" });

• Why I blog about Africa

  Posted: December 11, 2008, 12:34 am by Sokari

  I was tagged by What an African Woman Thinks and asked why I blog about Africa. I was having a bad day so thought I would wait a few days to see if I could come up with some wonderfully interesting set of reasons but I haven’t - so this is it. In [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Why I blog about Africa", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/why_i_blog_about_africa.html" });

• Nigeria: traitors and patriots forces of darkness and soldiers of light

  Posted: December 11, 2008, 3:07 pm by Sokari

  During it’s 48 years of independence Nigerians have been subjected to a series of brutal military regimes and inept civilian governments with militaristic tendencies. So it is not surprising the country has managed to build up a pretty dismal human rights record which continues today with summary detentions of journalists and media outlets, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Nigeria: traitors and patriots forces of darkness and soldiers of light", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/nigeria_traitors_and_patriots_forces_of_darkness_and_soldiers_of_light.html" });

• Charity porn

  Posted: December 10, 2008, 11:12 pm by Sokari

  Just when I thought it was safe to go outside I discover that a Japanese porn company is making “charity porn. I don’t want to subject readers to my raving rant on NGOs and charities so I’ll just quote the blogger at Wronging rights They’ve sent some porn actresses to Kenya, and filmed them having sex with [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Charity porn", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/charity_porn.html" });

• Mumia in Prison - keeping deathrow alive

  Posted: December 9, 2008, 6:13 pm by Sokari

  Back Panther activist and award-winning journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal has been a death row prisoner since 1981. Amnesty International have conducted a “full analysis” of the case which took place in Philadelphia “against the backdrop of a city of racial tensions, police brutality and police corruption.” In light of the contradictory and incomplete evidence in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mumia Abu-Jama in Prison - keeping deathrow alive", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/mumia_in_prison_-_keeping_deathrow_alive.html" });

• Chevron violence in the ND and “Continuity We Can Believe In.”

  Posted: December 8, 2008, 12:38 pm by Sokari

  Even as the jury was sitting in the Bowoto v Chevron trial - Chevron Nigeria was attacking villagers in Aruntan-Ugborodo in Itsekiriland. Some time last week (Thursday 20th, November 2008) community people comprising about 15-20 women, 8 children and 25 youths embarked on a peaceful protest to CNL Tank Farm - a stone’s throw from [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Chevron violence in the ND and \"Continuity We Can Believe In.\"", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/chevron_violence_in_the_nd_and_continuity_we_can_believe_in.html" });

• Quick Links

  Posted: December 5, 2008, 1:07 pm by Sokari

  *** Two blogs by Nigerian women I have recently begun to read regularlyWaffarian on confused Christian morality and child pornography. Waffy’s post was a response to a post on a another great blog, “It was so much easier when I only had one” (a sentiment I can very much relate to - raising 3 [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Links", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/quick_links-17.html" });

• Chevron cleared in ND shootings

  Posted: December 4, 2008, 10:24 am by Sokari

  Chevron oil has just be cleared of any responsibility for the May 1998 shooting and killing of protesters from Ilaje in the Niger Delta. Some 100 local villagers occupied Chevron Platform for 3 days protesting over compensation for environmental damage and demanding jobs. The Nigerian army who were flown to the platform on [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Chevron cleared in ND shootings", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/chevron_cleared_in_nd_shootings.html" });

• Photos from AWID conference

  Posted: December 2, 2008, 12:28 pm by Zanele Muholi

  2,200 women from across the world gathered together in Cape Town last month for the AWID conference [Association for Women’s Rights in Development] South African feminists attending AWID strategised for several hours, facilitated by Pregs Govender, and resolved to build a stronger women’s rights movement in South Africa by reaching out to other feminists and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Photos from AWID conference ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/photos_from_awid_conference_.html" });

• World Aids Day: Zimbabwe

  Posted: December 1, 2008, 11:00 am by Kester Mtambanengwe

  As the international community commemorate the twentieth anniversary of World AIDS Day, there is a country which today is left dwindling behind watching every day as it comes and only hoping against every hope that food and possibly a cure will be found. What is more traumatising is the fact that even if this [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "World Aids Day: Zimbabwe", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/world_aids_day_zimbabwe.html" });

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