Another great event in our community

Supporting Multiethnic, Multiracial and Transracially Adopted Youth and Their Familes Since 1979

iPride Presents...

MULTIGRAIN: An evening of Poetry, Music, Comedy and Dance

Sunday, April 20th @ 7pm

La Pena Cultural Center

3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley/Oakland

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Mixed! Blended! High Energy! Multi Media Performances Satisfying and Good For You Too!

$15 donation $10 Student
All money raised benefits The FUSION Summer Program's Scholarship Fund

On site childcare available.

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Free Movie event

In honor of the 41st Federal Anniversary and the 60th California State Anniversary of The Loving Day Decision

The Multiethnic Education Program and Alameda County Supervisor Alice Lai-BitkerPresent A Free Screening of...

My People Are...Youth Pride in Mixed Heritage

Friday, March 28, 2008
6:30pm-8pm
Crosstown Community
1303 High Street
Alameda, CA
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My People Are... is a film that promotes positive racial and ethnic identity in ALL people, highlighting the experiences of mixed heritage youth. In this 20 minute youth led film, young performers share stories of pride, culture, history and ethnic roots through theater, interviews, dance, rap, song and spoken word.

Discussion to follow the film

Whole Family Friendly Event! Come One Come All!

Tune into Alameda Currents TV Alameda Cable Channel 31 Thursday, March 20th at 7:30pm for a closer look at iPride and My People Are...Youth Pride in Mixed Heritage. or watch online www.alamedatv.com

The Multiethnic Education Program a project of iPride .

Contact iPride's website or info@ipride.org or 510.644.1000, ext. 2

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Some Resources for Mixed Race Families

"In order to feel safe I need to feel known....Is visibility safety? Complex questions. Uncomfortable, uneasy answers, stirring up old hurts, old angers, old fears....Why is the possibility of ‘passing’ so insistently viewed as a great privilege..., and not understood as a terrible degradation and denial?” – Evelyn Torton Beck, Nice Jewish Girls

online:

http://www.drmariaroot.com/doc/BillOfRights.pdf - bill of rights for mixed folks

http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/lit_resources/diversity/multiracial/multi_race_picbooks.html - list of children's books about or including being mixed

http://www.mavin.net/ - url for the mavin foundation which has various resources including the multiracial child handbook and "chasing daybreak"

http://www.antiracistparent.com/ - great resource overall

http://www.myspace.com/melizabanales - local queer mixed blood spoken word artist

http://dragonflyrising.wearetheones.org/index2.php - haven't read this book yet, but it's on the list

http://www.lanikaahumanu.com/hapahaole.shtml - lani's amazing mixed blood poem

http://www.brownstargirl.com/new.html - leah's website

http://www.multiracialsky.com/ - mixed family resource site

books:

all the colors of the earth by sheila hamanaka {children's book}

loving in the war years by cherrie moraga

life on the color line: the true story of a white boy who discovered he was black by gregory howard williams

does anybody else look like me?: a parent's guide to raising multiracial children by donna jackson nakazawa

passing by nella larsen

borderlands/la frontera: the new mestiza by gloria anzaldua

as we are now: mixblood essays on race and identity edited by william s. penn

miscegenation blues: voices of mixed race women edited by carol camper

what are you?: voices of mixed-race young people edited by pearl fuyo gaskins

the multiracial experience: racial borders as the new frontier edited by maria p. p. root

when she was white: the true story of a family divided by race by judith stone

one drop: my father's hidden life - a story of race and family secrets by bliss broyard

racially mixed people in america edited by maria p. p. root

when white is black by john a. martin jr.

part asian, 100% hapa by kip fulbeck

black looks: race and representation by bell hooks

mixed: an anthology of short fiction on the multiracial experience edited by chandra prasad

the color of water: a black man's tribute to his white mother by james mcbride

the mixed race issue of canadian feminist journal "fireweed" {2002?}

when nickels were indians: an urban mixed blood story by patricia penn hilden

consensual genocide by leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha

"you're standing in the blood quantum line

with a pitcher in your hand

poured from your heart into your veins

you said i am

I am

I am

now measure me

measure me

tell me where i stand" ~indigo girls

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A Great Event to Attend

The Parent-to-Parent Café for Multiracial Families and the Playgroup Saturday! January 19th, 2008 10:00am - 12:00pm @ Habitot Children's Museum 2065 Kittredge Street Berkeley 94704 in the Annex... Join us for this Playgroup Cafe for mixed heritage and transracially adopted families with children 0-6yrs old. It is an opportunity to come together, share ideas, stories and offer mutual support. Parents and Caregivers gather to chat and visit with each other while a staffed, hands-on art activity engages the children. For more information about The Parent-to-Parent Café and the iPride Monthly Playgroups Parent to Parent Cafe iPride Playgroups Susana Telles Parenting Education Programs Manager 510-647-1111x16 parented@habitot.org Jilchristina Vest Co-Director, iPride 510.644.1000 x225 jilchristina@ipride.org

(Thanks to Janine for posting this!)

OFC, COLAGE and SF LGBT CENTER Study on LGBT Families

Hi everyone.

Just wanted to let you know that Our Family Coalition, in collaboration with COLAGE and The Center just released a study about LGBT familes- and if you pick up the Chronicle from today (10/31) it is the front page article. Its a great article on the diversity...and adversities of our families. If you don't get a chance to pick it up, you can see it here.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/10/30/MNJET3CR3.DTL&o=2

Julia Po, San Francisco Programs Coordinator

Our Family Coalition
870 Market St., Suite 872
San Francisco, CA 94102
http://www.ourfamily.org/
phone: (415) 981-1960 ext. 6
fax: (415) 981-1962



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Race and Nobel Prize Winners

I'm sorry I missed the discussion on race. the past discussions have always been so rewarding and i look forward to our continued discussions next year.

So today i saw a headline "Museum cancels race row scientist's talk". In an interview with the British press James Watson made ignorant and racist remarks. (He stated that africans were less intelligent that europeans.) I'm so glad that the London Science Museum had the good sense and courage to cancel his sold out lecture. And Cold Spring Harbor, the institution he is associated with was quick to denounce his statement. It saddens me though.

As a scientist, I know watson has a history of making arrogant, ignorant and hurtful remarks about race and gender and sexual orientation. his comments still sting. While I hope for a better world for our children this is just another reminder of how far we have to go until our worth is no longer judged by the color of our skin or our sexual orientation or other so irrelevant criteria.

submitted by terri