The Department of Labor has started a new initiative, called “Summer Jobs +” to help youth find summer jobs.
The current recession has not only affected full-time workers, but students and youth who depend on part-time and summer jobs to help support their family. According to the…
I love how so many slam poets, spoken word writers, and performers are also activists.
Combines two of my passions <3
“Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events.
In entertainment, spoken word performances generally consist of storytelling or poetry”
Gurudwara Bangla Sahib Poem
By Contessa Sanchez
Colorful saris and suits
Rainbows of Mubarak (celebration)
Sitting patiently
Despite famed weather
Which makes sweat trickle down
Any newcomer’s face
Adjacent to overhead fans
Which sleep but give an illusion
Of cool breeze
Hands and feet rinsed in water
With a small offering to give
Then into the temple
Hair covered for all who enter
Groups moving in religious ways
A section of decorated gold
Marking the importance of its ways
Built around holy waters of a pool
To purify
Bathing to cleanse sins away
I think I’m going to start writing poems of my experiences in India.
It would make it much more descriptive for others who are wanting to know.
Argentina: doing it right. After passing a groundbreaking gender identity law on Wednesday, Argentina, which became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage, now leads the entire world when it comes to trans rights.
The new law, which was passed by 55-0 and is expected to be signed by president Cristina Fernandez, grants trans people the right to legally change their gender identity without having to get approval from doctors or judges–and, importantly, without having to change their bodies at all first. Not having a valid ID that matches your gender identity is a huge barrier to access to education, employment, health care, you name it. As Kalym Sori, an Argentinian trans man said, “This is why the law of identity is so important. It opens the door to the rest of our rights.”
Eating McDonald’s by Nehru Place, New Delhi
(International hobby-there is always something different to eat)
For whatever reason Tumblr wouldn’t let me post the first pictures of India I’ve taken. But nonetheless, this is my 3rd day in the country and my first day exploring it. I walked around the area of my hostel to get a feel for it and to see where the gate entrance that leads to my place is. Hopefully later today I will be at the Lotus Temple or the Iskon Temple. I was told they are both pretty close to me.
The land lady was giving me special treatment on the day of my arrival, she moved me into a room with one roommate instead of the room that holds four girls without an extra charge. Sadly though, my roommate leaves today in a couple hours and I’ll have the room to myself-partly nice but partly sad because her and I have gotten along really well and now when I come to my room I won’t have her to talk to.
However, I hope to switch hostels in about two weeks to one that is closer to the nonprofit I’ll be working for. I start work Monday and can’t wait!
