This is at suggested donation of $12 but you can add more and it will go towards the Speakmediacollective.com, it's aim is to raise funds for single mamis of color to attend the Allied Media Conference.

Speak! cd at institution price for libraries, schools, professors-if you are going to use it for a class.

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a review in Xerography Debt #18 by Stephanie Holmes:

Getting back to Texas, Martinez dwells in the heat and brings a host of thoughts and opinions about a place called “el valle,” which “everyone hates and no one can forget,” she writes. After spending three years there: I agree with her. I was also enthralled by her description of how the heat seeps into the fabric of our lives. “It makes it seems that ghosts have already lived these lives,” she writes. I can believe it: northern guerra moves to el valle, tries to make `a go,’ falls in love, falls apart and retreats to the north after 10 years of absence. I’m sure I’m neither the first nor the last. The zine is poetic, well written and especially meaningful if you’ve weathered South Texas Sun for more than a season. Recommended.

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Hermana, Resist 5

button design by Alex Wrekk. She calls it a "pinback button with stylized image of a Sweetheart chainring from a vintage Schwinn bicycle." My first impression was heart gears in motion, special to me since I have a tattoo of a heart with gears inside next to the word "Resist" on my arm. Either way, it's a rad design and up to your own interpretation, I say.

button design by Alex Wrekk. She calls it a "pinback button with stylized image of a Sweetheart chainring from a vintage Schwinn bicycle." My first impression was heart gears in motion, special to me since I have a tattoo of a heart with gears inside next to the word "Resist" on my arm. Either way, it's a rad design and up to your own interpretation, I say.

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing"

Audre Lorde, saying it with me.

I change myself, I change the world.

Gloria Anzaldua, wear her on your heart.

I repeat her words so often, rewrite them, memorize them, forget them-wonder why they matter, look them up again and learn it all over again.

For all those mujeristas in your life & in your dreams with crazy ideas like revolution growing between pebbles in the street and roots breaking up pavement.

The "I heart my typewriter" is another Alex Wrekk button, one that I've wanted tattooed along w/ a vintage-y looking typewriter for a while now. I haven't found someone who I trusted with doing it, so for now, I'll wear this.

Speak! button to go along with the Speak! spoken word cd. You haven't gotten it yet?

This are a bit bigger than your normal 1" buttons, you know, so you be all in their face about their privilege spilling out.