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The New York Public Libraryorganized a mass Black Power Wikipedia editing event on Saturday to add and correct content in the online encyclopedia.
The event, called Black Power! Wikipedia Edit-a-thonis organized for the third time and invites people to come and learn how to work with Wikipedia and edit the pages. The particular focus of the eventis black history and culture.
At this event, you will learn how Wikipedia works and how to add content to it. Take advantage of the rich resources of the Schomburg library to write and edit entries on black history and culture,claims the event page.
Passion for black history and culture is highly recommended! it added.
Wikipedia Edit-a-thons are becoming increasingly more popular. Last year, New Yorker wrote about a feminist edit-a-thon focused on feminist art. As the article recalled:
One table over, Corinne Vizzacchero and Andrew Sloat, friends in their late thirties, were collaborating on an article about the Madame Binh Graphics Collective, the all-women propaganda arm of a Communist organization that was founded by members of the Weather Underground.
On March 1, another event is being held called Womens Herstory editathon inviting people ofall gender identities expressions, transgender cisgender and gender nonconforming women tocorrect skewed content on Wikipedia.
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Women who travel abroad have to deal with a range of issues that most men dont have to consider, like where to buy tampons or whether or not the morning after pill is available in specific countries. And any woman whos moved abroad can tell you that finding a gynecologist in another country is not always as easy as it should be.
Its from these kinds of challenges that Lani Fried came up with the idea for Gynopedia, the new Wikipedia of womens reproductive and sexual health.
Gynopedia, launched in September 2016, is an open-source health care database that includes information on womens health around the world. Specifically,the sitecurrently covers 67 cities in 48 countries on four continents, but Fried wants to have a Gynopedia page for as many cities as possible.
Each page contains information on a country or city and covers critical topics like contraception, STDs, medication and vaccines and menstruation. These topics are broken down into subsections about laws and stigmas, where to find what you need and how much it costs.
For example, if youre traveling Sri Lanka and your birth control is lost or stolen, you can visit the countrys Gynopedia page and discover that birth control is available at pharmacies without a prescription.
Or maybe you just moved to Chicago and need information about abortion laws and costs. You dont have to sift through sources and waste your time. Now, you can just go straight to the abortion section on theChicago pageto find a list womens health clinics and an idea of average costs.
Lets say you need a low-cost clinic in New York, or an LGBT-friendly gynecologist in Bangkok, or the morning after pill in Lima. Well, Gynopedia is the resource for you, asserts the Gynopedia homepage.
The idea for the site was more or less born of necessity. Fried was living in New York and planning a long trip through Asia.
I suddenly realized that I was completely clueless on how I would deal with things like birth control in the dozen countries I would visit, if I had the need to, she told Broadly. Or a pap smear. Or any access to sexual health care.
Fried started with the New York page and then expanded to include the larger destinations she was visiting in Southeast Asia.
Its crazy to me how you can find a gazillion sites on the top ten things to do or see when you visit a new place, but nothing about critical aspects of every womans life, she says. I want Gynopedia to change that.
Fried began contacting local womens health organizations to make connections and gather more information. One of the first respondents was the Asia Safe Abortion Partnership (ASAP), an organization which advocates for womens safe access to abortion throughout Asia. They were able to connect Fried with organizations in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
While such a resource is invaluable for women traveling or living abroad, it could also help women living in the U.S. to navigate rapidly changing reproductive lawsassuming Fried and other contributors are able to keep up.
Fried is actively seeking contributors and anyone who wants to create a page on Gynopedia can check out theGynopedia guidelines page.
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Anti-racist commentator Tim Wise perfectly explains how Trump is so successful in just three minutes. According to Wise, Trumps meteoric ascension to the top of the polls is just the latest in a centuries-long trend.
When we look around and we see today, in our politics, a rich white man telling working-class white people that their problem is brown people, Tim Wise begins, we need to understand the historical pedigree of that.
Wise explained that whiteness, a concept born in the 17th century, is a power structure that relies on dividing and conquering people of European descent. In the early days of the colonies, black slaves and indentured servants shared solidarity with white slaves and indentured servants, as both were property of elite landowners. Through this kinship, black and white slaves and indentured servants took part in various armed uprisings.
But those landowners soon realized that their grip on power could be solidified by giving white-skinned indentured servants power over black slaves by creating a race-based hierarchy.
They created this mentality that said, Youre now a member of the white race, youre on our team. Youre wearing our uniform. Now, youre at the end of the bench, you may not get in the game, but youre on our team,' Wise explained.
After creating the concept of whiteness, wealthy landowners deputized poor whites to go on slave patrols to police black slaves to quell any inkling of rebellion.
They didnt really give them any land or any real power, except the power to control people of color, which is why folks of color say and they are right in saying that modern policing traces to the system of slave patrols in slavery, Wise said.
Even though you might not have much, at least youre not black. At least youre not indigenous. At least youre not Mexican. At least youre not Chinese, working on the railroads to build the transcontinental economy, Wise said around the two-minute mark of the video. You may not have much, but you at least have, as W.E.B. DuBois said, the psychological wage of whiteness.'
Wise further contextualized Trumps popularity by alluding to how white landowners convinced poor whites in the South to fight for the cause of slavery in the Civil War, even though those people would have jobs if slavery ceased to exist.
Why would you do that? Why would I go fight for your property? Well because you told me that if I dont, these slaves are gonna take my job! No, fool, they got your job, thats the point! Wise said. If you gotta charge a dollar a day, and you can make them work for free because you own em, guess who got the gig, Jack? Not you!
Wise further illustrated how racism undermined the class struggle in the early days of the industrial revolution, when white union bosses discouraged black membership, even though it would have strengthened their bargaining position.
When you go out on strike, they cant replace your happy ass with the brown folk that you didnt want next to you in the first place. Because when they do replace you with them, then you will blame them, and not the elites, Wise said.
You see how this works? Its a trick. It has worked for hundreds of years and it is working on some folk right now, and it is our job to resist that with every fiber of our being, he concludes.
This is not the first time a Trump has come along, and it probably wont be the last. Thankfully, Tim Wise and so many other activists are there to peel the mask back on this hateful rhetoric.
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