Cha Cha Chapina

Poet. Educator. Two-spirit Central American super hero dressed in the every day. Here is where come to take a break, chill and also serves as a parking lot of ideas, mostly about latina & qwoc consciousness... working on a complex life with all the contradictions that exist living in this skin.
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thenoobyorker: Did you read about the protest at The Grammy Awards? From Favianna Rodriguez on Facebook, This year’s Grammy Awards faced protest after 31 categories of music were ruthlessly cut by the producers of the event. And not just any categories. The fact that almost half of the categories that were cut were dominated by Latinos and other people of color is hard to ignore.In the largest cuts in Grammy history, categories like Latin Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Zydeco, Cajun, Hawaiian, Polka, Native American, American roots music, and classical were slashed. Iconic artists like Etta James, who recently passed away on January 20th, received two of her last Grammy Awards in both the Traditional and Contemporary Blues categories, both of which were just eliminated. Read more about it here. [Also at the CS Monitor][Neon Tommy]

thenoobyorker:

Did you read about the protest at The Grammy Awards? From Favianna Rodriguez on Facebook,

This year’s Grammy Awards faced protest after 31 categories of music were ruthlessly cut by the producers of the event. And not just any categories. The fact that almost half of the categories that were cut were dominated by Latinos and other people of color is hard to ignore.

In the largest cuts in Grammy history, categories like Latin Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Zydeco, Cajun, Hawaiian, Polka, Native American, American roots music, and classical were slashed. Iconic artists like Etta James, who recently passed away on January 20th, received two of her last Grammy Awards in both the Traditional and Contemporary Blues categories, both of which were just eliminated.

Read more about it here. [Also at the CS Monitor][Neon Tommy]

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    Music is universal....awards would perpetuate talentless vocalists to perform (or rather...
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    Legit Reason to say fuck the grammys/institutional racism.
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    Oh damn. I’m sorry. Did you think the Grammys respected out culture? We’re you confused as to who controls what is...
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    Fuck the Grammy Awards, let’s have an award show on Tumblr. Spoiler alert: Everyone will win except for Nickelback.
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    yeah the lack of attention this got was really disheartening.
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