Please help me get The Wise Latina Digital Club panel in the SXSW2010 conference. Go vote for it NOW!

The South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Conference and Festival is one of the most prestigious tech and media conferences in the United States. I think it was Tara Hunt ( @missrogue ) who described it as "the geek prom" and that's as close to the heart of this event as anybody can get.

SXSW has been historically one of the most inclusive tech and media conferences as well. Under the direction of Hugh Forrest, the conference has has had for 4 years, if not more, a Black Bloggers panel (which I never get invited to be in, by the way) and they've always gone out of their way to create a gender balance in the number of experts that is unprecedented when compared to other big media and tech conferences.

That said, panels in which Latinos and other specific digital ethnorati are showcased are still non-existent. Part of the reason is interest: SXSW panels get selected through a combination of staff, advisory board and general public voting.

Yet part of it really has to do with perception: Although there's been a number of extremely prominent Latinas in tech and media (am looking at you Mena Trott); when it comes to actual naming actual thought leaders, the average tech and media conference goer would be hard pressed to think outside of the mainstream faces of Latinahood like JLo or Eva Longoria.

We really haven't had in this country anything like the selection and confirmation of US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to really put nerdas and geekas on the thought leader map. Even after all these year, I still have to battle a whole spectrum of stereotypes that go from the "brimbo" (brown-skinned bimbo) and "high-end puta" on one end to the "welfare MILF" and "illiterate spik" on the other.

Hence the need to not only "panel" but to bring together and celebrate a lot of The Wise Latinas that we have in the media and tech worlds. Hence The Wise Latina Digital Club:

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One of the unknown little snowflakes of the Christian Conservative movement twitters: The current trending topics make me sad for America.. Her twitter friend, a genius that goes by Sum_Dum_Guy (and in the process gives all homeschoolers a bad name) agrees that BET and/or black music related topics trending on Twitter somehow are the thing of massive doses of anti-depressants.

It's why they are both featured in OMG! BLACK PEOPLE!, a Tumblr page dedicated to collecting all the "OMG! theres black people on twitter" comments that seem to have arisen out of the intense twittering of people watching the BET Awards. And let me stress the "raceless" use of the word people, because obviously it wasn't just black folks watching and ranting last night.

I mean, really ... #BET09 and black related topics trending are reasons to get their panties in a bunch or be sad about the state of the United States?
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Rumor has it Tom Tancredo has had this exact nightmare. Janet Murguia of the National Council on La Raza would love to read him a bedtime story and check under his bed for monsters.

Am sure Sonia Sotomayor would just love to punch him in the face. Hey! She's a spicy Puerto Rican.

Gary Dauphin's, "i iz in ur soupreme court reversin ur racism".

by Gary Dauphin

Runner's up are :
Linda Susan's "im wun of teh *gud* white guys i swearz"




and Scott Cobb's "It's hard out here for a Newt: This message brought to you by MAWG-Aware, protecting middle-aged white guys from reverse racism for over 48 hours".


by Steve Cobb

They made me LOL hard enough they're getting FOCK mugs.
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Inspired by the oppression complaints of the marginalized white men known as Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh, I decided to we needed to have a LOLitics contest of the reversed racism kind. I haven't laughed this hard in a while

Here's a show of the submissions. You have until 7PM to participate:

by Sky BlueSky







by Steve Cobb






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As a Puerto Rican black woman with a graduate education and a new media platform in the form of a blog, it is my duty to rally my people into a frenzy of il-advised yet necessary reverse racist shenanigans. It is the Puerto Rican Woman Of Color's (aka, PRWOC) burden to bring meaning and a sense of purpose to the lives of oppressed white men like Newt Gingrich.

So please, let's make sure that we get on with the program of alienating, belittling and oppressing that most fragile of ethnic and gender groups in the United States, the disgraced former lawmaker and republican ex-speaker of the House. Let's make sure that we play our manifest destiny of bringing oppressive woe to the likes of Newt Gingrich.

And if you do a funny pic like the one above, you get to win a culturekitchen FOCK t-shirt.