February 2012
119 posts
Call for submissions from trans women of color
autumn-and-eve:
If you don’t already know, Raven and I are in the process of coming up with a zine/pamphlet-type situation all about transmisogyny. Since transmisogyny intersects a lot with race in a way we haven’t experienced, we’d really like to include trans women of color’s views on the matter. The pamphlet is going to phrased as theory and an explanation of transmisogyny itself, not as a...
“Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who...”
– Waziyatawin
You cannot have colonialism without genocide.
(via cuntymint)
Transmitting Trans-Asian Symposium 3/2 @ NYU 5pm →
Symposium Transmitting Trans-Asian Curated By Jian Chen, Ohio State University, Columbus Date: Friday, Mar 2nd Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Location: Performance Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway, 6th Floor Room 612 New York, NY 10003 Free and open to the public.
Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute, roundtable conversation and screening performance Transmitting...
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“Make no mistake, you will be paid well not to feel, not to scrutinize the...”
– Audre Lorde, “Difference and Survival: An Address at Hunter College” Undated address printed for the first time from the Audre Lorde Paper at Spelman College, in I am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
“I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.”
– Maurice Sendak (via mongrel-love)
I remember reading this and thinking, “that’s totally my parenting philosophy.”
(via dressesandyarn)
The more you know...
unbrokencircle:
liquornspice:
alexandraerin:
daniellemertina:
liquornspice:
Somebody informed me that Billy Crystal has BEEN doing blackface impersonations practically his whole career. Did em all the time on SNL.
So, just fyi…minstrelsy never went away. People build their careers off of it. Networks have built institutions off of it.
Denigrating Black people never stopped being...
Blackface.
anedumacation:
I was going to write a parody of the justifications that people are putting forward for Billy Crystal’s blackface yesterday — “oh, its a tribute! Its not racist!” — by writing a similar justification for Fred Astaire’s turn in blackface in 1936, when he made Swing Time.
That’s Fred Astaire dressed up as Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. Astaire meant it to be a tribute to an artist he...
Throwing some love to Reina
queershoulder:
So the amazing Reina has a beautiful blog that I encourage all of you to check out. Recently, she’s been posting a lot of archival & historical interviews & articles about Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries). This history is vitally important to know and to remember.
And I know we live in the internet age of FAST!...
Not Quite a Breakthrough: The Oscars and Actors of... →
2002 was hailed as breakthrough year for actors of color at the Oscars. Halle Berry won Best Actress. Denzel Washington won Best Actor. Sidney Poitier got a lifetime achievement award. Will Smith was nominated for Best Actor. It was described by some (including Berry) as opening the door to other actors of color.
But, according to an analysis by Russell K. Robinson, Su Li, Angela Makabali, and...
“Knowledge makes me more aware, it makes me more conscious. ‘Knowing’ is painful...”
– Gloria Anzaldúa (via restoried)
PayPal Strong-Arms Indie Ebook Publishers Over... →
“PayPal’s new aggressive campaign wants to stop independent e-book publishers that use its service from including certain kinds of erotic content in their catalogs.
On Saturday February 18, PayPal began threatening indie book publishers and distributors with immediate deactivation of the businesses’ accounts if they did not remove books containing certain sexual themes - namely, specific...
“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not...”
– Audre Lorde (via thechocolatebrigade)
“We are flung into a solitude so severe that it inadvertently increases our sense...”
– Alice Walker, from Living by the Word (via quadrupleminority)
Work Is Never Over: On Publishing and Its Many... →
Thoughtful piece by @catvalente on publishing options and how art is hard.
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“There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully,...”
– Oscar Wilde (via paralysing)
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
– E.E. Cummings (via platea)
“If you see a whole thing - it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives…...”
– Ursula Le Guin (via suchasensualdestroyer)
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“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for...”
– Virginia Woolf (Thank you, itonaim)
“Once we learn to love ourselves, it is impossible to miss how important it is to...”
– —Rushelle Frazier (via theredtree)
“Radical self love is not just about ourselves & our own interests, passions...”
– Gala Darling (find her website here)
Fuck Equality: Erotica for Rowdy Queers →
Against Equality is putting together a new anthology of erotic fiction, so we need your help! We’re looking for submissions of original, unpublished stories between 1500 – 2000 words that incorporate our political agenda of challenging mainstream gay and lesbian politics (ie. marriage, military service, and hate crimes legislation) into the storyline. We’re always trying to find new ways to...
“ONE NIGHT ONLY!!! February 24, 2012:
Black Women’s BluePrint Presents:...”
– (via afrolez)
“Fat people who love themselves scare the shit out of people who don’t love...”
– Tigress Osborn (via boybitch)
“Love is a risk that only brave people take.”
– —Iyanla Vanzant. (via theredtree)
“Her mother had been wrong. Love wasn’t a grand explosion. It didn’t blaze onto...”
– from The Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig (via moreofamore)
“Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all...”
– —Ursula K. LeGuin (via theredtree)
Call for Submissions for a Performance Art project →
lobolitablanca:
Hey Tumblr, is anyone out there interested in helping me with an art project about microaggressions and the marginalization and oppression social groups? Do you have a story to tell about how people have made you feel less than or “other” for being who you are or…
Job Opening: American Indian Community House WIA...
jalwhite:
AICH WIA Program Director
POSITION: WIA Program Director
DEPARTMENT: WIA
SALARY: Negotiable
SUPERVISOR: Executive Director
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Develop/implement a creative system of service strategies for employment and training programs.
Create/implement comprehensive needs assessment mechanism to support service strategies.
Monitor program...
You don't often perceive the impact you have
I know this to be true, it is often particularly true in the work I do—writing, activism, education, victim assistance. I don’t (and cannot) know the ways my work impacts others.
I just heard that a workshop I did for a local university on fat activism inspired one of the participants to do their senior thesis on fat studies—something they learned about from me. What a lovely...
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“When we know what love is, when we love, we are able to search our memories and...”
– bell hooks (via restoried)
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot...”
– —James A. Baldwin (via theredtree)
“I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love,...”
– Dr. Maya Angelou (via jomairauninhibited)
(via making-mambo)
In remembrance of the 70th Anniversary of Japanese...
Evacuation
by Mitsuye Yamada
(from Camp Notes and other poems)
As we boarded the bus
bags on both sides
(I had never packed
two bags before
on a vacation
lasting forever)
the Seattle Times
photographer said
Smile!
so obediently I smiled
and the caption the next day
read:
Note smiling faces
a lesson to Tokyo.
What America Hasn’t Learned 70 Years After... →
This Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans who lived along the West Coast. The order came after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In the wake of the attack, Japanese-Americans were immediately cast as a threat too dangerous to be allowed to live freely.
The U.S.,...
vanity is a term used to make people feel guilty...
ourchangingskyy:
I feel like I really understand this now and so whenever somebody calls me “vain” (it seems to happen a lot), I always automatically just assume it is a compliment. I know that is so weird, OMG and I also do it with “selfish” because I have now realised that people generally say that when you’re doing what YOU want to do rather than what THEY want to do! perception of words are...
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“I am my mother’s daughter. I am midnight sun. You can find me on the moon waxing...”
– Andrea Gibson (via hmoments)
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s...”
– Erica Jong (via deviantfemme)
If you live in the United States and don't have... →
withrevolutionarycries:
fattiesinlove:
repede:
cakemeister:
Today in Useful Fucking Things That No One Tells You About: the Prescription Assistance Program (PAP) offers a discount drug card to uninsured Americans. The card is accepted at over 56,000 pharmacies nationwide, including CVS, RiteAid, Walgreens, and Safeway, and offers a discount of up to 75%.
I was fired a few years ago and...
This Assignment Is So Gay: Call for Submissions...
Sibling Rivalry Press is seeking submissions for an anthology scheduled for publication in August 2013. This assignment is so gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, edited by Megan Volpert, will be the first-ever anthology to feature an international roster of LGBTIQ poets writing about and from the teacher’s perspective.
Whether elementary or collegiate, public or private, the school is an...
“let the beauty we love be the beauty we do.”
– —Rumi (via theredtree)
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“All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.”
– Joy Harjo, “Reconciliation: A Prayer”, for the Audre Lorde Memorial 1993, printed in The Woman Who Fell From the Sky
“I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret...”
– ― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters. (via historiacalamitatum)
“And I say to them, if you’re tired of being loving, then you haven’t really been...”
– bell hooks (via restoried)
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via romandesilence)
“What is it about distance that enables us to acknowledge emotional need? Does...”
– bell hooks (via restoried)
“You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles...”
– Henry Rollins (via arielj-) oh. golly. (via relicts)
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“I love Dr. Cornel West’s words: ”Never forget: Justice is what love looks like...”
– @anuraglahiri (via queerdesi)