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→ 12 Apr 12 at 4 pm
→ 12 Apr 12 at 4 pm
An Activist Guide to PEN World Voices
Are you planning on coming to the PEN World Voices Festival? Are you an activist? Check out this list of events of particular interest to human rights advocates.
(via orbooks)
My work is about visibility. My work is about the fact that I’m a genderqueer person of color fat femme fag feminist and I don’t really know what to do with that identity in this world.
It’s that thing where you grew up learning to hate every aspect of yourself and unlearning all that misery is really hard to do.
It’s that thing where you kind of regret everything you’ve ever done because it’s so complicit with white hegemony.
It’s that thing where you realize that your own attempts at passive aggressive manipulation and power don’t stand a chance against the structural forms of DOMINATION against your body.
It’s that thing where the only way to cope with the reality of your situation is to pretend it doesn’t exist; because flippancy is a privilege you don’t own but you’re going to pretend you do anyway.
—Mark Aguhar (1987-2012)
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→ 13 Mar 12 at 4 pm
→ 13 Mar 12 at 4 pm
Embarrassed to admit how much of my day i spent looking up pics of Santorum getting glitter bombed by gay rights activists.
We have so far enough to go in terms of gender equality, lgbt equality, reproductive rights, etc etc etc to elect someone who wants to fucking backtrack.
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→ 21 Feb 12 at 12 pm
→ 21 Feb 12 at 12 pm
From Whatever Jeanne:
Lesbian money, stamped at THE LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES.
Over at CLASS artist Wu Tsang is blogging about why buying art matters. THE SPIRIT WAS is honoring the life of Sylvia Rivera (July 2, 1951-February 19, 2002) and archiving her writing and struggles for gender liberation. And on Saturday, February 25 the SYLVIA RIVERA LAW PROJECT is hosting its annual art auction and grassroots fundraiser SMALL WORKS FOR BIG CHANGE.
I am celebrating art and activism by blogging about the artists donating to Small Works for Big Change. An artist a day. So visit, reblog, spread the word. Come, support and spend some money “to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence.”
