May 2013
9 posts
Tranny Power: Step Off: Trans women of color own... →
trannypowah:
TW: transmisogyny, racism, violence directed at camab trans people of color
There is a place in this world full of horror, untranslatable. Here, in the midst of violence inconceivable, we struggle. Would you envy us, if you knew?
As trans women and camab trans people of color, we inhabit a…
Yesss! Thanks for posting this, Masti Khor!
Anti-abuse campaign uses lenticular printing to... →
A new awareness campaign meant to stop child abuse (and help victims find support) is delivering its message in a unique way. The ANAR Foundation has turned to lenticular printing to create outdoor…
Brilliant!
the music of porp games: a compilation →
porpentine:
pretty much everything i make is based on music
music is my emotions when i have none
my games are music games
they should have a soundcloud.
i listened to many of these songs over and over again (Ke$ha’s Warrior track, 7 hours on repeat) until they become permanent reminders of a certain time in my life, even tear-inducing to relive (the howling dogs tracks especially).
my...
Healing Old Wounds and the Coming Solar Eclipse in... →
Mars â action, passion and desire â opposes Saturn today (exact 10:12 pm PDT), slowing down the pace and asking you to turn inward and reflect on what you want and where youâre going. What are you …
wowwowwow. after a powerful beltane ritual this morning, I read this, and it is so so right on about old wounds and the coming solar eclipse!!!
[TW] After Being Failed by USC's Administration, I... →
It was suggested to me that I didn’t have to wait for others to agree with me that what had happened to me was wrong — that I could do something about it myself, if I really wanted.
[Trigger Warning]
April 2013
9 posts
“My fashion is weaponized. It is a strategic tool to navigate the minefield of...”
– http://www.mattiebrice.com/triptychs/
important, intimate brilliance on games from Mattie Brice.
(via fiercefashionfutures)
A SURVIVOR IS #REBORN - Releasing my first game! →
Please play my game and give me feedback and spread the word!
A SURVIVOR IS #REBORN is a meditation on violence and transformative justice, a transgender incest survivor’s response to the new Tomb Raider. Take the trigger warning seriously, but try it out if you can and let me know what you think! and pass it on!
Click here to play: A SURVIVOR IS #REBORN
PORPENTINE: HI-EMOTIONZ MIXTAPE →
porpentine:
made this toward an appreciation of
slow/choppednscrewed/sensitive/witch/pitchqueered
link to share
when i first listened to Boyfriend i loved it
weeks later, looked up the sample
realized it was from a terrible joke song about a CGI rooster (with a woman singing for like 10…
on top of being a fucking inspring poetHacktrixWitch, Porpentine is apparently also an...
Talks, performances, exhibition in April: Los...
On top of the performances with Mangos with Chili that I just posted about and I’m working on daily, I’m also doing some other very exciting things in April. Check out these great talks and exhibitions if you’re in LA, Amsterdam, Toronto or Hamburg/Luneberg!
April 19, Los Angeles Congress on Research in Dance April 19 – July 21, Amsterdam Transcreen: Amsterdam Transgender...
Autonets in this month's Make/Shift magazine! →
so thrilled to be in the new issue of Make/Shift mag! Check it out!
Reminder! Hemispheric Institute of Performance and... →
Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics Graduate Student Initiative (Hemi GSI) Convergence 2013: Experimental Collectivities: Performance Nights | October 11th-13th, 2013 Los Angeles, CA
Call for Performances
Deadline Friday, April 12th 2013
How can we imagine collectivity in the present moment, after new media, when connection is often mediated down to 140 characters, coalitions...
March 2013
16 posts
Why I almost defriended everyone who had an HRC...
agnesgalore:
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that, though I didn’t think about this at the time, I probably started a blog because I need somewhere to vent my boundless rage that is not random people’s Facebook walls. I mean, one thing among the many thousands of things that are guaranteed to raise my blood pressure is when folks get all “the internet isn’t real, and it’s not a viable...
April Performances with Mangos with Chili in... →
I am beside myself with excitement about these events and so honored to be performing with Mangos with Chili again! I hope you can make it!
Mangos With Chili @ The (En)gendering Resistance Conference
Saturday, April 20, 2013
http://engenderingresistance.noblogs.org/
Featuring performances by:
Micha Cárdenas Juba Kalamka Natro Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha The Lady Ms. Vagina Jenkins Manish...
My work just published in Troubling the Line:... →
I’m so so happy that I just got my author copy of Troubling the Line in the mail! I’m so honored to be in this big, gorgeous book, which TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson describe as the first anthology of its kind. My section includes pieces from Becoming Transreal and the Transborder Immigrant Tool series, as well as a statement on poetics that I wrote just for this book. I...
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http://showboxla.org/2013/03/25/nothing-but-desire-... →
Saw PURO DESEO tonight by luciana achugar, it was amazing, disturbing, inspiring, erotic, magic, dark and light.
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#SupportAdria Standing with Adria →
[TRIGGER WARNING] Yet another, ANOTHER case where a woman speaks out on the internet against tech culture sexism and is threatened with rape and murder. It’s so obvious that the intent here is to silence women through terror. How is this okay? How is it that this keeps happening over and over and no one does anything about it?
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Creeps posing as Lesbians on Reddit →
Now this adds a whole other bizarre layer of complexity to this crazy online gender/sexuality war!
How to Shut Down Reddit’s CreepShots Once and for... →
While these creeps are disgusting and infuriating, this online war between anonymity and privacy and forum moderators is really complex and fascinating…
Female Coder Adria Richards fired for calling out... →
This story, which I saw via @BiellaColeman on twitter, is infuriating, but it just makes me want to program more and attend more tech conferences. But really, it is so upsetting that not only is the burden apparently completely on women to challenge sexism in the tech industry, but even when they do they are routinely subject to violence: trolling, threats and now even the loss of their income....
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End LA County Sheriff Violence! Patrisse... →
I was honored to be able to curate Patrisse Cullors-Brignac into the iMAP visiting artist lecture series for Spring 2013, and I’m thrilled that Veronica Paredes did this brilliant interview with her and posted the text and the video. Thank you Patrisse and Veronica!
Patrisse Cullors presented her work to iMAP last week as part of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series. With a background in...
Protest Erupts After Trans Woman Dies in Berkeley... →
girlslikeusnews:
People in Berkeley are protesting the still unexplained death of Kayla Moore in police custody.
BREAKING NEWS— UC San Diego joins UC Irvine and UC...
sigo-respirando:
that’s my school! super vibras to the SJP students working on this for 5 years, different generations of students continuously working on this!
YES!!!! AWESOME news from my previous school! <3 <3 <3
“To me, the fragmentation of Linux as a platform, the multiple incompatible...”
– How I ended up with Mac - Miguel de Icaza (via scriptsht)
Attention, female Linux users!
adventures-in-linux:
Any fellow female Linux users out there? Yes? No? Probably, Linux is pretty cool.
Anyway, if you haven’t already heard about it, there’s this cool community for female Linux users out there.
http://www.linuxchix.org/
They’ve got emailing lists and an IRC, as well as some computer courses (python, LaTeX, firewalls, etcetera).
So check it out! Everyone needs some more...
Covered in Band-Aids: I am grateful. →
[Trigger Warning]
I saw a half torn off sticker in the ladies room in the cinema school that read “USC has Rapists” and had most of the url for this blog. It’s an incredibly intense, detailed and painful account of one survivor. I just want to bring more attention to it and tell the author, you are not alone. There are so many other survivors around you, including at USC. I am...
February 2013
6 posts
Local Autonomy Networks :: Los Angeles with Gender...
Local Autonomy Networks :: Los Angeles with Gender Justice LA
March 8, 2013
USC School of Cinematic Arts Gallery, SCA 120
6:30-9:30pm
6:30-8:30pm Workshop using Theater of the Oppressed
8:30-9pm Opening reception
9-9:30pm Performance
Exhibition hours
Sat-sun 3/9-3/10, 12-4pm
Mon-Thurs, 3/11-3/14, 11am-7pm
“The colonial world is a compartmentalized world… The colonized world is...
Trayvon Martin's Parents Hold Hoodie Vigil on... →
Thoughts on cisgender privilege that are keeping...
Imagine getting coffee in the morning without worrying if your groggy voice makes the barista think your gender is not what it is.
That’s cisgender privilege.
Imagine being able to ride the bus or subway without getting yelled at by a violent homophobe, and without the constant fear of violence.
That’s cisgender privilege.
Imagine being able to speak in class or at work without someone...
January 2013
11 posts
On Femme Privilege, Passing and being a light...
I wrote these long comments on facebook. I guess they amount to a post. I want to know what people think of them…
Okay, between this article:http://fiercefashionfutures.tumblr.com/post/39783536307/femme-dreamboat-femme-privilege-does-not-exist and this one: http://crunkfeministcollective.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/huey-newton-complexes/ I feel like what’s missing is nuance! I...
Call for workshop participants to perform Autonets... →
Join my workshop “Building Local Autonomy Networks” from Wednesday to Friday, Jan 16-18 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m, Escola de Comunicação e Artes, Unuversity of Sao Paulo at the 8th Enceuntro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. In the workshop, we will be developing a group movement piece to perform in the Urban Intervention portion of the Enceuntro on Friday, January 17....
Femme Dreamboat: Femme Privilege Does Not Exist →
[TRIGGER WARNING]
femmedreamboat:
by Cyree Jarelle Johnson
I’m (not) sorry to inform you that femme privilege does not exist. Not in the queer community. Not in the world at large. Does. Not. Exist. In fact, the very idea of inherent “femme privilege” is rooted in misguided misogyny. It operates under the erroneous idea that the discrimination and violence that femmes in particular and...
ADAM HARVEY – STEALTH WEAR: NEW DESIGNS FOR... →
fiercefashionfutures:
Local Autonomy Networks: Find Each Other: 2012... →
Local Autonomy Networks: Find Each Other: 2012 Zero1 San Jose Biennial from micha cardenas on Vimeo.
Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) is an artivist project focused on creating networks of communication to increase community autonomy and reduce violence against women, LGBTQI people, people of color and other groups who continue to survive violence on a daily basis. The networks are both online...
