May 2013
10 posts
delicate heresy: STREET TRANSVESTITE ACTION... →
delicateheresy:
BOOKS, INTERVIEWS, AND ARTICLES
Stonewall - Martin Duberman
The Gay Militants: How Gay Liberation Began in America, 1969-1971 - Donn Teal
“Sylvia Rivera: A Woman Before Her Time” - Liz Highleyman (from Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation)
“Marsha P. Johnson: New York City Legand” - Tommi Avicolli Mecca (from Smash the Church, Smash the...
“Basically, I think y’all are doing awesome work and I am honored to be able to...”
– COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Much love and many thanks to Sarah McCarry, who is donating all proceeds from the Guillotine #4 special edition presale to the 2013 Race Riot! Tour fund. Woo! xo
Announcement from Sarah:
I cannot even TELL YOU in the LANGUAGE OF WORDS how excited I am to be publishing Mimi...
there's our catastrophe: (tw ed) →
rgr-pop:
I am not getting smaller, all my clothing just wilted in the seeping Summer, drooped from its hangers in the mothy Fall. My clothing was stretched out by the hanging (dead) weight of the seasons I spent too undone to presume myself dressable, too nothing to presume myself…
a l'allure garconniere: outrageous comments made... →
garconniere:
lionza:
the disparity of internet attention between shitty comments made by a&f’s ceo and the garment factory disaster in bangladesh. human deaths in the context of extreme exploitation - less shocking, less rousing.
thank you thank you thank you for saying this. i’ve been feeling like…
On Audre Lorde's Legacy and the "Self" of...
lowendtheory:
[Image: from the Black Community Survival Conference, DeFremery (locally known as Lil’ Bobby Hutton) Park, Oakland, CA, March 29, 1972. I first encountered this image via Alondra Nelson’s brilliant book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination.]
“If I were president, I would solve this so-called welfare crisis in a minute and go a long...
POC ZINE PROJECT: SCENE REPORT: Pocket Zine... →
poczineproject:
By Joyce Hatton, POCZP Midwest Coordinator
Back in February of 2013, Joyce independently led a pocket zine workshop with Girl Scout Troop 30280, an all Native Girl Scout Troop in Fargo, North Dakota. Here is her recap:
On Wednesday February 20th I taught Girl Scout Troop…
Life Returned: An Open Letter to Eve Ensler →
chiefelk:
Dear Eve Ensler,
I want to start off by saying thank you. I appreciate the time you took to reach out to me, because I know you’re incredibly busy. I know there are much more important people in this world than myself, so I appreciate you engaging in dialogue with me and my colleague Kelleigh…
*: what resembles the grave but isn't →
anneboyer:
Always falling into a hole, then saying “ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying “ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes…
March 2013
4 posts
http://www.scribd.com/doc/102744493/The-Gift-of-Fre... →
Read the introduction to my book The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages on Scribd for free!
February 2013
8 posts
POC ZINE PROJECT: Scene Report (POC Zine Project... →
poczineproject:
Here are some moments from our first tabling and panel experience as invited guests at L.A. Zine Fest on February 17, 2013:
1. When we arrived at the Ukrainian Cultural Center and were impressed with the space
2. L.A. collaborator Chula Doula posing with flowers before…
POC ZINE PROJECT: What I learned from ... 'reading... →
poczineproject:
By Itoro Udofia, Legacy Series Intern
Itoro recently read all six issues of Shotgun Seamstress in a row. Here is what she learned from them:
It’s hard to speak to everything the Shotgun Seamstress zine collection taught me. It really does give you everything: interviews,…
January 2013
24 posts
GWS @ Illinois: A tribute written by Prof. Mimi... →
gwsuillinois:
A tribute written by Prof. Mimi Thi Nguyen for Profs. Ruth Nicole Brown and Chamara Jewel Kwakye on the publication of their collection, Wish to Live: A Hip Hop Feminism Pedagogy Reader (Peter Lang, 2012), and read at the book party held December 11, 2012, at the Urbana Civic Center:
Thank…
POC ZINE PROJECT: RELEASE: The Mimi Thi Nguyen... →
poczineproject:
In the summer of 2012, POC Zine Project partnered with Mimi Thi Nguyen to facilitate her donation of over 60 poc zines created in the 1990s to NYU’s Fales Library.
Here is the donation statement in its entirety, along with a list of the zines that were donated.
FALES LIBRARY DONATION…
“The possibility that social critique does not always or even necessarily spell...”
– Anne Anlin Cheng, “Psychoanalysis Without Symptoms.” (via lowendtheory)
look, it's just
ourcatastrophe:
whenever I read anything by or about Žižek I feel like I’m at some function where I’ve been seated next to a sixty-year-old dude who keeps talking at me about his job and trying to look down my shirt. I’m not saying there’s not occasionally interesting things happening at his job but life’s too short not to swap seats.
This is the perfect description of my own feels of...
ourcatastrophe:
legitimately mad that people are using psychoanalysis in radical theory, but not astrology if you’re going to talk about the usefulness of frameworks of understanding that may not be literally true I want you to commit or get the fuck out
“In South Africa, jealous white women decided that freed women, by their dress...”
– orlando patterson, “slavery and social death” (via ourcatastrophe)
Ravenswing Zines: evolution of a zine classic →
ravenswing-zines:
evolution of a race riot Various contributors, ed. Mimi Thi Nguyen. 94 pg. at 1/2 letter size, $2 from Stranger Danger Distro
This is a very oldy and a very goody! Evolution of a Race Riot was published 15 years ago, in August 1997. It is still sporadically in print, so if you see a copy, as…
AWWW!
incommensurati: not at the mla →
incommensurati:
I’m here. I’m not at the MLA. In therapy I practice writing an email to my publisher asking for an extension. That was the great buried treasure of 2012, the failed experiment, to admit I wasn’t writing to people who matter. My therapist makes me do it over a few times, subtly reinforces bluntness…
Femme Dreamboat: Femme Privilege Does Not Exist →
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…
“[Some Indian and “Western” commentators] have reduced India’s rape crisis to a...”
– Amith Gupta - Orientalist Feminism Rears its Head in India via Jadaliyya (via mehreenkasana)
December 2012
5 posts
