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delicate heresy: STREET TRANSVESTITE ACTION REVOLUTIONARIES RESOURCE LIST

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:24:14 -0500

delicate heresy: STREET TRANSVESTITE ACTION REVOLUTIONARIES RESOURCE LIST:

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 State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation)

“Queens in Exile, The Forgotten Ones” - Sylvia Rivera (from GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary)

“Rapping With a Street Transvestite Revolutionary: An Interview with Marcia Johnson” (from Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation)

‘I’m glad I was in the Stonewall riot’: Leslie Feinberg interviews Sylvia Rivera

Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries - Leslie Feinberg

“A Woman for Her Time” - Riki Wilchins (from The Village Voice)

Sylvia Rivera: 1951-2002 - Michael Bronski (from Z Magazine)

Sylvia Rivera soundportraits interview (from New York Times Magazine)

Sylvia Rivera soundportraits update from July 4, 2001

Remembering Stonewall soundportraits transcript

Sylvia Rivera New York Times obituary

“Sylvia and Sylvia’s Children: a Battle for a Queer Public” - Benjamin Shepard (from That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation)

Sylvia Rivera’s talk at LGMNY, June 2001

“Still at the back of the bus”: Sylvia Rivera’s struggle - Jessi Gan

The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: “An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail” - Stephen L. Cohen

“Queens, Hookers, and Hustlers: Organizing for Survival and Revolt Amongst Gender-Variant Sex Workers, 1950-1970” - Mack Friedman

“Eliding trans Latino/a queer experience in U.S. LGBT history: José Sarria and Sylvia Rivera reexamined” - Tim Retzloff

“Sylvia Rivera: Fighting in Her Heels: Stonewall, Civil Rights, and Liberation” - Layli Phillips and Shomari Olugbala (from The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement)

“History or Myth? Writing Stonewall” - Benjamin Shepard

Transgender Warriors: making history from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman - Leslie Feinberg

“From Community Organization to Direct Services: The Street Trans Action Revolutionaries to Sylvia Rivera Law Project” - Benjamin Shepard

“Sylvia Rivera: She was more than Stonewall” - jerimarie liesegang

“Amanda Milan and the rebirth of the Street Trans Action Revolutionaries” - Benjamin Shepard (in From Act Up to the WTO)

“Transvestites: your half sisters and half brothers of the Revolution” - Sylvia Rivera (from Come Out! Magazine 1971)

“Sylvia Goes to College: ‘Gay Is Proud’ at NYU” - Arthur Bell (from the Village Voice, October 15, 1970)

“Street Transvestites for Gay Power” (October 1971)

FILMS

Pay it No Mind: The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson

Sylvia Rivera: Trans Movement Founder

Sylvia Rivera speaking at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade after being mocked and repressed by lesbian feminists and gay men

Clip from Market This featuring Sylvia

Sylvia Rivera at World Pride 2000

Changing House (a short documentary on Transy House)

Randy Wicker Interviews Sylvia Rivera on the Pier

Marsha P. Johnson home video

Marsha P. Johnson - People’s Memorial

Marsha P. Johnson In Person

Marsha P. Johnson at Baltimore Pride 1991

PHOTOGRAPHS

Marsha P. Johnson photo collection (by Randy Wicker)

Sylvia Rivera photo collection (by Randy Wicker)

garconniere: (via Questioning the Meaning of “Ethical” Fashion...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:35:33 -0500

garconniere:

(via Questioning the Meaning of “Ethical” Fashion | À l’allure garçonnière)

A new post where a wonderful longtime reader asks me thoughtful questions and I deliver a messy jumbled “answer.”

"Basically, I think y’all are doing awesome work and I am honored to be able to support the project..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:08:17 -0500

“Basically, I think y’all are doing awesome work and I am honored to be able to support the project in whatever way I can. - Sarah McCarry, Guillotine creator & POCZP fundraiser”

- 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 Thi Nguyen and Golnar Nikpour’s conversation on punk. No lie, friends, this chapbook is going to melt the fuck right off your face. You can preorder it now; it’ll ship in mid-June. Use the discount code PUNKSNOTDEAD for $2 off your order between now and May 31. All the proceeds from the special edition will benefit the POC Zine Project’s Race Riot! 2013 tour.

This collaboration is beautiful to us on multiple levels: Mimi was instrumental in making the first Race Riot! tour a success last year and will be joining us again this year. Golnar is an inspiration to POCZP and she performed at the first Race Riot! tour event in Brooklyn with her band In School.

MORE INFO

Guillotine is an ongoing series of handbound chapbooks with letterpress-printed covers, and each chapbook is a single essay.

“Punk is a moving target”: Punk is an unwieldy object of study—because of fictions that circulate as truth, absences in archives and the questionable subject of recovery, and the passage of “minor” details into fields of knowledge. A conversation about the politics of methodology, and historiography, of subculture. 32 pp., 4.5 x 6.5”. ***SHIPS IN JUNE 2013, 243 IN STOCK***

MIMI THI NGUYEN is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the author of The Gift of Freedom. She has made zines since 1991, including Slander and the compilation zine Race Riot. Nguyen is a former Punk Planet columnist and a Maximum Rocknrollshitworker; she is also a frequent collaborator with Daniela Capistrano for the POC Zine Project.

GOLNAR NIKPOUR served as co-coordinator of Maximum Rocknrollbetween 2004 and 2007. She is also a founding editor of B|ta’arof, a magazine featuring art, literature, historiography, and cultural critique related to Iran and its diaspora. She was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives in New York City.

SUPPORT POC ZINE PROJECT

If everyone in our community gave $1, we would more than meet our fundraising goal for 2013. If you have it to spare, we appreciate your support. All funds go to our 2013 tour, the Legacy Series and the poverty zine series.

DONATE link via PayPal: http://bit.ly/SHdmyh

(via poczineproject)

there's our catastrophe: (tw ed)

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:16:23 -0500

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 by rich white man vs. 1,127 deaths in bangladesh

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:24:56 -0500

a l'allure garconniere: outrageous comments made by rich white man vs. 1,127 deaths in bangladesh:

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 Self-Care, Part 2 of 3

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:44:05 -0500

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 way toward liberating every woman. I’d just issue a proclamation that ‘women’s’ work is real work.”
- Johnnie Tillmon, “Welfare as a Women’s Issue.”

”The modern world hates to see black folks resting.”
- Lewis Gordon, “African American Philosophy, Race, and the Geography of Reason.”

Part One here.

This post is an experiment. It attempts to find a new route to the question of what it means to politicize Audre Lorde’s legacy. Its search is partly in response to what I described in part 1 as the tendency in some cases to deify Lorde by extracting her from the political context in which she lived, or by reducing her to a set of pithy (if brilliant) quotations, or by invoking her as an unqualified paragon of black women’s resilience. In attempting to route the conversation differently, my strategy is to try and glimpse Lorde through an archive that is not of her published writings but of a set of struggles and contexts that affirm dimensions of her humanity and her work that are too rarely emphasized—her struggles with health and wellness, her status as worker, her vulnerability to the very discourses that demand that she be seen as powerful. Doing this means following a route that may, to some, seem rather circuitous. I can only hope that by the end, those divergences will make some sense.

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POC ZINE PROJECT: SCENE REPORT: Pocket Zine Workshop with Girl Scout Troop 30280

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:50:28 -0500

POC ZINE PROJECT: SCENE REPORT: Pocket Zine Workshop with Girl Scout Troop 30280:

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

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:17:31 -0500

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…

thespeakingspook: JUST THE BEGINNING!BSU AT UCI WILL NOT STAND...

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:59:55 -0500

thespeakingspook:

JUST THE BEGINNING!
BSU AT UCI WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS ANY LONGER!

today, we are wearing all Black and various statements of antiBlack violence in response to
1. the video
2. the greek movement to support each other by wearing their letters (done yesterday)
3. the generalized dishonor occurring on the Black body every day as a student.

*: what resembles the grave but isn't

Fri, 03 May 2013 14:06:39 -0500

*: 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…

punkpedagogy: “Queer Rage” from LGBT Students of Color: Poetry...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:15:43 -0500

punkpedagogy:

“Queer Rage” from LGBT Students of Color: Poetry Performance Critiques Marriage Politics, and Is Badass

There’s no place like homo
There’s no place like homo

somewhere over the rainbow
way up high
there’s a land that I heard of
once in a lullaby

Wake up honi
it’s called san francisco
where white bourgie bitches getting gay married
but my ass ain’t got an invite sha hoo~

Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow.
Why then, oh why can’t I?

BECAUSE YOU’RE BROWN HONEY GURL

I’m bout to sassy gay friend this ish ~
Not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you
Rainbows are just refracted beams of white light,
Gay marriage activism is a temper tantrum:
Mommy I’m going to buy an “I’m a second class citizen” American Apparel v-neck to go with my corporate internship and some ass

I didn’t always think this way
Cuz philadelphia taught me everything i still know about shame
that my queer body was something to “correct”
that looking like “a faggot with a cunt” only meant
I was looking for trouble

So in high school I laced my shoes with rainbows
and preached the gospel of equal rights and pride
That tell us marriage will finally untangle
our love from shame, will legislate us wholly human

But the day same sex marriage was legalized in New York, DC, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Iowa it didn’t get better because “Somewhere over the rainbow” there’s a pot of Goldman Sachs
**DUN DUN DUN DUN**We are gathered here today**

for richer, for poorer
tell that to El’Jai who lost his job last year
His state is one of only 12
where you cannot legally be fired
for having a body that doesn’t sit right with your heart
but his job “could only be done by a man”
and his genitals did not conform to his employers expectations.

[I do not know if he won the court case, only that he has a son,
and that being brown and trans means being 4 times less likely to find work]
but who needs money for bread when you can eat wedding cake!

in good times and in bad
tell that to Temmie Breslauer a transwoman who was arrested for using
her father’s discount subway card.
the NYPD chained her to a wall for 28 hours and called her a he-she
to have and to be held
this is what marriage means for queer people
as we send the government wedding invitations to incarcerate our love

till death do us part,
tell that to asher brown who at thirteen took a gun to his head
as if it was an act of patriotism because in texas
being gay is a death sentence
it is nights spent whispering secrets to open skies
it is the sound of your mother crying because she wonders
how that thing came out of her

and i do, i do, i do
not believe that a marriage certificate
could have stopped the bullet

Remember,
Remember,
Remember,
There is something beautiful about being lied to:
Rainbows are just a trick of light,
They make us forget the storm is still happening,
When walking towards the end of the rainbow, it will always move away.

writeswrongs: wnyc: ryanpanos: JAY SHELL’S “THE RAP QUOTES”...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:15:02 -0500

writeswrongs:

wnyc:

ryanpanos:

JAY SHELL’S “THE RAP QUOTES” via Juxtapoz

Multidisciplinary artist, Jay Shells, has recently been creating legitimate looking signs containing rap quotes that reference specific locations in New York. After compiling over 30 signs, Shells set out installing these signs in the locations mentioned in the quotes. The artist has quoted many well-known rappers such as Jay Z, Mos Def, Kanye West, Gza, Nas, Jeru the Damaja, DJ Premier, and many more. Check out others via The Rap Quotes.

It was December 24th on Hollis Ave in the dark
When I seen a man chilling with his dog in the park…..

out in brooklyn kickin up bricks n shit

branduponthebrain: My Face Red in the Sunset (Masahiro Shinoda,...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:13:24 -0500

branduponthebrain:

My Face Red in the Sunset (Masahiro Shinoda, 1961)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/102744493/The-Gift-of-Freedom-by-Mimi-Thi-Nguyen

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:01:36 -0600

http://www.scribd.com/doc/102744493/The-Gift-of-Freedom-by-Mimi-Thi-Nguyen:

Read the introduction to my book The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages on Scribd for free!

POC ZINE PROJECT: Scene Report (POC Zine Project edition): L.A. Zine Fest 2013

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:24:11 -0600

POC ZINE PROJECT: Scene Report (POC Zine Project edition): L.A. Zine Fest 2013:

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 all six issues of Shotgun Seamstress'

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:46:31 -0600

POC ZINE PROJECT: What I learned from ... 'reading all six issues of Shotgun Seamstress':

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,…

punkanteriors: thanks everyone for a fun and engaging issue...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:35:35 -0600

punkanteriors:

thanks everyone for a fun and engaging issue release party!!

poczineproject: Community, The second #raceriottour is going...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:43:48 -0600

poczineproject:

Community,

The second #raceriottour is going down in October of 2013 through twelve more U.S. cities and we want YOU to come with us.

We are looking for the following:

Guest readers in every city* (you must be a person of color)

Rotating tour buddies: Join us on the road and participate in 1-3 tour events as a panelist/reader/tabler

POC (or POC fronted) bands to perform at each #raceriottour event!

More POC & ally tablers for each city: come to a POCZP event in your town and table for your zine/org/collective/creative project (check out some of the POC artists/merchants who tabled last year) <3

We’re also looking for folks to help us produce #raceriottour fundraiser events between now and September. This might be a good solution for you if you are unable to travel.

Contact poczineproject@gmail.com for more details. Make sure to use “2013 RACE RIOT TOUR” as the email subject.

COMMUNITY QUESTIONS

We’re connecting with people and holding events through the Southwest and West Coast, including (but not limited to) Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle.

If we were to come to your town, what are the POC run/led spaces that have a history of serving communities of color? We are committed to to holding every event on this tour in a POC-affirming space. Tell us in the reblog note or send us a message.

If you’re down to help us organize an event as part of our second Race Riot! tour in YOUR city, let us know!

<3

POC Zine Project

*We will announce the full list of confirmed 2013 #raceriottour cities on February 14 15, 2013.

ABOUT THE RACE RIOT! TOUR

POC Zine Project held its first Race Riot! Tour in 2012, producing 20 events in 14 U.S. cities, which included speaking engagements at six universities. Click here to view photos from the POC Zine Project: 2012 Race Riot! Tour tour finale at Death By Audio in Brooklyn and access all the tour stop recaps.

We will be taking the Race Riot! Tour through 12 more U.S. cities in 2013. Stay tuned for updates as we work on partnering with POC-affirming orgs overseas. If you are outside the U.S. and want to be a part of our emerging POCZP Global Ambassadors program, email poczineproject@gmail.com.

SUPPORT POC ZINE PROJECT

If everyone in our community gave $1, we would more than meet our fundraising goal for 2013. If you have it to spare, we appreciate your support. All funds go to our 2013 tour, the Legacy Series and the poverty zine series.

DONATE link via PayPal: http://bit.ly/SHdmyh

artmusicvegan: Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s will be...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:00:43 -0600

Derek Ridgers, Trouble Funk, 1985

artmusicvegan:

Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s will be on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art February 23-April 7, 2013. Pump Me Up, is the first exhibition to explore the thriving underground of Washington, D.C., during the 1980s, giving visual form to the raucous energy of graffiti, Go-Go music, and a world-renowned punk and hardcore scene. The exhibit includes ephemera, photos, flyers, posters, records, newspaper clippings, stage clothes, instruments, video loops, and much more, all made largely between 1980 and 1992. The Pump Me Up Party happening on February 22nd (the night before the opening) is sold out. More HERE.

rgr-pop: Martha Rosler Reads Vogue, 1982

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:51:29 -0600

rgr-pop:

Martha Rosler Reads Vogue, 1982