This fall I am celebrating an awesome anniversary: ten years of Going To The Gym. That’s 10 years of learning how to be in my body after 21 years of life kicking me out; 10 years of keeping calm and carrying on; 10 years of getting to be strong and flexible when I thought that [...]
You got a website set up and want to update it yourself! Great, and totally doable. This post is for folks who **have** a website [not a blog] up and going, and want to do some minor text changes or perhaps even go further and add pages etc. If you want a more comprehensive tutorial [...]
As someone who is committed to media justice and open access to technology for all — and a competent communications designer with a tiny bit of free time — I have been donating about five hours of media work a week to *non-funded* activist and cultural organizations. I get to collaborate, learn about the amazing [...]
I love print design, and I’ve been at it for years; first my making zines in the 90′s and next by making newspapers, magazines and promotional media over the last ten years. So it makes sense that people ask me for tips and recommendations regularly. Some examples are this page from Femme2010 program, and my [...]
Salome, Delilah, Lola, Little Debbie, Queen Helene, Jolene, Liz, Medusa, Miss World, Pretty Young Thing, Shawty, Gloria, and Trisha. Trish/a. Multiplicity and essences of all those babes you wanted to be, fuck, or avoid: too many qualities in one personality, many personalities for multiple environs. I call forth Trisha to manifest when I am tough [...]
This year I’ve had the pleasure of several DIY Artist Residencies**: six weeks in Austin in April; the “Terra Incognita” two-day intensive in PA last weekend with three other artists, and I have one more upcoming week-long residency, in Baltimore at the end of this month. Terra Incognita means uncharted land; and it was used [...]
This is so exciting. FEMME2010: No Restrictions [aka the Femme Conference] is in Oakland in 40 days! Things to know: If you want to register, please do it NOW for the low cost of $75 because the price goes up to $95 on the 19th. If you want to get hundreds of femmes to check [...]
NYC folks, I’m reading tomorrow [Thursday, July 1] at Red Umbrella Diaries, a sex-workers literary night, hostessed by the inimitable Audacia Ray. 8pm @ Happy Ending, 302 Broome St. Joining me are Christina Cicchelli, Izzy Oneiric, Rope Boi, and Busty Kitten. If you’re not able to make the event, you could just read the piece [...]
I’ve been up late these past few weeks, getting ready for Femme Pride Week, and working on media for the US Social Forum, where I’m teaching a DIY New Media workshop with Sarah Jenny, and Femme2010, the amazing femme conference that I’m Co-Media Chair of this year. Part of my favorite media strategy has always [...]
As Femme Pride week approaches, the NYC Femme Family is excited to announce four events designed to celebrate our fabulosity and build community. We welcome queer femmes of all makes, models and genders to our events, and many are open to allies and friends, too. Tues June 15, 7:30 – 9:30pm, 713 Classon Ave, Apt [...]
Occupy poster show & discussion at the Cuny Grad Center May ‘12
Feeling this this is kinda incredibly truthful…
In Providence, RI
Sherry Arnstein’s Ladder of Participation in ‘Living as Form’
