Power is going to come up a lot, so it’s worthwhile to think about a bit. One of the ways that I am interested in how activist art manifests is against, alongside, parallel to, and in opposition to P/power. But how does it work? Chomp, Chomp A mental exercise: Imagine a delicious cracker sandwich, made… Continue reading Power is Just a Snack
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Femme 2012: in Baltimore and Everywhere on the Web
I’m busting with pride because, for the last year, I’ve been volunteering co-leading the Media team of this weekend’s Femme Conference. Between starting work on this conference and now, I started graduate school and went to two Allied Media Conferences, and it’s just really clear to me how incredibly important media –Â accessible, horizontal, participatory… Continue reading Femme 2012: in Baltimore and Everywhere on the Web
STUDENT STRIKE!!! Understanding what's happening in Quebec and Montreal for US anglophones*
Want to know some context and the super-short version of what is happening in Quebec? Read this for some media, history, and special artist appearances — and if you’re in NYC, attend the Quebec in Revolt: Film Night at Interference Archive in Brooklyn on Thursday viagra usa 6/7 at 7:30pm. I want to thank my… Continue reading STUDENT STRIKE!!! Understanding what's happening in Quebec and Montreal for US anglophones*
So Excited About Horizontal Networks and Radical Politics
I just finished a few proposals for the Allied Media Conference — which I swear I will co-work on organizing one of these years! — and one that I’m particularly excited about is called “Out of the Streets and Into the Networks: Horizontal Digital Collaborations for Radical Projects.” I’ve been growing in my comfort level… Continue reading So Excited About Horizontal Networks and Radical Politics
Link Roundup #2: 18th-C. crusty punks, SiSU, web tools for teaching, femme boys
1. Historical perversity, Arthur Mervynn [1799]. A young country boy who makes his way to the Big City of Philadelphia in 1793 only to have terrible luck, then good luck as a friendly [?] man invites him to share his bed, then back luck again as people die and he destroys money by accident, then… Continue reading Link Roundup #2: 18th-C. crusty punks, SiSU, web tools for teaching, femme boys
Link Roundup #1: Wild (femme) Gender, Voltarine, Piracy
I’m going to instigate posting link roundups every few weeks, just because what goes through my life, and so my browser, is random as heck *and* I want to hoard-yet-share the places I’ve been. Here goes: 1. Feedback from the Femme Week of Action across the continent! Philly femme artist [and Heels on Wheels Roadshow… Continue reading Link Roundup #1: Wild (femme) Gender, Voltarine, Piracy
Free Software Links & Occupying the Internet
I have so much to say about Free Software [like what is the “free as in speech not free as in beer” Free Software Movement, how is it like Open Source and not], but for the moment here are links to programs that were taught in a workshop I attended recently. I put a ** next… Continue reading Free Software Links & Occupying the Internet
Fame and Shame in the Lower East Side (Poster design & Website, 2011)
I had a dream about updating my blog to talk about process, the motions of making and the spaces in between that I like to forget that I need in order to bloom beauty. I dreamt of performances about dissociation and homorobics. I dreamt of taking a walk with Diamanda Galas. If you want to… Continue reading Fame and Shame in the Lower East Side (Poster design & Website, 2011)
Shareware, Freeware, Open Source: Definitions, explanations, and some programs!
Why are there a billion free PC programs out there but only ten thousand free Mac programs? Because a PC operating system is open source and Mac is proprietary. What the hell does that mean? Friends that’s a long conversation down intellectual property and capitalism lane, so let’s go there a little bit, and lets… Continue reading Shareware, Freeware, Open Source: Definitions, explanations, and some programs!
How the YMCA Has Kept Me Sane & Why I Love The Gym
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… Continue reading How the YMCA Has Kept Me Sane & Why I Love The Gym