Technology/DIY/Skillshares

Beyond Visibility in NYC Jan 15, 2012

Beyond Visibility in NYC Jan 15, 2012

Beyond Visibility January 15, 2012: Illuminating and Aligning Queer Femmes Beyond Visibility: Illuminating and Aligning Femmes in NYC is a day-long event for LGBTQQI2 folks on self-identified femme/inine spectrums to come together in conversation, coalition, and celebration of *all* the parts of ourselves and our many communities. Events are taking place in NYC, Toronto, Philadelphia, San [...]

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 [...]

fame and shame and dreams

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 [...]

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 [...]

Websites 3: Updating Your Webpage

Websites 3: Updating Your Webpage

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 [...]

Print Design! Layout Software that doesn’t cost more than your rent

Print Design! Layout Software that doesn’t cost more than your rent

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 [...]

“Terra Incognita” DIY Artist Residencies

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 [...]

Hart Collective is teaching DIY Web at the US Social Forum!

The inimitable Sarah Jenny and I — wearing our femmetech hats as the Hart Collective — are going to the US Social Forum in Detroit this June! Our workshop, DIY New Media: Creating and Maintaining an Activist Presence using Websites, Blogs, Audio/Podcasts and SMS was accepted this week. We’ll be steamrolling our way through demystifying [...]

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