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Delicious Coffee In a Raised Fist

March 17, 2014March 17, 2014 by femmetech

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Catalog items: Expresso La Forza label |Â New Harvest Coffee logo |Â Baristas Rise Up Today weâ€™re going to talk about my favorite thing in the morning, afternoon, and early evening: coffee. Even though I feel complicated about the use of raised fists for logos, I accept all things about coffee. Itâ€™s…

Raised Fist[ing]

February 17, 2014February 17, 2014 by femmetech

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Raised fists in activist settings symbolize strength, unity, resistance, and community. To many queer communities, fists themselves have additional meanings: while often one thinks of hitting or violence, additional meanings lurk pruriently behind the surface. After raising for LGBTQ rights throughout the 1980s, and for AIDS activism in the 1990s,…

Workshop 3/11/14: Digital Cataloging and Archiving with Open Source Software

February 1, 2014April 4, 2018 by femmetech

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Tuesday March 11, 2014,Â 6:30--10pm workshop @ Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in NYC. Register online here. Creating and managing digital archives, catalogs,Â and collections is a growing concern as organizations seek to manage files and records, metadata-gather, and enable complex searches of their cultural production, ephemera, archives and/or born-digital assets.…

Reuse, Repurposing, and Capitalizing on Raised Fist images

January 5, 2014January 21, 2014 by femmetech

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TODAY's FISTS: Boss Revolution | Underdogs As raised fist images are used over more decades and with a broader variety of political meanings, the attentive viewer notices this icon used for advertising and marketing purposes that may seem to dilute or complicate the original political intentions for which this image…

Political Art Lectures for 2014

December 9, 2013December 10, 2013 by femmetech

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I'm writing to share resources for teachers looking for a NYC-based field trips for classes on art/politics/sociology/archives, etc: INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE ON-SITE TOURS I recently began an appointment as the Resident Scholar at the Interference Archive [www.interferencearchive.org], a public archive of political art ephemera in Brooklyn. See a NY Times article…

Political Art & Examining an Archive

November 25, 2013November 9, 2015 by femmetech

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What makes art activist? What makes it political? Does who is using it matter? I recently taught an interactive workshop on activist printmaking and political art at the Interference Archive, where I currently volunteer on the cataloging team and work on my political art research as the Resident Scholar. Read…

Political art and Examining an Archive

November 25, 2013November 25, 2013 by femmetech

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Reprinted from The Interference Archive, http://interferencearchive.org/examining-the-archive-lecture-on-activist-posters/ What makes art activist? What makes it political? Does who is using it matter? The Interference Archive is uniquely situated as both a living collection of activist cultures and ideas, and a site of popular education and engagement with these ideas. One way we…

Raised Fist Slideshow in Pittsburgh 10/23

October 13, 2013November 25, 2013 by femmetech

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The Fist Is Still Raised Slideshow Weds Oct 23, 7pm at The Big Idea Cooperative What do The Lavender Left, Food Not Bombs, radical labor organizers, 1970s feminists, the IWW, Black Power, OWS, anti-imperialist organizing, and fisting have in common? They -- and many more -- all use illustrations of…

How to Build a Fire: website, community engagement (2010)

July 29, 2013April 15, 2016 by femmetech

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Small artist groups and arts organizations need websites, too! For theÂ How To Build A Fire 2010 art tour, I created a web presence, a PDF one-sheet, and curated and produced booking engagements in Texas and Montreal.

Sites for Community Organizations

July 29, 2013October 13, 2015 by femmetech

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I've made full sites for several community organizations*, working with them to determine the important content, message, and look of their site -- and to ensure that they can use it after I've moved on to the next project. 2012 Femme Conference, WordPress + Buddypress, 2012 [image forthcoming] Idyll Dandy…

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