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 the raised, clenched fist in… Continue reading Raised Fist Slideshow in Pittsburgh 10/23
How to Build a Fire: website, community engagement (2010)
Small artist groups and arts organizations need websites, too! For the 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
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 Acres, HTML/CSS, 2011 Femme Family,… Continue reading Sites for Community Organizations
Personal Sites: Business owners, Cultural Producers.
Making sites for motivated, creative people is really satisfying. Work Collaboratively, 2013 [image coming] Katia Perea, WordPress, 2013 [image coming] Kristyn Dunnion, HTML/CSS, 2010 Heather Acs, WordPress, 2011 Hadassah’s Bizzare, HTML/CSS, 2008 Silas Howard, HTML, 2010 Liquidation Lady, HTML, 2007
Webmaster: building on others work
Many organizations have a website and either seek someone to maintain and improve what they have or –oops!!– just need occasional help updating it. In order, pictured below are projects I’ve stepped in to update, maintain and improve, rather than design and build: Center for Collaborative Communication, HTML/CSS site, 2011-2012 $pread Magazine, HTML and later… Continue reading Webmaster: building on others work
FLOSS Audio Workshop
I’ll be offering my Getting Your Voice Out There Workshop at Gabfestry August, 2013. This workshop covers: — Getting a toolkit for lo-fi digital audio production. — DIY & low-cost strategies. — Using Audacity and other FLOSS softwares in general — Recording Techniques. — Finding copyright-free or copyleft samples. — Mixing and sharing your audio!… Continue reading FLOSS Audio Workshop
Website graphics: 2007–2008
Using Photoshop, sourced imagery, and typographical design for web banners and blog images: Blog series image: WordPress website, customized header, for Transmission, a social-justice faith-based organization in NYC. 2008.
Center for Collaborative Communication, Print & Communications (2011-2013)
As the Communications Director for the Center for Collaborative Communication from 2011-2013, I had the opportunity to create tri-fold brochures, sell sheets (CCC_IntroPacket_Jun12-v1), postcards (CCC_Postcard_Front-bleed), posters (CCC_NextNVCSteps) and web-ready promotional graphics. Poster, 8.5 x 11: Sell sheet cover: Sell sheet interior: Postcard front:
My ### Is A Muscle The Size of Your Fist
My Cunt Is A Muscle… is based on the wonderful Your Heart Is a Muscle 1999 woodcut by Dalia Sapon-Shevin, then a member of the Syracuse Cultural Workers, it was made as an inspiration to activists and a response to the state repression experienced during the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999. Dalia’s… Continue reading My ### Is A Muscle The Size of Your Fist
On power
In preparation for the “Queer Power, Queer Vulnerability” talk I gave at the IVYQ conference last week, I’ve been thinking a lot about power… I think about it in many forms and am actually kind of obsessed. I think about resistance, social change, revolution and “people power.” The ways and means from which individuals and… Continue reading On power