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
Category: Video/Art/Performance
Colleges Here I Come: Yale, Hampsire, New Paltz
On Friday Feb 8, I’ll be speaking at Yale at the IVYQ conference, on “Queer power, Queer vulnerability: BDSM, femme, and generating resistance in identity,” talking about personal instances where queers created joyous lives, structures for accountability, and modes of resilience that pushed that back on dualism, domination culture, and histories of shame. I’ll post… Continue reading Colleges Here I Come: Yale, Hampsire, New Paltz
Tactical Media and Disturbance Art
“The shift in revolutionary investments corresponds with a shift in the nature of power, which has removed itself from the streets and become nomadic.” — Critical Art Ensemble artist-tacticians, Qud in Rita Raley’s Tactical Media. Tactical Media Enter tactical media, a resistant form of cultural production that uses networked intelligence and digital forms to create… Continue reading Tactical Media and Disturbance Art
Activist Art & Participatory Art
What We’re Looking For The first place I began researching was in and around the concepts of “activist art†and “political art,†both of which are colloquial terms that I hear and use regularly.  I was hoping to find a repository where an understanding of the critical importance of the role of those using or… Continue reading Activist Art & Participatory Art
Providence, RI Events 7/7-7/8: KEEP QUEERING, KEEP FIGHTING!
Weekend events July 7-8, 2012 For more info:Â http://queerlilrhody.tumblr.com/ Resisting Racism Workshop: Queer Liberation is Collective Liberation Saturday July 7, 1:30-5:30pm Workshop starts at 1:30 sharp, please arrive 15 minutes early. $5-20 sliding scale How do dismantling the gender binary and resisting racism relate to uprooting classism and disability justice? In this workshop, we will explore… Continue reading Providence, RI Events 7/7-7/8: KEEP QUEERING, KEEP FIGHTING!
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)