Raised Fist Slideshow in Pittsburgh 10/23

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

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

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

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

#3 Digital Humanities Report: Creepy Art Possibilities

The DHWI Art in Odd Places award goes to: Digital Forensics & BitCurator BitCurator  is a project that I’m rather excited about, although not wholly for the developers’ original reasons. It’s a set of Linux-based OSS’s which “incorporate the functionality of many digital forensics tools” for the purposes of humanities research and archiving. The site… Continue reading #3 Digital Humanities Report: Creepy Art Possibilities

Providence, RI Events 7/7-7/8: KEEP QUEERING, KEEP FIGHTING!

Keep Queering, Keep Fightin! Poster by Olivia H.

Weekend events July 7-8, 2012 For more info: 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!

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