December 2010
Anonymous asked: ahh I liked your piece on Racialicious so much! :)
Anonymous asked: ahh I liked your piece on Racialicious so much! :)
Harry Potter, family, and Hermione
(zomg! A fandom post! And likely SPOILERS AHOY just so you know)
Almost everything that happens in the Harry Potter series has something to do with family. The love his parents had for Harry, contrasted with the starkly impersonal nature of Voldemort’s birth and upbringing, is pretty much why the series exists. The Weasleys and their dynamics are explored in great detail. Neville’s...
“when you have lost everything that made you who you were, not once but twice,...”
– antagonist: TMI
hey amber rae: In search of a few web / design... →
heyamberrae:
When I won’t be helping Seth Godin and Amazon reinvent publishing in the new year, I’ll be working on my passion project. If you’ve been following me over the last year, you might know this project to be called “The Aha Moment” or some variation of this but I learned Oprah kind of owns that term so I plan on doing a little rebrand.
My mission in life is inspiring people to take...
“1. Your dreams don’t matter if you’re not willing to work for them. Who cares if...”
– yes and yes: Dreams Vs. Opportunities
some of the principles guiding my life for the past couple of years.
Female Bankers Told to Wear 'Flesh-Colored'... →
carnivaloftherandom:
theoceanandthesky:
guerrillagirlsontour:
“…no colored artificial nails, no visible tattoos, no piercings, no flashy jewelry and please do wear flesh-colored underwear only!”
hahaha imagine a woman gets like, a strike or whatever, for wearing black underwear.
uh, how do you know what colour my underwear is?
ridiculous.
By this standard, if I were to sunbathe nude...
“For the past 8 years I’ve been participating in the documentation of authentic...”
– Madison Young: Submit Your View
Madison Young offered me an internship to help her with Femina Potens and feminist porn! I’m guessing it has something to do with these projects (there’s also one about fisting). I’m intrigued by TheWomansPOV, but I don’t have US...
Call for Submissions: zine dealing with...
**PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY**
Call for submissions: Online and printed zine about dealing with body/hair/size/fat phobia for and by Indigenous peoples and people of colour.
Title: To be decided/announced.
Deadline: February 28th 2011
For far too long, I’ve have been made to always question my body.Always made to feel like if I waxed my sideburns/shaved my legs/signed up for...
Quora: What is the role of contemporary artists in...
I really really like some of the answers here. Great thinking. (Quora’s a Q&A type site - think LinkedIn Answers or a more open less personal version of Formspring. The business/career Qs do suffer from too much Privilege Denying Dude, but the arts-related Q&As sound great.) What is the role of contemporary artists in society?
Quora: How can I become more creative?
Some great ideas - practical and philosophical - here. How can I become more creative?
Help a Palestinian American female comic artist...
deafmuslimpunk:
Donate as little as $5 or even as much as $100 for Jennifer Jajeh’s one-woman hit show, I Heart Hamas.
“The time has come for me to leave San Francisco and go on the road with the show full-time. I’ll be performing in L.A in early 2011 and then NYC in Spring. The goal is to gain wider industry attention for the show. The hitch? I need to raise $5000 to make the LA run happen....
“Lesbian Side: A svelte 19-year-old in nothing but shiny underwear and tube...”
– Autostraddle — DeAnne Smith and The Powerful Surprise Absurdity of the Suddenly Topless
Pretty much my inner convo when I see pictures of hot people (hot female-bodied people especially). “But SEXY!” “But OBJECTIFICATION!” “But YUM!” “But CREEPY!”...
What do you reckon?
genderplayful:
Tiara the Merchgirl writes…
“I’d love to see some support from the fatshion community, since they also experience the difficulty of not finding clothes that suit them. The drag communities would be great in terms of resources and tips (like how to adjust your clothes to fit the shape I’m after).
“I’m cisgender and don’t really have a specific gender-based style – some days...
“The Mamaist Manifesto:
1. We want to shout the pursuit of pleasure, the glory...”
– Toxic Titties: Mamaist Movement
Toxic Titties →
Toxic Titties is a collaborative group of feminist artists working with performance, video, and film, bringing a subcultural phenomenon into the frame of conceptual art. Using pleasure and play, the group mutates with each performance to include a multiplicity of participants and embody queer perversions of cultural ideals. Through failure and excess, Toxic Titties simultaneously invokes and...
#sanfranplan (on behalf of) Sponsor Plug: TRON:... →
One of the perks of supporting The San Fran Plan is a shoutout on this blog and on my social media networks. Now you don’t need to make it a plug for yourself - it can be a plug for anything and anyone.
One of my closest friends, Victor (an awesomely talented photographer - if you’re in Melbourne check out Cai Photography) wanted me to plug the movie TRON: Legacy.
Now I...
#sanfranplan Sponsor Plug: Sunny Drake →
One of the perks of supporting The San Fran Plan is a shoutout on this blog and on my social media networks. Another one is to have a plug on this site and the San Fran Plan site (once it’s up) from now till my residency, and you can probably see who’s claimed the first one.
Sunny Drake - SUNNY. Practically one of the big reasons The San Fran Plan is even happening to begin with....
#sanfranplan Sponsor Plug: Sarah Dopp &... →
One of the perks of supporting The San Fran Plan is a shoutout on this blog and on my social media networks. I’ve gotten a few people claiming this perk and so the sponsor posts will start!
One of my lovely sponsors is the awesomesauce Sarah Dopp, who always has amazing projects going related to community-building, queer support, and gender. Her latest project is the Genderplayful...
ohai, internet: EXPIRED: Glambert Protest →
lainieyeoh:
poskod:
THE 2010/2011 INSPIRED/EXPIRED AWARDS Category: Most Ingenious Ploy To Get Into A Concert For Free
For most of us, Adam Lambert was the steak in a mostly-sizzle American Idol 8th season. Glambert’s vocal chops aside, it was his penchant for theatrics — like his infamous onstage kiss — that really got tongues wagging. So, when news broke he was performing in Malaysia on 14...
“I guess a lot of my upsetness is about my own issues with actually getting...”
– definatalie’s bits:
I’ve had people tell me I’ll ruin my career because I’m “too political” on my blog. It may have dented my opportunities some, but it’s also connected me with the people that truly care - quality over quantity. But I feel you, Natalie -...
Radical Hott Off Notes: while sitting in the ice... →
radicallyhottoff:
while sitting in the ice storm on the four and half hour ride home that should’ve only been an hour—W* and I were talking about yes means yes and no means no. and we both sorta came to the same conclusion—that both answers, while beneficial to a certain extent, are incomplete answers.
in my…
This ENTIRE POST is fantastic - a great rethinking of conventional sex...
“That you can strip away the layers you don’t need, Shed the stuff that is...”
– What I Wish For You | iDanceiWrite.com
Indie doc Call Me Salma explores queer culture in... →
When they returned to Canada, the two graduates of Concordia’s communications program threw themselves into research about a mysterious population in Bangladesh: the Hijras. According to Rist, Hijras are “mainly this group of men who want to live in a certain way as women.” They do not only count the transgendered among their ranks; many are transvestites or even just gay men who have no...
healingsakina:
“The point is that sometimes when we see our favourite people disagree it creates misgivings inside ourselves which is really hard to resolve. And then when we voice them we’re shutting down the conversation, even though that’s not what we mean to do. But if we don’t dialog then how do we resolve it?? As for making you sound like a hegemonic ogre — I am sorry. I really really am....
“The point is that sometimes when we see our favourite people disagree it creates...”
– Merf. Thinking is Hard.: Tiara the Merch Girl: #talkaboutit On #MooreAndMe and being a Person of Colour
ok, so reblogging on a phone is a pain in the arse, but I just wanted to pop in and highlight this because its exactly what I am trying to say. Its not just this issue too, it’s all sorts...
wildunicornherd replied to your post:#talkaboutit On #MooreAndMe and being a Person of Colour
“So why not concentrate on the synedoche - the people who represent a privileged political activist class - and let the effect flow through?” …wait, what does that mean?
What I was trying to say here was that people seem to relate to having a central figure to look up to to represent a whole movement...
#talkaboutit On #MooreAndMe and being a Person of...
So I’ve had a lot of thoughts about posts that BFP and BlackAmazon et al have posted about the POC response to campaigns like #mooreandme. I didn’t really want to write about it, because it was bringing up uncomfortable triggers to my experiences and I didn’t feel like rehashing a long drawn-out argument on the Internet only to be retriggered, but now I feel like I would like to...
9 amazing political art projects of 2010 | Art... →
A top 10 (or 9) list is a necessarily troubled compromise made up as it is by hierarchy and exclusion. On the up side it’s like a map — something to help navigate an increasingly complicated and at times overwhelming volume of cultural choices. So here’s my map of people and organizations to watch for, some better known than others, but all involved in making art that gets under the skin and...
“And don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying there are only two ways of being a...”
– Autostraddle — DeAnne Smith and The Powerful Surprise Absurdity of the Suddenly Topless
This is why I love DeAnne Smith. Though her being suddenly topless doesn’t hurt ;)
A Creative Odyssey Blog Hop: My Creative Dreams...
This is part of the Creative Odyssey Blog Hop - check out all the other entries here. Also blogging today is The Fan-tail.
My work-in-progress vision board for 2011 and beyond.
Ever since I dived head-first into a fully creative life/career in early 2009 and transformed into The Merch Girl, I’d had a whole slew of adventures, tragedies, and miracles. Travelling across Australia and the...
#talkaboutit A story that doesn't fit "the typical... →
jhameia:
Trigger warning for descriptions of rape, assault, and general apathy.
coming out to say this story is mine - I’d posted brief versions of this before, but this has far more detail. Thank you to BFP for allowing me the space to share it way back in April when I wanted to share my story but not attach my name to it.
miffed by materialism
So a relatively well-known self-help/businessy writer type tweets about randomly finding $650 in an unused PayPal account.
I semi-jokingly refer him to The San Fran Plan as that would cover my deposit/1 month rent.
His response? “Great cause, but there are shiny new Macbook Pros to be bought”.
He won’t even split or share because “Macbooks are very jealous”.
Is...
