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What to bring (and not bring) to IDA work and play events

Hey y'all! On behalf of all of the organizers of this event, let me say how excited we all are to see all of your beautiful faces!  We’ve been working hard to prepare the land for your arrival and thought this might be a great time to help make sure everyone who arrives is as prepared as possible for this week of QTIBIPOC work and solidarity. It has been a while since we made a post about what to bring (and not bring) to Ida events. We have made many changes over the last two years and are very excited to continue sustaining community for all of you 💕.  As we become more focused in our intentions and priorities to this land and community, we want to make sure to be more active in our communications with the community served by this space.  Be on the lookout for increased social media activity and updates surrounding upcoming and future projects and events!

🏖What TO bring:

Tent

Sleeping bag

Pillow

Sleeping pad

Rain fly and/or tarp (preferably both) shade is nice and so is staying dry.

Rope to hang said tarp

Head lamp or flashlight

Sun block if you need it

Bug spray/itch cream/essential oils

Raincoat

Water bottle

Towel for showers and/or swimming hole

Warm clothes for night time

Biodegradable soap

Snacks and bevs (lots)

Coffee

Food Stamps/$$$ NOTAFLOF, however for those who have the money to donate, we will be collecting to help with kitchen costs.

Specific to work events:

Tools

Work gloves

Hard hat

Boots

Pro tips:

Biodegradable baby wipes

Fierce drag

Things for the alters

Lights for your camp (Mood lighting if you will…battery powered though)

Portable speakers if you have them (the Yuka Fields after parties are what you make it, be the party top you want to see in the world)

Games or ideas of things to share in fun with (orbeez, trampolines, twister, gallons of canola oil, tarps, etc.)

Things to skillshare and conversation topics for the daytime, this a great opportunity to hive mind with your community! And share knowledge too ⭐️

REPARATIONS (dismantle that privilege henny)

🚫What NOT to bring:

Any and all pets (if you have a legitimate service animal we can make an exception)

Expectations to camp in your vehicle if not an accessibility need, if you have needs around accessibility please email [email protected]

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IDA Building Permanence 2018- Pet Policy

While we appreciate all of the furry, scaly, and feathered companions who enrich the lives of or community members, we are unfortunately not in a position to handle the added responsibility that comes with hosting pets.  There is currently a pack of resident dogs at IDA and they can be rather cliquey.  While they work very well with humans, it would be best to limit the number of additional pets on the land.

That being said, exceptions will be made for those who have service animals.  If you would like to request a service animal accompany you to this event, email [email protected]

If you do end up needing to bring a pet either as an a service companion or because you would be otherwise unable to attend, understand that your animal is your responsibility.  We ask that dogs remain on leashes.  Any animal who causes injury to another person or resident dog will be asked to leave the land.

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2018 Building Permanence (May 6th-13th)- Call for Kitchen Co-Coordinator

We are writing to check and see if any QTIBIPOC-identified person would be interested in co-coordinating kitchen duties during this work week.  Our current kitchen co-coordinator, who has already organized menus, will unfortunately be unable to attend for the entire duration of the week and is seeking an extra person to be in charge of executing kitchen duties during the week.  

Qualified candidates will have experience working in a kitchen and/or cooking for groups of 30 or more as well as the ability to follow recipes and be mindful of food allergies.  If this sounds like you, feel free to shoot us a message at [email protected].  If you know someone who may be interested in this position, feel free to share this post and have them reach out to us! 

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Building Permanence 2018 (May 6th-13th)- CARPOOL!

We know that it can be difficult to arrange transportation to and from IDA for events, so we have set up a group ride share for our upcoming QTIBIPOC work event.  Hopefully this will help to streamline transportation for everyone! If you still have transportation needs, feel free to shoot us an email!

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http://www.groupcarpool.com/t/203kos

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Building Permanence 2018 (May 6th-13th)- REGISTRATION!

Woweeee! We are so excited to have another Building Permanence work week! For those new to the project, Building Permanence is a structure that is being worked on in the QTIPOC autonomous space here at IDA! Not only is the work week a chance to skill share around constructing and planing the house but it is also space and opportunity to bring together QTIPOC as community and create something permanent and monumental out here in gay Tennessee! Bring your tools, bring your brains, bring yourselves, tho this is a labor based work week, labor looks so many ways, and even just you're presence in a BIPOC only week here is plenty enough! WHATS NEW THIS YEAR: Tho we do appreciate the white people who have contributed their time, labor, and care to this project in years past this year the land will be QTIBIPOC ONLY for the whole week (white residents will not be on the land)! This will be the first time we will be having a QTIBIPOC ONLY gathering here at IDA, definitely not the last, and we are STOKED! Come to build! Come to cook! Come to relax! Come for what ever! This is an event for any QTIBIPOC to be a part of If you are white and want to support our work week this year you can support us financially through our pay pal or have a fundraiser to help make all this happen! HOW CAN YOU PITCH IN?: This is an event for every skill set! Never held a hammer but want to learn? That's chill we're here for that! We will have lead groups to work on projects together on the structure and you can plug in where you want! We also need help in the kitchen! Three meals a day will be provided and we could use help makin' them! Love to decorate and plan? Help planing fun events and a dance party on the last night of the work week is totally needed! Love to chill? That's also a great way to be a part of this week! Can't come to the work week but want to support us? Throw a fundraiser!! We need that $$$ to make this project go! PLEASE REGISTER We gotta know how much supplies we need to get everyone fed and make sure we can meet everyone's needs! Donate if you can, if you can't that's fine too! REGISTRATION LINK: https://goo.gl/forms/IQspzcqetDoQv79l1 PAYPAL: paypal.me/buildingpermanence Email with any questions! [email protected]

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Building Permanence Work Week 2018 Donation Link!

We are building (physically, socially) a supportive, autonomous, healing space for Queer Black, Indigenous, and other POC in rural Tennessee.This project is donation fueled and volunteer run. While we greatly appreciate the white labor from years past but this year this event will be QTIBIPOC only. Folks have traveled far to be a part of this project, contributing hundreds of hours of work and gallons of sweat. We’re well on our way, but we still need your help! Click the link provided to donate! All funds will go directly into completing the three-room insulated communal structure.

Can’t donate and wondering other ways to help?  Share us on facebook (instagram, tumblr, twitter, grindr, etc), throw us a benefit/dancepartyrager in your town, or come out to build, learn, and share skills with us in middle Tennessee! Email us at [email protected]

Link for sharing:

https://www.paypal.me/buildingpermanence

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We are building (physically, socially) a supportive, autonomous, healing space for Queer Black, Indigenous, and other POC in rural Tennessee.

This project is donation fueled and volunteer run. Folks have travelled far to be a part of this project, contributing hundreds of hours of work and gallons of sweat. We're well on our way, but we still need your help! Click the link provided to donate!

All funds will go directly into completing the three-room insulated communal structure.

Can't donate and wondering other ways to help?  Share us on facebook (tumblr, twitter, okcupid, etc), throw us a benefit/dancepartyrager in your town, or come out to build, learn, and share skills with us in middle Tennessee! Email us at [email protected]

Link for sharing:

https://donorbox.org/building-permanence-work-week-2017

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Where are we now?

At a recent meeting of Black and Brown Queers in Oakland, we all shared our multiple versions of land dreams and the added urgency of establishing safe rural spaces in this time of environmental and political disaster. Cities, for many of us, provide community and safe spaces. But liberation looks like choice in our moves, and access to land and open spaces, is essential to our survival.

Recognizing that land ownership is a colonist construct that our capitalist society is built on, land continues to be the most contentious resource of all. Stolen by US Government through genocide, broken treaties and shady land grabs from American Indians. Banned from Black and Brown people through policy and impossible bureaucratic mazes. The “progress” and advancement of communities of color has not included a change in who gets to own and autonomously steward land. If anything, the disparity between White landowners and Black, Brown and Indigenous ones has widened.

And despite its anti-racist radical claims, Queer community continues to solidify this disparity. White queer land projects exist in large numbers and continue to be established without any real moves towards redistribution that centers and uplifts QTIBIPOC. At best, tokenization and empty anti-racist trainings.

If you haven’t heard, Ida in Tennessee has made a huge step in recognizing that land stewardship in the autonomous hands of Queer Black, Indigenous, People of Color is the needed step towards collective liberation. WHITE QUEER LAND OWNERS TAKE NOTE __________________________________________________________ “Since September, 2014, the IDA campground formerly known as Dog Park has been permanently reclaimed as QTIBIPOC autonomous space. Building Permanence is the rock-solid next step in the transformation of IDA from a white-centric refuge for arty queerdos into a place where QTIBIPOC [queer, trans, intersex, black, indigenous, and people of color] can seek safety and empowerment as well.

There has been an ongoing struggle to carve out space for QTIBIPOC at IDA in middle Tennessee. Grand contributions of labor, physical and emotional, yet the QTIBIPOC experience at IDA continues to be frustrating, disheartening, and sometimes dangerous, with every improvement toward a more inclusive IDA evaporating in the time between gatherings.

So what do you do when impermanence is the issue? Make things last. We build”. __________________________________________________________ We need funds to finished building the house and to assist QTIBIPOC in traveling to access this resource. Please donate and share to make this work week in May happen.

https://donorbox.org/building-permanence-work-week-2017

***If you are a White Queer landowner, you should definitely donate funds to this project. Also consider giving up your land.

***If you are a White Queer who has benefited from Ida as a white-centric queer refuge, you should definitely donate. In fact, throw us a fundraiser. [email protected]

***If you are a QTIBIPOC whose heart strings were plucked hearing this, please come build with us!! The work week is May 15-19. Register HERE***

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IT’S HAPPENING!

Building Permanence is getting ready to work on the house and is hosting an Annual Spring Time Work Party!!!

May 15th-19th 2017

It’d be so awesome to have you out here! 

Please register at:

 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfslqrf9CxNA63rPHpuSfj0XVvHoGgSN3TwZlB7C-HiTNgtuQ/viewform?c=0&w=1

If anyone is interested in helping organize, please let us know. We need a party top, food dood, accounting pal, publicist beast, blunt roller, cake sitter.. etc.

Disrupt! Dismantle! Destroy the P and the capital D!

THIS IS A WORK WEEK THAT PRIORITIZES THE EXPERIENCES OF BLACK AND BROWN QUEERS

IN EFFORT TO WELCOME WHITE LABOR AND KEEP WHITE PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE, WE ASK THAT WHITE ALLIES ONLY JOIN US WITH AN INVITATION FROM A PERSON OF COLOR

send any inquires to: [email protected]

~~~REMEMBER WHEN~~~~

https://buildingpermanence.tumblr.com/post/118298448589/our-structure-survived-the-winter-and-this-picture

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In September, Ida hosted Work Hard\||/Stay Hard 2016 and a bunch of amazing people came out to work on the house!

Some new and continual additions included

Windows

Doors

Cedar Siding

Front Deck Steps

Final Roof Segment with a Sunlight in the Kitchen

and Electrical Wiring!! *light bulb emoji*

shoutout to all the multi-dimensional donations people have given that continue to support the construction of a QTIBIPOC-autonomous House at Ida!!

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Building Permanence’s Spring Work Week was aMAYzing! Check out some of the many new pieces that were installed! 

From the Windows, to the Walls,

To all the insulation for when the temperature falls!

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Woo! It’s August and some film was finally developed from Building Permanence’s Work Week back in May.

This photo series documents some of the recent deck installation. To allow for expansion and proper drainage, nails were used as temporary spacers between each cedar board.

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squeezing in a little more work the last couple days before the annual music festival at IDA. we get some siding up and clean up the site. the smell of local cedar from the mill brightens our spirits and tickles our noses. remember to wear a mask when sanding cedar y'all! cedar dust can be v bad for your lungs.

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by the end of a sweaty workweek we have a really really big deck, the stringers cut for stairs, the left side of the front porch is roofed, many windows installed and trimmed the two rooms are insulated, kitchen is sheathed, electrical installed, dogs cuddled, the people are fed. I can barely recognize it anymore with how fast we progressed! we're not quite ready to go but IDAPALOOZA is upon us so we gotta wrap it up!

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window trim! a growing deck! electrical installation! removing a major post after installing k-braces across the front of the kitchen. dogs!

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what a crew! big window installed, front porch roof goin up, layin the biggest deck at IDA!

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this week we are laying the deck, after sanding and finishing off site, installing insulation, fitting in more windows, staying safe and eating buns. thanks snack daddy!