pls share? <3 i had the hardest time wording this, i hope it’s acceptable. tl;dr- i am tired of depicting my boring old body in my art. i wanna draw all different kinds of femmes instead.
In the wake of Governor Pat McCrory signing HB2 into law in North Carolina, a Google user has created a “Safe Bathrooms” map that uses toilet paper icons to designate bathrooms that are safe for trans and gender non-conforming people in the state to use.
“In the wake of Governor Pat McCrory signing HB2 into law in North Carolina, a Google user has created a “Safe Bathrooms” map that uses toilet paper icons to designate bathrooms that are safe for trans and gender non-conforming people in the state to use.
We’ve been following the events surrounding the passage of North Carolina’s anti-trans bathroom bill, since the state’s GOP called a special session last week just to get the bill passed and signed by Governor McCrory.
This laws violates trans people’s basic right to pee. So to combat that, Google user: emilyrwaggoner has created an awesome “Safe Bathrooms” map. Using toilet paper icons, the map pinpoints the exact location of “Businesses in North Carolina who have stated publicly that their bathrooms are safe for trans and gender non-conforming folks under HB2.” The user encourages other businesses to reach out in order to be added to the map, but not before they publicly state in the form of gender inclusive signs, public social media posts, mission statements, etc. that they support the rights of LGBTQ under this harmful law. This is a powerful strategy to hold allies accountable in the face of discrimination and oppression, which is particularly needed in North Carolina where allies have not “shown up” in the way that they did in Georgia to intervene on an anti-LGBTQ religious freedom bill earlier this week.”
Read the full piece here
GREAT WORK EMILY!
This resource is similar to Refuge Restrooms: http://www.refugerestrooms.org/
More posts on North Carolina’s hate bill
Here’s what you can do if you’re in North Carolina:
Take care of yourself and the trans people around you.
Find a bathroom you can use and add to the list of safe bathrooms.
Storm social media with the hashtags #WeAreNotThis and #KeepNCFair.
Contact the ACLU of North Carolina.
Contact your legislators to let them know how disappointed you are.
Contact Gov. McCrory to let him know how disappointed you are.
Write an op-ed for your local paper. Contact us if you need help.
Go to a rally - watch this space.
And here’s what to do if you’re outside of the state:
Take care of yourself and the trans people around you.
Storm social media with the hashtags #WeAreNotThis and #KeepNCFair.
Contact Gov. McCrory. Let him know that the rest of the nation is watching, and that we won’t stand for mandatory government discrimination in North Carolina.
Read the full announcement by the National Center for Transgender Equality here
Statistics Show Exactly How Many Times Trans People Have Attacked You in Bathrooms. Surprise: There are zero reported cases of this happening.
A little bit of a delayed announcement, but better late than never!
I am honored and delighted to announce that I have been awarded the 2015 Leeway Transformation Award. The Transformation Award is a $15,000 unrestricted grant given to women and trans* artists who create art for social change and demonstrate a long-term commitment to social change work.
A tremendous thank you to the Leeway Foundation and to the panelists who selected me as an awardee: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Annie Mok, Portia Cobb, Lynnée Denise, and Maria Bauman.
From the Leeway Foundation website:
“Kerri Radley is a writer who aims to increase the visibility of disabled persons by creating cultural artifacts that document and affirm lived experiences while also acting as informational resources for abled bodied allies. Most notably, since 2010, Kerri has written the acclaimed zine, Deafula. Through writing for zines and other publications, embarking on national reading tours, and organizing panels and discussions, Kerri aims to raise consciousness about disability struggles, challenge mainstream narratives of ability, and loudly demand a more accessible, just world.”
Not to mention we aren’t allowed to have more than $2,000 saved at a time. EVER. Like EVER or we lose all benefits completely. In the bank, in cash, it doesn’t matter. The government literally keeps us poor, while also making us pay immense amounts of money for health care that we require to even survive or function (let alone work enough to be able to get off of benefits, not to mention that there are a ton of people who will never be able to do that anyways). It’s a very, very broken system and not one that was ever meant to actually help anyone.
Plus, “marriage equality” is still a huge problem for disabled people (as you can see), which is something almost everyone is ignorant to/doesn’t care about.
DO NOT LEAVE DISABLED PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR ACTIVISM.
Calling For Submissions! Shaky Hands - on being physically disabled and in school
Shaky Hands will be a submission-based zine about experiences and struggles of navigating school with a physical disability. Currently accepting submissions from disabled people of all ages, with priority going toward POC, queer people, poor people, and other members of marginalized groups. (You do not have to currently be in school to submit.) It will be released in February 2016.
Please submit:
-artwork - drawings, pictures of sculpture, printmaking, digital works, etc.
-writing - excerpts and essays, poetry and other creative writing
-accounts of personal experiences
-any other exciting things you can think of!
Guidelines:
-only your own original content!
-image files should be 300 dpi, sized to 5x8in (vertical), sent as .jpegs or tifs
-writing should be sent as word docs
Send submissions with “Shaky Hands” in the email subject to
Bars, restaurants and hospitals who don't turn on the captions risk a $500 fine. But a group of deaf activists say they don't want to penalize businesses, just educate them.
Telling someone who has a cochlear implant or hearing aids that they aren’t really deaf is the same as telling someone who uses prosthetics that they aren’t really limbless.
If you like this tumblr you might also like Womanzine Delivery Service. Many of the people whose work we reblog here are past or future contributors to our delivery service. For $30 (slightly more outside the US) you get a package of 5+ zines mailed to you. You can cancel any time, so you don’t have to commit to a full year.
You can see interviews with contributors to package 1-3 neatly collected here. We’ll be posting interviews from package 4 on this tumblr in a month or so.
You can subscribe for future packages right here.
Subscribe by November 27 to get the next package mailed to you in January!
Do you like zines? Do you like music? Do you want to help The Soapbox raise funds for its new space? Then I’ve got a suggestion for how you can spend the evening of December 5th! First we’ll have a reading with a line-up of awesome writers, then we’ll have beer, food, music for dancing, and raffle prizes (original art, gift cards, and other fun stuff). It’s a good cause and it’ll be fun, too. See you there?
“I Dare You”: An Evening + a Workshop with Annie Mok
Free
Swarthmore College’s Bond Hall
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081
FB event
TALK: Saturday, November 14 at 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Sunday, November 15 at 12:30 PM
I use comics and hybrid forms to ask questions about artmaking, perception, trauma, gender, and memory. The workshop involves storytelling constraints and influences from classic films to create short comic strips. I had a lot of fun doing this talk/workshop at Oberlin last week, and I hope you join me for these two events if you’re nearby and would like to come.
–And to everyone who came out and said hi and/or bought stuff at Comic Arts Brookyln yesterday, thank you! It was so much fun.
ZINE SPOTLIGHT: The Adventures of a Mis/identified Queer Crip
AUTHOR: Ashley Volion
RELEASE DATE: October 3, 3015
DESCRIPTION:
In disability activist Ashley Volion’s debut zine, she comes to terms with her disability and sexuality as it intertwines with her identity and need for intimacy. Ashley is many things, including a queer filipina with cerebral palsy.
This zine was made in collaboration with POC Zine Project founder Daniela Capistrano. The print version of this zine is in an experimental “accessible” format.
The Adventures of a Mis/identified Queer Crip will be available for the first time at Zine Fest Houston on October 17, 2015, where Ashley will be tabling and presenting as part of POC Zine Project.
PURCHASE INFO: To access a print version of this zine, email [email protected]. $5/per copy plus shipping helps to offset the cost of materials and labor, which is provided by POC Zine Project. $2.50 goes to Ashley and $2.50 goes to the POCZP fund.
READ FOR FREE (ONLINE VERSION):
With permission from Ashley, POC Zine Project made this zine available as an online version. You don’t want to miss the opportunity to read Ashley’s full piece within her zine on Access Intimacy (only a preview is shown on this post), a critical concept to understand if you’re interested in being an ally/further developing your ally and advocacy knowledge:
You can follow Ashley on Tumblr at http://onthecripside.tumblr.com/.
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