gender*fierce & queerly fobulous

The QTAP Project: Gender*Fierce and Queerly Fobulous, is an on-going project dedicated to promoting the visibility, voice and empowerment of trans, gender non conforming, queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer Asians and Pacific Islanders locally and globally. Follow me at: www.arkiology.tv http://studfairy.tumblr.com www.youtube.com/transAPIvoices www.youtube.com/lolob0i about me? queer pin@y bakla rainbow spirited faerie snackmasta cultural worker living, healing & creating in seattle.

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PLZ FOLLOW MY NEW TUMBLR

hello all you lovelies out there! 

i'm transitioning from this tumblr to another and would pretty please ask that y'all follow that one eventually. y'know, if you'd like. this one might transform into a visual art and media art centered blog of my ARTwerq someday.

if you'd like to stay up to date, i'll be posting and sharing more of my photography, music, youtube, stories, writings, visual art, likes and loves at:

http://studfairy.tumblr.com

thank you so much for following this tumblr over the last few years. i have so much gratitude for all the wonderful spirits who follow this blog, have shared it and i truly hope these personal stories reached folks through heart and spirit connections. 

i totally appreciate all the support for Gender*Fierce and Queerly FOBulous. the videos and photos from Gender*Fierce will remain up on this site and there may be periodical new postings every now and then. this project has been on-going and on-pause, slowly blossoming over the last three years. if you're interested to know more, help edit videos and photos, please send a message my way!

FIND ME, like, follow, share:

http://studfairy.tumblr.com

www.youtube.com/lolob0i

www.youtube.com/transAPIvoices

www.arkiology.tv

<3 

Love,

Loloboi Julz

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wai. danom. hanom. atl. tubig. [today i stumbled upon a shop on MLK & McClellan & met an amazing Hawaiian artist. She made this honu water jug. #ancestors]. #honu #pagong #seaturtle #Brilliance #Resilience #arkifact #pasifika #pottery #waterjug #art #water #wai #hanom #danom

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muckleshoot water tower. #muckleshoot #water #pacificnorthwest #native #indigenous #coldmorning

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Rainbow Songbird. getting my copilli ready for danza presentacion with Tlaloc at UW Bothell. #danza #tlaloc #indigena #solidarity #sovereignty #indigenous #native #twospirit #bakla #pasifika #macaw #cuetzpallin @toxtli @corita_naya

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arfism:

To everyone who produces videos for the internet and otherwise. Please, please, please put the time into subtitling your work. Make it accessible for everyone. I understand it’s sometimes very time-consuming or confusing to figure out, but it’s worth it - I promise. It’s so...

WORD. i been meaning to do so. no excuses! thank you for these links. i'm gonna have a blast doin' this. the QTAP project and many other media artworks MUST be accessible to everyone :) can't be doing a disservice to you all. <3

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  Week 6 of the QTAP PROJECT!

this is Dale...

He always makes me smile !

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Week 6 of the QTAP PROJECT!

this is Dale...

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Week 5 of the QTAP PROJECT!

some sharing from Reina... ! 

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  Week 5 of the QTAP PROJECT!

this is Reina... 

i want his bow tie :)

***hey y'all! be sure to watch his video here!

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  For Week 4 of the QTAP PROJECT! 

this is April...

April has the best laugh. You can see it in her photo but there isn't much footage on here... perhaps in the future. :)

P.S. if anyone knows how i can change the still on the video... LOL.. she'll probably kinda hate me for posting this... hahaha

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For Week 4 of the QTAP PROJECT! 

this is April...

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Week 3 of the QTAP PROJECT! featuring: Andre

I love talking to Andre. He's always so unabashedly honest.

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sorry I'm behind on updates!

Week 3 of the QTAP PROJECT! featuring:

Andre 

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on queerness.

apologies for falling short on updating every week. videos & pics for week 3 & 4 will hit ya'll with a blast of fierceness next week! look out for 3 new folks...

so...i organized an lgbtqi workshop yesterday complete with queerly beautiful co-facilitators & panelists and found myself wondering throughout the day: why would anyone in this world think otherwise? we are beautiful.

i cannot fathom the fear and hatred that people have towards us. &i'm talking about qpoc particularly. i can't remember how i came to this point of awakening... to the reality that the dichotomies that boxed my life for years are oppressive, colonial constructs.

i spent eight hours yesterday wondering how one day, sometime ago, i came to understand  that nothing is one or the "other", man or woman, man and woman, neither man or woman, genderfull, trans, non-gendered, gender non conforming, etc... maybe it came from the love i have for my partner & the all the beautiful trans & genderqueer people who have come into my life.

why do we have to try so hard, come out everyday or hide for survival? do you think i want to worry about what i wear everyday won't prompt unwanted attention & plan out the safest route to get home?

if i compelled just one, just one person yesterday to wake up & realize that by disregarding someone's pronouns ultimately negates their very existence as human beings and potentially leads to violence against them, then maybe i will feel more optimistic about people.

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hey y'all just putting a shout out for my homie Rogue Pinay (roguepinay.com). Ze is one of the fiercest womyn of color emcees out there. Check hir out for sure. 

  “…we were buried now can no longer be kept underground / we are coming around heeding the call to people’s service / Pilipina rebel warriors ready to resurface…”

rogue pinay is an emcee and cultural worker born in General Santos City, Philippines. With rhymes fluent and just as fluid in Tagalog and English, her music has been described by the Seattle Weekly as “poignant, filled with a startling amount of brutal honesty”.  Often vulnerable, powerful, and always loving, her work is devoted to connecting the issues of oppressed communities in the United States to the liberation of oppressed peoples worldwide. She has inspired and moved crowds from mountain villages and mass mobilizations in the Philippines to clubs and universities across the Unites States. Her songs are dedicated to third world womyn and their resistance against imperialism and class exploitation, focusing on stories of forced migration, violence against women, downbrownqueerwomanism and revolutionary change. She and El Dia make up the hiphop duo and creative force known as 1st Quarter Storm.

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Week 2 of the QTAP PROJECT! featuring:

GRACE

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Week 2 of the QTAP PROJECT! featuring:

GRACE