QUEER AND AWARE ARTS

This blog is a platform for art and writing dealing with queerness and other modes of identity which have been historically oppressed. It is also a demomstration of how making art and writing can be used as a tool for self understanding and healing in the face of the precarious lives that we live.

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In honor of indigenous people's day

[grudgeraker]

The Body’s merch is really something else

[scoutingforqueers]

Ryan Walker by Ryan Pfluger

[lesbianherstorian]

headline from the bodypolitic: a magazine for gay liberation no. 77, october 1981

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Our movement is powerful because we are unstoppable. Join us: unstoppablenow.org

Art by: Zoe Buckman

[kaitlyntoast]

Animated a fun piece by Keith Haring

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'Trans women are women' projected onto London landmarks after Pride hijack controversy

'Cancel Trump' and 'Trans women are women' were projected onto buildings.

Dazed teamed up with activist group Illuminator to project the message ‘Trans women are women’ and ‘Trans men are men’ onto the side of the Ministry of Justice.

[kimleutwyler]

Oil on canvas via https://kimleutwyler.com

[cutlinespress]

We are working hard on our upcoming anthology, Queer Poets Write About Nature. Here’s a first look at artwork by the featured artist, Maximiliano Clipper.

Check out Max’s work on Instagram at @jugodepapaya (https://www.instagram.com/jugodepapaya/).

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happy 4th

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nationalism: the celebration of capitalism, colonialism, xenophobia, war, violence, hierarchic control

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Capitalism = Fascism

instead of the imaginary russian threat to american democracy, i need to see people rally against the very concrete and measurable harm capitalism has wrought on the world.

[commiepinkofag]

fuck the red, white & blue

[5centsapound]

Nadia Myre, Indian Act

Indian Act speaks of the realities of colonization - the effects of contact, and its often-broken and untranslated contracts. The piece consists of all 56 pages of the Canadian Federal Government’s Indian Act mounted on stroud cloth and sewn over with red and white glass beads. Each word is replaced with white beads sewn into the document; the red beads replace the negative space.

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“the gay community was never racist”

shit y’all still are to this day

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:/

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I’m glad my post got around.. ppl need to see some history

[magical-flying-moron]

In 1984, both African American and Asian American groups fought discriminatory door policies at bars across the city. Henry Chappell reported a double-carding incident at theWatering Hole on Folsom. Wearing a dress, heels, and a shawl, Chappell, an African-American self-identified transvestite, was asked for two forms of picture IDs as a means of excluding him from attendance. BWMT hoped that San Francisco would adopt a regulatory model for admittance based on Atlanta’s carding ordinance, which mandated that no bar could demand more than one valid ID per person.3 In part due to pressure from such actions, the City eventually passed a similar ordinance.

Around the same time, the Asian Lesbian and Gay Alliance (ALGA) conducted an informal study of various S.F. gay bars. One of the organizers later recalled, “White guys could sail through with no restrictions, but once color was added to the mix, the barriers went up.” The Midnight Sun and Castro Station were Castro bars particularly notable for their anti-Asian discriminatory practices. When confronted, the owners rationalized their multiple ID policies by claiming that it was difficult to visually discern Asian men’s age.ALGA picketed the Midnight Sun, attracting media coverage with placards such as“Discrimination in the Gay Community Demeans Us All.” During a KPFA radio debate,one participant recalled a bar owner claiming, “Your people don’t drink,” and “It’s a cruise bar; we would lose other clientele because they don’t want to cruise your type.”

-”Racism and Reaction in the Castro: A Brief, Incomplete History”

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“Si miedo a lo diferente”

Muxes Oaxaca,Mexico ( Fotos Maxine Nienow )

[songsforgorgons]

“After Language” by Chaia Heller, from My Lover Is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems edited by Lesléa Newman (1996).

[elierlick]

Queerness means abolishing borders, ICE, detention, prisons, and all forms of state violence.

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[queergraffiti]

over rainbow colors: “who thrives? who dies? whose body matters? whose history survives? who gets policed? who is safe? who is missing?”