#activisms

[pilarvillanuevamartinez-blog]

Entrevista a Norma Martínez: "A partir de esa discriminación que yo sentí, dije voy a pintar a mi gente"

[rynezion]

Letters Of Protest

While we are encouraged and inspired by so many in our community using their art to fight racism and police brutality at this time, we at TGTS know we still have a lot to learn, and a responsibility to help create a more just future for everyone. It is in this spirit, that we introduce Letters Of Protest – a limited re

I haven’t seen this go around, so if there is a post already out there about it, sorry about the duplicate! But true gritter texture is doing a photoshop & procreate lettering brush bundle, proceeds of which go to Black Lives Matter and The NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Artist friends, go get this!

[drawdownbooks]

Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms    Available at www.draw-down.com⁣⁣⁣         Representing a range of critical insights, perspectives, and practices from artists, activists, and academics, this publication reflects on the role of feminist interventions in the fields of contemporary art, the public sphere, and politics, touching upon broader questions of cultural difference, history, class, economic position, ecology, politics, sexual orientation, and the ways in which these intersect.        #identity #power #representation#culturalpractices #FeministArtActivismsandArtivisms #FeministArt #Activisms #Artivisms https://www.instagram.com/p/CC8eJA8H7bl/?igshid=phe7cilmx5vd

[thetigerisariver]

I just feel like maybe I need to exit our support section. Like maybe my feeling that I'm not "trans (long) enough" to be in an advisory position is not like. Me imagining things but actually a real thing people think.

I know things like support groups are not about a singular vision, but it's so so so ironic that this one started because I personally wanted an affirming space for people like me (you know, crazy, genderweird, who maybe don't fit a golden transition standard) and now I'm exiting because it just seems like people like me are just too complicated, and not wanted. Certainly not as facilitators, god forbid. Facilitators are seen as examples! Their jobs are tough, and important. Gotta have a full formed Trans in charge.

I'm not even sure I could name all the shit I had heard today, and swallowed, and it just makes me wonder when it became this.

[gaywrites]

From tonight’s rally in NYC in solidarity with trans youth. (via Moriya Photography and Film/NYCLU)

[hardtoreadings]

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy was an American activist with a covetable sense of humor, a commandingly lax stage presence, and a style as rad as her politics. Hard to Read first fell for Flo when we watched her play herself in Lizzie Borden’s 1983 feminist sci-fi movie Born in Flames. Then, while reading her joyful, pragmatic, and polemical memoir Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times, we became certain that Flo Kennedy is the role model our best friends were yearning for. Times are tough! So was Flo.

Initially created for Hard to Read’s “Activisms” themed reading, a benefit for support.fm, MuslimArc, and FreeFrom, this bootleg shirt takes its design from one Flo Kennedy frequently wore, including on the cover of Color Me Flo. It’s branded “Bullshit.” Between the word, repeated, is a classic cattle brand icon. (The origin of contemporary branding—as in McDonald’s and Vetements—is in livestock branding. All property is theft. Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit!)

100% of proceeds will go to Hard to Read’s latest initiative: a series of free public workshops on body language and femme embodiment, to be held in Los Angeles as soon as we can justly pay our leaders.

Sizes S-XL available. Preshrunk. Slim fit. Every shirt comes with a xerox of a Flo Kennedy essay on fashion and politics.

All orders will be shipped starting on September 21, 2017.

Buy one today on Available Works! 

For more details contact: [email protected].

Model: Ana Cecilia Alvarez. Photography: Weston Uram. Bootleg design: Brant Boshart. Production: Fiona Duncan.

[thetigerisariver]

I'm trying to formulate a more articulate response to the concept of "burnout" that is not just *angry hissing about psychology*

But like, in a hospital, say a psych ward - the patient is traumatized. The doctor is traumatized. But only the doctor is burnt out, the patient is crazy. Even though the doctor is the one administering violence, often. Maybe that's not despite, but a because.

It feels like this is just a label for the empowered. However it feels, I think it's fair to say that activists are empowered within their communities, at least to an extent.

And more materially I think it's useful to admit to our trauma, and that it is not really fundamentally different from the trauma of our communities. Maybe that's why "organizer" is a better label, haha.

And yes, the trauma can be unrelenting because as an activist you keep submerging yourself in it again and again. But like, that's also not only unique to activists. There are plenty of people in our communities against whom circumstance has conspired such that they are constantly being tenderized by the same forces we fight against. In many cases people like this might comprise the majority of a community. I think true solidarity is not calling our traumas different names. But I'm just, Like That.