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those aforementioned hella detailed/restrictive house ads are annoying and make it impossible for my able-bodied queer black ass to feel at home there; i can't even imagine how difficult it must be for differently abled folx.
i love the idea of living in a house but every time i scroll through those ads i feel more and more disgusted by people's self-righteous pretentious actually-not-all-that-radical bullshit.
would that i had the resources to start my own.
just got home from queer and trans folk of color magic craft night.
it was just as magical as it sounds.
and my wand is beyond dope.
Memorial Candlelight Vigil For Brandy Martell Next Week
For those of you in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area there will be a candlelight vigil next Monday April 29 to commemorate the one year anniversary of Brandy Martell's April 29 death. It will take place at the Franklin and 13th St. corner in Downtown Oakland where she was fatally shot The waste of DNA who committed this crime as of yet still hasn't been brought to justice. If you have information concerning this crime please contact the Oakland Police Department at 510-777-3333. The vigil is being organized by Tiffany Woods of the Tri-City Health Center and co sponsored by them and TransVision. It will run from 7-8:30 PM PDT so if you can, take a moment to attend and remember one of our lost sisters. If you need further information about it you can e-mail her at twoods@tri-city health.org or call her at 510-456-3521. Brandy, know that Bay Area trans community won't rest until the person who took you away from us far too soon has been caught and is serving time for it.
"oakland" by jade cho and isabella borgeson
two poets from oakland sayin some real shit about boundaries, gentrification and cultural appropriation. you should watch this.
White Lies from Susie Smith on Vimeo.
White Lies is a new multi-media production coming this June to the 2013 National Queer Arts Festival. The cast is composed of San Francisco Bay Area queer activists, artists, poets, musicians and actors. Our production aims to bring humor and hope to conversations about race and racism by blending together many mediums in a night of performance and conversation.
Our cast is composed of many movers and shakers in the San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ arts scene including nomy lamm, StormMiguel Florez, Jezebel Delilah X, Eli Conley, Susie Smith, Jolie Harris, Mel Chen, Meredith Fenton, Kentucky Fried Woman and Open Mike.
Our cast is developing the performance in a collaborative process of discussion, workshops, music and script development, film production, and more traditional rehearsals. Because of the sensitive nature of the topic of whiteness and race, we are using personal narratives and social justice discourse as the basis of our production to be able to speak from personal places that will make our content more resonant with our audiences. We are confident that the result will be a dynamic, multi-media, full-length performance.
White Lies will debut as part of the National Queer Arts Festival at the African-American Arts and Culture Complex on June 23rd, 2013.
Your support will help us pay for costumes, props and rehearsal space, provide ASL interpretation during the performance, and pay our artists and crew. With any extra funds, our intention is also that White Lies, after debuting in June, can be performed in a series of performances coupled with discussions about racial justice in LGBTQ communities around the Bay Area and beyond.
Because conversations about race and racism are so crucial to our communities, we want to ensure that White Lies is accessible to as many people as possible and are committed to finding diverse means to fund this production. Your support via this Indie-a-Go-Go campaign is a huge piece of our success.
To learn about other ways to support and engage with White Lies, follow our Facebook page at facebook.com/WhiteLiestheShow.
some days i think, idly, about living somewhere else
and then, at the train station, i cross paths with another beautiful brown genderqueer person and i'm like HEY. i SEE you and your mustache and your off-the-shoulder black sweater! i see you.
...wait. do i follow you on tumblr?
and then i remember that, while my city is far from perfect, i can't even imagine why i would ever leave.
this is the part where i tell you what i've been up to for the past 7 months or so, perhaps with photos and funny anecdotes. but not much of mention has really been going on. i worked a lot, got paid very little, was kinda sad and lonely, struggled to pay loans and credit bills, smoked quite a bit, and spent a lot of time holed up in my room drinking wine and reading fanfic.
so let's talk about where i'm going! i'm taking an awesome self-defense with this dope org known as girl army. this particular session is for genderqueer and trans folks in particular and wow. it's dope as hell. (i love oakland.)
major goal this year: make my life look a lot more like this
yo, there is a facebook group connecting queer, gay, and trans people in the bay area who are searching for housing, or in need of housemates!
