I like plants!

My name is Lane.

[moniquill]

[tuffcharm-blog]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuoZXUHqiCM)

While looking through the James C Hormel Center at SFPL archives, I found a reference to the film Word is Out, a 1977 documentary by Peter Adair in collaboration with a group of other lesbian and gay people. I started watching the interviews for some of the people in the film many if which can be found on SFPL's youtube channel. Somehow, maybe after watching Pat Parker's interview I found this poem, read by Pat Parker. It felt very timely. After having participated in many discussions of late about free speech and creeping fascism in the US. It was good to hear this poem. Parker puts into words many of the feelings that are very difficult to express when trying to debate someone on the issue of free speech. Those who argue that Nazi's deserve a platform fail to take into account the harm that their invective causes to Black, Brown, Queer, people with disabilities, and others who are multiply marginalized in the US.

[tuffcharm-blog]

queer librarian studies update

I think I did okay at an interview for a job at SFPL that I would really love to have, in the Hormel center. Lemme tell you about that, or let the website tell you itself:  

“The James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center is the gateway to the Library’s broader collections documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and allies’ history and culture, with a special emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to books, periodicals and archival collections, the Center collaborates with other library departments and community organizations to sponsor a diverse array of exhibitions and public programs. The Hormel Center Reading Room on the 3rd floor of the Main Library houses LGBTQIA noncirculating materials.” from the website. 

OMG look there is a Zine Librarian Unconference in Long Beach this year August, 4th and 5th. I wanna go, I want my cute zine cataloging crew to goooo. Also, they have a travel scholarship for B/I/Poc librarians. That application can be found here: Travel Scholarship.

Also, in the course of looking at the Zine Librarian unconference I stumbled upon the Zine Union Catalog. OMG linked open data open source zine project. I love worldCat and a Zine WorldCat would be the coolest thing. I love this. 

[tuffcharm-blog]

Trying to be a librarian

I am an imposter with imposter syndrome. I don’t know what imposter syndrome is, which is just more proof. I have been trying to get a job as a public librarian since I graduated from Library school which was a little under two years ago. in the interim my life caught on fire. I still don’t have a job as a full-time librarian but I am maybe getting closer because I was hired as an extra hire librarian 1 and I start training for that this week. I’m putting this on my blog where I mostly just re-blog anarchist and radical history and queer stuff. I want to incorporate those things into my librarianship without feeling like an imposter and vise-versa. A big part of being a librarian for me is being a resource for trans and queer kids and looking weird in public. Those are things that I was looking for as a kid, so I’m trying to be the person I was looking for in the library when I was a kid. So that’s why I’m writing about that here, I’m trying to integrate, with that in mind I might try to keep track of books I read and maybe review some here too. 

[danskjavlarna]

“She had a delightful visit from the Dream People.”  From Loraine and the Little People by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by M. T. Ross, 1915.

[tuffcharm-blog]

EEEEEEEeeeeee

[lismicroaggressions]

LIS Microaggressions is soliciting Post-it submissions to be collected and included in our first ever LIS Microaggressions zine, which will be distributed at the upcoming ARLIS, ACRL, and REFORMA conferences (March-April 2015). This zine will also be available for download on our site!

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[mixedvegfarmwaste]

One group of demonstrators, dressed in all black, is standing outside the station, each with a fist in the air. A group of allies, meanwhile, have chained themselves to the entrance of the police station, while another group is standing with signs and banners across the street. One activist has also hoisted a banner on the police station’s flagpole with the images of unarmed black people who have been killed—and other protestors are closing down a growing number of intersections leading to the police department.

[oldcicadahymns-archived]

[llleighsmith]

chazkeats:

Gran Fury, Read My Lips, 1987.

[paledollskin]

[ebookcollective]

Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (2005)

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In Conquest, Smith places Native American women at the center of her analysis of sexual violence, challenging both conventional definitions of the term and conventional responses to the problem.

Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s, Smith adroitly expands our conception of violence to include environmental racism, population control and the widespread appropriation of Indian cultural practices by whites and other non-natives. Smith deftly connects these and other examples of historical and contemporary colonialism to the high rates of violence against Native American women—the most likely women in the United States to die of poverty-related illnesses, be victims of rape and suffer partner abuse.

Essential reading for scholars and activists, Conquest is the powerful synthesis of Andrea Smith’s intellectual and political work to date. By focusing on the impact of sexual violence on Native American women, Smith articulates an agenda that is compelling to feminists, Native Americans, other people of color and all who are committed to creating viable alternatives to state-based “solutions.”

[nonbinary-support]

[tuffcharm-blog]

TODAY IN TRANS ARTISTS: Wendy Carlos born November 14, 1939 AKA the mother of modern electronic music This amazing woman composed and recorded the entire Clockwork Orange soundtrack, yeah, that shit, that amazing stuff, this gal, right here.  Also, The Shining, yep.  That scary masterpiece, this gal made the music that made you piss. Her biggest break through album was Switched On Bach(1968) which, yes, is amazing synth-y classical jams. She began transitioning with the use of hormones in 1968 and has also won like 4 friggin’ awards for being awesome!(actually, mostly for having amazing music which directly equals being friggin’ awesome) So, if anyone asks you who the biggest bad ass in electronic-acoustic, or just electronic music in general, you tell them Wendy-God-Damn-Carlos.

[whore-fag]

I never let May 1st pass without remembering the most attractive man to have ever lived. Literally. When all of those ass-hats point to anarchists “ruining” or “infiltrating” May Day, point them to this quote, the words of a man whose death is the reason millions of people, for a century and a quarter, have fought the state on May 1st:

I tell you frankly and openly, I am for force. I have already told Captain Schaack, “if they use cannons against us, we shall use dynamite against them.” I repeat that I am the enemy of the “order”of today, and I repeat that, with all my powers, so long as breath remains in me, I shall combat it. I declare again, frankly and openly, that I am in favor of using force. I have told Captain Schaack, and I stand by it,“if you cannonade us, we shall dynamite you.” You laugh! Perhaps you think,“you’ll throw no more bombs”; but let me assure you I die happy on the gallows, so confident am I that the hundreds and thousands to whom I have spoken will remember my words; and when you shall have hanged us, then—mark my words—they will do the bombthrowing! In this hope do I say to you: I despise you. I despise your order, your laws, your force-propped authority. Hang me for it!

[lumpenfag]

remembered as an ‘avid proponent of violence’, his defense in court was that he couldn’t have thrown the bomb at haymarket, because he was sitting at home making other bombs at the time. he literally blew himself up in his cell the night before his execution so as to not let the state kill him. he bit down on a blasting cap and before he died, he wrote ‘long live anarchy’ on the floor of his cell using his own blood.

[calumet412]

Martyrdom for the Haymarket Riot anarchists, 1886, Chicago

[attackmewithyourlove]

ready for SATURDAY? #terrafirma #5790projects #cfaer #filardo #dylanryansand #coreyfogel. Get your tickets through CFAER.org (at Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock)

[aaronmolson]

I’m playing bass in FILARDO this coming Saturday at the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock! The flier above says it all! (5/3/14)

bests,

ao

p.s. I’m also playing a little guitar (one song probably) with Tara Jane O’neil at Hollywood Forever (Masonic Lodge) this Friday night (5/2/14)! 

[tuffcharm-blog]

Tom Filardo of Filardo is my very sweet roommate! This show will be cool:

[friendelmxn]

Trans* Housing Now - 

Welcome to Queens Cottage Shelter!

Thank you for viewing our campaign. We are a small, grassroots organization that is working with the community to open the first Bay Area trans* women housing program - Queens Cottage Shelter. 

When our founder, Breezy Golden-Farr, a transwoman herself, found herself homeless and without a place to lay her head, she came face to face with a real problem in our community. There is no safe and affordable housing for trans* women in the Bay Area. 

Trans* people are often shunned and abused by the shelter system; they are often forced to sleep on the streets because they are abused and harassed by other shelter residents. Trans* women sorely lack a safe haven, where they can go for supportive housing. Queens Cottage Shelter will work with local partners to help empower residents reach for their goals of recovery, employment, school, and stable housing.    

Miss Farr’s and others have been working tirelessly to open the first ever all transwoman housing program and Oakland. They have teamed up with Transitions House - a trans* housing advocacy group to make this dream a reality. We hope you will join us with passion we have for trans* affirming housing! This dream needs your passion and financial support. 

How can I help?

Though our goal here is modest, it will allow us to start our fundraising for the following:

Help find a residence for Queens Cottage Shelter

Help us start and open our doors to 10 homeless trans women in need of your support. 

Your support will provide short term housing to our community most impacted by violence and discrimination, TWOC and low income trans women. 

Residents will be supported in the house to get connected to community resources including job search support by the Trans* Employment Program (TEEI), healthcare services, and case management. 

It will mean trans* people have access to safe housing, showers, and free meals. 

Perks:

Thank you for supporting this important and needed trans housing program. As our unique way of saying thank you for helping house trans* women of color and low income trans* folks, please check out our perks. Including buttons, t-shirts, and more! At certain donor levels, you even have the opportunity to sit down and meet these girls and hear their story. See first hand  what your financial assistance means to them. And remember, anything will help! 

Thank You! 

We are a registered with the IRS as a non-profit charity and we accept donations of all kinds. Any dollar amount, no matter how small, will be welcomed. Every dollar given is a dollar much appreciated!

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[friendelmxn]

This is so important. Only 5 people have backed this so far. Give what you can! Signal boost!

[tuffcharm-blog]

Some things I did and did not do today:

-Write every email as if it is a beautiful poem

-Write every email as if it were written to someone that I had a disgusting unquenchable crush on

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-DIY guide to archiving as a workshop at chuco's

-juiced three grapefruits, strawberries, mandarin oranges, oranges, apple

-ate a dry cookie

[lioneater]

Maybe over the winter holidays you received a few gift cards that you could spare and donate to CeCe. I will be donating the Target gift cards I was given, as well as some sewing supplies. Send to: Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, 3405 Chicago Ave, Suite 103, Minneapolis, MN 55407