Indigenous people of Brazil trying to prevent their eviction from an old indigenous museum which they have been living in for the past 7 years.
On March 22nd all of the inhabitants and their supporters were forcibly removed or arrested.
The building is being destroyed to make a parking lot :(
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Gender
Be a trans* ally & help fight transphobia & cissexism
1. Use the term ‘cisgender’ when referring to non-trans* individuals, rather than transphobic words like “normal,” which imply that trans* individuals are abnormal, weird, ill, or broken.
2. Do not use transphobic slurs, such as “tra-ny” or “shemale.” These words are intended to insult and harm trans* individuals.
3. Always use the name any individual gives you. Do not ask someone what their “real” name is. (Their desired name is their real name.)
4. Always use the desired pronouns of an individual. If you are unsure which pronoun to use, politely and privately ask the individual what their preferred pronouns are.
5. Do not claim someone’s gender identity as false, nonexistent, immoral, or a result of an illness or trauma.
6. Do not ask questions regarding someone’s anatomy, or question if they have transitioned or will be transitioning in the future.
7. Do not ask to see the photographs of a person before they transitioned. Likewise, do not ask invasive, personal questions of a person regarding their life before they transitioned.
8. Never out a trans* individual to others. Likewise, do not ask others if “so-and-so is transgender.”
9. Do not assume an individual’s sexual orientation due to their trans* identity.
From asexual-not-a-sexual.tumblr.com
(via artoftransliness)
62 - El Veterano
Counter to popular belief, the Stonewall Riot was not simply angry white cis gay men.
One of two people arrested was Ray Castro, a gay Puerto Rican immigrant.
That night at Stonewall, he resisted his arresting officers. When they tried to place him inside the cop car, he kicked the vehicle door with full force, knocking both officers on the floor.
He was eventually taken into custody and released.
Castro has since passed away, but his actions serves as a testament to our legacy of queer Latin@ resistance.
(via projectqueer)
“The people of color contingent in The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights”, 1987
Photo © Patrick Barnholden
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FILMZ
Otto; or, Up with Dead People (dir. Bruce LaBruce, 2008)
She’s Gotta Have It (dir. Spike Lee, 1986)
Querelle (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
Mean Girls (dir. Mark Waters, 2004)
Class of Nuke ‘Em High (dirs. Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman, Richard W. Haines, 1986)
Two Thousand Maniacs! (dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1964)
Stalker (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Teorema (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)
Trash Humpers (dir. Harmony Korine, 2009) [Photo 1]
LIT
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi (2000)
Incognegro, by Mat Johnson (2009)
The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don’t Read The Newspaper, by Aaron McGruder (2000)
“De Organizer,” by Langston Hughes & James Weldon Johnson (pub. 2000)
“Harvest,” by Langston Hughes (pub. 2000)
“Scottsboro Limited,” by Langston Hughes (pub. 2000)
“for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf,” by Ntozake Shange (1975) [photo 2]
“The Slave,” by LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka (1964)
1. Some Mad Men
2. The Hobbit (dir. Peter Jackson, 2012)
3. Scanners (dir. David Cronenberg, 1980) [Photo 1]
4. Duck Soup (dir. Leo McCarey, 1930)
5. The Public Enemy (dir. William A. Wellman, 1931)
6. Some 30 Rock
7. “The Bad Girls Club: Top 10 OMG’s” [Photo 2]
8. The Raspberry Reich (dir. Bruce LaBruce, 2004)
9. The Panic in Needle Park (dir. Jerry Schatzberg, 1971)
10. A lot of great new music of all kinds, especially by New Haven artists, specifics to come maybe even in its own post
11. Parting Glances (dir. Bill Sherwood, 1986)
12. Philip K. Dick - Ubik (1969)
13. Revolutionary Tales: African-American Women’s Short Stories (ed. Bill Mullen, 1995)
14. The Wizard of Gore (dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1970)
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[image description: a light-skinned person of color working on a laptop behind a glass window. the window reads PAC people’s arts collective / PACnewhaven@gmail.com / pacnewhaven.tumblr.com inside the room there is a chalkboard calendar on the wall, zines & flyers. words on the graphic read: “donate to people’s arts collective”]
[Donate here!]
PAC New Haven is a group of artists and activists working together for social, economic, and environmental justice in the Greater New Haven Connecticut Area.
The People’s Arts Collective of New Haven, or PAC New Haven, needs your help for its upcoming operating year.
We are newly founded as of August 2012 and exist in response to the apparent lack of an inclusive public workspace for all artists and activists in the Greater New Haven Area. In this case, inclusivity means free domain, no membership required.
The town-and-gown divides that exist between the partitioned, transitory college-aged artists, locally celebrated artists, and locally unrecognized artists just don’t work for a conscious arts scene. We aim to address the inherent pseudocommunity symptomatic of a “college town” - our work collectively is not just to open up avenues of connection between artist from different milieus, but also affect, on our own terms, responsible interventions into the public discourse. We’re located in the heart of downtown New Haven at 212 College Street and we need your assistance!
Our Upcoming, Prioritized Projects (and why we need your help):
1) The FREE SKOOL, our adapted version of SkillShare -
Launching on November 14th, the FREE SKOOL as it stands is a community-taught series of free workshops to bolster basic creative agency in an expensive and alienating commercialized world. Anyone in the Greater New Haven Area, of any gender, sex, nationality, generation, race, capability, is encouraged and thoroughly welcome to sign up to teach or to learn. On the “syllabus,” we already have teachers leading workshops in intensive yoga, hitchhiking, graphic design, sewing, parkouring, disposable camera photography, figure drawing, tincture making, woodworking, broadcasting and working groups in protecting oneself against police brutality and raising awareness about violence against women.
Why we need your help:
Each of these workshops has a specific need for supplies, whether disposable cameras or thread and needle. Your contributions will go directly to these public resources.
2) SPACE RENOVATION
New additions to the PAC team include members intent on installing a woodshop and DIY photo lab in our space’s basement. These spaces, with a mandatory training, will be open daily to the community to expose photos and craft as they please.
Why we need your help:
Photo supplies. Cheap lumber.
3) “RAD-ELM” BOOKSTORE (name in progress)
Approached by a local doula and activist, PAC now intends to delineate a portion of its space a bookstore/info shop engaging with responsible literature and zines for public consumption. This literature will be available for borrowing or for purchase, depending on one’s fiscal availability. Themes will range from Black Feminist texts to How-To’s on maintaining a vegan lifestyle.
Why we need your help:
To help outfit the space for the bookstore to be mean, clean, and full of sheen. To assist in stocking the shop.
4) SOCIOPOLITICAL INTERVENTIONS
At the end of November, the PAC team will be coordinating two local awareness campaigns in Gender Fluidity and AIDS Awareness. Our gender fluidity intervention seeks to affect popular visual cues that limit our ideas about gender, namely bathroom doors. After a week full of community discussion, a screening of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and community design, the last friday of the month will see PAC fixing new inclusive symbols of gender to the doors of the city. Our AIDS awareness campaign will focus primarily on raising awareness about the continued existence of infection in black female populations in the heart of the Greater New Haven area.
Why we need your help:
Materials for placards. Printing costs for flyers, pamphlets, and petitions.
“So, where will the money go?”
We are maintianing a strict budget transparency system, where the intake and expenditure of all funds will be published live on our website as soon as our indiegogo campaign ends. As of now, we can forecast that we will need, apart from what’s mentioned above:
A mere $3000 for our rent for the whole year! (yes that translates to only $250/mth)
$300 for Internet so our space can be functional as a hub and a research center
More information can be found soon on our under-construction site:
http://pacnewhaven.tumblr.com/
[Remember to donate here!]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcgeaxB7571rtn20io1_500.jpg)
[image description: a light-skinned person of color working on a laptop behind a glass window. the window reads PAC people’s arts collective / PACnewhaven@gmail.com / pacnewhaven.tumblr.com inside the room there is a chalkboard calendar on the wall, zines & flyers. words on the graphic read: “donate to people’s arts collective”]
PAC New Haven is a group of artists and activists working together for social, economic, and environmental justice in the Greater New Haven Connecticut Area.
The People’s Arts Collective of New Haven, or PAC New Haven, needs your help for its upcoming operating year.
We are newly founded as of August 2012 and exist in response to the apparent lack of an inclusive public workspace for all artists and activists in the Greater New Haven Area. In this case, inclusivity means free domain, no membership required.
The town-and-gown divides that exist between the partitioned, transitory college-aged artists, locally celebrated artists, and locally unrecognized artists just don’t work for a conscious arts scene. We aim to address the inherent pseudocommunity symptomatic of a “college town” - our work collectively is not just to open up avenues of connection between artist from different milieus, but also affect, on our own terms, responsible interventions into the public discourse. We’re located in the heart of downtown New Haven at 212 College Street and we need your assistance!
Our Upcoming, Prioritized Projects (and why we need your help):
1) The FREE SKOOL, our adapted version of SkillShare -
Launching on November 14th, the FREE SKOOL as it stands is a community-taught series of free workshops to bolster basic creative agency in an expensive and alienating commercialized world. Anyone in the Greater New Haven Area, of any gender, sex, nationality, generation, race, capability, is encouraged and thoroughly welcome to sign up to teach or to learn. On the “syllabus,” we already have teachers leading workshops in intensive yoga, hitchhiking, graphic design, sewing, parkouring, disposable camera photography, figure drawing, tincture making, woodworking, broadcasting and working groups in protecting oneself against police brutality and raising awareness about violence against women.
Why we need your help:
Each of these workshops has a specific need for supplies, whether disposable cameras or thread and needle. Your contributions will go directly to these public resources.
2) SPACE RENOVATION
New additions to the PAC team include members intent on installing a woodshop and DIY photo lab in our space’s basement. These spaces, with a mandatory training, will be open daily to the community to expose photos and craft as they please.
Why we need your help:
Photo supplies. Cheap lumber.
3) “RAD-ELM” BOOKSTORE (name in progress)
Approached by a local doula and activist, PAC now intends to delineate a portion of its space a bookstore/info shop engaging with responsible literature and zines for public consumption. This literature will be available for borrowing or for purchase, depending on one’s fiscal availability. Themes will range from Black Feminist texts to How-To’s on maintaining a vegan lifestyle.
Why we need your help:
To help outfit the space for the bookstore to be mean, clean, and full of sheen. To assist in stocking the shop.
4) SOCIOPOLITICAL INTERVENTIONS
At the end of November, the PAC team will be coordinating two local awareness campaigns in Gender Fluidity and AIDS Awareness. Our gender fluidity intervention seeks to affect popular visual cues that limit our ideas about gender, namely bathroom doors. After a week full of community discussion, a screening of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and community design, the last friday of the month will see PAC fixing new inclusive symbols of gender to the doors of the city. Our AIDS awareness campaign will focus primarily on raising awareness about the continued existence of infection in black female populations in the heart of the Greater New Haven area.
Why we need your help:
Materials for placards. Printing costs for flyers, pamphlets, and petitions.
“So, where will the money go?”
We are maintianing a strict budget transparency system, where the intake and expenditure of all funds will be published live on our website as soon as our indiegogo campaign ends. As of now, we can forecast that we will need, apart from what’s mentioned above:
- A mere $3000 for our rent for the whole year! (yes that translates to only $250/mth)
- $300 for Internet so our space can be functional as a hub and a research center
More information can be found soon on our under-construction site:
1. Philip K. Dick - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) [Photo 1]
2. Looper (dir. Rian Johnson, 2012)
3. Elvira’s Haunted Hills (dir. Sam Irvin, 2001)
4. The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman (dir. Fred Barney Taylor, 2007) [Photo 2]
5. Dennis Cooper - The Sluts (2005)
6. Mala Noche (dir. Gus Van Sant, 1986)
1. Sunset Blvd. (dir. Billy Wilder, 1950)
2. This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (dir. José Mojica Marins, 1967)
3. Coffy (dir. Jack Hill, 1973) [Photo 1]
4. Lawless (dir. John Hillcoat, 2012)
5. Flash Gordon (dir. Mike Hodges, 1980)
6. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (dir. Alison Klayman, 2012) [Photo 2 sort of]
7. Alinsky, Saul. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. 1971.
8. Batman Chronicles, Vol. 1. 1995.
9. The Situationist Anthology. Ed. Ken Knabe
1. The Avengers: 3-D (dir. Joss Whedon, 2012)
2. Reefer Madness (dir. Louis Gasnier, 1936)
3. Plan 9 from Outer Space (dir. Edward D. Wood, 1959) [Photo 1]
4. David Wojnarowicz - Memories that Smell Like Gasoline (1992) [Photo 2]
RABIOSO SOL, RABIOSO CIELO [Julián Hernández 2009]
One of my favorite films of the last few years.
