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inventaire: One of my favourite parts of the year is the Queer...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:23:30 -0400

One of my favourite parts of the year is the Queer Film Festival. The films are generally atrocious, but there’s a great sense of community. Living in a fairly conservative city, its still really powerful for me to be in a room full of queers watching our stories, getting our jokes, crying for each other etc.

Yesterday I (finally) saw LAURENCE ANYWAYS and it was a curious and satisfying experience. In part because it was with a big trans audience, but mostly because it straddles this beautiful line between magic and turmoil. I don’t get the criticism Xavier Dolan receives. He’s 23 and unapologetic in his love of beauty and exuberance. I only wish I could have been as prolific and talented in my early 20s.

Trailer of a new documentary, Ghosts of Jeju, on Jeju’s...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:17:25 -0400

Trailer of a new documentary, Ghosts of Jeju, on Jeju’s history of violent suppression by U.S.-led military occupation, including a current-day struggle over the building of a navy base at the UNESCO-protected coastal site of Gangjeong, which the local villagers have protested for years.

meetmyimmigrantnanny: Elana is from El Salvador. She is a...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:11:51 -0400

meetmyimmigrantnanny:

Elana is from El Salvador. She is a second mom to me. She helped raise me from when I was really little. She has always been full of love, laughter and incredible strength. She has always unconditionally loved me and that is the greatest gift I can ask for. We have stayed close and she always has a positive attitude, is open with advice and stories, and helps me put my life in perspective. She is quick to laugh, she enjoys life and has always been thrilled to hear from me and catch up. She spent countless hours taking care of me and my sister and brother, in order to financially support her own kids and family, both in SF and back in El Salvador.

Immigration reform would remove one set of barriers that stand in the way of Elena and her family being treated with complete respect and humanity by the legal system. It would remove one more set of barriers that make it hard for me and my family to have strong, consistent relationships with immigrants who are under attack by our legal system. It would also mean the removal of one more set of laws that chip away at the quality of community I am able to have and the integrity I live with as a US citizen.

- Michael, CA

NYT: Stop and Frisk's impact on trans and gender nonconforming people of color

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:53:00 -0400

NYT: Stop and Frisk's impact on trans and gender nonconforming people of color: I met Mr....

Link to MRNY's report: TRANSGRESSIVE POLICING (Full Report): Police Abuse of LGBTQ Communities of Color in Jackson Heights, Queens

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:52:00 -0400

Link to MRNY's report: TRANSGRESSIVE POLICING (Full Report): Police Abuse of LGBTQ Communities of...

LGBT Undocumented People Disproportionately Younger and Asian, According to Latest Report

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:49:01 -0400

LGBT Undocumented People Disproportionately Younger and Asian, According to Latest Report: The...

"Since 2003, more than 2.4 million people have passed through immigration detention facilities in a..."

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:53:00 -0500

“Since 2003, more than 2.4 million people have passed through immigration detention facilities...

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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:50:59 -0500

A short video introduction to the Community Safety Act created...

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:03:00 -0500

A short video introduction to the Community Safety Act created by CPR member NYCLU, working together with Picture the Homeless, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Streetwise and Safe, and the Muslim American Civil Liberties Union

Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:47:24 -0500

Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team

This Thursday, my friend Hentyle will be performing with Xandra...

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:58:57 -0500

This Thursday, my friend Hentyle will be performing with Xandra Ibarra at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in what will be an examination of the relationship between dance/performance/artists and the contemporary urban museum space. Or, “an evening of racialized sexual spectacle, participatory twirling, and Isadora Duncan-inspired dance reconstruction.”

Awesome. Please join.

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Converge: Xandra Ibarra and Hentyle Yapp

Dec 20, 2012 4:00pm – 8:00pm

Grand Lobby

FREE

The recent rise of performance and movement in museum spaces forces us to think more critically about the relationship between performance and the museum. Performance-based works have often arose in opposition to Western, masculinist and historicist traditions of the museum. However, now that the relationship between performance and the museum is increasingly in flux and destabilized, are there possibilities for new, critical approaches to performance art within museum spaces? What does it mean for practitioners of performance mediums to work within the museum’s borders?

Working through their respective performance-based trainings in burlesque and contemporary/modern dance, Xandra Ibarra and Hentyle Yapp collaborate in December’s YBCA ConVerge event to explore and disrupt this predicament. Their collective approach questions how white womanhood structures their performance genres, and how, as racialized performers, they use parody to disarm and contend with whiteness, gender, institutions, history, and memory.

Join us for an evening of racialized sexual spectacle, participatory twirling, and Isadora Duncan-inspired dance reconstruction! Complimentary food and drinks.

I’m spreading the word about a storytelling project for...

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:50:00 -0500

I’m spreading the word about a storytelling project for LGBT/queer Koreans and their families that will be published soon! The group is doing a final fundraising push—they’re in striking distance of their $12,000 goal!—to release their print/web publication, so check it out and consider supporting: http://www.crowdrise.com/dariproject/fundraiser/johnwon

As background, the Dari Project is an all-volunteer project I helped start up a few years back in NYC. After an extended community-outreach and story-collection process (which stalled, then started again), they’re publishing a whopping 27 stories translated in both English and Korean. Why? Because basic knowledge, support, and resources on LGBT issues are hard to come by in the Korean American community, much less in-language, culturally competent, and designed with parents/family members in mind.

One last thing: I’m proud that Dari Project made a core principle to foreground the voices of those least visible in our communities, i.e., women, transgender folks, immigrants, mixed-race folks, and adoptees. As a result, the stories we heard, the conversations we had, and the friends we made along the way have been amazing, loving, ones we hadn’t anticipated (like this one by my friend Andy, who wrote about it for Huffpost), some brutally honest and critical, and overall pretty awesome.

Thanks! And for folks who have generously supported in the past, extra thanks!

Excerpts from The Big Necessity by Rose George

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:08:03 -0500

…2.6 billion people don’t have sanitation. I don’t mean that they have no toilet in...

tellasimplestory: CAAAV’s amazing relief work in Chinatown...

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:28:17 -0400

tellasimplestory:

CAAAV’s amazing relief work in Chinatown Manhattan:

Today, over 100 individuals showed up with food and volunteered with us. We were able to charge the phones of over 230 people and provide essentials to another 700+ more. Lines for supplies went around the block continuously throughout the day, and the collective cost of donations people brought in ranged in the thousands of dollars. We were able to hit hundreds of apartment buildings checking in on elders and families. (See photos here.)

Today, we showed that the power of community can hold us together even through the toughest of times and it was done with lots of love, laughter, and hard work.

Today, it was clear that even if City leaders do not acknowledge the work that we have done, we know we reached the people who needed it.

wnyc: This weekend we’re continuing to take your calls. Share...

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:28:08 -0400

wnyc:

This weekend we’re continuing to take your calls.
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queenslove: This happened in the Jackson Heights Plaza last...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:18:00 -0400

queenslove:

This happened in the Jackson Heights Plaza last week…

They are calling this Sexy Lungi Style… whereas Lungis are the skirts that Bengali men wear. Put together by The Bengali Memes.

Excerpt from "The Dementia Plague"

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:03:47 -0400

Feature story on medicine’s fight against Alzheimer’s by Stephen S. Hall in the MIT...

thugzmansion: Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American human...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:57:14 -0400

thugzmansion:

Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American human rights activist, but often remembered for her work in The Black Panther Party.

In 1960, Kochiyama and her spouse moved to Harlem in New York City and joined the Harlem Parents Committee. She became acquainted with Malcolm X and was a member of his Organization of Afro-American Unity. She was also present at Malcolm X’s assassination on February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, and held him in her arms as he lay dying.

In 1977, Kochiyama joined the group of Puerto Ricans that took over the Statue of Liberty to draw attention to the struggle for Puerto Rican independence.

Over the years, Kochiyama has dedicated herself to various causes, such as the rights of political prisoners, freeing Mumia Abu-Jamal, nuclear disarmament, and reparations to Japanese Americans who were interned during the war.

In 2005, Kochiyama was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize through the “1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005” project.

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"Privilege is not something I take and which I therefore have the option of not taking. It is..."

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:52:16 -0400

“Privilege is not something I take and which I therefore have the option of not taking. It is...

NPR: Gaza's Future Looks Even Bleaker Than Its Past

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:09:44 -0400

NPR: Gaza's Future Looks Even Bleaker Than Its Past: The costs of Israeli occupation and aggression...