May 2013
3 posts
Healing Together Network Gathering Posters on sale
textaqueen:
The 2013 Healing Together Network Gathering is taking place at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, Michigan, USA this June. As part of their fundraising efforts, I created this poster in collaboration with Fabian Romero, featuring my drawing of chamomile in various stages and Fabian’s poem. You can buy this and the other two posters at their website
April 2013
25 posts
The bombing you didnt hear about
voodoo-acid-zombie:
U.S. pilot makes a mistake and drops a bomb on an Afghan wedding, killing 30. This happened today as well.
LINK TO STORY
“Barack Obama, interestingly, said in his statement that she had “broken the...”
– Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher (via bodkins)
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[more on suicide]
re the post below
it’s been three months and i’m not sure how well i’m dealing with N’s (brutal) suicide, like it’s still current tense there. My (first of several) friend who killed herself was ten years ago, and I’m still searching for answers (futilely) there. I don’t think grief gets one million times easier with time but maybe you...
Zoe Leonard 1992: I Want A President
blackgirldangerous:
“I want a dyke for president. I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who...
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ourcatastrophe:
I feel like I skipped the young leftist Adbusters/No Logo/Corporate Watch phase and went straight to “capitalism itself is the problem, not simply consumerism or neoliberalism or multinationals or individual bad-apple corporations, there can be no Capitalism Done Right” but now I’m backtracking a bit and reading a lot of Corporate Watch material because I’m continually shocked by...
ryry: corkypoindexter: Hey We are two Sex workers... →
corkypoindexter:
Hey We are two Sex workers wanting to create a video for and by sex workers to show to our family when we are coming out to help family members understand our lives as sex workers. If you are a sex worker and want to submit some video footage with maybe one or two points…
some thoughts on callout culture/ accountability...
terror-incognita:
[Edited and reposted from fb - these thoughts are part of ongoing conversations about power dynamics in “radical” or anti-oppression circles but more immediately the Deep Sea Creatures “deep lez” group and exclusion, humiliation and oppression against women who are trans as well as women minoritised in other ways - also probably contextualises the switching of my subject...
March 2013
12 posts
ourcatastrophe:
I just reactivated my OkCupid account and appaz I’ve been made a mod and can delete people
I can delete dudes’ accounts!!
I don’t know if I should have this power
YOU WHAT!!!???!?!?!?!?!?!!??!!?!?!??!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Maybe you should instead subtly change people’s profiles, eg/ every mention of ‘fedora’ is replaced with ‘cupcakes’ or would that...
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ourcatastrophe:
a thing that is not okay is continually harassing people who’ve indicated they want space under the guise of respecting that space and being accountable demanding updates every thirty seconds about what exactly their boundaries are and if that thing you did was okay and where exactly they’re gonna be and when so they can give you space and etc etc etc when it’s someone you have a...
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iinventedeverything:
i just wish people would be more critical of the “quick speed” that the US has changed on gay marriage. i keep seeing all these damn stories cooing over how quickly it’s all changed, and YES it is great to see these changes and raise my children in a MUCH different world that I was raised in—
but what does the fact that the *face* of “same sex marriage” is a white couple...
February 2013
26 posts
"Save Yourself" from "Unknown Artist", TQ's solo...
textaqueen:
“Save Yourself” (self-love self-portrait), 2013
Felt-tip marker and acrylic paint pen on Stonehenge cotton paper, 127 x 97 cm (50 x 38 in)
from my solo exhibition opening this week in Sydney,
Unknown Artist
16 February - 9 March 2013 opening Saturday 16 February, 3-5 pm
@ Sullivan+ Strumpf Fine Art
799 Elizabeth St Zetland NSW 2017 Australia
T. +61 2 96984696
Also, I’ve...
