Posted in action, brown + black, fucked up shit, history, intersections, queer, thoughts on May 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Earlier this year, I went to a panel discussion entitled, “Perceptions of Queer Identity in the Muslim World” where I came across two very interesting men. The first speaker was Michael Luongo, who is the author of the bestseller book, “Gay Travels in the Muslim World” that describes his experiences as an American traveler in [...]
Posted in action, art, brown + black, events, global justice, history, intersections, queer, tagged Add new tag, art, communtiy organizing, homophobia, jihad for love, lesbians of color, middle east, students, teachers on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
A JIHAD FOR LOVE
Opens Wednesday, May 21!, IFC Center
Showtimes for Wed May 21 - Tue May 27:
11:20am, 1:15pm, 3:10, 5:05, 7:00, 9:30pm
Filmmakers in person at 7:00 and 9:30 tonight!
“Revealing and moving… a gifted filmmaker.” - Wall Street Journal
A groundbreaking look at gay and lesbian Muslims, A JIHAD FOR LOVE uncovers a hidden face of [...]
Posted in action, brown + black, defining terms, queer, thoughts, tagged BBQ, Talk on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have a lot of work to do in terms of addressing the issues of hetronormativity, white supremacy, patriarchy, racism, environmental racism, domestic abuse, police brutality, capitalism, mental colonization, imperialism.. you know all these things that oppress us and we continue to rebel against..
That doesn’t mean that we don’t perpetuate some of these oppresive tendencies [...]
Posted in art, brown + black, queer, resources, tagged ads, bronx, health on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Old ads for the Bronx Lesbian and Gay Health Resource Center
Posted in action, brown + black, intersections, queer, resources, tagged audre lorde project, bi, gay, gender non conforming, lesbian, organizing, people of color, queer, registration, training, trans, two spirit, workshop on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. - Audre Lorde
Join the Audre Lorde Project for two days of skills-building and political discussions about power, privilege & oppression.
May 3-4, 2008
11:30 AM - 6:00 PM (both days)
lunch at 11:30 AM; snacks throughout [...]
Posted in art, brown + black, events, queer, tagged art, brecht forum, color, exhibit, lesbians on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Friday, June 06
6:30 pm
EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
Lesbians of Color Art Exhibit
This exhibit focuses on violence against lesbians of color and the lesbian love that empowers them. The artists are sending the healing energy of their art to lesbians of color here and around the world who are being stigmitized, rejected, imprisioned and killed. Besides the daily [...]
Posted in brown + black, intersections, queer, thoughts, tagged gay marriage, black, anti-black, homonormative, populat culture, homophobia, community, allies on April 18, 2008 | 11 Comments »
by Kenyon Farrow (source: kenyonfarrow.com)
Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black?
By Kenyon Farrow
March 5, 2004
I was in Atlanta on business when I saw the Sunday, Feb. 29th 2004 edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution that featured as its cover story the issue of gay marriage. Georgia is one of the states prepared to add some additional language to [...]
Posted in brown + black, fucked up shit, queer, tagged ads, Hanes, ron paul, tags on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Click on the images to see them a little bigger. Essentially, the campaign idea is because ‘the world gives you enough tags,’ Hanes provides tagless undies. Except in the process they not only ‘tagged’ faggots, niggers and paks, they provided a cute, little ads showing all the stereotypes along with it. NOT OKAY. (Also, not [...]
Posted in defining terms, queer, tagged gay, lesbian, queer, terms on March 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Okay, I’ve really been thinking about it more and “queer” to me just is the best word that I can come up with to use in life and for this blog. Queer doesn’t imply gender or sexual orientation. Queer also is an adjective. It’s a modifier. That means you are never a queer (unless you would [...]
Posted in defining terms, queer on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I want to give an explanation for why I’m calling us queer.
Here’s what good ol’ Wikipedia has to offer: The word queer has traditionally meant “strange” or “unusual,” but its use in reference to LGBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex,asexual, etc.) communities as well as those perceived to be members of those communities has [...]
