Or be rectangular prism

thatladyinred: Outkast -Chonkyfire

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:34:52 -0400

thatladyinred:

Outkast -Chonkyfire

What I wonder is if, when they're talking about the student exchange they say s-exchange (like actually say s ) or if they just call it sexchange

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:12:50 -0400

It is pronounced “sex change”

Black Power Mixtape for homework? Word.

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:57:14 -0400

Black Power Mixtape for homework? Word.

Answer Questions on Identity for [I'm]Possible Zine: Race, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Class, Region... and the list goes on.

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:51:26 -0400

Answer Questions on Identity for [I'm]Possible Zine: Race, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Class, Region... and the list goes on.:

Here are some open-ended questions that the [I’m]Possible crew thought up for folks to respond to. Respond to as many as you want in whatever length you want; we’re looking for folks to share their story and will include responses in the zine. All responses are anonymous.

"A woman-of-color who writes poetry or paints or dances or makes movies knows there is no escape from..."

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:43:49 -0400

“A woman-of-color who writes poetry or paints or dances or makes movies knows there is no escape from race or gender when she is writing or painting. She can’t take off her color and sex and leave them at the door or her study or studio. Nor can she leave behind her history. Art is about identity, among other things, and her creativity is political.”

- Gloria Anzaldúa, Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras — Creative and Cultural Perspectives by Women of Color (via jalwhite)

We at [I’m]Possible highly recommend looking into reading works written and editited by Gloria Anzaldúa. A page on Voices from the Gaps gives information on Anzaldúa and her works: “Gloria Anzaldúa, a self-described ‘chicana dyke-feminist, tejana patlache poet, writer, and cultural theorist,’”

Some links below to get started

Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras

Borderlands/ La Frontera

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color
(via impossiblewm)

Cleoooo&meCheesin

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:54:00 -0400

Cleoooo&meCheesin

surviving-science: love zoidberg i say to science

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:47:27 -0400

surviving-science:

love zoidberg

i say to science

impossiblewm: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS [I’m]POSSIBLE Zine For and...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:47:09 -0400

impossiblewm:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

[I’m]POSSIBLE Zine

For and by folks who identify as POC, Queer/LGBTQ, and POC&Queer.We are completely submission-based, independently run zine looking to creatively share and create spaces where we are all seen, heard, and acknowledged as valid. Accepting all forms of submissions (drawings, writing, photos, collages, mixed media, anything you want). Anything pertaining to your experience, life, identity, or thoughts is welcome!

Submissions can be made to this tumblr: impossiblewm.tumblr.com

email: impossiblewm@gmail.com

facebook: I’m_Possible Zine

by mail: CSU 0111 PO Box 8793 Williamsburg VA 23187

We strive create a permanent safer space for POC people, queer/trans people, and those at the intersections of identities. This space is created by you, me, and all of us; to start, we want to collaborate in creating a conversation, resources, and thought centered around POC and queer folks, as well as providing a venue for us to voice our pushbacks and contradictions to how we are (mis)represented in media and treated in society.

so stoked for this! if you have anything you’ve written/drawn/made, or something you’ve been thinking of doing please consider sending it in here! we’ll make internet-accessible PDF versions as well as mail copies to folks who want a hard copy.

Queer/trans/poc zine project to create safer visible spaces in impossible places. Accepting all...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:53:49 -0400

Queer/trans/poc zine project to create safer visible spaces in impossible places.
Accepting all submissionsssss. Spread the word.
impossiblewm.tumblr.com
(Im)Possible Zine

tw: triggering/transphobic language how do i get people to stop calling the “student...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:00:00 -0400

tw: triggering/transphobic language

how do i get people to stop calling the “student exchange” (campus convenience store) a shortened name of “s.exchange”

all i’ve ever been able to do it stare, pause for too long of a time, push my yelling internal self aside, and mask up to respond.

Stories of Asian American Women, Trans, and Gender non-conforming Queer folks

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:14:00 -0400

Stories of Asian American Women, Trans, and Gender non-conforming Queer folks:

mermaidheartsongs:

Oh wow oh wow oh wow. There are a lot of videos and I don’t really have time right now because homework but omg this project is great.

VISIBILITY PROJECT REPRESENT!

check out the website at and see if they’re gonna be in your area or if there’s anything to volunteer for. I met one of the main folks who work on this and they’re good people

http://www.visibilityproject.org/

conversations in

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:20:23 -0400

content/trigger warning: discussion about war, violence

during big events at my school, we have event-staff come in. today I met a person who was tasked to sit outside the room, which was attached to our main office, where the performer and crew were changing/hanging out. they were super nice, soft spoken, honest, and inquisitive. they asked me about students at the school here after working the closing shift at swem library and seeing the mass of people leaving at 2am. they then told me about where they went to college, UofR and then VCU. and then they told me about the time that they spent between those two schools. less than a week after they withdrew from UofR because of finances, they received a draft letter from the US army to serve in the Vietnam War and served for three years. I tried not to ask too many questions nor let my mind wander about with curiosity on the subject and spent more energy listening. They opened up about some things that I never could have imagined, their own experiences, the people they knew, their thoughts on why the draft letter came so soon after their withdraw from the institution of UofR. After about thirty minutes, they paused and looked at me and said, “This is the most I’ve ever talked to anyone about it. That part of my life is completely over.”

Aaron carter in my building today for a concert. As I read...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:20:00 -0400

Aaron carter in my building today for a concert.

As I read about the construction of the idea of race for my class, Aaron Carter walks by in his underwear singing with a makeup case in hand from the bathroom. Okay.

dear-white-people: justinsimien: lilliep: lilliep: Dear...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:55:35 -0400

dear-white-people:

justinsimien:

lilliep:

lilliep:

Dear White People (2012)

DEAR WHITE PEOPLE follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over a popular “African American” themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film will explore racial identity in “post-racial” America while weaving a universal story of forging one’s unique path in the world.

Trailer — Info — Donate

ETA:

Help send the film to the Tribeca Industry Meetings vote here.

I know ppl are still reblogging this so edited to include the voting link.

The #DearWhitePeople Union is UNSTOPPABLE. So excited to make a movie you will love as much as we love you! (which is a lot lot)

again: send film to Tribeca Industry Meetings via this link: http://www.indiewire.com/article/its-time-to-vote-for-project-of-the-year-send-one-film-to-the-tribe

cunthulhu: lips-richmond: Oh hey, I’m late to the game this...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:47:56 -0400

cunthulhu:

lips-richmond:

Oh hey, I’m late to the game this time around, but I’m finally on a team and I’m fundraising for abortion access (for RRFP)! I need your monetary help!

—-> Please donate to my team! <—-

Oh! And if you can’t donate, you’d better reblog!

i’m on this team too! do it.

Donate to good people and good things if you can!

Whitecismaledudeprivvy stares and whispers and gestures and vibes and aggression. Not into it. I’m...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:21:34 -0500

Whitecismaledudeprivvy stares and whispers and gestures and vibes and aggression. Not into it.

I’m just tryn to listen to live music and do work in a nice space. Are you lookin at my me or the James Baldwin books on my table or the masks you apply to me or what what what.

veganderthal: anarcho-queer: angry-hippo: socialismartnature: ...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:14:35 -0500

veganderthal:

anarcho-queer:

angry-hippo:

socialismartnature:

The food you eat or brush you’re using may have been made by a worker earning less than a dollar an hour — not in the developing world, but in the invisible workforce inside America’s prisons. Share this if you oppose prison labor for profit.

Source: http://ow.ly/iwTlY

When I was in prison I worked 3 shifts a day, 5 days a week, starting at 5 AM and ending at 8 PM. I was paid $5.25 a month. Pay for the inmates who facilitate UNICOR workers (by making their food, washing their laundry, etc,) is even lower than the wages cited in the above graphics. The prison industry is also a slave industry, and it isn’t just corporations who benefit. All the furniture you see in federal buildings, post offices, DMVs, etc, where do you think it comes from? Prison labor. I think a lot of people know about states that use prison labor for license plates, but fewer people know that the plaques on doors at city halls, and sometimes the doors themselves, come from prison labor. The incarcerated are a hyper-exploited class unto themselves, and almost no one seems to be helping them to organize.

93 cents is a little on the high side. In NYC’s Rikers Island, the largest prison in the world with 11,000 prisoners, raised their prisoners wage to 39 cents per hour during the Sandy recover.

Of the estimated 11,000 inmates, 92 to 95 percent of the Rikers population is black or Latino. Yet whites make up the majority (44%) of NYC’s population.

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”—Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

jenifromthebloc: fuckyourracism: lightspeedsound: The Real...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:14:00 -0500

jenifromthebloc:

fuckyourracism:

lightspeedsound:

The Real Harlem Shake on MSNBC

FUCK YEAH

K: These people are fucking amazing

TELL ‘EM, PERRY!!

She just delivered a verbal teaching/smack down.

*Edit* And I appreciate that they remixed Baauer’s song and gave it an actual beat.

Yes.

“The international video viral madness that is populating facebook and filling segments of the morning shows. It’s fascinating but it is not, I repeat not, the Harlem Shake… the Harlem Shake has a history and a trajectory embedded in the authentic lived urban experience. It has been popular in NY since at least the 1980s… But in truth you have not seen the Harlem Shake unless you have seen kids on a NY subway performing the intricate, fast-paced, and on-beat moves while maintaining balance on a moving train. Now this is about more than proper designation of a popular dance, its about cultural appropriation. When communities create original art, they have a right to some control over its definition… Creative interpretation is expected to respect certain boundaries, thats what conveys the respect… This is especially true within the long history of vouyerism and appropriation of Harlem’s artistic innovations. Harlem has given birth to some of americas most distinctive and original art, music, and literature. And just as surely as Harlem has innovated, it has been invaded by those who come to Harlem with little sence of history or social context and no desire for political or economic solidarity. Think of the original Cotton Club of the 1920s… It was home to Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, Betsy Smith, Ella Fitzgerald; but only white patrons were allowed. No member of the community could sit and enjoy the music that the community itself created. And the wound of that cultural theft is still fresh. And the new shake craze must be understood in that context.”

Melissa Harris-Perry on the appropriation of the “Harlem Shake”

met an awesomeeee person during work today. we talked for a long time about poc/mixed/api/aapi/white...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:38:00 -0500

met an awesomeeee person during work today. we talked for a long time about poc/mixed/api/aapi/white spaces, privilege, growing up experiences, having mixed kids/how they see their kid experience being mixed in this context, williamsburg/colonial ventures, etc.

figuring out how to talk to people in a way that seems fulfilling, honest, truthful, and good in spaces with harmful cultures. <3

It’s taken months To find the stones, pebbles, branches I’ve thrown into the water Hoping that each...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:42:00 -0500

It’s taken months
To find the stones, pebbles, branches
I’ve thrown into the water
Hoping that each one would remain without sinking below the
surface.

I dug
with raw finger tips into
bloody dirt.
Tenderly avoiding severing roots and segmenting bodies of earthworms
working through
decomposition.

The smoke still hangs in the air
mixing
with sweet scents of honeysuckle and rain.
Many of the support beams and crossbars,
Nuts and bolts are still visible.
Structureless frame remaining.

The embers are not yet ashes.
They smolder still, threatening to ignite any leaf or debris that grazes their innards.
Prone to
Temperamental flare ups.

I feel confident that

I can make

a solid path
across the water with the earth I’ve thrown.

Piled upon itself .

Piled upon my self.

This is not a replacement
This is not a bridge.
I no longer wish to circumvent the water
Getting my shoes wet,
the potential of slipping, tumbling in, getting cut bruised —swept away by the current .
I was too far above
the flowing waters before to see the tadpoles
budding legs above their tails.

The water
looked all one
mirroring color,
and I saw more of the trees in its surface
than any of what was
within and below.