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Ari Wow. 21. Queer. Mixed. Prefer to be referred to as: "Ari."
N. Virginia born, NoVA&Cali raised.
Into Feelings&Thoughts.

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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.

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 submissionsssss. Spread the word.
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(Im)Possible Zine

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/

Removing your gender on facebook so gender neutral pronouns are used.

asexual-walks-of-life:

gender-fuckery:

This is kind of complicated to explain, so I shall try my best.

It’s easiest to do this on Firefox or Safari- for Safari, you’ll need to turn the developer’s option on (by going to preferences, then advanced options, then checking the box at the bottom). For Firefox, you need to download firebug.

Go on to ‘Edit my Profile’ and right-click on the gender field, and select ‘Inspect Element’.

A new window will open with a bunch of coding. Right-click on the line that is highlighted, and select ‘Edit as html’. 

I had female selected on my facebook, so I then copied the ‘<option value=”2”>Male</option>’ section of the code, and pasted it straight after itself.

In this new pasted section, change the ‘2’ to a ‘0’, and change ‘Male’ to whatever you want (it doesn’t matter what you change it to because it will just come up as Select Gender’).

After this, exit the Inspect Element window, select this new gender field, and save the profile changes. It should come up with ‘Select gender’, and facebook will use they/their etc as pronouns.

Any problems, don’t hesitate to ask.

I took great advantage in this, very happy!

just did this on facebook. downloaded safari for free from the mac website and it was pretty simple. hope this helps

didn’t work for me but hopefully it does for other folx. tried firefox, chrome, and mozilla… there are slight differences for each of those, google searching for the specific browser brings up the nuances.

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azaadiart: juliosalgado83: I was lucky go catch Terisa Siagatonu throw it down with this beautiful poem on Saturday at Jean Melesaine’s Navigating Queer Waves show at Galería de la Raza I love how these badass poets of color are queerifying the world one poem at a time! NOTE: This is only part of the poem.  When “I” came out  I was the first one out of all of us to do it It wasn’t on my terms It wasn’t from a closet, no.  Our people don’t come from closets They come from land and water And I told you I am constantly learning the difference  between loving the ocean  And becoming one And I think I’m an ocean y’all And I didn’t come out I fell out  I spilled and wet myself, and  everything around me I don’t have bones like that,  so nothing broke I didn’t break anything, I thought At not on purpose But I made a loud crashing sound against my own chest  I know that much is true

azaadiart:

juliosalgado83:

I was lucky go catch Terisa Siagatonu throw it down with this beautiful poem on Saturday at Jean Melesaine’s Navigating Queer Waves show at Galería de la Raza I love how these badass poets of color are queerifying the world one poem at a time!

NOTE: This is only part of the poem. 

When “I” came out 

I was the first one out of all of us to do it

It wasn’t on my terms

It wasn’t from a closet, no. 

Our people don’t come from closets

They come from land and water

And I told you

I am constantly learning the difference 

between loving the ocean 

And becoming one

And I think I’m an ocean y’all

And I didn’t come out

I fell out 

I spilled and wet myself, and 

everything around me

I don’t have bones like that, 

so nothing broke

I didn’t break anything, I thought

At not on purpose

But I made a loud crashing

sound against my own chest 

I know that much is true

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lips-richmond:

Memorial planned for slain trans woman

cleanlinez:

tw/content warning: violence, hate crime, trans* identity

The stepfather and sister of a transgender woman stabbed to death at a Northeast D.C. bus stop last February are inviting members of the LGBT community to…

The memorial will take place tomorrow, Saturday February 2nd, at 4:30pm, at East Capitol Street and Sycamore Street, N.E., DC. The LGBTQ community is invited.

Memorial planned for slain trans woman

tw/content warning: violence, hate crime, trans* identity

The stepfather and sister of a transgender woman stabbed to death at a Northeast D.C. bus stop last February are inviting members of the LGBT community to participate in a memorial remembrance for Deoni Jones on Saturday, Feb. 2, to commemorate the anniversary of her death.

The memorial was scheduled to take place four days after a D.C. Superior Court judge ordered a 56-year-old man arrested for the murder last Feb. 10 transferred from jail, where he was awaiting trial, to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for mental observation.

Jones’ family members, who refer to her by her birth name JaParker, told more than 200 people who turned out for a vigil at the site of the murder days after the incident took place that they fully accepted her as a transgender woman and treated her as a cherished member of the family.

“We want to have this event to not only honor JaParker, but to also shine light on the fact that so often members of our society who are GLBT face violence in their daily lives simply because of who they are, and that as a civilized society we will not tolerate violence against the GLBT community,” said Alvin Bethea, Jones’ stepfather.

“At this memorial we will have prayer, songs, and statements from the community,” Bethea said in an email to the Blade.

He said Jones’ sister, JuDean Jones, and other family members and friends were helping to organize the memorial.

The event is scheduled to take place at 4:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, at East Capitol Street and Sycamore Street, N.E., at the site of the Metro bus stop where police say Jones was stabbed while sitting on a bench waiting for a bus.

Through the help of witnesses and nearby residents, D.C. police charged then 55-year-old Gary Niles Montgomery with second-degree murder while armed in connection with Jones’ death eight days after the murder took place. In November, a D.C. Superior Court grand jury indicted Montgomery on a charge of first-degree murder while armed.

Until the time of his transfer this week to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, he had been held in jail without bond since the time of his arrest in February 2012.

A police arrest affidavit says a video surveillance camera that recorded the murder shows a male assailant taking Jones’ purse immediately after stabbing her in the face. The affidavit says witnesses identified the person in the video as Montgomery.

Although the taking of the purse indicates the motive of the attack was robbery, police said they have not ruled out the possibility that Jones was targeted because of her status as a transgender person.

However, Bethea told the Blade that he and his family believe Jones’ murder was a hate crime and that police and prosecutors should have classified it as a hate crime, which would give a judge authority to hand down a more stringent or “enhanced” sentence if Montgomery is convicted.

“We believe that it is clear in the video footage of this murder that the elements of a hate crime are present and that hate crime enhancement papers should be served upon this individual,” Bethea said in an email.

He said the family has urged the U.S. Attorney’s office, which is prosecuting the case, to list the murder as a hate crime.

“[W]e are considering filing a complaint with the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division seeking redress of [this] error,” Bethea said in his email.

According to court records, on March 23, Montgomery was declared competent to stand trial following a court-ordered mental evaluation. He pleaded not guilty on Nov. 9, two days after the grand jury indicted him on the first-degree murder while armed charge. During a court hearing on Nov. 30, Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin scheduled a trial date for June 10.

Court records show that questions surrounding Montgomery’s mental health surfaced in January, prompting Morin to order “24 hour forensic screening” for Montgomery “based on the representations of defense counsel.”

During a court hearing on Tuesday, Morin ordered that Montgomery be transferred to St. Elizabeth’s to undergo a “full competency examination” at the recommendation of a psychiatrist, court records show. The records show Morin vacated the June 10 trial date and scheduled a follow-up mental observation hearing for April 5 to assess Montgomery’s ability to stand trial.

Court records show that at a previous hearing Morin denied at least two requests by Montgomery’s attorneys that he be released from jail while awaiting trial. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s office opposed the requests for Montgomery’s release.

William Miller, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s office, said the office doesn’t comment on pending criminal cases.

makin moves at the uni

  • created and facilitated a privilege, trigger, consent, and commitment workshop in my feminist activism class
  • proposing that workshop as a part of every wmst classes for the following years to my department head next week
  • meeting with the college counseling center head to propose administrative, policy, and general practice work i want to do with them as a staff member after i graduate
  • working with a huge group to do a campus/community queer pride event

Debating 'Gender Identity Disorder' and Justice for Trans People

unaguerita:

“Our fears about stigma, pathologization, forced institutionalization and other enhanced controls, should be framed in relation to the systems of state power that implement those controls. Many people will have choices over whether or not to identify with GID, the DSM and then how to access treatment. It is in the context of state definitional and distributive systems that people will not have those choices when prisons, jails, Medicaid agencies, homeless services, and children’s services enforce and withhold diagnoses and care.”

iamgreaterthanhate: freececemcdonald: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA ADVISORY June 5, 2012     Leslie Feinberg Arrested in Solidarity with Chrishaun McDonald Hundreds Take to Street in Protest   Contact: Katie Burgess, Executive Director, Trans Youth Support Network, transyouthsupportnetwork@gmail.com, (612) 363-7574; and Billy Navarro, Jr., MN Transgender Health Coalition, mntranspr@gmail.com, (612) 823-1152 Leslie Feinberg was arrested last night amidst hundreds of Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald supporters protesting outside of the Hennepin County Public Safety Facility. Feinberg is being held at the Public Safety Facility in downtown Minneapolis and is facing charges of property damage. The protest was held on the eve of McDonald’s transfer to the state prison system, where she will serve out a sentence of 41 months for defending herself against racist and transphobic attackers. Although McDonald initially faced two charges of second degree murder, earlier this month she accepted a plea agreement to a reduced charge of second degree manslaughter due to negligence.  Outraged supporters took to the streets, blocking traffic for over an hour in protest of the violent abuses McDonald has faced at the hands of our legal system.  Feinberg joined demonstrators in making noise loud enough to be heard within the facility McDonald is currently being held at, and marching through the streets in a show of love and solidarity with CeCe McDonald and with all incarcerated individuals.  Feinberg was the only person arrested, and is excited to draw more attention to McDonald’s story and to the prevalent racism and transphobia within the criminal system.      Feinberg has given the following statement: Many people across the United States and around the world are watching, and history will record what happens on June 4, 2012.  CeCe McDonald survived a fascist hate crime; now she’s sentenced as she struggles to survive an ongoing state hate crime. As Martin Luther King Jr. reminded: “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” As a white, working-class, Jewish, transgender lesbian revolutionary I will not be silent as this injustice continues! I know from the lessons of histories what is means when the state—in a period of capitalist economic crisis—enacts apartheid passbook laws, bounds up and deports immigrant works, and gives a green light to e white supremacists, fascist attacks on Black peoples—from Sanford, Florida, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a courtroom in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The prosecutor and the judge are upholding the intent of the infamous white supremacist Dred Scott ruling of 1857. The same year Fredrick Douglass concluded: “Without struggle, there is no progress!” CeCe McDonald is being sent to prison during the month of Juneteeth:  celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation—the formal Abolitionist of “legal” enslavement of peoples of African descent. The Emancipation Proclamation specifically spelled out the right of Black people to self-defense against racist violence. Yet, the judge, the prosecutor, and the jailers are continuing the violent and bigoted hate crimes begun by the group of white supremacists who carried out a fascist attack on CeCe McDonald and her friends. CeCe McDonald is being sent to prison in June—the month when the Stonewall Rebellion ignited in the streets of Greenwich Village in 1969. From the Compton’s Uprising to the Stonewall Rebellion, defense against oppression is a law of survival. This is Pride month, and will be bringing the demand: “Free CeCe—now!” to the regional Pride march where I live. I believe many other individuals, groups, and contingents will thunder that demand in Pride marches and rallies all over the world—informing millions who take part, and millions more who support. The prosecution hopes this struggle is over. But it is not over: Free CeCe—now! An injury to one is an injury to all! Come out against racist, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and sexist wars at home and abroad! Feinberg’s arrest is symptomatic of growing anger and frustration at the disproportionate targeting and abuse of young transgender women of color in our society.  The actions Feinberg took last night were in solidarity with McDonald and all prisoners to let them know they are not alone.  Feinberg is excited to garner attention to how McDonald is treated today as McDonald is transferred to the prison intake facility in St. Cloud, MN. McDonald’s case does not reflect an isolated aberration in the functioning of the U.S. legal system, but rather business as usual within a society that has, for hundreds of years, profited from the incarceration and exploitation of people of color and trans/gender non-conforming people.  McDonald’s sentencing sends a very clear message to all those following her case across the country: transphobia and racism are alive and well, both in the violent verbal and physical attacks on trans youth of color in the night as well as in the legal system which makes surviving this violence a crime punishable by years of incarceration.  Nevertheless, we look forward to joining all of McDonald’s supporters in continuing to fight against these systems of power, for CeCe and for all transgender women of color targeted by the prison-industrial complex.  With love and rage, The CeCe McDonald Support Committee For more information on McDonald’s case, visit supportcece.wordpress.com. ### I know these people (the one in the reflection of the glass, too) and godsdamn it I’m pissed off. We should all be pissed off. If you aren’t pissed off, enraged, furious, upset, sickened, or somehow moved emotionally and mentally than you really shouldn’t be following me at all.

iamgreaterthanhate:

freececemcdonald:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MEDIA ADVISORY

June 5, 2012

 

 

Leslie Feinberg Arrested in Solidarity with Chrishaun McDonald

Hundreds Take to Street in Protest

 

Contact: Katie Burgess, Executive Director, Trans Youth Support Network, transyouthsupportnetwork@gmail.com, (612) 363-7574; and Billy Navarro, Jr., MN Transgender Health Coalition, mntranspr@gmail.com, (612) 823-1152

Leslie Feinberg was arrested last night amidst hundreds of Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald supporters protesting outside of the Hennepin County Public Safety Facility. Feinberg is being held at the Public Safety Facility in downtown Minneapolis and is facing charges of property damage. The protest was held on the eve of McDonald’s transfer to the state prison system, where she will serve out a sentence of 41 months for defending herself against racist and transphobic attackers. Although McDonald initially faced two charges of second degree murder, earlier this month she accepted a plea agreement to a reduced charge of second degree manslaughter due to negligence.  Outraged supporters took to the streets, blocking traffic for over an hour in protest of the violent abuses McDonald has faced at the hands of our legal system.  Feinberg joined demonstrators in making noise loud enough to be heard within the facility McDonald is currently being held at, and marching through the streets in a show of love and solidarity with CeCe McDonald and with all incarcerated individuals.  Feinberg was the only person arrested, and is excited to draw more attention to McDonald’s story and to the prevalent racism and transphobia within the criminal system.     

Feinberg has given the following statement:

Many people across the United States and around the world are watching, and history will record what happens on June 4, 2012.  CeCe McDonald survived a fascist hate crime; now she’s sentenced as she struggles to survive an ongoing state hate crime. As Martin Luther King Jr. reminded: “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

As a white, working-class, Jewish, transgender lesbian revolutionary I will not be silent as this injustice continues! I know from the lessons of histories what is means when the state—in a period of capitalist economic crisis—enacts apartheid passbook laws, bounds up and deports immigrant works, and gives a green light to e white supremacists, fascist attacks on Black peoples—from Sanford, Florida, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a courtroom in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The prosecutor and the judge are upholding the intent of the infamous white supremacist Dred Scott ruling of 1857.

The same year Fredrick Douglass concluded: “Without struggle, there is no progress!”

CeCe McDonald is being sent to prison during the month of Juneteeth:  celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation—the formal Abolitionist of “legal” enslavement of peoples of African descent. The Emancipation Proclamation specifically spelled out the right of Black people to self-defense against racist violence.

Yet, the judge, the prosecutor, and the jailers are continuing the violent and bigoted hate crimes begun by the group of white supremacists who carried out a fascist attack on CeCe McDonald and her friends.

CeCe McDonald is being sent to prison in June—the month when the Stonewall Rebellion ignited in the streets of Greenwich Village in 1969. From the Compton’s Uprising to the Stonewall Rebellion, defense against oppression is a law of survival.

This is Pride month, and will be bringing the demand: “Free CeCe—now!” to the regional Pride march where I live. I believe many other individuals, groups, and contingents will thunder that demand in Pride marches and rallies all over the world—informing millions who take part, and millions more who support.

The prosecution hopes this struggle is over. But it is not over: Free CeCe—now! An injury to one is an injury to all! Come out against racist, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and sexist wars at home and abroad!


Feinberg’s arrest is symptomatic of growing anger and frustration at the disproportionate targeting and abuse of young transgender women of color in our society.  The actions Feinberg took last night were in solidarity with McDonald and all prisoners to let them know they are not alone.  Feinberg is excited to garner attention to how McDonald is treated today as McDonald is transferred to the prison intake facility in St. Cloud, MN.

McDonald’s case does not reflect an isolated aberration in the functioning of the U.S. legal system, but rather business as usual within a society that has, for hundreds of years, profited from the incarceration and exploitation of people of color and trans/gender non-conforming people.  McDonald’s sentencing sends a very clear message to all those following her case across the country: transphobia and racism are alive and well, both in the violent verbal and physical attacks on trans youth of color in the night as well as in the legal system which makes surviving this violence a crime punishable by years of incarceration.  Nevertheless, we look forward to joining all of McDonald’s supporters in continuing to fight against these systems of power, for CeCe and for all transgender women of color targeted by the prison-industrial complex. 

With love and rage,

The CeCe McDonald Support Committee

For more information on McDonald’s case, visit supportcece.wordpress.com.

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I know these people (the one in the reflection of the glass, too) and godsdamn it I’m pissed off. We should all be pissed off. If you aren’t pissed off, enraged, furious, upset, sickened, or somehow moved emotionally and mentally than you really shouldn’t be following me at all.

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