ok. last one for today. I wasn’t gonna post it, but emorenita is my fb friend (posted this on there) and follows me on here too and said I should post this one.
May 10th The Firme Hynas are performing at The Push in Alhambra. Hope to see you there <3
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GIRL YOU LOOK SO FUCKING POWERFUL AND HOT HOT HOT
White Lies is a new multi-media production coming this June to the 2013 National Queer Arts Festival. The cast is composed of San Francisco Bay Area queer activists, artists, poets, musicians and actors. Our production aims to bring humor and hope to conversations about race and racism by blending together many mediums in a night of performance and conversation.
Our cast is composed of many movers and shakers in the San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ arts scene including nomy lamm, StormMiguel Florez, Jezebel Delilah X, Eli Conley, Susie Smith, Jolie Harris, Mel Chen, Meredith Fenton, Kentucky Fried Woman and Open Mike.
Our cast is developing the performance in a collaborative process of discussion, workshops, music and script development, film production, and more traditional rehearsals. Because of the sensitive nature of the topic of whiteness and race, we are using personal narratives and social justice discourse as the basis of our production to be able to speak from personal places that will make our content more resonant with our audiences. We are confident that the result will be a dynamic, multi-media, full-length performance.
White Lies will debut as part of the National Queer Arts Festival at the African-American Arts and Culture Complex on June 23rd, 2013.
Your support will help us pay for costumes, props and rehearsal space, provide ASL interpretation during the performance, and pay our artists and crew. With any extra funds, our intention is also that White Lies, after debuting in June, can be performed in a series of performances coupled with discussions about racial justice in LGBTQ communities around the Bay Area and beyond.
Because conversations about race and racism are so crucial to our communities, we want to ensure that White Lies is accessible to as many people as possible and are committed to finding diverse means to fund this production. Your support via this Indie-a-Go-Go campaign is a huge piece of our success.
To learn about other ways to support and engage with White Lies, follow our Facebook page atfacebook.com/WhiteLiestheShow.
THIS IS COMING TO TORONTO!
Please share and reblog this version because it includes accessibility info!
Fat POC this is where it’s at!
this is my skin. skin that i’ve never showed anyone because i’m too afraid they’ll judge me. i’m terrified no one will love my acanthosis nigricans, stretch marks, hair, confluent and reticulated papillomatosis, and all my other various ‘problems’ and imperfections. but i’m tired of hiding and i wanted to share my skin with someone, and i chose you.
you’re so beautiful. i know so many folks will be able to see themselves in this art and know they’re not alone.
My Bubbe used to say that until the bears had their own historians, the tales of the hunt would always glorify the hunter.
As a fat storyteller, I seek to glorify the hunt on the bear’s terms. All my life my fat body has caused people to speak for me, about me and against me. Telling my stories and reading the stories of other fat folks has shown me the transformational and healing power of flipping the script.
Who can hold you through your pain, your laughter, your confusion and your celebrations like those who experience similar embodiments?
Hot & Heavy: Fat Fierce Girls on Life, Love and Fashion is an anthology edited by a fat superhero named Virgie Tovar. A woman who sparkles, loves and fights for fatties with every fiber of her being. She’s phenomenal, not of this world and doing such amazing work.
Hot & Heavy is the warmth of a hug, the salt of tears and the strength of a swift kick in 5inch heels and most importantly, that reminder that fat means never having to say you’re sorry.
Our power comes from our tales of pain from the too tight jeans, the day we finally found a lover who traced the iridescent sparkle of our stretch marks in worship, the taste of our first guilt free bite of cheesecake or what it felt like to fight back at the words of hate constantly spewed at our big bodies.
Our power as fat bodies will come from us remembering our humanity, our community and our ability to survive. It will come from sharing our stories.
I will say this anthology focuses on fat cis folks who identify as women. For my loved ones and readers who do not find themselves in these stories, I highly encourage you to write and share so that you may give strength to others and honour your struggles and growth. My hope is that we’re working towards a future where a mutiplicity of stories and embodiments and experiences can be shared and celebrated.
Go buy this book and share with the fat loved ones in your life the power of seeing your story in another <3 (click the picture to take you to the Amazon page! it’s only $10 too!)
*photo of me by Fleetwood Legay
It Gets Fatter Project!
Reblog forever and participate!!
It Gets Fatter- a project oriented around fat people of colour!
i’m really excited for this project and i can’t wait to see what ya’ll do with this!
(Image description: a still a smiling picture of a fat biracial women in motion. She is wearing a long sleeved black velvet top over a pink, red, orange, and purple floral sun dress that is floor length. End image description.)
Actually the greatest picture of me ever.
Everything I’m wearing if second hand except the shoes which are from Sears.
what a joyful babe
is that u? can you give it some love and care? are u willing to write image descriptions, queue up some posts (1 post a day so if you queue up 7 posts you’re done for the week!)? and maybe in the future dialogue with the other mods and I about how to use that space to continue to build community…
signal boosting!
This is a list of resources and what you can hope to find when clicking on the links.
Race + Privilege
- http://tjlp.org/privilege101.pdf — on different types of privileges
- http://www.nymbp.org/reference/WhitePrivilege.pdf — Peggy McIntosh’s White Privilege article
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