Author: femmetech

Intro To Study

Over the next three months there will be weekly [ish] posts with writing and readings. Learn with me, talk back to me and each other. To get started and read along, I suggest the following: “Contributions to a Resistance Visual Culture Glossary” by Nato Thompson, http://journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/new3/thompson.html Peruse Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, edited by… Continue reading Intro To Study

Femme 2012: in Baltimore and Everywhere on the Web

I’m busting with pride because, for the last year, I’ve been volunteering co-leading the Media team of this weekend’s Femme Conference. Between starting work on this conference and now, I started graduate school and went to two Allied Media Conferences, and it’s just really clear to me how incredibly important media –  accessible, horizontal, participatory… Continue reading Femme 2012: in Baltimore and Everywhere on the Web

Providence, RI Events 7/7-7/8: KEEP QUEERING, KEEP FIGHTING!

Keep Queering, Keep Fightin! Poster by Olivia H.

Weekend events July 7-8, 2012 For more info: http://queerlilrhody.tumblr.com/ Resisting Racism Workshop: Queer Liberation is Collective Liberation Saturday July 7, 1:30-5:30pm Workshop starts at 1:30 sharp, please arrive 15 minutes early. $5-20 sliding scale How do dismantling the gender binary and resisting racism relate to uprooting classism and disability justice? In this workshop, we will explore… Continue reading Providence, RI Events 7/7-7/8: KEEP QUEERING, KEEP FIGHTING!

STUDENT STRIKE!!! Understanding what's happening in Quebec and Montreal for US anglophones*

Want to know some context and the super-short version of what is happening in Quebec? Read this for some media, history, and special artist appearances — and if you’re in NYC, attend the Quebec in Revolt: Film Night at Interference Archive in Brooklyn on Thursday viagra usa 6/7 at 7:30pm. I want to thank my… Continue reading STUDENT STRIKE!!! Understanding what's happening in Quebec and Montreal for US anglophones*

So Excited About Horizontal Networks and Radical Politics

I just finished a few proposals for the Allied Media Conference — which I swear I will co-work on organizing one of these years! — and one that I’m particularly excited about is called “Out of the Streets and Into the Networks: Horizontal Digital Collaborations for Radical Projects.” I’ve been growing in my comfort level… Continue reading So Excited About Horizontal Networks and Radical Politics

Link Roundup #2: 18th-C. crusty punks, SiSU, web tools for teaching, femme boys

1. Historical perversity, Arthur Mervynn [1799]. A young country boy who makes his way to the Big City  of Philadelphia in 1793 only to have terrible luck, then good luck as a friendly [?] man invites him to share his bed, then back luck again as people die and he destroys money by accident, then… Continue reading Link Roundup #2: 18th-C. crusty punks, SiSU, web tools for teaching, femme boys

Link Roundup #1: Wild (femme) Gender, Voltarine, Piracy

I’m going to instigate posting link roundups every few weeks, just because what goes through my life, and so my browser, is random as heck *and* I want to hoard-yet-share the places I’ve been. Here goes: 1. Feedback from the Femme Week of Action across the continent! Philly femme artist [and Heels on Wheels Roadshow… Continue reading Link Roundup #1: Wild (femme) Gender, Voltarine, Piracy