Category: Design

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

Fame and Shame in the Lower East Side (Poster design & Website, 2011)

I had a dream about updating my blog to talk about process, the motions of making and the spaces in between that I like to forget that I need in order to bloom beauty. I dreamt of performances about dissociation and  homorobics. I dreamt of taking a walk with Diamanda Galas. If you want to… Continue reading Fame and Shame in the Lower East Side (Poster design & Website, 2011)

Shareware, Freeware, Open Source: Definitions, explanations, and some programs!

Why are there a billion free PC programs out there but only ten thousand free Mac programs? Because a PC operating system is open source and Mac is proprietary. What the hell does that mean? Friends that’s a long conversation down intellectual property and capitalism lane, so let’s go there a little bit, and lets… Continue reading Shareware, Freeware, Open Source: Definitions, explanations, and some programs!

Print Design! Layout Software that doesn't cost more than your rent

I love print design, and I’ve been at it for years; first my making zines in the 90’s and next by making newspapers, magazines and promotional media over the last ten years. So it makes sense that people ask me for tips and recommendations regularly. Some examples are this page from Femme2010 program, and my… Continue reading Print Design! Layout Software that doesn't cost more than your rent

Fashion Embroidery: 2002-2004

Femme Power Hat, 2005 [image forthcoming] Wrist Cuffs, 2004               Flaming Jacket, 2003                                 Semen/Flower, 2002