Archive for March 10th, 2007

10
Mar

King Guise: call for submissions

By vegankid 0 Comments
Categories: Folks of Color and gender & sex

from Jay Sennett at Homofactus Press:

Spread far and wide. This may very well be the first book dedicated
to Kings of Color published in English, Spanish, and French.

KING GUISE

Call for visual/ digital / photographic images of self-identified,
of ‘Color’ Drag Kings, Genderqueers, Male Impersonators, Masculine
Impressionist, Studs, FtMs, Butches and related trans- identities
for proposed coffee table book.

This collection of images and accompanying text will focus on and
explore the act of putting on masculinity / man / he / h?m.
Special consideration for ‘action images’ depicting the putting
on, taking off, performance or ‘captured desire’ of the
‘masculinized-self.’ King Guise will use critical inquiry to
investigate the process and execution of these transformations
and the eventual outcome, if any, of public display and
interaction. Thru dialogue with actual image ‘recorders,’
the subjects/objects themselves and the voyeurs drawn to these
particular ‘looks,’ King Guise will delve into the murky palette
of ‘gendered desire and play,’ with particular attention
given to the operation and influence of cultural, racial and
regional ‘ethics/values/norms.’

All submissions, commentary and visual submissions shall be fully
considered. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ACADEMIC, “POLITICALLY
APPROPRIATE” or “GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT” I am also accepting
portraits, written works, sketches, drawings, digital imagery,
reprints, cartoons, erotica and more.

King Guise will be published in English, French, and Spanish!

Word Count/Page Limits:

Poetry/Rhymes – Maximum 3 pages per poem/rhyme and 3 poems
per poet/mc
Graphic Stories – Maximum three pages/submission (number of panels
up to you) Up to three pieces per ‘artist’.
Photographs/Paintings/Collage/Drawings- 3-5, scanned as B/W only.

Royalties will be paid!

Please send entries as .tif, .jpeg format, word or txt attachments
DEADLINE: May 1st, 2007

Collaborative Editors: Drag King Sile Singleton, Erin O’Neill, and
Noelle Campbell-Smith.

Publisher: Homofactus Press. (www.homofactuspress.com)

Send submissions to kingguise[at]homofactuspress.com.

10
Mar

where does the time go?

By vegankid 1 Comment
Categories: class

A recent study by JupiterResearch seems to have found that people who make more than $100,000 a year have more time. Well, at least more time to dedicate to media outlets. Here’s the breakdown of median hours per week spent doing the activities researched:

Talking on cell phone
affluent people: 6
Everyone else: 4

Listening to music
affluent people: 9
Everyone else: 4

On the internet
affluent people: 17
everyone else: 14

Reading newspapers
affluent people: 4
everyone else: 2

Listening to radio
affluent people: 10
everyone else: 8

Watching TV
affluent people: 15
everyone else: 14

I’m curious to know where the hours go for those making less than $100,000. My guesses are the following: work, childcare, waiting (in line, for public transportation, for health care, etc), cooking. Any other thoughts as to where the time goes? I guess the good news to come out of this is that it debunks the myth that working class people are spending all their time lazily watching television and talking on the phone;)

By the way, the study also found, “A full 26% of affluents read blogs and 11% are blog-authors. Among non-affluent people, those figures are 22% and 6%, respectively.”

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