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26
May

Raising Money for Feminist Action

By vegankid 2 Comments
Categories: Folks of Color, media and take action

Even if you can only afford to donate one dollar to one persyn, do it!

from bfp:

As many of you know, I am helping to organize the WOC track at the Allied Media Conference this year. There are some really amazing women of color bloggers that would really love to attend this conference but are short on funds. So I am posting the following list of bloggers in the hopes that you (yes YOU), will dig a little into your piggy banks, sofas and sock drawers–cash in your POP bottles, pick up pennies off the sidewalk–and donate it to one of the amazing bloggers on this list.

You will be helping to support ground breaking and necessary feminist action–ending violence against women of color and their communities in all it’s manifestations through the use of media technology.

Fabulosa Mujer
Hermana Resist (donations can be made through her pay pal email: csdistro@gmail.com
Please Professor Black Woman
Black Amazon
The Primary Contradiction

And on a related note, feel free to hit my own pay pal button–I am raising money to attend theU.S. Social Forum where I plan on doing lots of live blogging for everybody!

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.

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