How interesting… I wonder who the models are:
http://www.t-bodies.ca/index.htm
Wonder if I could use it as a little black book?
Jun 102008
Puzzle? Game?
All I know is I’m having trouble with the running feet…
http://www.vectorpark.com/head/ or http://www.feedthehead.net/
Surreal and FABULOUS.
Researchers created a map linking different diseases, represented by circles, to the genes they have in common, represented by squares.
Disease Mapping courtesy of the the New York Times online:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/05/science/20080506_DISEASE.html#
May 202008
Ambitious animation painted on public walls
My mouth was open the whole time….
FUCKING brilliant but completely disturbing…
Apr 292008
Transsomatechnics: Theories and Practices of Transgender Embodiment
A Transdisciplinary International Conference
May 1- 3, 2008Â – SFU Harbour Centre
This conference seeks to include a wide range of innovative scholarship, public policy, grassroots activism, socio-political analysis and artistic production in the field of transgender studies. We will consider work from any discipline or specialization, but we are especially interested in work that calls attention to the interconnections between embodiment, technology, and bodily practise — an
emerging area of transdisciplinary research we designate with the new term “somatechnics.â€
Here’s the link to the site for paper call, registration, accommodation, etc.
http://www.sfu.ca/womens-studies/rwwp_conference/index.html
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More reflection and further conversation about the D/s Dinner/salon I hosted on April 22.08 led me think a little more about this:
- http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-frost11apr11,0,7418243.story
- http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fg-mosley10apr10,1,7848100.story
- http://lolitawolf.blogspot.com/2008/04/nazi-fantasies.html
- http://www.slate.com/id/2188752/
And remember this:
All because today I had yet another communication commenting on how my personal choice of language about my personal stuff was disturbing. And once again I had to make it clear that I was talking about the two square feet that I stand on and the skin that I inhabit.
How is it that we as a community can talk about Rape Play and Littles and scenes that involve heavy amounts of blood and it’s OK? We even seem to be working on moving through Trans issues – which has been TOUGH and ROUGH. How is it that folks can talk about these things being important to them and having space for them and whether they are SSC/RACK and people actually stick around for the discussion?
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You know that phenomenon of “Black on Black” crime?
Here’s a satire from Slate.com. See how these things serve to shine a light?
White-on-White Crime: It’s time to end the conspiracy of silence.
By Jefferson Morley
Slate.com — http://72.3.228.81/id/43770
The post script at the end has the following:
Related in Slate.com
David Plotz offers this modest proposal for stopping white-on-white crime in high schools, while Chatterbox blames suburban high-school shootings on Rotisserie baseball.
Related on the Web
Waylon Jennings sang the country hymn to white lawbreaking “Good Ol’ Boys” on The Dukes of Hazzard–a popular TV show extolling the social dysfunction of two young white layabouts and their sexually alluring younger cousin. This site explores white-trash food (often “found at the scenes of crimes next to the assault rifle”). These VA hospitals in Texas are notorious for fostering government dependency and malingering among the white underclass. White Trash Com is an unrepentant celebration of the white lifestyle; it features links to white reading material and the objects of white lust. There are, however, progressives dedicated to fighting this cultural decay–for example, scholars of “whiteness studies.” Also, be sure to visit the Center for the Study of White American Culture and the Race Traitor Web site, which teaches that “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” And click here for the Department of Justice’s criminal victimization statistics on victim/offender relationships in 12 U.S. cities.
Apr 102008
I read about this in a magazine AGES ago. And of course I convinced myself that I would remember the web address. But no. I didn’t. So joy and bliss when I finally came across a link. It’s not perfect but it is close and provides some data.
There was a great link I came across one time that looked at fish populations and the commercial industry over time. Think I can find that? No.
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html
March 2006 – NEW TRANSGENDER HEALTH RESOURCES AVAILABLE
The Trans Care Project, a collaborative effort between the Transgender Health Program and Transcend Transgender Support & Education Society, is pleased to announce the launch of new transgender health resources.
Local and international experts in transgender care have worked with local members of the transgender community to create 7 sets of guidelines for health and social service providers, and 17 health information booklets for transgender people and loved ones. The materials (listed below) address issues in adolescent health, clinical advocacy, hormone therapy, mental health, primary medical care, speech/voice change, and surgery.
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Mar 282008
You know that phenomenon of “Black on Black” crime?
Here’s a satire from Slate.com. See how these things serve to shine a light?
White-on-White Crime: It’s time to end the conspiracy of silence.
By Jefferson Morley
Slate.com — http://72.3.228.81/id/43770
The post script at the end has the following:
Related in Slate.com
David Plotz offers this modest proposal for stopping white-on-white crime in high schools, while Chatterbox blames suburban high-school shootings on Rotisserie baseball.
Related on the Web
Waylon Jennings sang the country hymn to white lawbreaking “Good Ol’ Boys” on The Dukes of Hazzard–a popular TV show extolling the social dysfunction of two young white layabouts and their sexually alluring younger cousin. This site explores white-trash food (often “found at the scenes of crimes next to the assault rifle”). These VA hospitals in Texas are notorious for fostering government dependency and malingering among the white underclass. White Trash Com is an unrepentant celebration of the white lifestyle; it features links to white reading material and the objects of white lust. There are, however, progressives dedicated to fighting this cultural decay–for example, scholars of “whiteness studies.” Also, be sure to visit the Center for the Study of White American Culture and the Race Traitor Web site, which teaches that “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” And click here for the Department of Justice’s criminal victimization statistics on victim/offender relationships in 12 U.S. cities.
Really? I mean… Really?
http://www.jesus21.com/content/sex/index.php?s=hankies
QUOTE:
In 1208 Christian armed forces attacked the town of Beziers, France slaughtering 20,000 men, women and children accused of heresy. When the commanding legate, Arnaud, was asked how to tell the heretics from the believers he answered, ‘Kill them all, let God sort them out.’ (1)
Today, as Christians migrate between boutique doctrines, sampling myriad designer beliefs it’s even MORE important to quickly discern the fiber of another’s faith. Borrowing, yet again, from the queer community we offer the following hanky code. This way you won’t accidently pray with the ‘wrong kind of people’ at the next PromiseKeeper’s Event.
Wear the appropriate hankies in either your left or right back pant’s pocket depending on your beliefs.
O….K…….
Mar 022008
OMFG this is hilarious!
It’s also a little creepy.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/
What do you think?
Butler's Book - Care and Feeding of a Dominant
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Feb 272008
I just downloaded a Butler’s Book from Iron Rose:
http://www.iron-rose.com/IR/library.htm
It was several days ago. With an eye to creating a “Care and Feeding of Kona” manual. I have it in Word format.
Tell me, what do YOU think should be in the book? What would be on a list of things that would be helpful for to the person in service to you to know or be clear about? Remember! This manual is about about the care of a Dominant…
The wonderful thing about white people or those in socially dominant power positions speaking up that I feel like I get to take a day off ’cause people are doing their own work. Thank GAWD.
More reference material:
Daily Effects of White Privilege
http://www.antiracistalliance.com/Unpacking.html#daily
How to Suppress Discussions on Racism!
http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/607897.html
The Art of Defending Racism:
http://community.livejournal.com/sex_and_race/296541.html
Black People Love Us! – We are well-liked by Black people so we’re psyched (since lots of Black people don’t like lots of White people)!! We thought it’d be cool to honor our exceptional status with a ROCKIN’ domain name and a killer website!! http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/
Oh those kids over at OK Cupid…
http://www.okcupid.com/online.dating.persona.test
The Playstation
Random Gentle Sex master (RGSMf)
Easy to turn on. Hard to beat. You are The Playstation.
You’re a nice girl, and you have lots of sex. It’s therefore highly likely that you’re attractive, and you’re certainly outgoing & friendly. Plus, this healthy physical attitude of yours indicates deeper emotional well-being and stability. Unheard of. When girls dare to dream, they dream of you.
You don’t get attached too easily, and, to wit, you’re not necessarily looking for something long-term right now. That’s a bigger asset than you know. Though, physically speaking, you’re open to anything, you’re keeping your emotional side well-protected. This means there won’t be a lot of wreckage to clean up whenever you decide to settle down.
In the meantime, the women you share yourself with actually respect you. Like them, you enjoy sex for its own sake and don’t need any other validation for pleasure than pleasure itself. Hopefully, you have the good sense to blow off anyone who thinks less of you for that. Usually, this is the part of the description where we offer some life-correcting advice, but honestly, we can’t think of anything about you we’d change. Keep on fucking, partner.
ALWAYS AVOID: The Priss
CONSIDER: Anyone else
Do you have a secondlife?
What’s yer name? Wadda ya do? Beefs? Bouquets?
www.secondlife.com
http://blog.secondlife.com“Newspapers from and about”…
http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/
http://secondlife.reuters.com/
I remember SecondLife when it was a toddler like Weblo.com. So that was… 2003 I think? Since then I have watched from a distance as it grew exponentially. See…. I have this serious online fetish… my area of “study” is the evolution of online as a public realm. Does that make sense? So I am always on the lookout for things that appear to be a convergence of ideas or spaces, or technologies, etc.
I know there are folks out there who are living it and loving it. I’m curious about people’s experiences. I’m curious about how queers are interacting in this metaverse. I know a few dykes who are there and from what I’ve been reading, there is a fair amount of social commentary and activsm occurring in addition to sex, gambling and commercial interactions.
I don’t have an account, I’ve been researching *around* SL because my current machine won’t let me run the current versions. Reccomended is 512RAM, but I run 256. That’s what I get for being an early adopter! Got one of the first G4 laptops to hit Vancouver in 2001. Does everything I need it to and has never been sick a day in its life. But I digress. I’m shopping for one now.
Must thank the Professor for sending me the links on race interactions and visual representations. And thanks for her sharing her story of struggling to accurately see herself and her identity reflected.
I’m fascinated that it seems to be full of white people, furries and robots. I’m fascinated that there are SERIOUS issues with being a brown person.
On the other hand…
How can one not visit a place where the American Cancer Society raised $40,000US in a race held in the metaverse? The Great Northern Way campus here in Vancouver has a presence; Harvard holds credit courses, and the Government of Sweden has opened an embassy?
There’s a ballet troupe that performs, public art and galleries that sell on of a kind works. It’s facinating.
A friend of mine has been talking to me about some of the dyke spaces, but I’m interested to know more. Is there a place where LeatherDykes gather? Anyone else got experiences? It would be great to have some folks to hang and connect with when I finally arrive.
I don’t have formal trainign that will allow me to define absolutely the vernacular snack “racilaized”. In my experience it has been used in a number of ways. On this thread I have mostly seen it in two contexts. One simple the other not.
1) As an alternative adjective to describe POC (persons of colour) regardless of their race or colour (shade). And no, a person’s ancestry or place of origin do not automatically play into that. The definition has more to do with visibility. Does the person look “white”. So that takes in a lot of nationalities. I’ve begun to unpack a nightmare so I’m gonna stop there for the moment.
2) I has a way to describe a particular concious mental state of an individual (regardless of colour). This involves an awareness or an attempt to understand how race and shadism is played out in the various concentric circles of locality, nationality, and globalism. It attempts to stir in history, class, gender, economics, politics, power dynamics, legal and social systems, etc.
There’s my crack at it. Hope that adds to what has been said so far.
A friend posted the following links elsewhere on the world wide web. Both are satires which reveal how certain arguments need critical thought in both presentation and analysis. I wanted to make sure I dropped them here because I think they are relevant to some of the posts that I have read.
- How to Suppress Discussions on Racism!
http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/607897.html
The Art of Defending Racism:
http://community.livejournal.com/sex_and_race/296541.html
Dec 172006
I love the idea of creating art. I’d forgotten that I had this dude in my collection of links: www.nathangibbs.com
Crayola Monologues
http://www.nathangibbs.com/crayola-monologues/
Crayola Monologues (2003) uses the crayon as a human metaphor for exploring color and identity in the United States. This animated video features crayons expressing how color hierarchies have shaped their lives. These crayons live in a world much like our own, complete with prejudice, class boundaries, social hierarchies and those who fall between the lines. Crayola Monologues also reveals the politics behind Crayola label changes, and gives a voice to the previously unheard perspective of crayons.
Race Cube
http://www.nathangibbs.com/race-cube/
Race Cube (2003) remodels the classic Rubik’s Cube with a racial twist. Rather than the abstract color separation of the original, the Race Cube poses a more concrete challenge: aligning images of people into categories based on race. Race Cube challenges not only the player’s ability to determine the race to which each face belongs, but also the fundamental assumption that distinct racial lines exist.
Self-Portrait
http://www.nathangibbs.com/self-portrait/
Self-Portrait (2002) questions purity, identity and identification, consumer culture, as well as the use of skin color as racial signifier in the United States. The work displays Ralph Lauren paint swatches arranged in a grid and held between two sheets of transparent acrylic. Together, the colored swatches form an image of the artist’s face. Self-Portrait is not only a representation of identity in terms of the artist’s self-image, but also a symbol of how people unknowingly frame their judgments using a limited palette.
Dec 132006
I’ve come across a lot of great links lately. I thought this might be a great opportunity to gather them all in one place and perhaps their synopsis (as opposed to the whole thing).
- A good first stop. Did you cringe or laugh?
http://www.blackpeopleloveus.comOn anit-racist whiteness. A cirriculum
http://www.antiracistalliance.com
Other links from my favorites:
http://www.euroamerican.org/
http://depts.washington.edu/coe/news/video/aanerud.html
http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Whiteness/Whitenessbib.html
From various online conversations I’ve participated in:
- http://www.world-trust.org/videos/visible.html Please note the page includes a video clip. Suitable for those in North America. By the way everyone in it pretty much is white, talking about being white. Here is the director’s interview. A racialized woman. http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=13010Whiteness as a construct of power? Robert Jensen has interesting things to say about that. http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Erjensen/articles_race.html
In 1986, Ricky Sherover-Marcuse stood in front of 85 women of many races and said all in one breath “Some of you are not sure that you’re racist. You are. We all are. Being racist is like being sexist. Think you’re not sexist because you’re a woman? Let me give you an example: Think of the kind of woman that you hate. Did you get an image? That’s sexism in action, because there’s no such thing as as a “kind” of woman.” Ricky Sherover-Marcuse’s incredible work is online at http://www.unlearningracism.org/writings
This supports of the notion of whiteness as a social construct: http://racetraitor.org/
The blog of filmmaker Thirza Cuthand who describes herself as a “halfbreed dyke”, among other things. Her largely autobiographical short films deal a lot in issues of intersecting sites of marginalization. http://fitofpique.blogspot.com/
Personal commentary from ALICIA BANKS – Radio Producer, Talk Show Host, DJ, Columnist called GAY RACISM: WHITE LIES/BLACK SLANDER http://www.geocities.com/ambwww/GAY-RACISM.htm
A conference – FACING RACE 2007: Define Justice, Make Change http://www.arc.org/content/view/499/
NARCC is committed to being a national, community-based, member-driven network that provides a strong, recognized, effective and influential national voice against racism, racialization and all other forms of related discrimination in Canada. http://www.narcc.ca/about/index.html
Resources for Change is a clearing-house for anti-discrimination education resources and is designed for educators and individuals committed to making positive change. http://www.accesstomedia.org/rfc/
What is Critical Whiteness Studies? Almost since opening its doors two years ago, the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society (CDMS) has hosted the monthly meeting of the Critical Study of Whiteness Group. That multiracial group of professors, students and community members has exemplified interdisciplinary scholarship, bringing together small numbers of artists, psychologists, educators, historians, legal scholars, librarians, literary critics, students of media and film, ethnic studies specialists, Americanists, and architects to generously and vigorously critique works in progress. http://cdms.ds.uiuc.edu/Critical%20White…ntroduction.htm
The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit and Transgender People of Color center for community organizing, focusing on the New York City area. http://www.alp.org/
An article on FTMs and whiteness – “I Will Always Be Your Daughter. I Will Always Be Your Son.” An Interview with Juma Blythe Essie by Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe. The issues around transgendered identities continue to gain more awareness in our society, but often the experience of transforming the body and the complexity of gender is being expressed through the eyes of white folks. Like most unexamined experiences by white people, these encounters are usually presented without acknowledging race. Juma Blythe Essie is a 30-year-old black man, writer, filmmaker and auto mechanic living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His take on being transgendered, black, and male pushes the conversation in a much-needed direction. http://www.clamormagazine.org/issues/38/gender.php
Making A Difference
http://www.ywca.org/site/pp.asp?c=lkJZJdO4F&b=132098
Suggestions for actions that you can take to add your energy to promoting ethnic diversity and interracial harmony. Everyone can do something. For more information contact racialjustice@ywcamadison.org.
What a blog!
http://allywork.solidaritydesign.net/
Includes a reading list, posts and an “Erase Racism Carnival” wich is a collection of blog posts dedicated to creating a world free of racism. The Carnival is published around the 20th of every month.
Recently I was reintroduced to the concept of Anti-racist whiteness. Relevant to this conversation I think.
Some links:
~ http://www.antiracistalliance.com/
~ http://www.euroamerican.org/
~ http://depts.washington.edu/coe/news/video/aanerud.html
~ http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Whiteness/Whitenessbib.html
NubianImp Projects strives to: provide forums for advanced education and celebration (to strengthen the bonds within community, tribes and chosen-family) through sex-positive event production aimed at queers and their allies.
Vancouver Black (and POC) Arts, Culture & Activism (on Facebook)