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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Monday, April 11, 2016
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
AN ANTHOLOGY OF FICTION BY TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR [Now Available For Purchase]
A meditative thriller in which Marjorie, an undaunted witness in an environment bristling with violence, moves through the restless cars of a train that carries her toward her past…
A post apocalyptic tale: the dead now walk among the living, but Lisa knows there are other kinds of monsters in her midst…
Penny and Gretchen are part of a small crew of space hunters caught in a dizzying race to find a lost treasure, but that won’t stop them from showing their true feelings for one another…
“It was a mistake to do this show,” Jules thinks, as she watches herself reduced to a stereotype of a tragic black trans woman when her interview airs on tv. And the audience? They cry, savoring every second of it…
This anthology is something new: a collection of stories written, edited, and self-published by trans women of color working collectively to equally share the profits from our work. Featuring stories by Jasmine Kabale Moore, Joss Barton, Gillian Ybabez, Jamie Berrout, Catherine Kim, manuel arturo abreu, Jeffrey Gill, Libby White, Lulu Trujillo, Alma Díaz, Saki.
The stories in this anthology confront major themes and issues in the lives of trans women of color with profound honesty and attention toward helping one another heal. A story like “The Girl and the Apple,” by Jasmine Kabale Moore, not only unflinchingly describes the sense of ever-present danger that many of us feel in public spaces (including the hyper-vigilant condition of trauma that results from repeated exposure to intense scrutiny and violence) it also provides invaluable emotional support to other trans women of color by accurately reflecting, and therefore validating, our experiences and our perceptions of reality.
A number of other stories explore their own kinds of traumas and begin to show us a way to survive them, a day at a time. In contrast, there are also stories in our anthology that take up a completely different subject matter – genre fantasies, memories and the past, self-acceptance, relationships with family and friends, romance and intimacy, and language itself – but they do so in the specific context of our lives as trans women of color.
'RESURGENCY' @ Center for Contemporary Native Art at Portland Art Museum [PORTLAND/USA]
A POETRY READING DEVOTED TO RECLAIMING COLONIZED LANDS, IDENTITIES, CULTURAL (MIS)REPRESENTATIONS, GENDER CONSTRUCTIONS, & LOST CONNECTIONS TO ANCESTRY. JOIN Demian DinéYazhi, Melissa Bennett & Manuel Arturo Abreu AS THEY TRANSMIT AUTONOMY THROUGH THE ORAL ART OF POETRY IN THEIR ONGOING QUEST FOR SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.
Part of programming for Dene bāhī Naabaahii Exhibition in the Center for Contemporary Native Art at Portland Art Museum - March 18th - August 28th, 2016i.
Demian DinéYazhi’ (b. 1983) is a Portland-based transdisciplinary artist born to the clans Naasht'ézhí Tábąąhá (Zuni Clan Water’s Edge) & Tódích'íí'nii (Bitter Water) of the Diné (Navajo). His work is best understood through the lens of curatorial inquiry, zine production, street interventions, education, workshops, & transdisciplinary methods of art production. DinéYazhi’ received his BFA in Intermedia Arts from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2014. He is the founder & director of the artist / activist / warrior initiative, R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment, as well as the creative director of LOCUSTS: A Post-Queer Nation Zine. He is the recipient of grants from Evergreen State College (2014), PICA - Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2014), & Art Matters Foundation (2015).
Website: @heterogeneoushomosexual & Instagram:heterogeneoushomosexual
Melissa Bennett (Umatilla/Nimiipuu/Sac & Fox) is a writer & emerging storyteller interested in story as medicine, especially its ability to heal historical trauma among indigenous communities. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Melissa writes poetry and creative non-fiction with a focus on social justice, culture, tradition, and spirituality. Melissa is currently a member of the Northwest Indian Storytellers Association and WordCraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers. She is a 2015 recipient of the Evergreen State College Longhouse Native Creative Development Grant and serves on the Board of Directors for PlayWrite, Inc.
manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist from the Bronx. Working in found text, lyric, ephemeral sculpture, and photography, they explore precarity, magical thinking, and the pretensions of the white Left. Their first book, List of Consonants, is available from Bottlecap Press. It merges from-scratch text with found text in mourning for a friend who died by suicide in 2013. manuel’s next chapbook, transtrender, is forthcoming Summer 2016 from Quimérica Presse. It deals with gender as a racial colonial construct, the trap of visibility, and the constraints of the lyric form. They are also working on a second full-length book, areítx, which refutes colonial narratives about the Taino, the original Dominicans. They are the managing editor of Civil Coping Mechanisms and co-founder of home school, a free pop-up art school in Portland.
Find manuel at @twigtech & @Deezius
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Part of programming for Dene bāhī Naabaahii Exhibition in the Center for Contemporary Native Art at Portland Art Museum - March 18th - August 28th, 2016i.
Demian DinéYazhi’ (b. 1983) is a Portland-based transdisciplinary artist born to the clans Naasht'ézhí Tábąąhá (Zuni Clan Water’s Edge) & Tódích'íí'nii (Bitter Water) of the Diné (Navajo). His work is best understood through the lens of curatorial inquiry, zine production, street interventions, education, workshops, & transdisciplinary methods of art production. DinéYazhi’ received his BFA in Intermedia Arts from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2014. He is the founder & director of the artist / activist / warrior initiative, R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment, as well as the creative director of LOCUSTS: A Post-Queer Nation Zine. He is the recipient of grants from Evergreen State College (2014), PICA - Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2014), & Art Matters Foundation (2015).
Website: @heterogeneoushomosexual & Instagram:heterogeneoushomosexual
Melissa Bennett (Umatilla/Nimiipuu/Sac & Fox) is a writer & emerging storyteller interested in story as medicine, especially its ability to heal historical trauma among indigenous communities. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Melissa writes poetry and creative non-fiction with a focus on social justice, culture, tradition, and spirituality. Melissa is currently a member of the Northwest Indian Storytellers Association and WordCraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers. She is a 2015 recipient of the Evergreen State College Longhouse Native Creative Development Grant and serves on the Board of Directors for PlayWrite, Inc.
manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist from the Bronx. Working in found text, lyric, ephemeral sculpture, and photography, they explore precarity, magical thinking, and the pretensions of the white Left. Their first book, List of Consonants, is available from Bottlecap Press. It merges from-scratch text with found text in mourning for a friend who died by suicide in 2013. manuel’s next chapbook, transtrender, is forthcoming Summer 2016 from Quimérica Presse. It deals with gender as a racial colonial construct, the trap of visibility, and the constraints of the lyric form. They are also working on a second full-length book, areítx, which refutes colonial narratives about the Taino, the original Dominicans. They are the managing editor of Civil Coping Mechanisms and co-founder of home school, a free pop-up art school in Portland.
Find manuel at @twigtech & @Deezius
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Monday, April 4, 2016
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
RAFiA's WORLD
"When I grow up I want to be a artist and draw beautiful paintings because I like to draw pictures of things. I believe in me that I could do anything."
- RAFiA, 1997
[I grew up in a family of multimedia artists. My mother, ever the archivist, has always encouraged me to date and save my creations.
Recently I discovered a stack of composition notebooks in our dining room closet. They contained my childhood drawings, journal entries, and classwork assignments that my parents held onto. The dates of creation span from 1992 to the early 2000s (I was born in 1990).
RAFiA's WORLD is an online archive of these notebook contents. The name is a nod to the collection of illustrated memories my mother commissioned me to create for her website in 1996. 20 years later, it's still housed there.]
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- RAFiA, 1997
[I grew up in a family of multimedia artists. My mother, ever the archivist, has always encouraged me to date and save my creations.
Recently I discovered a stack of composition notebooks in our dining room closet. They contained my childhood drawings, journal entries, and classwork assignments that my parents held onto. The dates of creation span from 1992 to the early 2000s (I was born in 1990).
RAFiA's WORLD is an online archive of these notebook contents. The name is a nod to the collection of illustrated memories my mother commissioned me to create for her website in 1996. 20 years later, it's still housed there.]
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100% FUCKBOY FREE @ Smart Objects [LOS ANGELES/USA]
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~Fuckboys got you down?
~Feeling at your wits end with their “poetry”?
~Sick of wondering if the “LOL” is at your expense?
~Are your eyes tired from being locked to the side while listening to particular “poets”?
Well, come on out to Smart Object’s rooftop for 100% FUCKBOY FREE, an evening of readings that speaks for itself.
Featuring the work of…
Amanda-Faye Jimenez
Bebe Huxley
Dove Lovelie
Emily Lucid
Jasmine Nyende
Jihaari Terry
Lucy Blaag
Manuel Arturo Abreu
Marcel Alcala
Micah James
Paradise Khanmalek
Penelope Uribe-Abee
San Cha
Sarah Gail Armstrong
and more!!!
Hosted by Brandon Drew Holmes…
Alongside music throughout the night by DJ Artist~Run~Space!!!
Come one, come all, except you fuckboys!
Doors/music @ 7:30
Readings @ 8
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
====================
LINK
~Fuckboys got you down?
~Feeling at your wits end with their “poetry”?
~Sick of wondering if the “LOL” is at your expense?
~Are your eyes tired from being locked to the side while listening to particular “poets”?
Well, come on out to Smart Object’s rooftop for 100% FUCKBOY FREE, an evening of readings that speaks for itself.
Featuring the work of…
Amanda-Faye Jimenez
Bebe Huxley
Dove Lovelie
Emily Lucid
Jasmine Nyende
Jihaari Terry
Lucy Blaag
Manuel Arturo Abreu
Marcel Alcala
Micah James
Paradise Khanmalek
Penelope Uribe-Abee
San Cha
Sarah Gail Armstrong
and more!!!
Hosted by Brandon Drew Holmes…
Alongside music throughout the night by DJ Artist~Run~Space!!!
Come one, come all, except you fuckboys!
Doors/music @ 7:30
Readings @ 8
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
====================
LINK
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