Thank you Pete, for sharing, I love you.
Peter Davis:
“Can you tell the Muslim people their lives are as precious as our lives? Can you take drones out of the hands of the CIA? Can you stop the signature strikes that are killing people on the basis of suspicious activities? Will you apologize for the thousands of Muslims that you have killed? Will you compensate the innocent family victims? That will make us safer.” - Medea Benjamin, today to President Barack Obama.
translating ourselves is a delicate process. be gentle. embrace the intentionality of our native tongues. forgive moments of frustration. our queerness is not always captured in English. and sometimes it won’t feel the same or sound the same in our mother tongues.
find comfort in the process of always searching for words.
capture experience over identity.
we are complex. we are delicate. it is not always easy to know who we are. it is not always easy to feel that parts of us do not exist in our native tongues.
translating ourselves is a delicate process. honor the stories we tell in place of words we can’t have in our native tongues. honor ourselves. honor our ancestors who have existed in bodies like ours freely. honor that we can be free in a world like this, too.
Yves Klein - The Void (Empty Room), 1961
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Syd and I just finished the Interview with Ian Svenonius for her show “Freak Peak” via Boston Hassle
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Join us in an experiment and make Zeegas for SFMOMA!
In two weeks, Zeegas — a new form of interactive media — will be installed on four projection screens at SFMOMA. This showcase is part of “The Making Of…” — a collaboration between award-winning NPR producers the Kitchen Sisters, KQED, AIR’s Localore and the Zeega community.
This will be part of our upcoming Countdown Celebration, our four final free days before the museum closes for expansion construction.
Fuck yeah Zeega
Lewis’s law is an observation she made in 2012 that states “the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism.” Lewis has written frequently about misogynist hate directed at women online.[8]
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What advice would you give to someone who is in the early stages of that and possibly struggling?
To work as hard as possible, and then, when you think you’re done, to work just a little bit harder. To know that if it feels “right” it may actually be completely wrong, and that if it feels “wrong” it may be completely right. There’s no governing principle to any of this except that strange instinct and feeling within yourself that you simply have to learn to trust, but which is always unreliably changing. To create something for people who have not been born yet. To pay attention to how it actually feels to be alive, to the lies you tell yourself and others. Not to overreach—but also not to get too comfortable with your own work. To avoid giving in to either self-doubt or self-confidence, depending on your leaning, and especially to resist giving over your opinion of yourself to others—which means not to seek fame or recognition, which can restrain rather than open your possibility for artistic development. With all this in mind, not to expect anything and to be grateful for any true, non-exploitative opportunity that presents itself, however modest. And to understand that being able to say “I don’t know what to do with my life” is an incredible privilege that 99% of the rest of the world will never enjoy. [Read more…]
I was born
outside of
my mother’s
country,
and for that
I will always
remain
a foreigner.
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INTERVIEWER: Give me one of your purely satisfying mean moments.
TINA FEY: The first thing that comes to mind is a more recent one, when Amy Poehler and I were in the airport last week in Toronto and we were getting hassled by this middle-aged businessman who was doing that thing that middle-aged businessmen do, being rude. And then Amy, in the middle of the airport, screamed, “Fuck you, you fuckin’ dick, you fuckin’ rich asshole.” And it was so satisfying—it was immediate release. She would probably be mortified that I told you. (x)
The point.
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