Updated! 08/21/12
It’s our final bbq of the summer and it’s for women and trans* people of color only! The run-down:
ANTONIA RANDOLPH’s presentation will explore the relationships between masculinity, queerness, hip-hop, and the music industry. Hip-hop is often represented as a space of unmitigated heterosexist masculinity—what are some of the ways rappers relationships with each other (Lil’ Wayne and Birdman) and their music (Lil’ B’s “I’m Gay”) complicate this narrative?
BEAN (Sine Hwang Jensen) will delight us with her FINAL musical performance before a (hopefully brief!) hiatus. Sine is a spectacularly multi-talented multi-instrumentalist whose dream-inspired music spans genres and eludes description. Hear her for yourself!
CHELSEY KING will discuss a history of queerness in north east and southern Afrika and tensions between some forms of afro-centric thought and the reality of Black same gender loving and trans* and queer folks. What do the legacy of European colonialism, coupled with the contemporary relationship Black (specifically African American) people have with their sexuality and/or gender identities and their communities have to do with one another? How can we talk about these relationships without falling into traps set by systems of white supremacy, misogyny, and heterosexism?
With MONICA YORKMAN will performing her poetry and DANIELA CAPISTRANO, who will speak about the POC zine project, (http://poczineproject.tumblr.com/) coming to Baltimore Oct. 6th!
As always we’ll be meeting at the Red Clover Collective to break ice & eat FREE FOOD w/ gluten free and vegan options, child care, (please rsvp if you can so we can anticipate the # of kids!) and music.
This event is closed to cis men (male assigned at birth & male identified) and white people.
And contact us with your ideas for the bbqs: bmoresummercamp@googlegroups.com
xoxoxoxo,
Baltimore Feminist Reading Group
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FINAL FEMINIST BBQ - POC ONLY
FEMINIST BBQ # 5 – POWER TO THE QTPOC – AUGUST 26th – RED CLOVER COLLECTIVE (603 E. 30th Street) – 6pm
It’s our final bbq of the summer and it’s for women and trans* people of color only! The run-down:
ANTONIA RANDOLPH’s presentation will explore the…
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Strategies for Dismantling Racism, Queer History, A Critique of Individualist Feminism
Sunday, August 12th at 6 pm at the Red Clover Collective (603 E. 30th Street)
Baltimore Racial Justice Action (BRJA) will present an overview of their work on dismantling racism. https://sites.google.com/site/baltoracialjustice/home
Elvis Bakaitis will…
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Sunday, August 12th at 6 pm at the Red Clover Collective (603 E. 30th Street)
Baltimore Racial Justice Action (BRJA) will present an overview of their work on dismantling racism. https://sites.google.com/site/baltoracialjustice/home
Elvis Bakaitis will present Queers in history! We know they were *there,* so where were they? Come and find out about the magic of 19th century “romantic friendships,” and the awesome queer blues singers of the 1920’s & ’30s. We’ll also take a look at the state of queer historical archives today, and how some institutions hide or conceal information, making for a strange ambiguity about queerness. How do we want to portray and remember queer history, and how are those narratives taking shape?
Elvis Bakaitis is a Brooklyn-based zinester and future librarian. In 2012, they co-organized the NYC Feminist Zinefest, and has given talks on queer history at Rutgers University, the Hedrick-Martin Institute (home of Harvey Milk High School), Kearny High School in New Jersey, and Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore. They also facilitate the monthly feminist bookclub at Bluestockings Bookstore.
Suzy X. will present IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU: blogger Suzy X. examines the rugged individualism so prevalent in mainstream feminist politics today. From Slutwalk and sex positivity, to the defense of reproductive rights, and to the liberal aspirations of Having It All™, she believes one of the setbacks of feminism today is the narrow interpretation of “the personal is political,” that prioritizes a focus on the individual over intersectional and collective organizing.http://suzy-x.tumblr.com/
As always we’ll be meeting at the Red Clover Collective to break ice & eat FREE FOOD w/ gluten free and vegan options, child care, (please rsvp if you can so we can anticipate the # of kids!) and music.
These events are closed to cis-men (male assigned at birth & male identified).
Check us out: http://bmorefeministbbq.wordpress.com/
http://bmorereadinggroup.wordpress.com/
And contact us with your ideas for the upcoming bbqs: bmoresummercamp@googlegroups.com
xoxoxoxo
and thanks to the Research Associates Foundation for making this series possible!
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JULY 29TH - BODIES IN BALANCE
Feminist BBQ #3 — Bodies in Balance: Sunday, July 29th at 6 pm at the Red Clover Collective (603 E. 30th Street)
This week’s Baltimore Feminist BBQ will be about our bodies and how we guide them through spaces both literal and figurative.
Harriet Moon (Kid…
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JULY 29TH - BODIES IN BALANCE
Feminist BBQ #3 —- Bodies in Balance: Sunday, July 29th at 6 pm at the Red Clover Collective (603 E. 30th Street)
This week’s Baltimore Feminist BBQ will be about our bodies and how we guide them through spaces both literal and figurative.
Harriet Moon Smith (Kidz City & Baltimore Racial Justice Action) and The Dandy Vagabonds (Bmore acro-balancing duo Elliot Mittens & xander dumas) have collaborated to synthesize a critique of structures of power and coercion using using a model of reproductive justice and bodily autonomy. Using acro-balancing to illustrate and underscore key concepts, we’ll learn how to navigate space, boundaries, consent, trust, and communication when we negotiate physical and/or ideological structures.
AND! Leah B. from Gender Edge (http://genderedge.blogspot.com/) will do a lovely, short zine reading on behalf of the collective and presentation on the work that the punk-inspired art collective is doing.
As always we’ll be meeting at the Red Clover Collective to break ice & eat FREE FOOD w/ gluten free and vegan options, child care, (please rsvp if you can so we can anticipate the # of kids!) and music.
This event is closed to cis men (male assigned at birth and male identified). For more info on this, visit: http://bmorefeministbbq.wordpress.com/safety-statement/ and for more detail, here:http://bmorefeministbbq.wordpress.com/faqs/
Check us out: http://bmorefeministbbq.wordpress.com/
http://bmorereadinggroup.wordpress.com/
And contact us with your ideas for the upcoming bbqs: bmoresummercamp@googlegroups.com
ALSO, if you would like to be added to the bmorefeminists listserve — a listserve for feminists in Baltimore —- please visit:
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And!! THANKS to the Research Associates Foundation for making this series possible!
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Thanks to everyone who came out last night! We love ya’ll! <3
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Black women are called, in the folklore that so aptly identifies one’s status in society, ‘the mule of the world,’ because we have been handed the burdens that everyone else - everyone else - refused to carry. We have also been called ‘Matriarchs,’ ‘Superwomen,’ and ‘Mean and Evil Bitches.’ Not to mention ‘Castraters’ and ‘Sapphire’s Mama.’ When we have pleaded for understanding, our character has been distorted; when we have asked for simple caring, we have been empty inspirational appellations, then stuck in the farthest corner. When we have asked for love, we have been given children. In short, even our plainer gifts, our labors of fidelity and love, have been knocked down our throats.Alice Walker-In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens (via hiphopcheerleader)
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This is great! I wish the image was a bit bigger so I could more easily read all the text, but the art is fucking great!What’s up
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Laughter combined with bitterness which takes the grotesque form acquires the traits of mockery and cynicism, and finally becomes satanic.
female privilege is getting to bite the heads off your lovers when you’ve finished copulating
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Last Friday’s Trans Day of Action! Marching with my girlfriend Liz, photo by the illustrious Sabelo Narasimhan!
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TW: Police brutality resulting in death.
He is 17 years old from Randllstown MD and 12 days ago he was killed by an off duty police officer, James D. LaBoard. Brown died of asphyxiation after LaBoard chased him for 3 blocks and drug him out of…
absolutely disgusting
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These vids are so cool, I can’t wait for them to release more.
Check ‘em out: Me&MyBois
We don’t dispute the ‘accusation’ of male privilege because we’re dumb, bad feminists, or incapable of interpreting our experience. We don’t have different opinions out of a lack of knowledge about oppression. We know our own lives, and have more options as feminists than to submit to non- trans woman authority and do its bidding.
Cis women’s and trans male spectrum people’s repeated and patronizing explanations of what our experience clearly must have been and is like bears a striking resemblance, both in form and effect, to patriarchial dominance
Beyond Inclusion: Trans Women as Equal Partners in Feminism
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