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Queer intersects Punk and DIY in this spatial and temporal exploration of radical queer narratives and DIY performance art in the Inland Empire.
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MICHA CARDENAS
Raquel Gutiérrez
Raquel Gutiérrez (b. 1976, Los Angeles, California) cut her teeth on Los Angeles performance art when she interned and house managed at Highways Performance Space in the year 2000. Raquel is a performance writer, playwright, and cultural organizer, studied in university settings and performed in a variety of locations, like the Salvadoran countryside, cabarets, galleries, San Antonio, more universities, Pico-Union, etc. In 2001, Gutiérrez was one of the co-founding members of the performance ensemble, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan (BdP), a community-based and activist-minded group aimed at creating a visual vernacular around queer Latinidad in Los Angeles. Raquel also co-founded other queer women of color projects and Latino projects, Tongues, A Project of VIVA and Epicentro Poetry project. Raquel has published work in Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing (edited by Lázaro Lima and Felice Picano), Los Angeles Weekly, Make/shift magazine, Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies, and Izote Vos: Salvadoran American Literary and Visual Art (published by SF’s Pacific News Service).
Currently, Raquel is in the Community Scholars program through the UCLA School of Urban Planning and is also the Manager of Community Partnerships for Cornerstone Theater Company, a leader in community-based theater-making in the United States.
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micha cardenas
Micha Cárdenas is an artist/theorist who works in performance, wearable electronics, hacktivism and critical gender studies. She is a PhD student in Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) at University of Southern California and a member of Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0. Her book The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities, published by Atropos Press in 2012, discusses artists’ strategies for using multiple realities, such as augmented, mixed and alternate reality, and the intersection of those strategies with the politics of gender, in a transnational context. She blogs at transreal.org and tweets at @michacardenas.
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A QUEER YOUTH VISIBILITY PROJECT (QYVP) FUNDRAISER
The Inland Empire QYVP seeks to help local queer and trans* youth gain visibility,community, resources and empowerment through Do It Y(our)self efforts and media.Suggested at door donation of $5
http://www.facebook.com/IEQYVP
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TIKAL BAKERY
Please support Tikal Bakery by ordering from their selection of Guatemalan bread and cuisine, before and after the event. The bakery offers a wide selection of vegan and vegetarian items.Friday, June 8, 2012 7:30pmTikal Bakery 3975 Mission Inn Ave Riverside CA, 92501
Archive for LGBT
PUNK ASS QUEERS
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags anarchy, art, dyke, erotic art, feminism, femme, genderqueer, glbt, highfemme, lesbian, LGBT, Los Angeles, micha cardenas, performance, performance art, performance artist, queer performance artists, queer performance arts, trans, transexual, transgender on May 8, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest
LA Transgender Film Festival Submissions Due May 31
Posted in Calls For Submissions with tags art, bdsm, bisexual, bisexuality, Cisgender, dyke, erotic art, feminism, feminist, femme, gay, genderqueer, glbt, highfemme, indie film, kalil cohen, LA, lesbian, LGBT, Los Angeles, Mommy Fiercest, Ofelia Del Corazon, pansexual, TG Film Festival, trans, transexual, transgender, TS on April 9, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest
Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival
The Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival is seeking films for our fourth annual film festival. We will be screening many diverse works made by trans, genderqueer, and intersex artists, including comedy, dramedy, drama, experimental, animation, and more! We also welcome work by allies who are showcasing “transgenderqueer” themes in their work.
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
1. Accepting Feature Length and Short Films in all genres.
2. Complete the Festival Entry Form Click To Download 2012 LATFF Submission Form Here
3. Submit a DVD (Region 1) preview copy of your film/video. These items will be archived and will not be returned.
4. Include a CD of Stills (300 dpi, high resolution) if possible
https://www.twitter.com/TGFilmFestival
Contact Us
LA Transgender Film Festival c/o Gender Justice LA
6815 Willoughby Ave.
Los Angeles, California 90038
323-690-2484
Submissions Due May 31st!
The Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival is seeking films for our fourth annual film festival. We will be screening many diverse works made by trans, genderqueer, and intersex artists, including comedy, dramedy, drama, experimental, animation, and more! We also welcome work by allies who are showcasing “transgenderqueer” themes in their work.
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
1. Accepting Feature Length and Short Films in all genres.
2. Complete the Festival Entry Form attached
3. Submit a DVD (Region 1) preview copy of your film/video. These items will be archived and will not be returned.
4. Include a CD of Stills (300 dpi, high resolution) if possible
www.tgfilmfest.com
About Us
The LA Transgender Film Festival screens films by trans, genderqueer, and intersex filmmakers to audiences throughout Southern California and beyond.
We wrapped up 2011 with a whirlwind of screenings at UC Riverside, Pasadena City College, UC Irvine, UC Davis, CSU Northridge, USC, and CSU San Bernardino.
Contact us to bring us to your school or community!
Upcoming Tour Dates:
March 29 University of Redlands – Festival founder Kalil Cohen will give Keynote Address for the Women & Gender Studies Conference
facebook.com/TGFilmFest
DEATH OF MY DAUGHTER: Photo & Video Installation including A NIGHT OF TRANS-ANARCHISM
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags Afrodisiac, aka Kalil Cohen, Allison Wyper, anarchy, art, bdsm, bisexual, bisexuality, Cisgender, Deb Simone, Devin Tait, dyke, feminism, feminist, femme, genderqueer, glbt, highfemme, indie film, LA, Leon Wu., lesbian, LGBT, Los Angeles, Metahuman, micha cardenas, Miss BBQ LA, Natalie Rosen, Ofelia Del Corazon, performance art, Pony Lee Estrange, Talia Bettcher, trans, transexual, transgender, TS on April 6, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest
Gallery exhibition by Leon Mostovoy: Death Of My Daughter “Death of My Daughter” is about the role of gender, and gender roles, in contemporary U.S. society.
Dir Debra Simon's FFS: FACE FOR SALE BITCH BITCH BITCH
I was fortunate enough to work on two of the films screening tonight, in the role of art director on Kalil Cohen’s film “So PoMo” and camera person and key bloody bandage sniffer on Debra Simone’s film FFS: Face For Sale BITCH BITCH BITCH.
Debra’s film is a documentary we shot when we went to Boston to get her facial feminization surgery and I was her caretaker. Debra told me we were making a youtube video, I think so that I wouldn’t be quite so nervous about being the camera person. It worked.
Kalil’s film is a campy music video about a gender queer trans woman who finds herself in the utopia of a PoMoSexual college. I hope you’ll be able to come out and enjoy the awesome night of film and performance.
QUEER MONDAYS AT AKBAR
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags akbar, Anson Sky, art, bisexual, bisexuality, BITCH ! DYKE ! FAGHAG! WHORE!, Cisgender, dyke, feminism, feminist, femme, gay, genderqueer, glbt, Greg Barnett, highfemme, highways, Jason Jenn, Jason Jones, Jay Lyons, Kate Gilbert, Leopold Nu Nan, LGBT, Los Angeles, penny arcade, performance art, queer, queer art, queer mondays, queer performance art, Sky Palkowitz, transgender on March 25, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest
 Kate Gilbert Highways has a big awesome installation that you should check out taking up the space this month but luckily The Akbar was kind enough to host QUEER MONDAYS. So this month head east to AKBAR for QUEER MONDAYS action. QM is a non-elitist performance lab dedicated to the development of new LGBTQ artistic works and is open to all disciplines.
Performances by: Greg Barnett, Leopold Nu Nan, Anson Sky, Sky Palkowitz, Jason Jenn, Kate Gilbert, Jason Jones, & Jay Lyonsplus special guest appearance by PENNY ARCADE!
hosted by: Ian MacKinnon
March 26, 7:30p 4356 West Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90029 |
The Vagina Monologues & Sexual Health Fair at La Tierra de la Culebra Art Park
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags ACLA, anarchist, anarchy, bdsm, bike scum, bisexual, cunt, DIY, eve ensler, feminism, feminist, femme, ghetto grounds, kink, kinky, la mujeres de maiz, la tierra de la culebra, lesbian, LGBT, Los Angeles, Occupy LA, performance, performance art, performing arts, queer sex ed, sex ed, sexual education, sexual health, transgender, understanding BDSM, vagina monologues on March 24, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest
Saturday, April 14, 2012 12:00pm until 8:00pm
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Come to La Tierra de la Culebra Park to celebrate V-day with an afternoon of visual and performance art, screen printing, drumming and radical sex and wellness education.
“The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler will begin on the outdoor stage at 6pm.
12-4 Artists, Craftspeople & Vendors
12-4 Sexual Wellness Workshops (See Schedule Below) 2 pm Medicinal Plant Walk With Herbalist, Eden Beth 6 pm “The Vagina Monologues” 8 pm Somatic Awareness: Sex & Creativity (workshop) 8-10 pmPost Performance Party & Community Discussion Vegan and freegan food will be served all day by the Bike Scum Chapter of Food Not Bombs. Drumming and art with La Mujeres De Maiz. Two blocks from the Gold Line. Admission to the show and workshops is free; a $5 donation is suggested. Sexual Health & Wellness Workshops We live every day of our lives within a world constructed of nonconsensual power hierarchies… BOO! HISS!
Now learn about how the consensual exchange of power can be a fun, powerful and even cathartic addition to your sex life. What are the feminist implications of willingly giving up or taking power in a sexual dynamic? How do I tell my partner about my strange desires? BDSM sex toys are expensive, what can I use that’s already laying around the house?
Answers to these questions and yours!
1:30-2:30 pm How To Be An Ally To Transgender People
We all want diversity in our community but how can we make safe space for trans people? What kinds of questions, language, jokes, & comments can make people feel unsafe & unwelcome? We’re all taught to be transphobic and if you haven’t made a conscious effort to unlearn these beliefs, chances are, you’ve got a lil work to do. The good news is you can unlearn these oppressive beliefs and behaviors and become an excellent ally to the transgender and gender non conforming folks around you! 2:45-4 pm Safer Sex For Everyone What kinds of sex acts are riskier than others? What are the real STI risks of unprotected sex between people with vaginas? How can I safely give a rim job? Why would I wear a latex glove for digital penetration? What in the world can you do with plastic wrap? Why is it important to use lubrication and know what is in your lubricant? Come ready to learn! All questions and desires are safe here! 8:00-9:00 pm Somatic Awareness: Sex & Creativity A hands-on sexual energy & creative workshop facillitaed by sex and relationship coach, Anya de Montigny. Details to come. ACLA (Art . . . Community . . . Land . . . Activism!) is a nineteen year old public art and land collective committed to working with youth in underserved Los Angeles neighborhoods to transform unused urban land into dynamic, community directed ArtParks. As a daily presence in our neighborhoods and the lives of participating youth and families, ACLA is able to grow programming that is responsive to the immediate and specific challenges of a community while at the same time addressing itself to the holistic needs of individuals. Learn More About ACLA’s Youth Led Art & Activism Here: http://highlandpark-ca.patch.com/articles/local-nonprofit-transforms-blighted-park-into-urban-oasis |
PRIDE TORONTO 2012 ACCEPTING ARTIST AND PERFORMER APPLICATIONS
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 2012, calls for submissions, gay, glbt, LGBT, performance art, performing arts, pride, queer, toronto on February 7, 2012 by Mommy FiercestPRIDE TORONTO 2012 ACCEPTING ARTIST AND PERFORMER APPLICATIONS
Pride week 2012: Friday June 22nd to Sunday July 1st
Deadline for applications: 24 February 2012
Pride Toronto, returning for its 32nd fabulous year, is seeking submissions from artists of all disciplines to perform at its 2012 festival happening Friday June 22nd to Sunday July 1st. Whether you’re a DJ, band, drag queen/king, dancer, comedian, community group or theatrical troupe, we want to hear from you!
Pride Week in Toronto is the third largest Pride celebration in the world and the largest festival in Canada.It takes place over 22 city blocks on 7 stages with hundreds of artists, 3 parades and hundreds of events at venues throughout downtown Toronto. The 2011 festival saw approximately a million people celebrating and supporting the lives and stories of Toronto’s queer communities.
Pride Week is produced by Pride Toronto, a not-for-profit, community organization. It’s a FREE event supported and made possible by a large base of volunteers, corporate sponsorship, public grants and Pride Toronto’s fundraising initiatives. The festival features 10 days of arts and cultural programming, community activities, one of the world’s largest street festivals, the Pride Parade, Dyke March, Trans Pride March, Family programming and much more. Past performers include Cyndi Lauper, Kelly Rowland, Deborah Cox, Mel C, Esthero, Islands, Lesbians on Ecstasy, RuPaul, Divine Brown, Jully Black, Thelma Houston, Indigo Girls, Uh Huh Her, Dragonette, The Cliks, Kinnie Star, Carole Pope, Sandra Bernhard, Bitch, Crystal Waters, MEN, Suzanne Palmer, Martha Wash, Ultra Nate, ABC, Wang Chung, Cutting Crew, Missing Persons, Saidah Baba Talibah, Jonathan Peters, Lady Miss Kier, David Morales and Josie Cotton among hundreds of others!
Performers participating in the Pride Toronto festival have the opportunity to be included in the Official Pride Guide, the Pride Toronto website (which averages 23.8 million hits in the four weeks leading up to the festival), coverage through our print, radio and TV partners and targeted marketing by our publicity professionals. If you would like to be part of the BEST free event in Toronto go to: www.pridetoronto.com/applications/ to fill in an online application form!
The deadline for submissions is February 24, 2012, so don’t wait!
ONLINE APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING LINKS:
DJ: http://www.pridetoronto.com/applications/2012-performersdjsapp.html
Live Music: http://www.pridetoronto.com/applications/2012-performersliveapp.html
Performing Arts: http://www.pridetoronto.com/applications/2012-performing-arts-application.html
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
TK
Arts & Culture Manager
E-mail: tk@pridetoronto.com
Mazer Archives Lesbian Short Film Screening
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags alison segar, and I am me, Andrea Weiss, art, betsy Kalin, bisexual, bisexuality, Boyle Heights, christine Chew, Christoph Scheermann, Cisgender, East L.A. Interchange, falling for caroline, feminism, feminist, Fresh Air Therapy, gay, Gay Valentines Day, genderqueer, glbt, Greta Schiller, highfemme, independent film, indie film, LA, lesbian, lesbian history, lesbian love, LGBT, Los Angeles, Lust life, lynda tarryk, Mazer Archves, pansexual, queer, sex workers film festival, Stuff to do in LA, things to do in LA, Things To Do In LA Valentines Day, Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin' Women, Valentines day, valentines Day LA on January 26, 2012 by Mommy FiercestSunday, February 12, 2012 3:00pm until 6:00pm
Mazer Lesbian Archives Film Screening
These films take us on a journey of love and its many forms: a celebration of a 40-year relationship, the awakening of new passion, the rejuvenation of a troubled marriage, the awkward pratfalls of falling in love, the bond between a mother and son, and a love letter to a remarkable Los Angeles neighborhood.
Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin’ Women
An intimate and humorous portrait of legendary jazz trumpeter Tiny Davis and her partner of over 40 years, drummer-pianist Ruby Lucas with rare jazz recordings, live performances, vintage photographs, and narrative poetry by Cheryl Clarke.
Directed by Greta Schiller, Andrea Weiss – USA, 1989, 30 min
Fresh Air Therapy
In this offbeat comedy from Germany, a lesbian couple discovers that counseling isn’t the only way to work out their differences.
Directed by Christoph Scheermann– Germany, 2009, 6 min
Audience Award Melbourne Queer Film Fest Australia 2010
Lust Life
Caught between what was and what could be, a woman who has lost her lust for life in the world’s most passionate city takes a chance.
Directed by Lynda Tarryk – USA, 2011, 9 min
Falling for Caroline
This feel-good romantic comedy tells the tale of Darcy, who becomes uncontrollably accident-prone whenever she’s around the girl of her dreams.
Directed by Christine Chew – Canada, 2010, 20 min
Audience Award for Best Short, ImageOut, 2009 (Rochester, NY);
Best Short Film, Queersicht Festival, Bern, Switzerland, 2009
and i am me
An honest and touching portrayal of the relationship between a lesbian mother and her adopted, Ethiopian son.
Directed by Alison Segar – USA, 2010, 16 min
East L.A. Interchange
This trailer for a work-in-progress documentary shows how excavating Boyle Heights’ unique multicultural past serves as a field guide for understanding how to encourage and support diversity, active citizenship, and a respect for differences.
Directed by Betsy Kalin – USA, 2012, 12 min
Filmmaker Q & A to follow.
The Mazer Archives, 626 North Robertson Bl. Los Angeles, Ca
Queer Mondays Un-Curated By Ian MacKinnon
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags art, bisexual, bisexuality, Cisgender, Dan Wentzel Martin Wiech, Dino Dinco, feminism, feminist, femme, gay, genderqueer, glbt, Gregory Barnett, highfemme, highways performance space, ian mackinnon, Justin Jorgensen, LA, LGBT, Los Angeles, performance art, queer, queer mondays, Scott Backman on January 24, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest
Monday, January 30th, 7:30p-9p
Queer Mondays is a non-elitist LGBT experimental performance series on the last Monday of every month. It’s an ever-changing grab bag of short pieces and happenings that has something for everyone and you never know what you’re gonna get! QM is dedicated to providing a consistent venue for the development of new queer work, and is open to all artistic disciplines.
This month performances by: Scott Backman Dan Wentzel Martin Wiech Justin Jorgensen Dino Dinco Gregory Barnett hosted by: Ian MacKinnon
$5 www.highwaysperformance.org Highways Performance Space
Femme Day of Action Los Angeles Edition
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags art, bisexual, bisexuality, dyke, feminism, feminist, femme, Femme Day of Action, gay, genderqueer, glbt, highfemme, homo, LA, lesbian, LGBT, Los Angeles, pansexual, queer, trans, transexual, transgender on January 21, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest
Los Angeles Femme Day Of Action
Saturday February 21, at 3:00pm until Sunday at 1:00am
Instigating and Imagining Femme(inine) Community in LA
Calling all self-defined queer folks on femme/inine spectrums to come together for a day of conversation, creativity, and community-building. And a party afterward.
Whether you feel uneasy with the word “femme” but still wonder if it could apply to you, or whether you came out of the womb an 8th level card-carrying high femme, we welcome the wide scope of identities and experiences to contribute to building a smarty-pants good time. We will interrogate and celebrate the definitions, embodiments, and spirits of femme-ness. In this city of such rich diversity and sprawl, let’s intentionally reach across our divisions to imagine and instigate an inclusive, powerful femme community.
And did we mention there’s a dance party?
Saturday Jan 21
Starting at 3 p.m. sharp
Human Resources Gallery
410 Cottage Home Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
(3 blocks from Chinatown stop on the Metro Gold line)
Schedule for the day:
3-4 pm: Meet & Greet
4-6 pm: Facilitated group discussion/workshop time *
6-7 pm: Dinner break (bring something or run out for something)
7-9 pm: Collaborative crafting/party decorating
9 pm on: Dance party**
4-6 pm Group Discussion / Panel:
FACES OF FEMME … Instigating & Imagining Femme(inine) Community in LA
*GROUP DISCUSSION: It’s All About You! Let’s talk about how You identify as femme, tell us when/how you ‘came out’ as femme, and if you could imagine femme community in LA what would it look like?
*PANEL: an amazing group of LA femmes bring perspectives & raise questions about everything including Femme Failure, Trans-femme, Black Femme Identity, Xicana femmes, Body autonomy, and Femme Naked?
-Prof Laura Harris (Pitzer College) co-editor of ‘Femme: lesbians, feminists & bad girls’
-Prof Talia Bettcher (Cal State LA) – co-editor ‘Transgender Studies and Feminism’/Hypatia
-Prof Mignon Moore (UCLA) – Author of ‘Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood Among Black Women’
-Laura Luna Placencia – Queer Fat Femme community activist & ‘Creative Xicana’ blogger
-Lynn Harris Ballen – queer femme(inist), co-founder LEX, host ‘Feminist Magazine’ radio/KPFK
** Dance party is open to everyone. We respectfully request that events from 3 – 9 p.m. are attended only by self-identified femmes (of all genders) and folks exploring their femme/ininity.
This event is FREE. We will provide light snacks and adult beverages by donation
homo-centric: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore “Why Are Faggots So Afraid Of Faggots?”
Posted in Artist Profiles, Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags art, Cisgender, dyke, feminism, feminist, femme, gay, genderqueer, Hank Henderson, highfemme, lesbian, LGBT, lgbtq, pansexual, readings, stories, strories books and cafe, transgender, why are faggots so afraid of faggotsr on January 19, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest
Why Are Faggots So Afraid Of Faggots? Mattilda Bernstein Scyamore
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homo-centric is super duper excited to smother your January blahs with the only Los Angeles bookstore appearance of Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore! Mattilda is coming to town Sunday January 22nd at 6:30pmto tell you all about/read from/publicize her new book Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots.Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is a writer, editor, activist, artist, filmmaker, critic and troublemaker. Most recently, she is the editor of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, which will be released on Valentine’s Day 2012 from AK Press. Mattilda is the author of two novels, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (City Lights 2008) and Pulling Taffy (Suspect Thoughts 2003). She is the editor of four additional nonfiction anthologies, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Seal 2007),That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2004; 2008), Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2004), and Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write about Their Clients (Haworth 2000), which now also appears in Italian (Effepi Libri 2007). Mattilda recently finished a soon-to-be-published memoir called The End of San Francisco.Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots challenges not just the violence of straight homophobia but the hypocrisy of mainstream gay norms that say the only way to stay safe is to act straight: get married, join the military, adopt kids! This anthology reinvokes the anger, flamboyance, and subversion once thriving in gay subcultures in order to create something dangerous and lovely: an exploration of the perils of assimilation; a call for accountability; a vision for change.
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