March 2011
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hazelversusbrown-deactivated201 asked: It's been a while...I hope you're still blogging. love your stuff.
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SPRING FLING MUSIC SESSION →
Curated by the incomparable DJ KEVA aka LA FEMME, GET CEREUS MUSIC SESSIONS premieres this spring with SPRING FLING. Featuring music from the nation’s prolific queer women artists (THEE Satisfaction, Lost Bois, MeShell), start the new season, and every season off right. Fresh. Eclectic. Tailored to the listener.
Stream or download, support underground artists, get cereus.
Words From...
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Zwelethu Mthethwa explores the boundaries between...
Mthethwa, a painter and photographer, is based in Cape Town. His series The Brave Ones shows ceremonially dressed Zulu boys and men from the Shembe religious community. The costume they wear is usually reserved for ritual dancing and worship at annual festivals. Here, however, Mthethwa isolates his subjects from the context of the festival and poses them against the Arcadian landscape of...
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How to Make Love to a Trans Person (a poem) →
By Gabe Moses
Forget the images you’ve learned to attach To words like cock and clit, Chest and breasts. Break those words open Like a paramedic cracking ribs To pump blood through a failing heart. Push your hands inside. Get them messy. Scratch new definitions on the bones. Get rid of the old words altogether. Make up new words. Call it a click or a ditto. Call it the sound he makes When you...
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Mickalene Thomas’ amazing photograph, Les Trois Femmes Noires (2010) references Edouard Manet’s famous 1860s painting Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (“The Luncheon on the Grass”)
New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas is known for her elaborate paintings adorned with rhinestones, enamel and colorful acrylics. Her depictions of African American women explore notions of black...
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the legendary patrick kelly.
While searching for an apartment in Oakland a couple of weeks ago ( a tiresome search which included viewing 30 places in 4 days), we stumbled upon an apartment that was…how can i say this…pretty shitty. beaten up carpet, old fixtures, dusty - you get the idea. As the realtor asked us if the place met our needs, we politely said ‘no’ and she escorted us out. Before i...
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220: testosterone →
This American Life in four acts about the effects of testosterone in different peoples’ lives - including a transman. Really, really interesting.
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“It is often a requirement upon oppressed people that we smile and be cheerful....”
– Toni-Michelle C. Travis & Karen E. Rosenblum, “The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation” (via a-n-a-r-c-h-a)
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“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other...”
– - Audre Lorde
