4 weeks ago 19 notes
Salvadoran person painted for Pride festival held in El Salvador, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Discussing gender, class, race, orientation and every ism & phobia under the sun. Through the eyes & experiences of people of color. Allies always welcome.
Posts tagged "QPOC"
1 month ago 38 notes
Latin@ Queer Pride by Kararikue
1 month ago 156 notes
Reblogged from communityandresistance
http://communityandresistance.tumblr.com/
This blog will serve as a community and safe space for womyn, trans and intersex people of color who have experienced sexual violence. Womyn of color are isolated and marginalized in spaces that are supposed to be for healing, safety, and justice. We…
1 month ago 14 notes
Please re-blog to spread the word to any bay area youth artists! Hoping to get the word out to Q/POC, Trans* youth & disabled youth!
CALL for YOUTH ART (Ages 5-25)
By Oakland’s Rock Paper Scissors Collective
for First Friday opening on May 4th at Rock Paper Scissors Collective 2278 Telegraph Ave
Theme- Hella Positive (and all types of interpretation of this). We’re bringing up Oakland!
All Mediums will be considered and this show is open to artists ages 5-25 years old
Solo works, Collaborations, Youth Groups, Schools and Youth Programs are encouraged
Deadlines
Submissions and/or examples of work should be sent as a digital file, attachment, or link to kristi@rpscollective.org
Optional to include a short Artist Biography
You could also drop files or photographs of your work off at Rock Paper Scissors Collective any time during regular biz hours. Please do not drop off original art.
Deadline for submission is April 22nd.
All artists and groups will be notified of acceptance by April 27th.Upon acceptance, works can be dropped of on April 29th (or with other arrangements)
for RPS website click here
1 month ago 24 notes
Reblogged from studlifemovie
Stud Life Trailer GB 2012
4 months ago 63 notes
Reblogged from studslayer
I Keep Her Close {Slayer & Slang}
5 months ago 525 notes
BeBe Zahara Monet /Nea Marshal Kudi : A Fierce & Fabulous Force
by Nuestra Hermana
You may know BeBe as “America’s Next Drag Superstar” from season one of Ru Paul’s Drag Race Show. Fierce, bold & beautiful on the runway and bestowed with a stellar personality, she won the love of the show’s viewers.
BeBe is also Nea Marshal Kudi who describes BeBe as “a strong and beautiful character illusion created for entertainment and the artistic expression of the feminine.”
Nea was born in the West African Republic of Cameroon. He lived in both Cameroon and Paris before moving to America. He came to Minneapolis where some of his family lived and once his career hit it off he moved to New York where he currently resides.
His first steps in drag were when he was asked to step in and replace missing models while he worked for a Perisian runway. From there, BeBe was born. After winning the title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar”, BeBe went on to produce music which fused her Cameroon roots with R&B and hip hop.
Nea also created a theater piece titled Queendom which featured live original music that fused African rhythms with R&B and hip hop. The piece tells the story of his journey throughout Africa, Paris and America. The message Nea hoped to put out with this theater piece was for the audience to learn to find their inner Queendom/Kingdom and embrace it.
BeBe has continued to work on music, has hosted the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission’s Celebration of Courage, worked as a model & is most recently working on a documentary about her life. It is titled simply BeBe: A Documentary.
Want to see more/know more?
- Watch her ad campaign for International Drag History Month HERE
- Find out more information about her documentary HERE
- See her website and write in her guestbook HERE
(Please do not remove this article/bio attached to this photoset. This series is written specifically to promote & educate about POC/QPOC issues & people.)
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5 months ago 21 notes "In Hippy Sunshine I Trusted" By Shannon Barber (Specter Magazine)
Here is an amazing WOC whose writing you should read. Really. Stop reading this and go read her work now!
Follow her tumblr at: Nudiemuse
6 months ago 13 notes
An Update: Open Letter To Buck Angel
I recently wrote a message to Buck letting him know that I had written an open letter to him and that I would like a response. I asked for open dialogue and this letter has gotten around a bit and has several comments (160 notes and counting) from others within the queer community. The response was rather a let down. I’m making this publicly seen.
Image above is:
My original message to him: Hi Buck, I thought it would be best to contact you personally out of respect to let you know that I wrote an open letter to you (you can find it on my tumblr or on several reblogs with added commentary from others). It’d be great to hear a response. Regardless, I thought it’d be best to approach this an as open dialogue, without hate. Thank you.
His Response: Hey There, I appreciate that thanks very much. Buck
Though, he has received other messages and replied to them more thoroughly through private responses as well.
I personally will wait a few days and see if he does make a response, but so far it doesn’t seem to be the case.
Many of us were hoping for a thorough response from Buck to this open letter. Though he did post an old QPOC PSA on his tumblr with the statement, “Just so you remember I am a friend!” I don’t consider this a response to the call out/letter.
Where do we go from here peoples?
6 months ago 192 notes
If You Are An Ally, Advocate & Hold A Position of Power Don’t Do This:
An Open Letter To Buck Angel:
The fact that you are in a position of power because you are so well known and regardless of whether you like it or not, you have media attention and people look to you as an important voice for the queer community. I am stating this because this is vital to what is happening right now.
It’s offensive and extremely disappointing to watch someone who calls themselves an advocate and ally state some pretty disgusting sentiments.
Before you dismiss this call out like you have to others, Buck, take a moment to really listen to critique’s and don’t lump anyone with a minute amount of dissent as hating you. Especially when it comes from within your own community.
You are pissed. It’s pretty obvious, even though you have a lot of supporters who would jump in immediately to state that you are in no way wrong, even some people of color saying that you aren’t racist or classist. I am here to remind you that one or a few people of color giving you a free pass does not equal a literal all clear free pass.
Having watched the critiques and then arguments unfold, I can’t help but have to call you out as well.
If you identify as an ally, advocate and educator. It is important that you do the internal work of being an ally and educate yourself properly. Listening to people of color when they tell you what you are doing is hurting them and is racist is a part of this. Listen. Instead of letting your anger come first over everything, if you truly are an ally, Listen to the people you are offending. Check your privilege & the fact that the statements you make that are racist, classist or misogynist will be called out and it isn’t as simple as “this person hates me” because you are being called out.
That’s the easy selfish way out. You have feelings yet, if you are an ally, you learn to deal with the anger you feel when being called out and you listen. You read the critiques and you work at changing what you are doing.
What You’re Doing Wrong & Are Being Called Out For:
- Taking critique as personal insult
- Not listening to people of color when they call you out on racism
- Not listening to people in general when they call you out on racism & classism
- Not being an true ally
- Instead of discussing or walking away, retorting to classist & racist statements like “Maybe that’s why you’re poor and need to beg for money” to insult a queer person of color who said they hated you. On top of it, posting their blog on your twitter so people would attack said queer person of color.
- Using tactics of oppression against people within your own community
- Not owning up to the statements you make and pretending that they are somehow loving and peaceful
- Threatening queer people of color for calling you out, more specifically threatening a queer woman of color
Also, there is no such thing as a “race card” Buck:
BuckAngel Buck Angel® If a person of color tells you you are being racist, they don’t just say it for shits and giggles. In fact, as a queer person of color, I can say this is my life and I have the most knowledge when it comes to it and if I call someone out for being racist, it’s because they’re being racist. Because “color” may have NOTHING to do with your life and how people treat you, how they judge you, what jobs they may or may not hire you for, does not mean it is universally true for all.
You cannot call yourself an ally when you are using your own fame and privilege to hurt those within your own community.
Signed,
Nuestra Hermana
ps: You are all welcome to reblog to add in commentary.
(Source: nuestrahermana)
6 months ago 1,332 notes
Nuestra Hermana’s WOC Photography Series: Zanele Muholi
In 1972, Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi Durban. After completing an Advanced Photography Course at the Market Photo Workshop in Newton, she held her first exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2004. She most recently earned her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Documentary Media from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada in 2009.
She worked as a reporter and photographer for Behind The Mask an LGBTQI African magazine tackling queer community issues and visibility. In 2002, she began FEW (Forum For The Empowerment of Women), an organization providing a safe space for black queer women to discuss and organize.
Her photographic work is deeply rooted in both exposing the issues affecting the lives of African lesbians, African women and the black queer community. Her photographic art challenges the usual portrayal of black bodies. Her work has addressed and brought visibility to HIV/AIDS, assault and the violent crime of “curative rape” against black queers.
Her work is intimate, honest, raw and emotionally charged.
She has held 6 solo exhibitions and has been part of several exhibits. One of her most well known being her first solo exhibit titled ‘Visual Sexuality: Only Half The Picture’. She has received 6 awards and contributions including the Tollman Award for Visual Arts and the Casa Africa award for Best Female Photographer.
You can learn more about her and her work by checking her website HERE.
Check out the archives here
(Please do not remove this article/bio attached to this photoset. This series is written specifically to promote & educate about POC photographers/QPOC/POC issues.)
6 months ago 95 notes
Reblogged from artoftransliness
You are invited to participate in the Trans Gender Embodied States of Recognition research project, which explores recognition and experiences using personal identification documentation (IDs). The survey, which may take 10 to 30 minutes to complete, includes questions about your gender…
6 months ago
Reblogged from latinosexuality
Antonio’s Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio. By Rigoberto González. Illus. by Cecilia Concepción Álvarez.Children’s Book Press, 2005.(SPANISH jPS Gonz) Ages 5-8. Antonio is teased at school because of the unconventional appearance of his Mami’s partner, but Leslie’s love shows him that he has…
6 months ago 33 notes
Reblogged from theangryqueer
Bedtime math. I hope you can sleep with yourself.
1 percent of the population is transgender. That means in a population of 100 kids you are guaranteed to have at least 1 trans child. The homosexual population is 5 to 10 percent. We will go low and say that for a school with an average of a 1000 students you will have at least 60 kids who are harassed because of known or perceived sexual and gender orientation. These kids will have double the suicide rate, four times the suicide rate if they are a person of color. If we stick with the 20 percent of kids that will attempt suicide for sexual or gender orientation you have 12 children who are either dead or in a hospital because of bullying that was religious or morally inspired. That is from one school of a 1,000 kids. If yahoo is correct and there are a 154 schools in the greater bay area ranging from down in the south bay Gilroy to schools up in the north bay over in Napa and most schools in the bay area have at least a 1,000 students. So if there are a 154 schools in the bay area each with a 1,000 students and we use the low number of 5 percent lgbqt students and 1 percent students transgender you get 1,848 children under the age of 18 that will either be dead or hospitalized because of bullying. Your religious or moral beliefs is not worth 1,848 chidren’s lives. Feel free to pass that on.
