Hey darlins,
I'm in my hometown, one of them anyway- Toronto. It's one of my favorites. It's July. I'm staying in a famous QTPOC house on Delaware Avenue, a street where every cement sidewalk square has a queer people of color story whispering out of it. There are so many long summer days to see friends, kiss on the stoop, get a tibbs at Bar Nazareth, take the ferry to the gay nude beach, write poems, smell the tiger lilies and wild roses. I'm on my first vacation in years.
Here are some things:
An audio piece I created, Girls Who Pray, was part of the fabulous Elisha Lim's part of Syrus Marcus Ware's Proud City: Propositions for Future LGBTTIQQ2S Activism in Toronto exhibit. It's still up- if you're in Toronto, go look. I loved all the art, but Natalie Wood's video piece, "Will", that recasts Pat Parker's poem to her daughter into a complex video tribute to ancient and present and future queer Black women's resistance and love made me cry. Elisha collected audio stories from a whole bunch of queers of color, praying and talking about the spiritualities we were born into and those we've found. You can listen to the MP3 of my piece, below.
Really, really good news: Allison McCarthy gave Revolution Starts at Home an amazing review in Ms. Magazine. Check it here:http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/07/03/the-revolution-starts-at-home/. My favorite part? The quote, "Like (This Bridge Called My Back), the editors of The Revolution Starts at Home have provided a landmark resource." No shit. I basically threw up with happiness when I read that.
And we've successfully booked the next two stops in the ongoing Revolution Starts At Home tour-Vancouver and Seattle, July 21 and 23rd. Details are below. After that, I'm going to Fancyland for a short artist residency. A wood fired hot tub, stars and a sleeping platform await.
There's a lot more, including my attempt to recap just how amazing the Allied Media Conference ended up. In the meantime, enjoy this. And walk by some railroad tracks in humid heat, if you can.
Love,
Leah Lakshmi
Vancouver and Seattle launches of Revolution Starts At Home!
Vancouver:
Thursday, July 21, 2011
7-10 PM
FREE
Rhizome Cafe
317 East Broadway
Vancouver, BC
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186050731448032
Come join us for the long-awaited launch of this beloved book! Co-editors Ching-In Chen and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha will be in attendance to read, talk story, answer questions and sign books.
With opening performance by Cynthia Dewi Oka
ACCESS INFO:
We’d like to acknowledge that this event is taking place on stolen, unceeded Coast Salish territory, and that it is at Indigenous people’s expense that we occupy this land. Community accountability is work that Indigenous communities have been doing outside of and in resistance to systems of state power since before the arrival of colonial settlers and continue to do. We thank the Coast Salish Nation for letting us be on their land.
While the main space is wheelchair accessible throughout, the washrooms are on the same level and only semi-accessible. There are two gender neutral washrooms, and the larger of the two may accommodate some but not all folks who use electric or manual wheelchairs; the door swings inward, there is minimal clearance once inside, and there
is little space between the toilet and the sink to transfer.
We will have scent-free seating and maintain clear laneways for folks who use wheelchairs and other access devices to get into the event.
Please do not take flash photography so that folks with epilepsy don’t have seizures; please do not wear perfumes, colognes or essential oils so that chemically injured community members can attend. We will have scent free soaps in the washrooms.
The event is FREE!!! We’ll have some bus tickets available.
Rhizome has a delicious menu including the”Lentils are Everything” Stew with french green lentils, potatoes, spinach
and sundried tomatoes in a mint and lemon-scented stew. Pay as you feel for this dish (including nada).
Here’s a detailed access audit of the space:
http://buildingradicalaccessiblecommunities.blogspot.com/2011/07/rhizome-cafe-access-audit.html?zx=47fc394773486b8f
Seattle launch, The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities
Saturday, July 23, 2011
7-10 PM
FREE
Location: The Vera Project (on the corner of Warren and Republican in the NW corner Seattle Center, just north of Key Arena, please note we don’t have a numbered street address because we are on Seattle Center) .
Co-Sponsored by the Capacity Project and For Crying Out Loud.
Books sold by Left Bank Books (http://www.leftbankbooks.com/)
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108244072604465
ACCESS INFO:
The main space is wheelchair accessible throughout. There are two gender neutral and wheelchair accessible bathrooms. There is a lift, parking (Mercer Lot, or Street Parking) and the space is close to transit (Bus Lines 1, 2, 8, 13, 15, 18, 20, 45 & monorail).
We will have scent-free seating and maintain clear laneways for folks who use wheelchairs and other access devices to get into the event.
Please do not take flash photography so that folks with epilepsy don’t have seizures; please do not wear perfumes, colognes or essential oils so that chemically injured community members can attend. We will have scent free soaps in the washrooms.
The event is FREE!!!
More info about childcare and other access coming soon.
I'm in my hometown, one of them anyway- Toronto. It's one of my favorites. It's July. I'm staying in a famous QTPOC house on Delaware Avenue, a street where every cement sidewalk square has a queer people of color story whispering out of it. There are so many long summer days to see friends, kiss on the stoop, get a tibbs at Bar Nazareth, take the ferry to the gay nude beach, write poems, smell the tiger lilies and wild roses. I'm on my first vacation in years.
Here are some things:
An audio piece I created, Girls Who Pray, was part of the fabulous Elisha Lim's part of Syrus Marcus Ware's Proud City: Propositions for Future LGBTTIQQ2S Activism in Toronto exhibit. It's still up- if you're in Toronto, go look. I loved all the art, but Natalie Wood's video piece, "Will", that recasts Pat Parker's poem to her daughter into a complex video tribute to ancient and present and future queer Black women's resistance and love made me cry. Elisha collected audio stories from a whole bunch of queers of color, praying and talking about the spiritualities we were born into and those we've found. You can listen to the MP3 of my piece, below.
Really, really good news: Allison McCarthy gave Revolution Starts at Home an amazing review in Ms. Magazine. Check it here:http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/07/03/the-revolution-starts-at-home/. My favorite part? The quote, "Like (This Bridge Called My Back), the editors of The Revolution Starts at Home have provided a landmark resource." No shit. I basically threw up with happiness when I read that.
And we've successfully booked the next two stops in the ongoing Revolution Starts At Home tour-Vancouver and Seattle, July 21 and 23rd. Details are below. After that, I'm going to Fancyland for a short artist residency. A wood fired hot tub, stars and a sleeping platform await.
There's a lot more, including my attempt to recap just how amazing the Allied Media Conference ended up. In the meantime, enjoy this. And walk by some railroad tracks in humid heat, if you can.
Love,
Leah Lakshmi
Vancouver and Seattle launches of Revolution Starts At Home!
Vancouver:
Thursday, July 21, 2011
7-10 PM
FREE
Rhizome Cafe
317 East Broadway
Vancouver, BC
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186050731448032
Come join us for the long-awaited launch of this beloved book! Co-editors Ching-In Chen and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha will be in attendance to read, talk story, answer questions and sign books.
With opening performance by Cynthia Dewi Oka
ACCESS INFO:
We’d like to acknowledge that this event is taking place on stolen, unceeded Coast Salish territory, and that it is at Indigenous people’s expense that we occupy this land. Community accountability is work that Indigenous communities have been doing outside of and in resistance to systems of state power since before the arrival of colonial settlers and continue to do. We thank the Coast Salish Nation for letting us be on their land.
While the main space is wheelchair accessible throughout, the washrooms are on the same level and only semi-accessible. There are two gender neutral washrooms, and the larger of the two may accommodate some but not all folks who use electric or manual wheelchairs; the door swings inward, there is minimal clearance once inside, and there
is little space between the toilet and the sink to transfer.
We will have scent-free seating and maintain clear laneways for folks who use wheelchairs and other access devices to get into the event.
Please do not take flash photography so that folks with epilepsy don’t have seizures; please do not wear perfumes, colognes or essential oils so that chemically injured community members can attend. We will have scent free soaps in the washrooms.
The event is FREE!!! We’ll have some bus tickets available.
Rhizome has a delicious menu including the”Lentils are Everything” Stew with french green lentils, potatoes, spinach
and sundried tomatoes in a mint and lemon-scented stew. Pay as you feel for this dish (including nada).
Here’s a detailed access audit of the space:
http://buildingradicalaccessiblecommunities.blogspot.com/2011/07/rhizome-cafe-access-audit.html?zx=47fc394773486b8f
Seattle launch, The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities
Saturday, July 23, 2011
7-10 PM
FREE
Location: The Vera Project (on the corner of Warren and Republican in the NW corner Seattle Center, just north of Key Arena, please note we don’t have a numbered street address because we are on Seattle Center) .
Co-Sponsored by the Capacity Project and For Crying Out Loud.
Books sold by Left Bank Books (http://www.leftbankbooks.com/)
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108244072604465
ACCESS INFO:
The main space is wheelchair accessible throughout. There are two gender neutral and wheelchair accessible bathrooms. There is a lift, parking (Mercer Lot, or Street Parking) and the space is close to transit (Bus Lines 1, 2, 8, 13, 15, 18, 20, 45 & monorail).
We will have scent-free seating and maintain clear laneways for folks who use wheelchairs and other access devices to get into the event.
Please do not take flash photography so that folks with epilepsy don’t have seizures; please do not wear perfumes, colognes or essential oils so that chemically injured community members can attend. We will have scent free soaps in the washrooms.
The event is FREE!!!
More info about childcare and other access coming soon.
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