whew! i will be a mildly bit less insane now.
Monthly Archive for January, 2007
in case you were wondering anything ever.
I made this collage for you to commemorate the song and routine i learned in dance class tonight.
and to think all this time i didn’t even know you had made me a little avatar and a blogroll link. you’re the best.
look what VEEBS made:
Just took a dance class at the gym where we did a routine to this bad pop song that included giving the miror the middle finger and rolling on the ground. it was fun and ridic. the song was called “you and your hand” by pink. here’s a sampling of the lyrics we danced to:
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh oh
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh oh
Midnight
I’m drunk
I don’t give a ***k
Wanna dance
By myself
Guess you’re outta luck
Don’t touch
Back up
I’m not the one
Buh-Bye
Listen up it’s just not happening
You can say what you want to your boyfriends
Just let me have my fun tonight
Aiight
I’m not here for your entertainment
You don’t really want to mess with me tonight
Just stop and take a second
I was fine before you walked into my life
Cause you know it’s over
Before it began
Keep your drink just give me the money
It’s just you and your hand tonight
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh oh
Break break
Break it down
OH man!!!! Have you tried to import a NEW blogger blog to wordpress ever? it’s like, welcome to hell, no “one-click” nothing for you. I got SCAMMED by a developer who made an import script that embedded advertising for his blog in every single post. the code for that wasn’t even visible in his import file. terrible. i had to suicide the whole blog. crap. let me know if you have any genius workarounds, because i’ve tried a bunch of options which are NOT working. the best i have found so far is this, but it hasn’t worked yet either.
My boss Luke Harris is on Nightline tonight!! Check out this piece on poverty in Camden, NJ
So!
To celebrate and commemorate the 34th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, tonight is the screening of a film I appear in called “Speak Out: I Had an Abortion.” Katha Pollitt of The Nation, and creator Jennifer Baumgardner will be there to speak as well as Anne Keenan of Planned Parenthood.
It’s at my old school, Barnard at 7pm in 304 Barnard Hall, where I used to have history class.
Speak Out: Roe v. Wade in the 21st Century
Thursday, January 25 at 7 p.m. in 304 Barnard Hall
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In honor of the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Barnard/Columbia Students For Choice invites you to a screening of Speak Out: I Had an Abortion and a discussion on the state of abortion rights thirty four years after this landmark Supreme Court Decision.
On hand for the discussion will be filmmaker/producer Jennifer Baumgardner, writer Katha Pollitt, and reproductive rights activist/organizer Anne Keenan.
Barnard College is located at 117th and Broadway.
For more information please email
studentsforchoice@columbia.edu
check out www.columbia.edu/cu/sfc
Co-Sponsored by Productive Outreach for Women, Public Health Students for Reproductive Freedom, Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Program, Rape Crisis Anti-Violence Support Center, Take Back the Night
If you can’t make it to the screening but still want to support awesome feminist work tonight, get over to the SAFER benefit:
FUNDRAISER HAPPY HOUR with Auction
Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER) www.safercampus.org
January 25, 2007 7-9pm
$5 donation
UNLIMITED draft beer $3 well drinks and wine for $4
Mad River Bar and Grillle
1442 Third Ave at 82nd St. New York, NY 10028
SAFER trains students in effective Direct Action Organizing tactics and challenges them to examine the overlapping links between sexual assault and all forms of individual and institutional violence. SAFER is a
national non-profit organization committed to empowering students to hold colleges Accountable for Sexual Assault in their on and off campus communities.
Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER) invites you (and all your friends) to a happy hour fundraiser and silent auction to support the work of SAFER. Please join us at Mad River Bar and Grille in New York to show your
support, meet new people, and hang out with your friends! Learn more about SAFER’s direct action organizing training. And have fun with new SAFER T-shirts and silent auction prizes will include a hot air balloon ride,
original art, and goodies from your favorite New York boutiques, restaurants, and services. You’ll also have the chance to win an iPod!
For more information write to: organizers@safercampus.org
www.safercampus.org
so. there’s a lot of good commentary out there on the repeatedly dismaying state of the union address. the highlight was probably nancy pelosi standing there. does that make you think about feminist essentialism? i understand why it could. still, i will always advocate for people with the lived experience of race and gender oppression to be moved into positions of power with the hope that they change the structures they are entering. i just don’t trust oppressors to make excellent decisions for oppressed people. i think sometimes we need to speak for ourselves. of course this raises the question of women entering fundamentally oppressive and horrific institutions, which i would argue ought to be torn down, rather than have more women or people of color joining the ranks of the oppressors. so, when considering whether an institution, like an art museum or top government positions, or universities ought to have more women and people of color in leadership positions the answer is ‘yes.’ when considering whether to have more women and people of color prison guards at guantanamo or more women and people of color CEOs or arms manufacturers the answer is ‘no.’ it takes some case by case assessment of course. condi is a good example of how representatives of oppressed people can be put into positions of power and simply be tokens. that’s not acceptable either. but in the end we can be sure that people of color and women coming from the lived experience of race and gender oppression will do a better job of explaining that experience and understanding it than those who have not come from these places. therefore, onward nancy pelosi.
(rambling. apologies. it’s late)
yeah. what a giant place. todd and i went up on MLK day. the coolest parts about it were the giant richard serra piece and some of the bruce nauman stuff. also i bought a jenny holzer book (my favorite artist). also, here’s a funny sign i saw in the david krut gallery.
Today is the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
This Thursday, come see a film which is really important to me, in which ten women (including me) tell our stories:
Speak Out: Roe v. Wade in the 21st Century on Thursday, January 25
at 7 p.m. in 304 Barnard Hall
In honor of the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Barnard/Columbia Students For Choice invites you to a screening of Speak Out: I Had an Abortion and a discussion on the state of abortion rights thirty four
years after this landmark Supreme Court Decision.
On hand for the discussion will be filmmaker/producer Jennifer Baumgardner, writer Katha Pollitt, and reproductive rights activist/organizer Anne Keenan.
Thursday, January 25 at 7 p.m. in 304 Barnard Hall (located at 117th St. and Broadway)
In 1973, the Supreme Court decided the landmark reproductive rights case Roe v. Wade, in which they deemed abortion a fundamental and legal right under the United States Constitution. Yet thirty four years later, abortion rights have been increasingly curtailed through both state and federal legislation; in the last five years alone, the
United States Congress passed into law the so-called Partial Birth Abortion ban, South Dakota’s government banned abortion in nearly all circumstances, and pharmacists across the country are refusing to dispense birth control.
What role does Roe v. Wade play in the fight for reproductive rights in the 21st century? Should pro-choice activists place the majority of their focus on upholding Roe v. Wade, or is our energy better spent on other reproductive rights-related issues? These questions and many others will be addressed by filmmaker/producer/writer Jennifer Baumgardner, writer/columnist Katha Pollitt, and Planned Parenthood activist/organizer Anne Keenan. Preceding this discussion will be a screening of the documentary film Speak Out: I Had an Abortion, which explores the personal experiences of women who have had abortions and the ways in which there is still a “back room” of secrecy over abortion despite it being a legal entitlement today.
Also, Naked guy was there.
Epic show.
beau sia
18/01/2007
308 bowery (btwn e. 1st st. and bleecker), new york, 10003
Cost : 7 bucks
i’m loathe to say this, but you kinda don’t want to miss this show. it’s a rare treat that we’re all in the same room performing together. WHAT?!: Incantations for ‘07, featuring new work and performances by suheir hammad, black ice, lemon, john s. hall, flaco, regie cabico, willie perdomo, shappy, celena glenn, cristin o’keefe aptowicz, big mike, marty mcconnell, george mckibbens, leticia viloria, and sarah kay. hosted by beau sia, dj’d by mas.
This will definitely be worth checking out. Mike Houston is the shit. This summer he came to Minneapolis and built a barrel raft for the bicycle powered ferris wheel and haul out the amazing barnstormers sound system piece which consisted of a zillion speakers all hand detailed and made out of crazy stuff like washing machines, tires, dressers and good old wooden boxes.
CANNONBALL PRESSÂ
Treasure of the Black and White Brigand
A Tale of Lost Loot Spanning the Centuries, told in woodcuts
January 16th – February 10th, 2007
OPENING RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, January 18th, 6-8pm
David Krut Projects
526 West 26th Street, #816
New York, NY 10001
212.255.3094
oh wow oh wow oh wow.
today i swept and mopped the floors of my apartment and then i got inspired and painted the hallway and the kitchen and scrubbed the bathroom.
this an excellent IRL followup to my antlertown makeover.
kind of a life favicon install if you will.
oh man i am so psyched. i just figured out how to make a favicon and put it in my browser. hell yeah.
here’s my little guy: 
While the situation looked somewhat hopeful for Burma actually being recognized as a site of horrific human rights abuses, today South Africa and Russia have vetoed the Burma resolution in the Security Council. Read more here
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