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3rd-language: 3RD LANGUAGE SUMMER WORKSHOPS: Our Voices, Our...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:08:00 -0400

3RD LANGUAGE SUMMER WORKSHOPS: Our Voices, Our Community, Our History

Summer of 2013, 3rd Language will host a series of 12 workshops taught by emerging and established local artists.

Workshops will explore:

writing, print-media and bookmaking,

media traditionally associated

with historical documentation,

as modes of radical storytelling.

This opportunity is open to artists and writers with all levels of experience.

Accepted participants will receive a stipend of $250 for their participation.

Workshop Application Deadline June 03, 2013

APPLY TODAY

ARE YOU A YOUNG CREATIVE QUEER PERSON OF COLOR LIVING IN THE CHICAGO AREA? if so this is a really amazing opportunity!

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Mon, 20 May 2013 17:08:52 -0400

This is my friend abbey

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:26:38 -0400

This is my friend abbey

sam-dean-lynn: Pickle tongue

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:44:19 -0400

sam-dean-lynn:

Pickle tongue

yr blog is fantastical. that is all. i hope you think my blog is fantastical as well but I am hiding behind this thing because I'm sorta nervous around cuties so you probably don't know which blog is mine. the end.

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:38:20 -0400

oh my gosh, thanks so much! unhide yourself, I promise I don’t bite and I will probably think your blog is fantastical too!

iamonebeing: Angela Davis on the “Racialization” of Terrorism,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:19:29 -0400

iamonebeing:

Angela Davis on the “Racialization” of Terrorism, From Assata Shakur to Boston Marathon Bombings

Published on May 3, 2013

Watch the full interview with Angela Davis on Democracy Now! at http://owl.li/kGdcY. The legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis tells Democracy Now! that the FBI’s adding of former Black Panther Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorists List exemplifies a longstanding “racialization” of terrorism in the United States, and an effort to deter the young activists Shakur has inspired today. “When the grandchildren of those who were active in the late ’60s and early ’70s are becoming involved in similar movements today, there is this effort to again terrorize young people by representing such an important figure as Assata Shakur as a terrorist,” Davis says. “Before the Tsarnev brothers were discovered to be the alleged perpetrators [of the Boston Marathon bombings], there was an attempt to present the person who planted the bomb as either a black man or a dark skinned man with a hoodie. This racialization of what is represented as terrorism is an attempt to bring the old-style racism into the conversation with modes of repression in the 21st century.”

In 1998, Democracy Now! aired the audio of Assata Shakur reading her open letter she wrote to Pope John Paul II during his trip to Cuba in 1998 after the FBI asked him to urge her extradition. Listen at https://soundcloud.com/democracynow/a…

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Fri, 17 May 2013 14:17:16 -0400

"Forgive me, I was lonely so I chose you. I’m a lover without a lover. I’m lovely and lonely. I..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:05:14 -0400

“Forgive me, I was lonely so I chose you. I’m a lover without a lover. I’m lovely and lonely. I belong deeply to myself.”

- Warsan Shire (via callherhoney)

cumanana: garbageandflowers: Rather than posting my bare...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:45:24 -0400

cumanana:

garbageandflowers:

Rather than posting my bare nipples on the internet, this seemed a bit more me. whatever.

xxx.

brown nipple appreciation life

oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I can’t even deal with this.

list of things I enjoy writing more than cover letters

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:29:21 -0400

all things.

"Not queer like gay. queer like, escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:19:32 -0400

“Not queer like gay. queer like, escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and limitlessness at once. Queer like a freedom too strange to be conquered. Queer like the fearlessness to imagine what love can look like… and pursue it.”

- Brandon Wint (via theseattlecompilation)

melaniejaneart: some sexually frustrated drawings i’ve been...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:31:53 -0400

melaniejaneart:

some sexually frustrated drawings i’ve been working on~~
(let me give you a beer and a kiss)
2013

likeafieldmouse: Ryan Hancock Artist’s statement: “The world...

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:11:13 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Ryan Hancock

Artist’s statement:

“The world seems to me increasingly incomprehensible, and there are times when I feel there isn’t anything that I know for certain. For me, making photographs (or painting, or whatever) is necessary to translate the unintelligible reality of being into a more coherent form. Or at least to illustrate my best guesses. There is vastly more nothing in the universe than something, and I try to create images that recognize the grace by which anything at all exists.”

Dear human friends, 3rd-Language is collecting submissions for our next zine! The theme is queer...

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:04:47 -0400

Dear human friends, 3rd-Language is collecting submissions for our next zine! The theme is queer archives and lineage, here are some prompts to get your creative juices flowing: queer heroes, collections, icons, queer geographies, systems of value, identity based collecting and urban archeology. OUR NEW DEADLINE IS MAY 17th, send your submissions to zine@3rd-language.come
Xoxoxox

My brain one day: “there is no such thing as sex no humans are attractive” My brain the...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:27:50 -0400

My brain one day: “there is no such thing as sex no humans are attractive”
My brain the next day:”everything is sex all humans are attractive”

There is no middle ground
Ever

catsluck: cicadas by Anne Emond

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:03:40 -0400

catsluck:

cicadas by Anne Emond

catsluck: From a zine that I am currently working on. The...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:01:56 -0400

catsluck:

From a zine that I am currently working on.

The purpose of this zine is to educate and promote queer and trans* visibility and liberation through the exploration of my own trans* genderqueer identity and experience.

Yay dyke march! So excited to be in town for this

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:33 -0400

Yay dyke march! So excited to be in town for this

autostraddle: Straddler On The Street: MaileHi crush monsters,...

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:52:11 -0400

autostraddle:

Straddler On The Street: Maile
Hi crush monsters, this is Straddler On The Street, a feature where I celebrate all of you…
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Maile is one sexy poet queermo beauty and a wonderful friend, check out her straddler on the street today!

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Mon, 13 May 2013 01:56:28 -0400