January 2011
50 posts
The Transbiological Body →
my partner was published in this rad issue of Women and Performance! He’s super shy but I am bursting with pride. <3
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Jubilee (17)
Joanna Newsom (14)
Tom Waits (5)
Adhamh Roland (3)
DeVotchKa (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Watchkissakerho:
celebratedsummer:
Amazing. I love you John.
lonely island with nicki minaj AND john waters. a girl couldn’t ask for more really.
The Yellow Bee Steward: Trans Femme Fashion Post! →
yellowbeesteward:
When J. Bee at sassyfrasscircus asked me to contribute to a fashion blog, I was pretty psyched. Of course I would want to help run a fashion blog! and then…the dread hit me. Don’t get me wrong, I love fashion, but lately I’ve been having a fashion crisis of sorts. This isn’t the kind of…
Out of character work-related post (URGENT!)
If you are a student or faculty at the University of Maryland, or surrounding area, please consider volunteering for this! You will get free dinner and work with some really rad high school students, who volunteer their time 3 days a week to work with middle schoolers in the MMYC afterschool program I work with. We really need more volunteers.
January 31st – Scholarship Essay Writing Workshop...
feministpizza asked: I would SO buy your art! Do you have like an etsy shop or something?
greycozyhouse asked: hi! i'm grace and i'm super stoked that you're on tumblr. i actually got your a couple of your zines at the chicago zine fest and they were definitely some of the best i have. i hope you'll be at the next CZF!
WHATEVER: Performance artist Genevieve White in... →
whateverjeanne:
Performance artist Genevieve White in “unravel.” She slowly wraps her head in yarn and then cuts herself out.
Wrapping, duck tape, squeezing and enclosure are frequent themes in the multimedia work of Nao Bustamante. In “Given Over to Want” she tapes oranges to her feet, creating…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Janelle Monáe (3)
The Shins (2)
Bright Eyes (1)
Eminem (1)
Girls (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
I’m done applying to graduate school.
Also, I’m speaking to a college class about trans zines in February and I’m not sure what to say.
Blogging fashion →
I have been thinking a lot about fashion lately.
Not just in terms of how to most fabulously pair my gray quick-dry hiking shorts with my Americorps polo for jaunts to the gym with Foster, but rather in terms of the role fashion plays in my life, and how my politics, as well as my embodiment and identity influence what I wear (and how I wear it).
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
The Felice Brothers (19)
Hurray For The Riff Raff (4)
Townes Van Zandt (2)
Karen Dalton (2)
Frank Zappa (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I want to be disturbed by what you’re wearing. I want to be shocked and undone...”
– dean spade, Dress to Kill, Fight to Win, LTTR 1. (2002). (via femmestyles)
Yes & Yum.
(via afrotitty)
Anyone interested in make a DC zine fest happen? Inquire within.
I want more pen pals. My mailbox is empty and it makes me depressed.
I think I’ve been writing a lot more letters than I’ve been getting, but regardless, if you send your address to sassyfrasscircus [at] gmail [dot] com I will write you a letter…and hopefully you’ll write me one back?
“Conversely, when I think about trends and fashion within the discipline in a...”
– The Plaid Shirts in My Closet by Benjamin Lefebvre.
“Quantity over quality: sure, there are thousands of these in circulation, many...”
– Al Burian, in the intro to Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One through Nine (via jtwigg365)
