1. 28 Apr



    Blessed by the amazing queer (joto) men of color I have in my life.

    Reminding me that some men can do it right while existing in a state of growth and courage—even if that means selectively being out/closeted.

     

  2. 14 Feb


    Eat Everything by Rocco Katastrophe ft Margaret Cho, De=MC² and Athens Boys Choir (by roccokay)

    In honor of emotional eating we present to you an anthem: Eat Everything. De=MC² sent Rocco the beat late one night. He sat listening to it at 3 am while eating a huge bowl of cocoa puffs and stalking his recent ex girlfriend on facebook. As he fell deeper into an internet hole, he continued to emotionally eat and lurk on everyone he’d ever loved facebook page. The next morning he asked Margaret if she would write a verse, then De added hers, with a final verse back and forth and a special appearance by Athens Boys Choir. 
    Help us EAT EVERYTHING!!!
    The track is off my forth coming album, Second Hand Emotion. Due out in spring on 307 Knox Records. 
    Eat Everything was produced by De=MC² (DeAnna Hoffart) written by Rocco Katastrophe, Margaret Cho, De=MC², Athens Boy Choir and Anastasia Kayiatos. 
    Music Video Filmed and Directed by Amos Mac
    Edited by Athens Boys Choir (Harvey Katz)

    Starring:
    Rocco Katastrophe
    Deanna Hoffart 
    Margaret Cho
    Pleasant Gehman 
    Athens Boys Choir 
    Marina Dale
    Amy Kasio
    Kristina Nekyia

    This made my morning. Anytime I get to watch Rocco and Katz shove tasty things in their mouths I’m happy. Happy Valentine’d day to me. 

     
     

  3. 17 Jan



    Why Gay Parents May Be the Best Parents

    skittlespride:

    Well take a look at this :)

    http://news.yahoo.com/why-gay-parents-may-best-parents-131902676.html

    Yeah yeah! Having lesbian moms fucked me up just like any set of parents could have;) Queer parents and queer kids, representing! Familias de Joteria presente! 

    Also this article is really well written/researched! 

     

  4. 3 Jan


    Band photo
    Oops.
    Latinxs getting down.
    Me and A

    Some NYE photos I’ve been meaning to post. It was a pleasure getting to spend the evening with these handsome men (top photos) and all the other wonderful people that came and celebrated. 

    Felt really pretty that night; makes me want to wear gold belts everyday. 

     

  5. 30 Dec



    Velvetpark's Official Top 25 Significant Queer Women of 2011 | Dyke Culture in Bloom

    This is a great list! I would have loved to see an even longer list though, but you know, I want the world. 

     

  6. 28 Dec



    Shark Dating: A Inspirational and Instructive Manual, aka the Good (femme of colour/ Indigenous femme) Date Zine

    By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

    call for submissions: the good (femme of colour/ Indigenous femme) date zine

    As queer and/or gender-nonconforming, trans or Two Spirited femmes of color and Indigenous femmes, it’s often easy to think, remember and speak on the vast degrees of bullshit we can face when we try and create the love, sex and desire that is our birthright. We face vast amounts of violence, abuse, disrespect, terrible game, femmephobia, transmisogyny, ableism, racism, colourism, sexism, inability of our dates to be honest or emotionally responsible, heart hurtingness and whitecapitalistcolonialistableistdickapalooza when we try and have awesome, life-affirming, hottt as fuck dates. It’s easy to get depressed by badly thought out moves, abuse, trans misogyny, colonialism, ableism, shadism, fatphobia, classism, whorephobia, racism, the idea of sexual scarcity, femme competition, the effects all of the above plus war and genocide have on our communities leading to everyone we love being traumatized, etc.

    HOWEVER, we also know that we are badass geniuses at creating the love and sex we desire. We are so smart at finding our lovers, making love so many different ways. It is important that we share this proof of what is possible, as a reminder to ourselves and each other of what is possible and what we have created, a show and tell of how much queer femmes of colo(u)r and Indigenous femmes are a miraculous gift from God to ourselves and our communities and revolutionary magic makers and world changers, and as a recording of our lives in the face of WSCCAP* erasure of queer and trans of colour and Two Spirit lives and communities.

    To the end of documenting femme of colo(u)r and Indigenous femme existence and resistance, please share a story of a badass date you have been on. This can be written, drawn, collaged, photographed or in a song. It can be a poem, a journal entry, an experiment. “Date” is also wide open. It definitely doesn’t have to be dinner and a movie with a corsage. It could be any moment of sexual, loving and/or romantic badassness that saved your ass, changed your life, rocked your world. It could be with yourself. It could be with any gender of person. The only limit is that you identify as a queer femme of colo(u)r or Indigenous femme and this is some kind of story about some kind of love, loving and/or desire that was liberatory, awesome and transformative.

    “Femme” here is defined as a spectrum of gender that looks and feels different on many different kinds of bodies, but, in general, is about the radical, ass-kicking, life-saving power, dignity and beautiful resistance of feminine of center/femme/femme of center ness. Femme is not just about being a girl, and certainly not just about being a ciswoman or cisgirl. It is a queer gender, and that can also look, feel, smell, taste and be many different flavors.

    Consent: Oh yeah- and think about consent with regards to what you share! We have so many delicious and magic stories to share. Think about identifying details, what the impact on your communities might be from your sharing, what your intention is, and whether you’re telling your own truth or another’s truth. Maybe check in with the sweetheart(s) in question before you write and submit your work.

    *WSCCAP: The white supremacist capitalist colonialist ableist patriarchy (as coined by Chanelle Gallant, Arti Mehta and Loree Erickson, as well as probably others- a bunch of folks I know in Toronto started saying this a bit ago.)

    Deadline: October 20, 2011 or as soon as possible. Email brownstargirl@gmail.com. 1000 word limit, please also include contact info and a 100 word bio.

    This call for subs is a total rough draft! We will figure out stuff as we go along.

    Not femme identified? Help spread the word to your loved ones who are!

    NEW DEADLINE: Last call, 1/15/2012

    —I may try and write something but more than anything I want to read this!

     

  7. 19 Dec


    Shameless plug! 

    My other half is back! If you want to follow my platonic life partner/best friend then follow his new tumblr: transawkward.tumble.com

    He’s a caustic, trans, xicano, joto/queer, glittery, activist, gay, vegetarian, hipster dude, living the portland life. 

    Anytime I refer to Alex or my PLP, it’s this chulo cabron. 

     

  8. 18 Dec


    Me and my platonic life partner.

    Last night’s epic Ugly Sweater party. 

    Drinks were had. 300 jello shots were consumed. The cupid shuffle was performed. A rowdy bout of caleigh dancing drove the brown people into the kitchen. Plates were broken. I was a flip cup goddess. And it turns out Mariah Carey unites the queer, poc, straight, white, awkward masses. 

    My sweater was the hit of the party:) Also, yay for my PLP coming back to tumblr! 

     

  9. 8 Dec



    I was Zach Wahls Once Too—Let’s Move On

    I resisted saying anything about the Zach Wahls/”Two Lesbians Raised A Baby And This Is What They Got” video shared so widely. But this article says everything I was feeling.

    As a queer spawn, the external public pressure to be normal and not be “influenced” by my queer parents was immense. As a 2nd gener, as someone who experienced abuse from a family member, as a poor and multiracial family, etc, I always felt like I failed at being a queer spawn kid, until the last few years that is. Queer families are dynamic and do radically change the children involved, as do all parents and all families, and I am grateful for my queer family everyday—thank god they influenced me!

    The lies I told to protect the image of inconsequential queerness/queer families were heavy on me growing up, with pressure from both right and left political dialogues. I get what this video is trying to do but instead of saying “I survived unscathed” how about queerspawns start saying “I excelled because I was raised queerly.” Sigh, I don’t want this for any other queer spawn. Please just read this.