12-hour drawing sprint for an upcoming public art event that seeks to connect San Franciscans across the housing divide ✍🏼🏃🏻‍♀️💎
at the screening of JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE I.R.T. (1993) with director / total inspiration / champion for stories about unapologetic women: Leslie Harris. so thankful for your work, your words (MAKE YOUR MOVIE!!), that 90s wardrobe inspo, and for this weekend’s soundtrack (daddy’s little girl by nikki d w tom’s diner sample do do doo doo do do doo doo) #latergram @indigoimpact @shantreverite @sfurbanfilmfest
on expanded definitions of family: "...it partakes in a long history of queers constructing their own families - be they composed of peers or mentors or lovers or ex-lovers or children or non-human animals - and that it presents queer family making as an umbrella category under which baby making might be a subset, rather than the other way around. It reminds us that any bodily experience can be made new and strange, that nothing we do in this life need have a lid crammed on it, that no one set of practices or relations has the monopoly on the so-called radical, or the so-called normative." - excerpt from maggie nelson's the argonauts #queerlove #adopteelove #family
studying up like my life depends on it (sources: the indivisible project, NYT’s “the supreme court’s biggest decisions in 2018”)
when i’m in a rut, i draw my dream YouTube series #nerdalert #varietyactorsonactors #rubyibarra #awkwafina
when i’m in a rut, i draw my dream YouTube series #nerdalert #varietyactorsonactors #mitski #jaysom
when i’m in a rut, i draw my dream YouTube series #nerdalert #varietyactorsonactors #yaeji #peggygou
PLZ MAKE THIS INTO A MOVIE! i’ve never resonated with a piece of fiction this much before. it has all the things. on transracial adoption in suburbia: “The fact that the case involved Shaker--a community that liked to hold itself up as the standard-bearer--caught everyone's interest, and everyone in the city had an opinion. A mother deserved to raise her child. A mother who abandoned her child did not deserve a second chance. A white family would separate a Chinese child from her culture. A loving family should matter more than the color of the parents. May Ling had the right to know her own mother. The McCulloughs were the only family [May Ling or “Mirabelle”] had ever known. The McCulloughs were rescuing Mirabelle, their supporters insisted. They were giving an unwanted child a better life. They were heroes, breaking down racism through cross-cultural adoption. ‘I think it's wonderful what they're doing,’ one woman told reporters during an on-the-street segment. ‘I mean, that's the future, isn't it? In the future we'll all be able to look past race.’ ‘You can just see what a wonderful mother she is,’ one of the McCulloughs' neighbors said a few minutes later. ‘You can tell that when she looks down at that baby in her arms, she doesn't see a Chinese baby. All she sees is a baby, plain and simple.’ That was exactly the problem, Bebe's supporters insisted. ‘She's not just a baby,’ protested one woman, when Channel 5 sent a reporter to Asia Plaza, Cleveland's Chinese shopping center, in search of the Asian perspective. ‘She's a Chinese baby. She's going to grow up not knowing anything about her heritage. How is she going to know who she is?’”
if this was an article... “illustration & the importance of color: the line that separates mainstream hipsterdom from political representation” #taketwo #thisisamerica #america #childishgambino #donaldglover #westsidestory #ritamoreno #mashup
#thisisamerica #america #childishgambino #donaldglover #westsidestory #ritamoreno #mashup
getting back into this book after abandoning it for months. thanks @eseldee for lending it to me for way too long. #latergram #slowreader * * * on heteronormativity & family: “‘Wow', my friend said, filling [the mug] up. 'I've never seen anything so heteronormative in all my life' ... But what about it is the essence of heteronormativity? That my mother made a mug on a boojie service like Snapfish? That we're clearly participating, or acquiescing into participating, in a long tradition of families being photographed at holiday time in their holiday best? That my mother made me the mug, in part to indicate that she recognizes and accepts my tribe as family? What about my pregnancy-is that inherently heteronormative? Or is the presumed opposition of queerness and procreation (or, to put a finer edge on it, maternity) more a reactionary embrace of how things have shaken down for queers than the mark of some ontological truth? As more queers have kids, will the presumed opposition simply wither away? Will you miss it? ... When or how do new kinship systems mime older nuclear-family arrangements and when or how do they radically recontextualize them in a way that constitutes a rethinking of kinship? How can you tell; or, rather, who's to tell?”