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From The Brown Boi Project facebook page: Meet Brown Boi, Jay Masika from the October 2012 cohort! Jay is a youth worker and performance artist out of Minneapolis, MN. Jay is currently working as a Lead Resident Assistant/Service Coordinator at the Booth Brown House – a 30-day emergency shelter for 18-21 year olds, and Transitional Living Program (TLP) for people between the ages of 16 and 25. As a performance artist, he is currently wri ting the second show of a series that strives to address how racism, sexism, misogyny and patriarchy play out in queer community. Since attending the October 2012 retreat, Jay feels he has gained the tools to demand systems change in youth shelter culture. He has made a commitment to ask more questions, think more critically and reflectively, and strive for improvement of services (including access to services) for MN youth! Jay is also the Facilitator for the Trans Youth Support Network’s Train the Trainer program.http://www.transyouthsupportnetwork.org/index.htmlSupport Jay and this work by making a donation!http://www.razoo.com/story/30-Days-Of-Brown-Boi-2012-Jaympls  
From The Brown Boi Project facebook page:
Meet Brown Boi, Jay Masika from the October 2012 cohort! Jay is a youth worker and performance artist out of Minneapolis, MN. Jay is currently working as a Lead Resident Assistant/Service Coordinator at the Booth Brown House – a 30-day emergency shelter for 18-21 year olds, and Transitional Living Program (TLP) for people between the ages of 16 and 25. As a performance artist, he is currently wri
ting the second show of a series that strives to address how racism, sexism, misogyny and patriarchy play out in queer community. Since attending the October 2012 retreat, Jay feels he has gained the tools to demand systems change in youth shelter culture. He has made a commitment to ask more questions, think more critically and reflectively, and strive for improvement of services (including access to services) for MN youth! 

Jay is also the Facilitator for the Trans Youth Support Network’s Train the Trainer program.
http://www.transyouthsupportnetwork.org/index.html

Support Jay and this work by making a donation!
http://www.razoo.com/story/30-Days-Of-Brown-Boi-2012-Jaympls

 

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Sober Spaces and Accessibility in the Queer Community

fabianromero:

I am a queer Chican@ Immigrant and a chronically ill person with able bodied privilege. 

Being sober means that I rarely ever go out to clubs or events unless I can drag along a sober friend. I have gone out before without that support and I end up feeling overwhelmed and panicky. I need at least a friend with me that will agree to not drink or use substances while we spend time together. In the past this has saved me by knowing that I have someone to be accountable to (I will stay sober) and that I have someone that understands when I feel tempted or miss drinking and using. 

Tonight I went dancing. My body missed it so much. I did my awkward shuffle, my cumbia inspired body movements and let my arms relax into the music. It was 90’s dance night at a small club. On the dance floor were awkward people trying to dance while balancing drinks on their hands, bad lip synching, or standing in the middle of the dance floor and talking loudly over the music. It was refreshing to see so many people dancing. We left right as it got crowded, our strategy for limiting time around drunk people.

I went with my sober white friend, I joke that she is the only person in the world that wears crocs but she isn’t. She is however one of the few people I really spend time with in Seattle. Seattle is very white and although the people of color community here is tight, most of us are introverts spend a lot of time alone and only hang when at events centered around alcohol or drugs.

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esmeweatherwax: talldarkbishoujo: wretchedoftheearth: I’ve never seen a GIF of this. I was just reading about this during a wiki binge on Olympics incidents and did a little research on it. I never knew how deep the message was that Smith and Carlos were trying to send. Just about everything they wore and how they wore it had symbolism attached to it. (unzipped tracksuits for solidarity with blue collar workers, necklace of beads for lynching victims, etc) Calling it a “black power salute” is really reductive and it’s a shame (and predictable) that if it’s taught at all, that’s what it’s boiled down to. Another thing I didn’t know: the Australian guy who came in second wore a patch for solidarity with them, he was protesting racist Australian immigration policies. When he passed away, Smith and Carlos were pallbearers at his funeral. ^^^ that’s cool, I didn’t know any of that.

esmeweatherwax:

talldarkbishoujo:

wretchedoftheearth:

I’ve never seen a GIF of this.

I was just reading about this during a wiki binge on Olympics incidents and did a little research on it. I never knew how deep the message was that Smith and Carlos were trying to send. Just about everything they wore and how they wore it had symbolism attached to it. (unzipped tracksuits for solidarity with blue collar workers, necklace of beads for lynching victims, etc) Calling it a “black power salute” is really reductive and it’s a shame (and predictable) that if it’s taught at all, that’s what it’s boiled down to.

Another thing I didn’t know: the Australian guy who came in second wore a patch for solidarity with them, he was protesting racist Australian immigration policies. When he passed away, Smith and Carlos were pallbearers at his funeral.

^^^ that’s cool, I didn’t know any of that.

(Source: bloggingisnotwriting, via direwitch)

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pimmyjalmer asked: Hey! I really like your blog :) Did you get your awesome glasses from Zenni?

Sure did! less than $50 with prescription!