KiKi Gurlz just wanna have fun~
Eating at the Gayhop and spilling all the t with friend and fellow blogger, Anna (chubbygurl.tumblr.com)
It’s fishhbowl friday!!
even tho it’s technically not Friday anymore.. just go with it.
Anywayyy.
This week, I share a story about the first girl I ever liked..
scandalous
two queerz in a pod are back with video number twoo~
this week we talk about Reclaiming Words, like Fag and Dyke.
get into it.
Anna: chubbygurl.tumblr.com
Join Generation L on Wednesday March 20th at our Youth Space Batey Urbano for another one of our fun, crazy, and hilarious safer sex workshop “Between the Sheets” 5pm to 9pm. $20 cash for qualifying participants.
Generation L, a program of Vida/SIDA, is a Latin@ youth program for gay, bisexual and questioning men and transgender women. Generation L is focused on community-building and our members develop creative, fun ways to talk about how hot safer sex is! We hold social events, engage in community education and outreach, and provide a safe and identity-affirming space for other queer youth. Please join us at a meeting or event!
Eating Chinese food while we Kiki and play iPhone word games~ we keep it real cute.
Introducing Two Queerz In a Pod!!
a new youtube channel featuring my friend Anna (http://chubbygurl.tumblr.com/) and I!
introducing ourselves and the channel and what it’s about!
check it out~
HIT THE WALL by Ike Holter, a theatrical exploration of the first night of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, at the Barrow Street Theatre. Directed by Eric Hoff.
It’s the early hours of June 28, 1969 when a routine police raid on The Stonewall Inn, a popular underground gay bar in Greenwich Village, sparks a full-scale riot. Violent protests and street demonstrations continued for the next several days in what became known as The Stonewall Riots, thrusting a group of unlikely revolutionaries onto the frontlines of history and igniting one of the most influential social and political movements of the 20th Century. Hit The Wall focuses on that wild and enigmatic first night of the riots, placing the audience just on the periphery of the conflict. With an imaginative and theatrical blend of history and mythology, Hit The Wall shines a contemporary light on the legacy of Stonewall.
Photographed by: Matthew Murphy
The ensemble of Hit The Wall will feature Nick Bailey, Jessica Dickey, Ben Diskant, Nathan Lee Graham, Matthew Greer, Gregory Haney, Sean Allan Krill, Rania Salem Manganaro, Jonathan Mastro, Ray Rizzo, Carolyn Michelle Smith, Arturo Soria and Indigo Street. Ms. Manganaro and Mr. Soria reprise their roles from the critically acclaimed World Premiere of Hit The Wall, developed and produced in 2012 by The Inconvenience as part of Steppenwolf’s Garage Rep. series in Chicago.
the perks of being a white fangirl
I am latina.
I am queer.
And I also happen to be a huge fangirl.
Personally, I had found it hard to hold all those identities at once.
becuause, honestly.. it’s not very frequently that those lines intersect.
Today, I had been thinking of ideas for some fan fiction to type up, never finish and forget about.. when I realized that all the characters in the story swirling around in my head, where white.
Every single one.
And that I had never, in fact, written or thought of a fan fic where the characters weren’t all exclusively white.
whoa, what is up with that picture?
I mean, granted. Most of the main characters in the shows the stories are based on were white but why had I chosen to take that into consideration when writing a story that had no rules and came from my imagination?
It was something I had never really thought about or discussed aloud before. And when I had, with a friend regarding the lack of ethnicity of a certain character that everyone put so much power into, saying that she was basically a portrayal of the average fangirl,
the only rebuttal I could muster for our argument was, “I just wish she was brown.”
Not to mention, that I even though I loved the idea of cosplaying I would limit myself from doing it because I didn’t look like many of the characters I wanted to dress up as. And that’s a fucked up way to think.
So, alone with my thoughts, I contemplated all this and came to a conclusion.
Sometimes I feel alone in the fandoms I involve myself in because mostly everywhere I look it’s white superiority. White characters, white cosplay, white fan fiction, white fans.
And I just have to figure out what I need to do to make myself feel more visible and like I belong.
Step one is spreading the word about these awesome tumblrs below! Signal boosting the shit out of them and any more like them when I find them. And also maybe involving myself in fandoms of works that have maybe more PoC? Yeah. Suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Anyway, that’s all for now!
xoxo
nemo
