poczineproject:

POC (People of Color) Zine Project 2012 Tour Dates:

Sept 24 New York, NY
Sept 25 Philadelphia, PA
Sept 26 Pittsburgh, PA
Sept 27 Athens, OH
Sept 28 Detroit, MI
Sept 29 Ann Arbor, MI
Sept 30 Chicago, IL
Oct 1 Champaign, IL
Oct 2 Bloomington, IL
Oct 3 Columbus, OH
Oct 4 Blacksburg, VA
Oct 5 Washington, DC
Oct 6 Baltimore, MD
Oct 7 New York, NY

We’ll have specific details about each city and how you can help and participate in the coming weeks. If you can’t wait, email daniela@dcapmedia.com with your questions! We’re excited!!

Be sure to follow poczineproject.tumblr.com and “Like” our FB page if you haven’t already to get the latest updates as soon as we post them.

WAYS YOU CAN HELP NOW

1. If you’re from or around any of these cities, contact us and let us know if you’re interested in volunteering, have a band and want to perform, want to table, can help out with hosting us overnight, can assist with livetweeting and livestreaming from events, etc.

2. Donate to help us offset the cost of this tour, vehicle rental and gas money. We appreciate every cent. POC Zine Project is 100% a volunteer entity.

3. Reblog this post and share the link with your friends, especially in these cities!

We’ll have an official page up soon for the tour but for now here are some details:

- In some cities we’re doing a multimedia show in the evenings but in others we’re looking to do that PLUS paid speaking events at local universities & ally organizations during the day. If your city is part of the tour and you’d like us to speak at your school, contact us. It’s especially helpful if you can point us to a contact at your school.

- We want folks to table and to sell/trade poc zines at our shows! We’ll have more details about who’s participating but for now contact us if you’re interested in participating.

- Do you write for a print or online publication that would like to share information about the tour and event details as they happen? Contact us for interviews or connect us with your friends who do. We want as many folks as possible to find out about this tour and why we feel POC Zine Project is vital to DIY/punk/zine/activism communities.

BACKGROUND ON THE UNIVERSITY COMPONENT OF THE TOUR

Here are some details you can share with your school administrators so they understand what it is we aim to discuss and share on campus.

TITLE
BEYOND ‘MEET ME AT THE RACE RIOT’: People of Color in Zines from 1990 - Today

SPEAKER PROPOSAL SUMMARY
The POC (People of Color) Zine Project is taking ‘MEET ME AT THE RACE RIOT’ on the road in September of 2012. Drawing from the first MMATRR event co-produced in 2011 with the Barnard Zine Library and For the Birds Collective, POC Zine Project will bring a thought-provoking and visually stimulating multimedia event and panel discussion to participating universities during their inaugural POC Zine Project tour.

BACKGROUND
In recent years, punk and riot grrrl have become the subject of much retrospection and analysis (there are easily a score of scholarly and popular monographs, documentaries, and exhibitions completed or in progress). This retrospective turn, with its subsequent institutionalization of some stories about punk and riot grrrl and not others, has largely failed to center race as a crucial factor, or to observe punks of color as a vital but also a discomforting presence. Punk musics, punk looks, can trace their origins through the blackness of rock ‘n’ roll and young street toughs, even as this provenance is ignored, or disavowed; the clubs that fostered nascent scenes were often located in neighborhoods populated by people of color, and operated by them as well – consider Mabuhay Gardens (San Francisco), Raul’s (Austin), Madame Wong’s and the Hong Kong Club (Los Angeles)—though these cramped quarters often led to racial tensions and sometimes riots. And yet these histories of tension and contribution are not often acknowledged, let alone understood.

BMMATRR interrupts this void.

‘BEYOND MEET ME AT THE RACE RIOT’ includes a rotating roster of speakers who offer through their zines a chronology and a partial history of the creative and intellectual production of people of color.

SPEAKERS
The POC Zine Project tour members and ‘BEYOND MEET ME AT THE RACE RIOT’ panelists are:

Osa Atoe: Shotgun Seamstress zine series author and musician.

Daniela Capistrano: POC Zine Project founder, Current TV producer and media literacy activist.

Mimi Thi Nguyen: Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, author, activist and creator of the seminal Race Riot zine series.

Cristy C. Road: Floating in a pool of her own blood, sweat and occasional tears. C. Road is a 30-year-old Cuban-American artist and writer. Blending social principles, sexual deviance, mental inadequacies and social justice - she thrives to testify the beauty of the imperfect.

Other panelists to be announced in the coming weeks.

ABOUT POC ZINE PROJECT
The POC (People of Color) Zine Project, founded in 2010, is a grassroots non-profit organization with a mission to make zines by people of color easy to find, share and distribute: community and activism through materiality.

POC Zine Project is curating a traveling POC zine exhibition, establishing an archive, producing a community website and providing, tools and events for zinesters of color and their allies.

TOPICS COVERED
Intersection of race, zine and punk/diy culture and inequality
Community through materiality

SESSION BREAKDOWN
TRT: 95-100 minutes

BACKGROUND ON THE MULTIMEDIA SHOW COMPONENT OF THE TOUR

Osa is booking venues and contacting bands as we type, so contact us if you’re interested in participating as a performer, connecting us with a venue in your city, hosting, etc.!

blackgirlphresh:

Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America

On any given night in the U.S., there are approximately 60,500 youth confined in juvenile correctional facilities or other residential programs. Photographer Richard Ross has spent the past five years criss-crossing the country photographing the architecture, cells, classrooms and inhabitants of these detention sites.The resulting photo-survey, Juvenile-In-Justice, documents 350 facilities in over 30 states. It’s more than a peek into unseen worlds — it is a call to action and care.

“I grew up in a world where you solve problems, you don’t destroy a population,” says Ross. “To me it is an affront when I see the way some of these kids are dealt with.”

The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. The over 60,000 average daily juvenile lockups, a figure estimated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), are also disproportionately young people of color. With an average cost of $80,000 per year to lock up a child, the U.S. spends more than $5 billion annually on youth detention. On top of the cost, in its recent report No Place for Kids, the AECF presents evidence to show that youth incarceration does not reduce recidivism rates, does not benefit public safety and exposes those imprisoned to further abuse and violence. Ross thinks his images of juvenile lock-ups can, and should, be “ammunition” for the ongoing policy and funding debates between reformers, staff, management and law-makers.

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tseenshe:

faineemae:

Next, there will be a “sandwich making kit.” 

see, i have no issue with there being a toy cleaning kit for kids. that’s fine. but the fact that it’s marketed specifically towards girls and even has a “girls only” thingy on it is just plain wrong. 

as queernonymoose said here {http://queernonymoose.tumblr.com/post/21519491713/that-toy-cleaning-trolly-thats-toting-around}, this toy is incredibly racialized. 

there is a HUGE overwhelming difference in the way white girls are conditioned into domesticity than girls of color

white girls are conditioned to be domestic for the sake of the nuclear family

whereas girls of color have historically been conditioned to be domestic for the sake of the WHITE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS FAMILY, THE ESTABLISHMENTS WHICH SERVE WHITE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE {such as hotels, office buildings, ect} then their own families last 

lets be honest with ourselves here, not only is this toy sexist but its fucking racist. 

popca:

quixotess:

leonineantiheroine:

audaciaray:

Meet Ceyenne Doroshow. 

I was introduced to Ceyenne in February 2011 by the women at the Sex Workers Project - her lawyers and colleagues in the fight for the rights of people in the sex trades. Ceyenne, they told me, is an amazing, funny woman who was piecing her life back together after a stint in prison on a prostitution conviction. And she had this idea - she wanted to write the first cookbook by a sex working transgender woman, a cookbook that would bring people together and make it ok to talk about these tough issues.

I had to meet her. 

After more than a year of collaboration on her book, which she’s calling Cooking in Heels, we launched a Kickstarter campaign Monday to raise the funds for Red Umbrella Project to publish it.

The response so far has been amazing - we are 85% of the way to the $6000 minimum we need to make the book a reality. Ceyenne and I have been blown away by the support and have started scheming about the ways we can make the book even more amazing than what we had planned. To be honest, we thought the combined forces of racism and transmisogyny (let’s face it, Kickstarter campaigns aren’t the most diverse of pursuits) would mean that we would be hustling hard to raise that six grand by our deadline, May 9.

Watch the video of her making paella on Kickstarter because me talking about her just isn’t anywhere near as awesome as watching Ceyenne in action. If you can spare a few dollars, please support the project and help us make this book bigger and better. $1 gets you access to backer-only updates, $10 gets you a personalized postcard from Ceyenne, $30 gets you a hard copy of the book when its available in August. If its within your means to donate more, there are rewards above and beyond what I’ve listed here. The more we raise, the more amazing this book is going to be.

I love listening to people talk about cooking food. And Ceyenne is right—food brings people together.

They’ve raised over 90% of their goal in just three days! That’s incredible and so good to see.

the video at the link is so good and is making very emotional!