"Axes" by Mark(ie) Aguhar, queer genderqueer transfemme brown artist in Chicago who committed suicide earlier this year (1987-2012) - http://markaguhar.com/tagged/drawing
related : http://youtu.be/NGe0hHvAGkc "ugly" by 2NE1
- from "Moving toward the Ugly - A Politic beyond Desirability" on Mia Mingus' blog Leaving Evidence, keynote speech from 2011 Femmes of Color Symposium in Oakland
"As the (generational) effects of global capitalism, genocide, violence, oppression and trauma settle into our bodies, we must build new understandings of bodies and gender that can reflect our histories and our resiliency, not our oppressor or our self-shame and loathing. We must shift from a politic of desirability and beauty to a politic of ugly and magnificence. That moves us closer to bodies and movements that disrupt, dismantle, disturb. Bodies and movements ready to throw down and create a different way for all of us, not just some of us."
http://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/moving-toward-the-ugly-a-politic-beyond-desirability/
THESE ARE THE MOTHERFUCKING AXES.
ReplyDeletethe work of femme is the work of creating alternatives to violence
ReplyDeleteoh my goodness z where do those words come from?
ReplyDeleteis the short answer a person--
or is the long answer a long long history of bodies moving and fists pumping and bruises swelling--
?