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Archive for May 29th, 2009

Mindless fun Friday

12:20 pm By la Macha · animals · Comments Off

29 May 2009

Yeah, it’s hard for me to concentrate on Friday, how about you? As such, in the name of beginning an early weekend of no concentrating and lots of fun, I leave you with this. PLAY ME OFF KEYBOARD CAT!

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The SPEAK CD is waiting for YOU

12:01 pm By la Macha · media justice · Comments Off

29 May 2009

from Flip Flopping Joy comes the link to this SUPER review of the SPEAK CD, of which our lovely Mamita Mala is a part of! A taste of the review:

Most of the pieces rely on minimal sounds – light percussion, synthesizers, background noise – if there’s any sound besides the speaker at all, so E. Rose Sims’ “On Cartography and Dissection” is a jarring change of pace, with an orchestrated score that matches the dark tone of her exploration of monsters. The piece is a brilliant series of connections between colonialism and transphobia and racism, with mapmaking serving as a metaphor for the naming and conquering of the human body. Flags are planted, already-established realities are ignored, and healthy, natural identities are twisted, by colonizers, into “a wrongness, a distortion.” Sims’s voice brims with sadness and anger as thunder crackles behind her and she ponders what Medusa felt the first time she saw her own reflection.

There are delightful moments of humor in the collection, too. BabyBFP, giggling, reads a poem about her cats, and the CD begins to draw to a close with a spirited rendition of “I Feel Pretty.” When I saw the title on the track listing, I was afraid it would be corny, but these ladies pull it off.

So what are you waiting for??? GO BUY THE CD!!

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Mañana in NYC: LIPS LIKE MY SUGAR WALLS

10:02 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Arts|Culture|Events|GLBT|Lo Que Hay|New York City|sex · Comments Off

29 May 2009

Sounds like amazing, sexy fun and it features some amigos/as.

Dixon Place Presents

HOT! Shots: LIPS LIKE MY SUGAR WALLS

Guest Curator: Edwin Ramoran

Saturday, May 30, 2009
8:00 pm
Dixon Place
161 Chrystie Street
New York, NY
Prices: $15.00
student $12.00
senior $12.00

featuring:
Designer Imposter, KAREN JAIME, Jayson Keeling with Alison Ward and The Ruffian Arms, Rachel Mason and Mark Golamco, Ivan Monforte, and Charlie Vázquez

LIPS LIKE MY SUGAR WALLS promises an evening of world premieres by emerging artists working in New York City. As a curatorial concept “Lips Like My Sugar Walls” acknowledges the primacy of our outer layers, lips, foreskin, culo, mandala, epidermis, and labia. They propel us. We use them in so many ways. We spit, suck, sing, slurp, squirt, lick, fuck, eat, blow, flirt, and kiss. What can a post-punk, Prince-influenced mash up look, feel, sound, taste, smell like? Does it hurt, love, fear, accept? This performance showcase brings together a raw, innovative mix of New York artists. All are contemporary artists who use interdisciplinary practices to produce performative works in video, poetry, photography, and song.

The world premiere of Ivan Monforte’s short video “Tres Veces” reveals the artist and three other men in a racy interpretation of Paquita La Del Barrio’s ranchero song of revenge “Tres veces te engañe.” For the first time, Jayson Keeling collaborates on a slide show and text performance with the punk antics of Alison Ward and her rock group The Ruffian Arms. Bringing the immediacy of the edgy East Village scene, performance artists Karen Jaime and Charlie Vázquez, both dynamic writers and spoken word poets who recently performed for Hispanic PANIC! at the queer bar Nowhere, will deliver new works, including a rare appearance by Vázquez as “Spittles the Clown.” Designer Imposter (aka Ramdasha Bikceem), known on the queer club circuit for her fierce mix of dance music at parties like Pantyho’s, will perform new original songs. Rachel Mason and Mark Golamco, who have worked together since 2003, will play a set of their experimental, collaborative music with viola accompaniment.

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Want to scare some white people? Put a Latina on the cusp of history and watch the “media” who have made their career on using stereotypes against people of color, lately immigrants, suddenly cry oppression.

Yes , yes as much as we all know that race is an artificial construct, suddenly those who have benefited the most from that construct are acting as if the fact they are white men has nothing to do with their position.

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