blessed are the estranged and unadopted
the liquidation of opium, antonin artaud
it's always "you gnawed off your own leg to escape like an animal caught in a trap" and never "why didn't anyone try to help you out of the trap" or "why weren't you provided with any other resources to escape the trap with except for your own teeth"
[ID: tags reading "maybe even 'why was there a trap there in the first place']
Any way we get it, we gon' get it for now (Hold me)
You was with it when benefits was added to the account (Hold me down)
I could count on you for a favor for a certain amount (Hold me down)
Hold me down, hold me down
If I ever get an off-road wheelchair btw it will be Over. You will never see me again on here. I'm In The Woods.
Human wave will make you wanna
Audio waveform printed on clear sticker and placed on a 16mm film strip, hand-colored, looped, and projected using a 16mm sound projector
Performed September 15, 9pm, 98B’s PAN (Panpisco Building), for 2016 London Biennale Manila Pollination: Escolta
The work is a product of a trial-and-error process of making a film without exposing or using a camera. Instead of creating photographic images, the work explores the possibilities of generating images from sound by treating the 16mm optical sound track as if it were the frame.
Photos by Tito & Tita, 98B, Kathy Gener, Carmel Laurino, Erik De Los Reyes
Thanks to Dennese Victoria, Gino Javier, Gail Vicente for helping in various ways
More photo documentation:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/titoandtita/photos/?tab=album&album_id=669997726501148
Sudan, like Ghazzah, is currently dealing with a disastrous hunger level crisis that is about to cross into famine levels, just as Ghazzah's is about to. You guys have really come through for Palestine and Ghazzah when I've asked you to donate, so please do the same for our brothers and sisters in Sudan and Darfur. You are helping more than you can imagine, every single dollar counts.
If you're in Canada you can use this link for the fundraiser by UNHCR.
If you're in the U.S. please use this link.
Please reblog this version of the post. I had another correction this time from an actual Sudanese user. The original like I posted is legitimate it's just for Arab countries to donate.
“She waits inside the pause. Inside her. Now. This very moment. Now. She takes rapidly the air, in gulfs, in preparation for the distances to come. The pause ends. The voice wraps another layer. Thicker now even. From the waiting. The wait from pain to say. To not to. Say.”
— Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee
"Whatever I write, hopefully, would include doses of poison for the oppressor."
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
![[ID: the worst part of love is / that I remember it. / I walk around all day thinking: / I’m going to die in the universe you loved me in. / I get so jealous of euthanized dogs.]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/4168ec8e6deb2e9c8d58244fabe4c5e0/e08cad805cb93b95-da/s1280x1920/3390c23bb7a6beea727ded4781cc40e132830f50.jpg)
Mark Aguhar’s work poignantly evokes her desire for a self-fashioned femme identity in order to resist, escape, and surpass normative notions of gender, sex, and race. “Litanies to my heavenly brown body,” along with much of Aguhar’s practice, was originally posted to Tumblr and unapologetically imagines alternative forms of power, pleasure, and beauty. Her work has continued to resonate as it circulates within LGBTQ+ communities since her death in 2012, and has profoundly impacted queer and trans artistic production.
Now in its final month, see works by Aguhar and 27 other LGBTQ+ artists in Nobody Promised You Tomorrow before it closes on December 8. #Stonewall50
Posted Yiran Chi
Mark Aguhar (Houston, Texas 1987–2012 Chicago, Illinois). Litanies to my heavenly brown body, 2011. Digital image produced in wall vinyl by Flavor Paper for this exhibition. Courtesy of the Aguhar Family. Installation shots by Jonathan Dorado.
