Archive for September, 2006
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Sokari, at Black Looks [1], bring us this piece of 21st century Al Jolson Black Face:anonymous provides the obligatory "but it's not racist it's art" statement in the comments section.
[1] http://jaysennett.com/cgi-bin/mt/www.blacklooks.org
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Making different choices with our money with regard to environmental impact challenges most of us. But perhaps those choices will be made for us.Patagonia [1] on increasing transportation costs:
At Patagonia we have started to prepare for what we think will become a more locally based economy. The global economy based on cheap transportation is unsustainable. Our present mode of production includes buying organic cotton in Turkey, shipping the bales to Thailand to be processed into fabric, shipping the fabric to Texas to be cut and then to Mexico to be sewn and then onto our warehouse in Reno and then to our stores and dealers and finally to our customers' homes. Shipping costs may soon start to outstrip the cost of material and labor. We must begin to find a way to produce our goods locally. by Yvon Chouinard [2] (Founder and Owner of Patagonia)
Of course, these increases affect book prices as transportation costs get folded into a per item cost of a book. (At HfP [3], we paid close to forty dollars U.S. to have 100 books sent to Ypsilanti from Tennessee).
What I ponder, though, is what will happen to the millions of working poor in the U.S., who shop at places like Wal-Mart and Kmart. I think many shop there because that is what they can afford, and I don't for one minute believe Target is any better on the environment or kinder to its workers.
But producing locally - at least in my local area - is always more expensive than any overseas -manufactured item.
How, precisely, does Chouinard's desire to reduce greenhouse gases impact a working mother (10/hour) with three kids? Or a couple (let's assume any couple and one of them works for a company that has domestic partner benefits) where one must carry the other on their healthcare insurance? Next year I will have to pay about $265.00 pretax to carry Ms. H. on my healthcare insurance.
I certainly understand the working mother and I can make very different choices with what remains of our disposal income. Yet I know that producing locally will alter, perhaps forever, what I consume.
As an artist, I suspect more of time will be spent in community with local folks, rather than travelling around the country. I also think I will buy far less of what I want and only what I need.
[1] http://www.patagonia.com/
[2] http://www.patagonia.com/web/us/product/collection.jsp?OPTION=COLLECTIONS_DISPLAY_HANDLER&catcode=MAIN.CLOTHING_GEAR.EXTRAS.BOOKS#sku.BK501
[3] http://jaysennett.com/cgi-bin/mt/www.homofactuspress.com
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
From the New Socialist, interviewing Viviane Namaste [1]. I'm sure this interview will curl some toesNS: Can you briefly describe for our readers the political significance of the differences between "transsexual" and "transgendered" people? (see glossary of terms for definitions). [Namaste]:While the term "transgender" is currently one of the most popular, it needs to be pointed out at this point in history that increasingly transsexuals object to being included under a catch-all phrase of "transgender." They argue that the health care and social service needs of transsexuals are quite specific, and that this specificity is lost when people use a vague "transgender." Furthermore, the popularity of the term "transgender" emerges from the Anglo-American lesbian and gay community. While this discourse may have meaning for some transsexuals who understand their lives in these terms, it does not speak to the transsexuals who do not make sense of their lives, and their political struggles, within the confines of a lesbian/gay framework. It is important to point this out, because most of the Anglo-American writers and activists on "transgendered" issues come out of the lesbian/gay community and express themselves in those terms. My empirical research contradicts this underlying assumption, since most of the transsexuals I have interviewed do not articulate their needs according to a lesbian/gay framework. All of this to say that questions of language are deeply political! (more here [2])
[1] http://www.cspi.org/womenspress/books/s/sexchange.htm
[2] http://www.newsocialist.org/magazine/39/article04.html
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
A pal of mine is curating "If Other, Please Explain:________" [1] through the Art and Design School at University of Michigan. Send her your art!If Other, Please Explain___________________________________January 12- February 9, 2007 at the Work Exhibition Space, 306 S. State, Ann Arbor MichiganThis exhibition will gather together works that explore notions of identity:Intersecting, true, assigned, anonymous, sexual, virtual, group, false, racial, national, secret, mistaken, fixed, chosen, individual, ethnic, gender, other____.We invite works that explore themes of identity as well as issues such as national ID cards, affirmative action, identity theft, RFID, privacy, immigration and the census.To submit work to this juried show, please send images or proposals by October 15, 2006 to Ifotherplease@umich.edu [2]. Accepted work must be delivered in-person or by mail on or before January 4, 2007.Please see attached flier for further details.If you have questions, contact Ifotherplease@umich.edu [2].
[1] http://art-design.umich.edu/galleries/?p=97
[2] http://jaysennett.commailto:ifotherplease@umich.edu
[3] http://jaysennett.commailto:ifotherplease@umich.edu
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
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[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/bowtie.jpg
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
So I'm curious:If I offer Self-Organizing Men [1] for 55% off the cover price, do you think Homofactus Press [2] is desperate? undervaluing our product(s)?If I tell you that Amazon charges me 55% of the cover price to list our books there for a 30% discount to you, what would you say if I say, "well, screw Amazon. I'm passing that discount onto you, the reader."?
[1] http://homofactuspress.com/store/index.php?main_page=index
[2] http://www.jaysennett.com/cgi-bin/mt/www.homofactuspress.com
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
for Self-Organizing Men [1]. I'm doing the happy dance.
[1] http://www.homofactuspress.com/?page_id=31
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
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[This image is free. Have fun!]
[1] http://www.jaysennett.com/blog/revelations.htm
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
If you plan to attend the FORGE Forward 2007 Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 29 – April 1, 2007, now is the time to send in your registration! Download a registration form today at http://www.forge-forward.org/conference/docs/registration_form.pdf/ [1]
[1] https://owa.mse7.exchange.ms/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.forge-forward.org/conference/docs/registration_form.pdf/
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
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Inspired by brownfemipower [2] and sokari [3].
[This image is free to you. Use it in good health.]
[1] http://www.jaysennett.com/blog/Untitled-2.htm
[2] http://jaysennett.com#more-425
[3] http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/09/on_being_tiresome.html
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
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[This cartoon is free. Have fun!]
[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/we-got-no-jobs.jpg
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
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[This cartoon is free. Use it in good health.]
[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/vit.jpg
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
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[This cartoon is free. Enjoy.]
[1] http://www.jaysennett.com/blog/everything%20i%20hate1.htm
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Monique [1] by Mariette Pathy Allen [2][Note: I have been photographed by Mariette twice (One of them appears in The Gender Frontier [3] - I think). She is a warm, compassionate woman and photographer. She was photographing trans folks long before we were the flavor of the month. If you have a chance to see her work do it. Or, pick up one of her books [4].]In cooperation with the Diversity Action Team and Dean of Students OfficePresents:The Gender FrontierThe evolution of the transgender community through slides and stories.A presentation by award-winning photographer Mariette Pathy Allen, author of two photography books about transgendered people.This event will challenge your definition of gender and will expand your understanding of the psychology and life paths of trans peopleMonday, September 18thNamaste Hall 6:30PM - 8:30PMCalifornia Institute of Integral Studies1453 Mission St. San FranciscoMariette Pathy Allen graduated from Vassar College and received a MFA in painting from the U. of Pennsylvania. She won a NYSCA grant in 1988, and has been a consultant and still photographer on 5 films. "Southern Comfort," the most recent, won the 2001 Sundance documentary award. Mariette Pathy Allen's work is in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the George Eastman House, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brooklyn Museum, the Bibliotheque Nationale Paris, the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Frankfurt, among others.
[1] http://www.mariettepathyallen.com/pages/gender.html
[2] http://www.mariettepathyallen.com/
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Gender-Frontier-Mariette-Pathy-Allen/dp/3936636044/sr=8-1/qid=1157500281/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1112563-4567352?ie=UTF8&s=books
[4] http://www.mariettepathyallen.com/pages/books.html
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
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