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SAVE THE SEPTEMBER DATE!
WED 9 SEPT, 8:20PM, ICA
Onwards and Outwards: Club des Femmes & Campbell X
http://www.clubdesfemmes.com/portfolio-item/onwards-and-outwards-club-des-femmes-campbell-x/
Thanks to clubdesfemmes for the screening of #studlifemovie award-winning #QTIPOC comedy #indiefilm at ICA in London on 9th September.
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FREE Submissions are open for GLITCH film Festival.
Submit here: http://www.digitaldesperados.org/submissionform/
Programming Guidelines -
Film/video art must either
1) Be made by a filmmaker who identifies as a LGBTIQA+ person of colour on any subject
or
2) Be a film made by a filmmaker of any identity that is either a documentary featuring LGBTIQA+ people of colour or a feature/fictional short that features LGBTIQA+ people of colour as one or more of the central characters.
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GLITCH Film Festival is thefirst LGBTIQA+ people of colour/ QTIPoC Film Festival in the whole of Europe.We create an international platform for LGBTIQA+ people of colour art. Now we are joined by our sister festival AKS http://www.aksfestival.com/ - the 1st sexual minorities festival in Pakistan - who are also open for submissions for their Copenhagen 2016 festival.
We depend on social media callouts & solidarity to create the second year of our groundbreaking film festival.
You can see our previous 2015 programme:
http://www.digitaldesperados.org/glitch/glitchprogramme-2015/
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FREE Submissions are open for GLITCH film Festival.
Submit here: http://www.digitaldesperados.org/submissionform/
Programming Guidelines -
Film/video art must either
1) Be made by a filmmaker who identifies as a LGBTIQA+ person of colour on any subject
or
2) Be a film made by a filmmaker of any identity that is either a documentary featuring LGBTIQA+ people of colour or a feature/fictional short that features LGBTIQA+ people of colour as one or more of the central characters.
Please support us by SHARING this all over social media.
We are also on:
https://twitter.com/ddesperados
https://www.facebook.com/digitaldesperados/
GLITCH Film Festival is thefirst LGBTIQA+ people of colour/ QTIPoC Film Festival in the whole of Europe.We create an international platform for LGBTIQA+ people of colour art. Now we are joined by our sister festival AKS http://www.aksfestival.com/ - the 1st sexual minorities festival in Pakistan - who are also open for submissions for their Copenhagen 2016 festival.
We depend on social media callouts & solidarity to create the second year of our groundbreaking film festival.
You can see our previous 2015 programme:
http://www.digitaldesperados.org/glitch/glitchprogramme-2015/
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FREE Submissions are open for GLITCH film Festival.
Submit here: http://www.digitaldesperados.org/submissionform/
Programming Guidelines -
Film/video art must either
1) Be made by a filmmaker who identifies as a LGBTIQA+ person of colour on any subject
or
2) Be a film made by a filmmaker of any identity that is either a documentary featuring LGBTIQA+ people of colour or a feature/fictional short that features LGBTIQA+ people of colour as one or more of the central characters.
Please support us by SHARING this all over social media.
We are also on:
https://twitter.com/ddesperados
https://www.facebook.com/digitaldesperados/
GLITCH Film Festival is thefirst LGBTIQA+ people of colour/ QTIPoC Film Festival in the whole of Europe.We create an international platform for LGBTIQA+ people of colour art. Now we are joined by our sister festival AKS http://www.aksfestival.com/ - the 1st sexual minorities festival in Pakistan - who are also open for submissions for their Copenhagen 2016 festival.
We depend on social media callouts & solidarity to create the second year of our groundbreaking film festival.
You can see our previous 2015 programme:
http://www.digitaldesperados.org/glitch/glitchprogramme-2015/
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From this facebook page
The elusive trans woman of color
This is a rallying cry:
Trans Women of Color, or #TWOC (as people who engage in social justice discourse usually abbreviate with no context) are often used to deploy all kinds of guilt and condemnation at groups who experience any number of privileges that my identity group typically does not. I know I should be thrilled by this, but alas, I am not. Moralistic castigations of all sorts are lobbed at people who don’t already ‘get it’. At my expense.
This puts people off whom I so desperately want to support me. I see it all the time, and it is discouraging. I know that calling out racist, cissexists [google it] must feel like a rush of righteousness to the brain. The likes and comments of approval can’t hurt either, eh?
If it matters though, I’d like for those people to be plied with resources and information instead. Given the chance, they could be transformed. They could become my comrades.
I’ve seen it. I’ve facilitated it. Lots of times.
Whoever first said “It is not the role of the oppressed to educate their oppressors” put me in a world of hurt.
I, TWOC in the flesh, do not feel the pangs of interpersonal bias or microaggressions. I’ve endured immense abuse and trauma in my past. What facilitated my healing and resilience was a materialist analysis of the world that relocated my anxiety from individuals to institutions. Namely our economic system, capitalism, and its necessity to perpetuate poverty stricken conditions and perceived scarcity that give rise any number of antagonisms I’m faced with.
Indeed, I want and need people of all stripes at my side against the state. So if you don’t mind, I- your crown jewel and Princess of the oppressed will continue to educate anybody I can. No matter how problematic.
Many social justice advocates, 'warrior’ is a pejorative in this context so I won’t use it, are well intentioned when they use the suffering of trans women of color to decry systems of oppression. Again, I know they are well intentioned, but they do not speak for me.
They go on about TWOC voices being 'centered’. Well here it is. Center it.
Focusing our ire on people who receive privilege instead of people who dole it out is a losing strategy for ending oppression. This idea flows from post-structuralist academic theory that sees collective struggle against domination as largely misguided; That locates interpersonal interactions as primary sites for transformation. Smells like rugged individualism to me. Tumblr has taken this heady theory, and parsed it out for disaffected users to reblog. How convenient for people in power. I imagine Goldman Sachs loves this garbage.
I’m a student at Portland State University. For now. I have received multiple threats of expulsion from the president, Wim Wiewel, and his administration. The nightmarishly oppressive Board of Trustees have armed campus security despite widespread and vocal disapproval from students, staff, and faculty. My confrontational tactics with PSUSU - the Portland State University Student Union to collectively resist have landed me on the chopping block. This has taken up the bulk of my headspace as of late. The clumsy liberal hipster in my Environmental Sustainability class who does not yet understand the gravity of asking people their pronouns simply cannot fit on my list of fucks given.
For the record, said hipster only needed a small push from me to get it. He now stands among our ranks against the power structure of the neoliberal university. This, as revered classroom radicals lambaste incompetent 'allies’ to TWOC on social media to thunderous applause. But the TWOC you use to advance your line of moralism needed you at the Board of Trustees meeting to help her shut that shit down! Thanks ally.
Wim doesn’t need to check his privilege, he needs to be removed from his position. His administration’s salaries need to be cut to fund fair pay and job security for adjunct professors. The Board of Trustees model needs to be dissolved and replaced with democratic models that advance the Campaign for Free College Tuitionand15 Now for all campus employees. The racist campus police need to be disarmed because Black Lives Matter.#DisarmPSU!
I actually want to fucking win. The TWOC you love and adore in the abstract does not think that collectively shit talking problematic individuals constitutes radical community. Concerted actions and campaigns against the power structure does. But will you help me do it?
I have held much of this in because it feels petty to rail against those who don’t agree with me. I think it further entrenches sectarianism. I’ve felt that all I need to do is to press on with my vision for winning justice. That other oppressed people would see me in active resistance, and would be inspired to do the same. So far, it’s mostly congratulations. But I can’t bring your congratulations with me to protests! I need comrades at my side.
Love,
The elusive TWOC
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FREE Submissions are open for GLITCH film Festival.
Submit here: http://www.digitaldesperados.org/submissionform/
Programming Guidelines -
Film/video art must either
1) Be made by a filmmaker who identifies as a LGBTIQA+ person of colour on any subject
or
2) Be a film made by a filmmaker of any identity that is either a documentary featuring LGBTIQA+ people of colour or a feature/fictional short that features LGBTIQA+ people of colour as one or more of the central characters.
Please support us by SHARING this all over social media.
We are also on:
https://twitter.com/ddesperados
https://www.facebook.com/digitaldesperados/
GLITCH Film Festival is thefirst LGBTIQA+ people of colour/ QTIPoC Film Festival in the whole of Europe.We create an international platform for LGBTIQA+ people of colour art. Now we are joined by our sister festival AKS http://www.aksfestival.com/ - the 1st sexual minorities festival in Pakistan - who are also open for submissions for their Copenhagen 2016 festival.
We depend on social media callouts & solidarity to create the second year of our groundbreaking film festival.
You can see our previous 2015 programme:
http://www.digitaldesperados.org/glitch/glitchprogramme-2015/
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FREE Submissions are open for GLITCH film Festival.
Submit here: http://www.digitaldesperados.org/submissionform/
Programming Guidelines -
Film/video art must either
1) Be made by a filmmaker who identifies as a LGBTIQA+ person of colour on any subject
or
2) Be a film made by a filmmaker of any identity that is either a documentary featuring LGBTIQA+ people of colour or a feature/fictional short that features LGBTIQA+ people of colour as one or more of the central characters.
Please support us by SHARING this all over social media.
We are also on:
https://twitter.com/ddesperados
https://www.facebook.com/digitaldesperados/
GLITCH Film Festival is thefirst LGBTIQA+ people of colour/ QTIPoC Film Festival in the whole of Europe.We create an international platform for LGBTIQA+ people of colour art. Now we are joined by our sister festival AKS http://www.aksfestival.com/ - the 1st sexual minorities festival in Pakistan - who are also open for submissions for their Copenhagen 2016 festival.
We depend on social media callouts & solidarity to create the second year of our groundbreaking film festival.
You can see our previous 2015 programme:
http://www.digitaldesperados.org/glitch/glitchprogramme-2015/
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