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This year’s Sins Invalid show is going to be amazing. Friends of mine are coming in from Canada, the American Southwest, everywhere to see it… You should join me there if you want to see queer disabled people of color centerstage. :-)

-cripchick

JOIN US IN CELEBRATING THE 5TH ANNUAL
SINS INVALID PERFORMANCE!

Sins Invalid celebrates the power of embodiment & sexuality, stripping taboos off

sexuality and disability to offer a vision of beauty that includes all bodies and
communities.

Z Space (formerly Theater Artaud)
450 Florida Street at 17th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

8pm Friday April 8th 2011
8pm Saturday April 9th 2011
and

7pm Sunday April 10th 2011

This venue is wheelchair accessible.
Please do not wear scented products, although we cannot guarantee a scent-
free space.

Ticket $16 – $25

2011 artists include: Aurora Levins Morales, Antoine Hunter, Leah Lakshmi
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ellery Russian, Nomy Lamm, Alex Cafarelli, Juba
Kalamka, Leroy F. Moore, Patty Berne, Todd Herman, seeley quest, Maria
Palacios, Ralph Dickinson and Ryon Gesink.

This performance is Audio Described

ASL interpreted by Stage Hands

To purchase tickets in advance, visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/

[pictured above is a postcard announcing the show. In the background are white ropes, knots, clocks and DNA strands on black. In the foreground is Leroy Moore, shirtless, with his hands clenched together in front of him. Next to him is a clock. Above his head are the words: 5th Anniversary Performance Sins Invalid April 8 - 10, 2011. Z Space (formerly Theater Artaud)]

Looking for Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn? Kate Bornstein’s Gender Outlaw? This is your chance to get all the books you’ve been dreaming of reading!!

Continuing in Thaura Distro’s footsteps, friends and I are hosting an online book sale to support Mia’s and my move to the SF Bay. There are over a hundred books to choose from and you can pick up as many titles as you’d like. To purchase a book, leave a comment with the name of titles and use the chip-in widget at the bottom of the list. It will take you directly to paypal.

Shipping costs are on us, but we ask that you donate between $5-10 for each title. If a title really speaks to you — like it’s the book explaining the hidden history of your people (been there!) — and you can’t afford $5 right now, no worries, just email me your address at consciouslycrip@gmail.com and it won’t even be a thing to send it to you for free. Each purchase comes with a small gift from either Thaura Zine Distro or artist Nadia Abou-Karr (check out the link to see art she has for sale).

A HUGE thank you to Aaminah, Mai’a, China, Bianca, and Mandy for coming up with this idea and donating TONS of books (and for many of them, shipping it out from their houses on their own dime!) Love you all so much.

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okay yall, wherever mia and i end up in the bay will be a third of the size of where i live now. this means i need to purge a lot of things i own. city livin’ at its best. :-)

i’ve learned so much from the blogosphere that i want to share what i have. below are list of books i can mail you for free (i have a free postage stamp thingy). to make sure things get distributed fairly, let’s start with each person getting two items. if two people ask for the same thing at the same time, preference will go to women of color, those working outside of the academy, and poor folks.

please pass the word!

books

• law school confidential
• dreamweaver 8 textbook (i can send you copy of program too)
• what i know for sure by tavis smiley
• an american life: benjamin franklin -taken
• the alchemy of race and rights -taken
• dreams from my father by obama -taken
• cockeyed -taken
• how to teach filthy rich girls -taken
• jesus land
• the pigman -taken
• revenge of the paste eaters
• ovid’s metamorphoses in latin and english -taken
• the culture of fear -taken
• stumbling on happiness -taken
• colonial pathologies -taken
• extraordinary bodies -taken
• globalization reader textbook -taken
• book of poems from def jam poetry tv show -taken
• letters to a young feminist -taken
• to be real by rebecca walker -taken
• the time of our singing -taken
• my face is black is true -taken
• nothing about us without us -taken
• how did you get to be mexican? -taken
• sex drugs and cocoa puffs -taken
• the bible tells me so: uses and abuses of holy scripture -taken
• the communist manifesto -taken
• the essential gandhi -taken
• a cab called reliable -taken
• charlie chan is dead volume one and two -taken
• dragon ladies -taken
• the god of small things -taken
• kitchen confidential -taken
• the truth that never hurts by barbara smith -taken
• the disabled god -taken
• to kill a mockingbird -taken
• letter to my daughters by maya angelou -taken
• the new intifada -taken

for queer disabled people of color craving community with each other:

the azolla is a southeast asian plant used in growing rice. azolla plants carry the ability to grow quickly, suppress weeds, and give nutrients to other plants in a symbiotic fashion. the azolla has millions of small, overlapping leaves and lives on the surface of water with its roots hanging under the surface.

we, as disabled queer people of color, are the azolla. we are everywhere. we have the power to grow and build community (the azolla can double its biomass in 2 days!) we are beautiful. we give nutrient to those around us but either are invisible or called weeds. although we sustain community, the focus is never on us. we are working on creating a space, the Azolla Story, that changes this.

we want this online home to be a space where we can connect with each other; build knowledge and community; share stories and histories; reflect, support and transform our love for and with each other. we are a part of many communities and seek to build a community where we can claim our whole selves. we recognize that queerness, gender expression and identity, trans politics and sexuality are an important part of our lives because of the many ways that queer disabled people of color’s gender, sexuality and relationships are policed, deamonized, ignored, exterminated and exploited.

we hope you will grow with us and join us in the telling of our transformation(s). this is the azolla story.

if you are interested in joining the azolla story online community, pls leave a comment and i will send you a link.