More Grand Assumptions

Re: #OccupyNightlife

2011-12-08T08:26:00.000-08:00

Producer, promoter, and denizen of downtown NYC nightlife Earl Dax has just announced an upcoming event at the Parkside Lounge that he's calling #OccupyNightlife. The event announcement claims the following:

"Nightlife and club culture is arguably superfluous when contrasted with issues at the heart of the Occupy movement(s) and the thousands of protestors who have put their lives and bodies on the line.

That said, the majority of promoters, DJs, bartenders, door staff, gogo dancers, and performers are themselves part of the 99% economically. Moreover, not only are nightlife workers are just likely to suffer from the austerity measures and social spending cuts proposed by political and banking interests, but conservative forces historically have worked to place significant limitation on various aspects of nightlife as threats to civic quality of life and moral order. Furthermore, in the growing Occupy movements domestically and internationally, those involved in the cultural production of nightlife have many skills and resources that can aid these movements… extensive email lists; wide social networks; creative approaches to messaging; experience with event production, etc.

Join us in the back room of the Parkside Lounge for this preliminary forum highlighting the ways in which denizens of the night are already involved with Occupy movements and ways in which others can engage with these movements."

I have submitted to Earl a number of questions and comments about how messed-up these assumptions are and have asked him to explain how anyone can take such an event seriously when there are so many inherent conflicts of interest. My letter to Earl:

Earl, do you not see the implicit conflict in holding an "awareness building" event for the so-called Occupy movement within a bar/nightlife venue? Will any products from Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD), Molson Coors (TAP), Coca Cola (KO), Pepsi Co (PEP), or other multinational beverage giants be served, for profit, at this event? Who will profit and how will those profits be used?

What about the utterly non-democratic way in which nightlife social structures directly emulate the classic capitalist models for stratification of wealth. Cover-charges, drink minimums, VIP access, etc. Let's also not forget the blatant, egregious discrimination against people with disabilities, physical trauma and dis-figuration, and non-normative body types that is so commonplace in both gay and straight nightlife venues.

Will you be processing how small businesses like bars and clubs constitute quasi-public spaces subject to various laws and regulations, but which are also ultimately privately controlled? And how will you be processing these things? Is there an organizational and/or procedural model you will follow wherein everyone will have a voice and will be heard? What about age restrictions... will they be lifted? Or is the event only for people 21+?

By co-opting the nomenclature of the "Occupy" movement for a nightlife event in a nightlife venue, you immediately open the door to such kinds of questions, which you haven't yet addressed in your initial announcement of the event. HOW is it justifiable to do so, in the face of so many inherent conflicts of interest? WHY ISN'T this just an opportunistic marketing ploy to put money into the registers at Parkside?

Sorry if I am coming off as a skeptical arrogant prick. I guess I do support the notion that a critical political and social lens ought to be applied to the nightlife phenomenon both locally and on the largest scales. But for that to happen, I think you should be promoting your event as something DISTINCTLY different from just another downtown nightclub event. Perhaps that's what you have in mind. But it just isn't clear how it will be different, and how you can justify calling it an "Occupy" event when on the surface it just looks like it doesn't amount to much more than a blatant pastiche of anarchist, anti-capitalist trendiness."

I sincerely look forward to his response.

R.I.P. Arthur Evans

2011-09-14T17:55:00.000-07:00

This early Gay Activist Alliance action was led in part by the recently deceased Arthur Evans here in New York City in 1971.

This was an interesting action because it aimed to make a public official accountable for discriminatory hate speech. It wasn't so much about gay marriage, as it was about the appropriate role of government and holding public figures accountable when they used the media for anti-gay "slander."

Evans died two days ago on September 11, 2011.

WHAT DO WE WANT? ... GAY POWER!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT? ... NOW!

Medicare, not millionaires

2011-04-20T06:53:00.000-07:00

This month, House Republicans passed a plan to end Medicare as we know it.

Medicare is one of the most popular social safety net programs in the country. It's just plain wrong to deny Americans the benefits they have earned.

We've seen this movie before, back when it was called Privatize Social Security. We stood together when George W. Bush made that proposal a few years ago, and we defeated it.

I just signed a petition from Senators Chuck Schumer, Barbara Boxer, and Patty Murray because we need to stand together now to defeat this proposal to privatize Medicare.

Please join me and sign the petition today:

http://www.MedicareNotMillionaires.com

Thanks!
Frank

Short-term Sublet: May and June 2011

2011-04-05T09:02:00.001-07:00

Want to live me for two months, or know anyone who might? Short-term sublet in Bed-Stuy for May and June. $700/mo. 1 BR available in a 2 BR apartment, ground floor with exclusive outdoor patio access. Eat-in kitchen. 2.5 blocks from A train to Nostrand. No deposit necessary. Map here: http://bit.ly/197macon and Pics here: http://bit.ly/197macon-pics.

Call 212 608 0805 or email fmsnyc {at} gmail.

Please circulate among friends, family and colleagues, thanks!

Frank M Susa | fmsnyc [at] gmail | 212 608 0805

Egypt Uprising - News from the Streets by Democracy Now

2011-02-06T12:51:00.001-08:00

Democracy Now is one of the best independent sources for news around the world. Stories are presented through a unique non-commercial, anti-war lens. It is always astonishing to watch how differently the news can be reported when the "profitability" factor is removed. While mainstream media outlets — even public media like PBS and NPR — are biased toward their sponsors and spin the news to favor US corporate (military-industrial) interests, Democracy Now is funded, by contrast, entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, and foundations.

Democracy Now is led by renowned independent journalist and author Amy Goodman. The broadcast makes a deliberate effort to include the voices of ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy — including grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts. In addition, Democracy Now hosts real debates–debates between people who substantially disagree, such as between the White House or the Pentagon spokespeople on the one hand, and grassroots activists on the other.

For more visit: www.democracynow.org.

Stop the Censorship - NYC Protest Info

2010-12-13T11:28:00.000-08:00

Please forward and re-post this message widely.

Stop the Censorship

Put the Wojnarowicz video back!

Protest in New York City
Sunday, December 19th
1:00 PM (details below)

Send a message to the Smithsonian Institution and all of its museums: Stop the censorship!

Late in November the Smithsonian's head, G. Wayne Clough, did something unconscionable and shocking—he ordered the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC to 'remove' a video by David Wojnarowicz from a museum show called Hide/Seek.

A month into the show's run, Clough capitulated to the complaints of right-wing politicians and an anti-gay religious group, and yanked the four-minute piece titled "A Fire in My Belly."

A New York Times editorial assailed the Smithsonian's "appalling act of political cowardice." And columnist Frank Rich point’s out: “The Smithsonian’s behavior and the ensuing silence in official Washington are jarring echoes of those days when American political leaders stood by idly as the AIDS epidemic raged on.”

Is this any way to run a museum? Have we forgotten, as a nation, how silence in the face of bigotry can lead to catastrophic death and suffering? Demand that the video be reinstalled now.

The Hide/Seek show is an important, groundbreaking exhibit about sexual identity and we urge you to see what's still on display.

When he died in 1992, Wojnarowicz, an artist and writer with AIDS, left a body of work about the disease that remains unrivaled for its power and beauty.

Demand the video be reinstalled now so the public can see the exhibition as the curators intended.

Stand up for free expression, for art that challenges and even pushes our buttons.

Protest Sunday, December 19 at 1 PM in New York City and take collective action for free expression.

PROTEST DETAILS

Sunday December 19, 1:00 PM

GATHER on the Metropolitan Museum steps
FIFTH Ave & 82nd Street

Then MARCH to the Cooper-Hewitt/Smithsonian
FIFTH Ave & 91st Street

Wear your free expression best and be part of the message.

Art+ is a New York City-based art action group—fighting censorship and homophobia.

facebook.com/pages/ART-Positive/184468621566656

artpositive@gmail.com

www.artpostive.org

My New Digs | Nov 2010

2010-11-29T22:58:00.001-08:00

Sandy Katz profiled in The New Yorker

2010-11-22T14:31:00.000-08:00

Someone who I am proud to call a friend was recently profiled in the venerable New Yorker magazine. He's Sandy Katz, and this is what they had to say about him:

Nature's Spoils
Sandor Katz and the underground food movement

REPORTER AT LARGE
Burkhard Bilger
The New Yorker
November 22 '10

A self-avowed “fermentation fetishist,” Katz travels around the country giving lectures and demonstrations, spreading the gospel of sauerkraut, dill pickles, and all foods transformed and ennobled by bacteria. His two books—“Wild Fermentation” and “The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved”—have become manifestos and how-to manuals for a generation of underground food activists, and he’s at work on a third, definitive volume. When I met him, Katz was on his way to the Green Path, a gathering of herbalists, foragers, raw-milk drinkers, and roadkill eaters in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains.

The groups in Katz’s network have no single agenda or ideology. Some identify themselves as punks, others as hippies, others as evangelical Christians; some live as rustically as homesteaders—the “techno-peasantry,” they call themselves; others are thoroughly plugged in. If they have a connecting thread, it’s their distrust of “dead, anonymous, industrialized, genetically engineered, and chemicalized corporate food.”

-=-=-=-

I've uploaded the whole document as a PDF (13 MB) file here. Just click to download.

MIX 23 Opens Tuesday November 9th

2010-11-05T15:31:00.002-07:00

The MIX Factory at Theater for the New City
151 First Avenue (btw. 9th & 10th St.)
L to 1st Ave | F to 2nd Ave | 6 to Astor Place

It's on, people. The 23rd NY Queer Experimental Film Festival opens in less than one week. The
full catalog, screening schedule, ticket pre-ordering, details about our FREE installations & performances, and party information are all available online, right now, at:

>>>> >>>> >>>> mixnyc.org <<<< <<<< <<<<

This year we return to our roots in the East Village and have set up shop at Theater for the New City on First Avenue (btw. E. 9th and 10th). A magical transformation is underway right now, as we turn this sprawling theater into our beloved MIX Factory. When you enter, you will be transported, walking beneath custom-built textile parabolas. We invite you to explore every nook and cranny of the nest-like expanse and take in our one-of-a-kind screenings, installations & performances throughout the week.

OPENING NIGHT:
BURSTING AT THE SEAMS
Tuesday, November 9th - 8 pm - $20

MIX opens this year with abundant queer creativity reaching all across the landscape of our lives, art and politics.

From personal revelations in The Cindy Doll and How the Bridge Works to bold political statements in See Something, Say Something and Lloyd ____ Fein Must Die — opening night is overflowing with imagination and creativity. Poetry courses through documentary in Jay Dreams and contemporary cultural consciousness dissolves into reflection and abstraction in Les Nanas, Make Them Jump and The Ghosts of Syb'L Vane.

Also, to break through the boundary between film and performance, MIX is delighted to have director and violin virtuoso Paul Festa provide a live soundtrack for The Glitter Emergency. We hope you enjoy this collection of ambitious film, video, animation, and performance!

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

Boy
Wednesday, Nov 10, 10pm
Eat a sparkly spatulaful of Kansas City Meta-Poppy I-HATE-MOM Realness Pie, from the SSION’s Cody Critcheloe.

50 Faggots
Thursday, Nov 11, 10pm
A longitudinal, auto-ethnographic online documentary series about effeminate gay male activists, artists, professionals and educators, whose perspectives are rarely discussed within most cultures.

The Emotional Body
Friday, Nov 12, 11pm
Queer collaborators find muses in one another, the city, ritual, music—and a little LSD. Featuring Generations—a collaboration between Barbara Hammer and Gina Carducci, each inspired by the other in an elaborate process of mirroring and individual creativity.

Underground New York
Saturday, Nov 13, 4pm
This precious late-60s film captures the hotbed of emerging New York counterculture: Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, protests, happenings, poets, theorists, musician-warrior-activists & more.

That Tortured Feeling
Sunday, Nov 14, 6pm
Gay suicide bombers, females torturing females, misused military rations & Hitler Youth in love.

Closing Night: L.A. Zombie
Sunday, Nov 14, 8pm
The theatrical premiere of Bruce LaBruce’s latest zombie fuckfest (the hardcore version, of course). Watch François Sagat rise from the ocean and fuck the dead back to life! Also with Tony Ward, Erik Rhodes, Matthew Rush, Wolf Hudson & other porn favorites.

MIX 23: November 9-14, 2010
The MIX Factory at Theater for the New City
151 First Ave. (between E. 9th and 10th Streets)

Admission
Regular shows — $12
Special Events — $15
Opening/ Closing Night — $20
A Different Take — Free to youth age 23 and under

MIX NYC
79 Pine Street #132
New York, NY 10005
212.742.8880
info@mixnyc.org
www.mixnyc.org

MIX NYC promotes, produces and preserves experimental media that is rooted in the lives, politics, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. MIX's work challenges mainstream notions of gender and sexuality while also upending traditional categories of form and content.

MIX NYC, a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization, is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, Experimental Television Center, Visual AIDS, the Arcus Foundation, Gesso Foundation, Gill Foundation, Phil Zwickler Charitable & Memorial Foundation Trust, and the generosity of many individuals!

To unsubscribe, email us at events@mixnyc.org.

Fall Forward in VT | Sep 2010

2010-09-30T09:58:00.001-07:00

At MoMA this Friday... and other reminders

2010-09-30T09:34:00.002-07:00

If you're subscribed to the MIX email list, you should have already gotten this. If you didn't, and want to be subscribed, please let me know! Also... three requests from me.

Please come to MoMA and show your support on Friday.
Consider volunteering for the 23rd MIX Festival, and let me know if you're interested.
And, if you can, please donate to MIX today. We NEED cash, and any amount you can give will help.

Thanks,
Frank

Frank M Susa | fmsnyc@gmail.com | 212 608 0805

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	At MoMA this Friday ... and other reminders
Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:56:38 -0400
From:	MIX NYC Events events@mixnyc.org
To:	mixnyc-events@lists.aktivix.org

MIX NYC: Presenters of the NY Queer Experimental Film Festival

This email is all about reminders. First, a reminder to save the dates of the festival:

The 23rd NY Queer Experimental Film Festival
November 9-14 at Theater for the New City
151 First Avenue in Manhattan

Program catalog and full festival website coming soon.

Support this year's festival with a tax-deductible donation.
(A last-minute infusion of cash WILL make a difference.)

We also want to remind you about a free event at MoMA this Friday, October 1st , 7 pm — featuring Barbara Hammer and MIX NYC Executive Director Stephen Kent Jusick:


	Sync Touch (1981) by Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer
MoMA Screening Series
Friday, October 1, 7:00 PM
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
* FREE

The Radical 1970s: Coming Out

Barbara Hammer (American, b. 1939) is renowned for creating the earliest and most extensive body of avant-garde films on lesbian life and sexuality. In this evening of performance-driven films, Hammer captures the free-love era, the second wave of feminism, and the West Coast art scene.

Program 79 Min. Followed by a Q&A discussion with Barbara Hammer and Stephen Kent Jusick, Executive Director, MIX NYC, Friday, October 1. On the line-up for this evening:

Sisters! 1974. This film, made by, for, and about women, shows women in nontraditional roles running the machinery of the world. The film includes scenes of the first Women’s Liberation march in 1970. 8 min.
Women’s Rites or Truth Is the Daughter of Time. 1974. An autumnal celebration, held on “witches’ land” in Northern California, of fall leaves, brooks and bathing, chanting circles, and women’s rites. 8 min.
Dyketactics. 1974. Images of women and children romping in nature evolve into an intimate scene between two women. 4 min.
Menses. 1974. A humorous look at the trials of menstruation. 4 min.
Superdyke. 1975. Piano by Margaret Moore. Over one day, women wearing “Superdyke” t-shirts and carrying Amazon shields overtake San Francisco. 20 min.
Women I Love. 1976. A fruit or vegetable provides a metaphor for the filmmakers’ relationships with women friends and lovers. 25 min.
MoMA's Barbara Hammer film series is organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film. Special thanks to Canyon Cinema.

* Admission to MoMA is free for all visitors during Target Free Friday Nights, held every Friday evening from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Tickets for Target Free Friday Nights are not available in advance. Your Target Free Friday Night ticket permits you to all other Museum galleries, exhibitions, and films.

Call for Volunteers

Lastly, we're also proud to remind everyone that MIX NYC is an ALL-VOLUNTEER grassroots organization. Why do we do it? Because queer experimental film is the best. It's EXCITING, REVOLUTIONARY, TRANSFORMATIONAL, AND RADICAL. Plus, everything is better when you do it together.

From ticket-taking, to flyering, to sweeping the floors... we can use all the help we can get.
If you would like to VOLUNTEER for this year's festival, or have questions about volunteering, contact us at volunteers@mixnyc.org.

Me oh my, Miami!

2010-09-17T02:05:00.001-07:00

Divorce the State

2010-09-09T22:39:00.000-07:00

A Solution to the Same-sex Marriage Problem Everyone Can Get Behind

Originally published in the Cubby Missalette

That recent Federal Court ruling overturning CA's Proposition 8 was at best a necessary evil, and at worst a diversion from a better strategy for solving the same-sex marriage problem. I say necessary because it is always best to eviscerate explicit injustice and discrimination from the law whenever possible. But I also say evil because—as a tactic in the fight for justice and equality for LGBTQ people—the ruling hurtles us further down a path that takes us in the wrong direction.

State involvement in determining who should get married is bogus. Marriage should not be a power of the State. As long as the State is involved in deciding who can get married, the underlying injustice and discrimination that is inherent in the old-fashioned model of marriage will be perpetuated.

The crusade to legalize same-sex marriage only seeks to empower the State to be more involved in our private lives, and in a perverse way just extends and reinforces a centuries-old way of thinking about class and privilege. The vision of justice that same-sex marriage proponents want is incomplete. They want certain rights for themselves, and they don't see that their goal will just re-draw the lines between the haves and the have-nots. Achieving state-sanctioned same-sex marriage will do nothing to advance the rights of ALL individuals, or afford protections to the underprivileged.

Marriage undeniably has its place in society, and I even believe LGBTQ people should have equal opportunity to participate in the ritual and pageantry of marriage. As one of my like-minded friends put it, “I love weddings.” But weddings and marriage are not the same. Weddings are events that two people and/or their families co-create to ceremonialize and solemnize their vows to one another. I wish we could focus on making marriage about these vows, about the promises two people make to each other. In other words, make marriage totally private—between the parties involved alone—and not involve the State one iota.

Married to the State demo @ NY Public Library
"Clones for Marriage" | Frank Susa © 2004

Ceremony, pageantry, declarations of love, sanctification—even legal compacts between two individuals if they so choose—are all fine. But there's no inherent need for the State to be licensing marriages, gay or straight. Let whomever bond however they wish. But let's empower the People, not the State to make it all official.

I say, let’s form a movement to divorce the State from being a part of any marriage. Let people who wish to marry handle all their issues privately. Contract law is robust enough to legalize so called "unions" between two people. And the state doesn't have to be involved at all, unless the contract is violated or one party wishes to dissolve it.

It's a solution that should work for everyone, if we all thought about it a little more. Fundamentalist religious people can have their anti-gay churches. Gay people can have their shared property. Liberals can have their fun suing each other in the courts. Libertarians can get on board because we’d be calling for more rigorous separation of Church and State. What's more, anarchists should also agree since nobody will be denying anyone access to anything. Even polygamists can get in on the fun.

Divorce the State and make marriage a completely private affair. It's the only way for us all to get what we really want—the basic human right to freely love who we want, how we want.

/\\

MIX's Fall Line-up

2010-09-05T06:06:00.000-07:00

As I'm sure you've heard me say many times now, it's such an honor to be working with, and for, the great minds at MIX NYC. Please make a note of our fall line-up of films, screenings, and other events — and show your support by coming out! (Pun intended, of course.) — Frank

MIX NYC: Presenters of the annual NY Queer Experimental Film Festival
Fall Line-up of Events

We couldn’t be more excited here at MIX to be bringing you an amazing line-up of queer experimental film events this coming fall season. Below is a preview of what you can look forward to.

Most significantly, we’re super psyched to announce:

MIX 23: The 2010 NY Queer Experimental Film Festival
November 9-14 at Theater for the New City
151 First Avenue in Manhattan
Save these dates!

In addition, details are provided below for our other events this September and October:

Weds, Sep 8 — ACT UP New York Exhibition— White Columns Gallery Show Opening
Mon, Sep 13 — ACT UP New York — Queer/Art/Film screening curated by Douglas Crimp
Fri, Oct 1 — Barbara Hammer Screening — The Radical 1970s: Coming Out
Sun, Nov 7 — Maguerite Paris Screening — All Women Are Equal

Our first event of the season is coming up this Wednesday night at the White Columns gallery on West 13th Street. It’s the opening night reception of ACT UP New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis — a multi-faceted exhibition incorporating the ACT UP Oral History Project, directed by MIX NYC Co-founders Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman.

ACT UP New York:
Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis
Opening Night Reception
Wednesday, September 8
6:00 - 8:00 PM
White Columns
320 West 13th St
Free admission

Exhibition runs through October 23

We are pleased to invite you to the New York City showing of ACT UP New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993, a multi-faceted exhibition incorporating the ACT UP Oral History Project and a new installation by fierce pussy. The exhibit is presented by White Columns in New York City and will run September 9 - October 23, 2010.

This same exhibition was originally presented in 2009 at Harvard, and is curated by Helen Molesworth and Claire Grace and organized by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Harvard Art Museum. A recently expanded video collection of the ACT UP Oral History Project will be presented in the main gallery space at White Columns, featuring 116 complete interviews screening on 14 monitors.

The exhibition will be accompanied by parallel screenings, discussions, and a reading series curated by Sarah Schulman (details below). You can find more information about all the events on the White Columns website.

Please also join us for a pre-opening dance party celebrating the ACT UP Oral History exhibit at White Columns. Come and bring your friends.

ACT UP Dance Party

Tues, September 7
10:00 PM - 2:00 AM

Santos Party House

96 Lafayette St
Free admssion, 21+

Downstairs: ACT UP Videos
Upstairs: "Emergency" Dance Party

Also commemorating the historic and artistic contributions of ACT UP, MIX is delighted to be co-sponsoring an evening of screenings curated by AIDS activist and writer Douglas Crimp — as part of the Queer/Art/Film screening series at the IFC Film Center. There will be two presentations of the films, one at 7pm and again at 9 pm, Monday September 13.


	The Films of Act Up

Douglas Crimp presents
The Films of ACT UP
Monday, September 13
IFC Center
323 6th Ave at W. 3rd St.
7:00 & 9:00 PM
$13

A first for Queer/Art/Film, we've invited the ever influential writer, and AIDS activist, Douglas Crimp to be this months' guest artist! It should be a special night, a gathering of old faces and new, as we remember, honor, and are inspired by the artists and activists of ACT UP NEW YORK.

For the evening's screenings, Crimp will be presenting a highly personal selection of the AIDS and activist videos that have meant the most to him, including Fast Trip, Long Drop by Gregg Bordowitz, and works by Matt Ebert, Ryan Landry, Maria Maggenti, and Jean Carlomusto, many of whom will be with us for the screening!

The evening likely to sell out, so buy your tickets in advance at:
http://www.movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598&movie_id=100372&rdate=09%2F13%2F2010

For information about the Queer/Art/Film series:
http://www.ifccenter.com/series/queerartfilm


	Sync Touch (1981) by Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer
MoMA Screening Series
Friday, October 1, 7:00 PM
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street

The Radical 1970s: Coming Out

Barbara Hammer (American, b. 1939) is renowned for creating the earliest and most extensive body of avant-garde films on lesbian life and sexuality. In this evening of performance-driven films, Hammer captures the free-love era, the second wave of feminism, and the West Coast art scene.

Program 79 Min. Followed by a discussion with Barbara Hammer and Stephen Kent Jusick, Executive Director, MIX NYC, Friday, October 1. On the line-up for this evening:

Sisters! 1974. This film, made by, for, and about women, shows women in nontraditional roles running the machinery of the world. The film includes scenes of the first Women’s Liberation march in 1970. 8 min.

Women’s Rites or Truth Is the Daughter of Time. 1974. An autumnal celebration, held on “witches’ land” in Northern California, of fall leaves, brooks and bathing, chanting circles, and women’s rites. 8 min.

Dyketactics. 1974. Images of women and children romping in nature evolve into an intimate scene between two women. 4 min.

Menses. 1974. A humorous look at the trials of menstruation. 4 min.

Superdyke. 1975. Piano by Margaret Moore. Over one day, women wearing “Superdyke” t-shirts and carrying Amazon shields overtake San Francisco. 20 min.

Women I Love. 1976. A fruit or vegetable provides a metaphor for the filmmakers’ relationships with women friends and lovers. 25 min.

MoMA's Barbara Hammer film series is organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film. Special thanks to Canyon Cinema.

And finally, we’re also proud to mention Marguerite Paris' film ALL WOMEN ARE EQUAL will be shown, also at MoMA, on Sunday, November 7 at 1:00 PM — as part of the NY Women in Film & Televsion's show of preserved films.

MIX NYC
79 Pine Street #132
New York, NY 10005
212.742.8880
mixnyc.org

MIX NYC promotes, produces and preserves experimental media that is rooted in the lives, politics, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. MIX's work challenges mainstream notions of gender and sexuality while also upending traditional categories of form and content.

MIX NYC, a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization, is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, Experimental Television Center, Visual AIDS, the Arcus Foundation, Gesso Foundation, Gill Foundation, Phil Zwickler Charitable & Memorial Foundation Trust, and the generosity of many individuals!

New York's Community Gardens Need You

2010-09-03T13:25:00.000-07:00

We're about to lose the law that protects community gardens from developers.

Tell New York City officials:

"Our community gardens need permanent protection so they can keep making New York City stronger, greener, and friendlier."

Sign the emergency petition »

Dear Friends,

New York City's community gardens are at risk. After 8 years, the law that protects these shared spaces from being turned over to private developers is about to expire.

The NYC Parks Department is working on new rules to protect these gardens, but garden advocates are concerned these rules won't be strong enough.¹

City officials will release their latest draft of the new rules in just a few days — can you sign our emergency petition telling them to permanently protect our community gardens?

http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/communitygardens

In some parts of NYC, these gardens are the only kind of parks or public green space residents have. They bring neighbors together, teach our kids about protecting the environment, and help ease pollution in our dense metropolis.

The only way to prevent that from happening again is by making sure the City's new rules give permanent protection to our community gardens — and support the creation of more gardens, not the destruction of the nearly 300 that we already have and cherish.

Please sign the petition telling Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Parks Department to permanently protect our community gardens:

http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/communitygardens

Thanks,
Frank

Sources:
1. "New Rules Worry Community Garden Advocates" - New York Times, 7/6/10

$100 MetroCards? Fuggedaboutit!

2010-07-30T20:25:00.000-07:00

MTA FARE HIKES

With the MTA's latest fare hikes, we'll be paying more and getting less. Sign the petition:

"Limited unlimited MetroCards for $100?

Fuggedaboutit!

The MTA needs to stop using fare hikes as a short-term fix and come up with long-term solutions to solve its budget crisis."

Add your name »

Dear Friends,

The MTA has outdone itself. This week, they announced another round of potential fare hikes — including a plan to make "unlimited" monthly MetroCards limitedstarting January 1st.

Translation: Even as the cost goes up to nearly $100 per month, monthly MetroCards will only get you about 3 rides per day next year — the 4th ride will cost you extra. (Or you can pay even more for a truly unlimited card).¹

This "limited unlimited" is just the most outrageous part of a new round of fare increases announced by the MTA. But we're sick of this ridiculous cycle.

The MTA has to get the message that they can't keep using more and more fare hikes as a short-term fix — they need a real long-term plan to restore the finances of New York City's transit system.

Will you join this fight by signing a petition opposing the fare hikes?

http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2155&tag=MTA710-2

NYC Transit riders already pay more than our fair share of the cost to keep the transit system running — more than almost any other major city in America. And these increases amount to a new tax on millions of working families.

What is the solution? The MTA needs a long-term plan to stabilize its finances and keep subways and buses affordable, one that asks everyone who benefits from the system — riders, commuters, drivers, and area businesses — to pitch in equally. And elected officials in Albany, City Hall, and Washington must stop under-funding public transportation.

But the first step is showing the MTA and the politicians that transit riders are fed upand won't take new fare hikes sitting down. We want to create a public outcry against these new increases that's strong enough to put the MTA on notice — so please sign the petition, and then forward this message to all the subway riders you know.

http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2155&tag=MTA710-2

Thanks!

Sources:
1. "MTA Sets Fare Rise" Wall Street Journal July 28, 2010

Democracy for America is Hiring

2010-07-16T22:01:00.000-07:00

Attention job-seekers, organizer types, and progressives!!!

To further the goal of electing progressive Democrats at all levels of office in all 50 states,Democracy for America is hiring, training and placing experienced and outgoing individuals to be organizers on key progressive campaigns.

The ‘Dean Corps’ program will run from September 1st through November 8th, 2010. This is the perfect position for individuals interested in starting or renewing a career in progressive politics. The ideal candidate will have at least 1 cycle of paid or volunteer campaign experience. Dean Corps Organizers will be assigned a supervisor on the campaign and will report to the DFA Field Director.

Apply to be part of the inaugural class of DEAN CORPS Organizers at:
www.democracyforamerica.com

Make a contribution

2010-07-13T11:17:00.000-07:00

Why yes! You can pay me for all the amazing things I do. I accept cash and credit. To pay by credit card, just click the button below to donate to the Frank Susa fund.

Bravo Marcus Samuelsson!

2010-06-10T23:33:00.000-07:00

Congrats to everyone involved in this... Well deserved, and fantastic news for kids everywhere! Thanks to Bravo, NBC, and especially Marcus.

Memorial Day | May 2010

2010-06-08T21:09:00.001-07:00

Protest Israeli Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla

2010-05-31T12:02:00.000-07:00

If you're in the area - or can get here fast - this is happening NOW!

-------- Original Message --------

Protest Israeli Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla

Last night the Israeli navy attacked humanitarian ships in international waters in the middle of the night. Reports indicate that 10-16 humanitarian activists were killed and 50-60 were injured. The ships were seized by the Israeli navy and taken to Haifa to avoid press at Ashdod. UFPJ condemns the Israeli Government for their brutal attack on unarmed civilians. Protests have taken place across the world and a number of Governments are taking action.

The U.S. arms Israel to the tune of billions of dollars a year and hence shares responsibility for this atrocity. How many more must die before the Obama Administration cuts off the aid we give to Israel each year?

On board were 750 people of conscience from 40 different countries, including 35 international politicians intent on breaking the Israeli-Egyptian blockade. We offer our sincerest condolences to family and friends who have lost loved ones in the attack. One of the boats was named after Rachel Corrie, to honor this strong young woman killed by the Israel Defense Forces in April 2003.

Demonstrate!

Demonstrations are being organized in Washington DC, New York, and Boston. Please join in where you can or organize your own. It is time to end the blockade of Gaza and the Israeli occupation of Palestine by ending US support for Israeli slaughter.

New York - 3pm today (Monday, May 31), Times Square

Washington, DC - 3pm today, Israeli Embassy, 3514 International Drive NW (Van Ness metro) - Moving on to the White House at 5pm

Boston - 4pm today, Park Street Station

Use Memorial Day to memorialize all the brave activists, show our outrage, and let the world know we are not sleeping!

Contact the White House!

Call or email to demand an immediate cutoff of U.S. aid to Israel.
Email the White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact.
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414

Contact the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and demand that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice vote to support a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's action and initiating an investigation. 212-415-4062

Background

The UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, urged Monday the international community to bring to justice those responsible for the killing of some 16 unarmed peace activist, when Israeli armed commandos stormed a convoy of ships carrying aid to Gaza.

"Israel is guilty of shocking behavior by using deadly weapons against unarmed civilians on ships that were situated in the high seas where freedom of navigation exists, according to the law of the seas," Mr. Falk said. "It is essential that those Israelis responsible for this lawless and murderous behavior, including political leaders who issued the orders, be held criminally accountable for their wrongful acts."

By sailing directly to Gaza, outside of Israeli waters, with cargo banned illegally by Israel, such as the 10,000 tonnes of badly needed concrete, toys, workbooks, chocolate, pasta and substantial medical supplies, the flotilla is exercising international law and upholding article 33 of the Geneva Convention which clearly states that collective punishment is a crime against humanity.

The hardships of Israel's closure of Gaza have been well documented by all human rights groups operating, most recently by Amnesty International in their Annual Human Rights Report concluding that the siege has "deepened the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Mass unemployment, extreme poverty, food insecurity and food price rises caused by shortages left four out of five Gazans dependent on humanitarian aid. The scope of the blockade and statements made by Israeli officials about its purpose showed that it was being imposed as a form of collective punishment of Gazans, a flagrant violation of international law."

For updates go to http://witnessgaza.com/ and http://www.freegaza.org/

Help us continue to do this critical work: Make a donation to UFPJ today.

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Race for Justice

2010-04-20T09:22:00.001-07:00

Please tune in for the following important announcement from my friend Rios...

Dear Friends,

The sun is out.
New York is feeling itself.
It's the moment we've all been waiting for...
Its... The 4th Annual Amazingly Queer Race for Economic Justice!!!

Registration is open now. But don't delay!

Our list of teams--including such formidable contestants as Hurry Curry Redux, Stranger Danger & The Crown Heights Affair--is growing daily and space is limited...

Go to www.queerrace.org to sign-up. And please join us on May 22nd, in our spanking new office at 147 W 24th Street for the kick-off.

Don't miss the Race this year. It's going to be queer... And Amazing!!
xxx QEJ

PS: Stay tuned for details on prizes and the AFTER PARTY...

--
"Be careful what you set your heart upon - because it will surely be yours." - James Baldwin

Rios O'Leary-Tagiuri
Development Consultant
Queers for Economic Justice
147 W. 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
phone: 212.564.3608
fax: 212.564.0590
email: Rios@q4ej.org
www.q4ej.org

[frankslist] Please vote for this

2010-04-10T15:37:00.001-07:00

Help me help Davina, my dear roommate, win a trip to Singapore.
She's so close to winning—currently #4!!! Do it for me?
Vote for her video here:

http://www.yoursingapore.com/content/traveller/en/config/dance-to-singapore.html

Frank M Susa | fmsnyc@gmail.com | 212 608 0805

Melanistic Penguin

2010-03-13T13:14:00.000-08:00

Watch CBS News Videos Online

Discovered by my friend Drew while traveling to Antarctica for National Geographic Traveler Magazine!

My Waikiki | Feb 2010

2010-02-19T23:27:00.000-08:00

Penis Non Grata

2010-02-14T01:23:00.000-08:00

Penis Non-Grata: A lonely bathroom graffiti penis has a much better time once hes wrapped up; and so will you.

Agency: TBWA\PARIS
Country: France
Advertiser: Aides
Production Company: Wanda
Tagline: Protect yourself
Creative Directors: Eric Holden, Remi Noel
Art Director: Ingrid Varetz
Copywriter: Ingrid Varetz
Director: Yoann Lemoine
Agency Producers: Maxime Boiron, Virginie Chalard
Account Managers: Anne Vincent, Veronique Fourniotakis, Anne-Laure Brunner
Illustrator: Barthelemy Maunoury
Advertising Managers: Olivier Denoue, Floriane Cutler Francesca Belli

Many Gay Marriages Share an Open Secret

2010-01-31T09:28:00.001-08:00

by SCOTT JAMES
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/us/29sfmetro.html

When Rio and Ray married in 2008, the Bay Area women omitted two words from their wedding vows: fidelity and monogamy.

“I take it as a gift that someone will be that open and honest and sharing with me,” said Rio, using the word “open” to describe their marriage.

Love brought the middle-age couple together — they wed during California’s brief legal window for same-sex marriage. But they knew from the beginning that their bond would be forged on their own terms, including what they call “play” with other women.

As the trial phase of the constitutional battle to overturn the Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage concludes in federal court, gay nuptials are portrayed by opponents as an effort to rewrite the traditional rules of matrimony. Quietly, outside of the news media and courtroom spotlight, many gay couples are doing just that, according to groundbreaking new research.

A study to be released next month is offering a rare glimpse inside gay relationships and reveals that monogamy is not a central feature for many. Some gay men and lesbians argue that, as a result, they have stronger, longer-lasting and more honest relationships. And while that may sound counterintuitive, some experts say boundary-challenging gay relationships represent an evolution in marriage — one that might point the way for the survival of the institution.

New research at San Francisco State University reveals just how common open relationships are among gay men and lesbians in the Bay Area. The Gay Couples Study has followed 556 male couples for three years — about 50 percent of those surveyed have sex outside their relationships, with the knowledge and approval of their partners.

That consent is key. “With straight people, it’s called affairs or cheating,” said Colleen Hoff, the study’s principal investigator, “but with gay people it does not have such negative connotations.”
The study also found open gay couples just as happy in their relationships as pairs in sexually exclusive unions, Dr. Hoff said. A different study, published in 1985, concluded that open gay relationships actually lasted longer.

None of this is news in the gay community, but few will speak publicly about it. Of the dozen people in open relationships contacted for this column, no one would agree to use his or her full name, citing privacy concerns. They also worried that discussing the subject could undermine the legal fight for same-sex marriage.

According to the research, open relationships almost always have rules.

That is how it works for Chris and James. Over drinks upstairs at the venerable Twin Peaks Tavern in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco, they beamed as they recalled the day in June 2008 that they donned black suits and wed at City Hall, stunned by the outpouring of affection from complete strangers. “Even homeless people and bike messengers were congratulating us,” said Chris, 42.

A couple since 2002, they opened their relationship a year ago after concluding that they were not fully meeting each other’s needs. But they have rules: complete disclosure, honesty about all encounters, advance approval of partners, and no sex with strangers — they must both know the other men first. “We check in with each other on this an awful lot,” said James, 37.

That transparency can make relationships stronger, said Joe Quirk, author of the best-selling relationship book “It’s Not You, It’s Biology.”

“The combination of freedom and mutual understanding can foster a unique level of trust,” Mr. Quirk, of Oakland, said.

“The traditional American marriage is in crisis, and we need insight,” he said, citing the fresh perspective gay couples bring to matrimony. “If innovation in marriage is going to occur, it will be spearheaded by homosexual marriages.”

Open relationships are not exclusively a gay domain, of course. Deb and Marius are heterosexual, live in the East Bay and have an open marriage. She belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and maintained her virginity until her wedding day at 34. But a few years later, when the relationship sputtered, both she and her husband, who does not belong to the church, began liaisons with others.

“Our relationship got better,” she said. “I slept better at night. My blood pressure went down.”
Deb and Marius also have rules, including restrictions on extramarital intercourse. “To us,” Marius said, “cheating would be breaking the agreement we have with each other. We define our relationship, not a religious group.”

So while the legal fight over same-sex marriage plays out, couples say the real battle is making relationships last — and their answers defy the prevailing definition of marriage.

“In 1900, the average life span for a U.S. citizen was 47,” Mr. Quirk said. “Now we’re living so much longer, ‘until death do us part’ is twice as challenging.”

Scott James is an Emmy-winning television journalist and novelist who lives in San Francisco.

You available tomorrow (Mon)?

2010-01-24T12:20:00.000-08:00

I still need helping hands tomorrow (Mon) during the day. Moving a few pieces of furniture. If you're available, please let me know a.s.a.p.

A simple way to help

2010-01-16T10:23:00.000-08:00

As the tragedy in Haiti unfolds, Americans are generously donating millions of dollars to aid organizations.

But when Americans donate to charity with their credit cards, the credit card companies get rich. In some cases they keep 3% of the donation as a "transaction fee," even though that's far more than it costs them to process the donation.

It's outrageous and wrong—and it needs to stop.

Please sign this petition to the CEOs of the major credit card companies demanding that they waive their processing fees for all charitable donations? Clicking here will add your name:

http://pol.moveon.org/nofees/?r_by=18607-5792907-eKBZ42x

The petition says: "Credit card companies shouldn't be getting rich off of Americans' generosity. They should waive all fees on charitable contributions from today on."

The credit card companies are trying to get ahead of this story, announcing they will temporarily waive the fees they charge on some Haiti-related charitable contributions for the next six weeks. But that's nowhere near enough. Many emergency donations to Haiti will still get hit with hefty bank fees. (To give a sense of how limited the exemption is, Doctors Without Borders isn't on any of the publicly available lists of charities that won't be charged fees.)

All American credit card companies should announce that they will waive ALL fees on charitable contributions, starting today, and going forward for good. This isn't about helping political organizations like MoveOn, just helping true charitable organizations.

It's the right thing to do, and honestly, it's the least they could do after the role they played in crashing the entire global economy last year.

But they won't do it unless they know how angry Americans are that they're profiting off of this terrible tragedy. Click here to sign the petition, which we'll deliver to the heads of the major credit card companies:

http://pol.moveon.org/nofees/?r_by=18607-5792907-eKBZ42x

Thanks!

Frank's Everything-Must-Go-A-Thon!

2010-01-14T16:10:00.000-08:00

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: brian barefoot <reverendbarefoot@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:55 PM
Subject: Frank's Everything-Must-Go-A-Thon!
To: frankslist@googlegroups.com

Hey kids! Bizzy here.

You may or may not know that Frank Susa is moving on up to the east side to a deluxe apartment in the sky-y-y!!

Fish may not fry in the kitchen, and beans definitely don't burn on the grill, but it's gonna take a whole lot of t-ry-n just to get him up that hill. And we need you to help make it happen! In addition to the good karma you will receive for your mitzvah, you will be getting something concrete out of it in return.

Frank is moving in'temporarily'with Davina in her mostly furnished apartment on the Upper East Side and so will not have a lot of use for the things that are currently in his apartment.

I am heading up the effort to help him find homes for his things. This includes furniture and maybe more excitingly artwork. Before you get TOO excited, the artwork will be on loan until Frank can get settled in a more permanent situation. But the furniture shall be yours for keeps. The following is a list of things that are available. If you would like any of it, please get back to me ASAP so that we can start arranging for pickups.

The final move will be at the end of this month and I would like to get most things out by Monday the 25th. Please email me at this address as soon as possible to let me know what you might be interested in.

Also, finally, let me know if you can donate any time and/or manpower to the moving endeavor in the last week of January. Cars and trucks are welcome too. Thanks!

XOBZ

P.S. Images of items available upon request!

Available Furniture
Glass Table/Desk (3' x 5' x 2'4)
Rolling Office Chair
Wooded steamer-trunk style chest (1'4 x 2'1 x 1'1)
Six black wooden stackable/foldable bookshelves (each 2'4 x 3' x 11')
Small rolling glass table (1'7 diameter x 1'10)
Small wooden table (1'2 x 1'5 x 1'7)
24" TV
VCR (Not even sure what that is!)
Stereo
Microwave
Vintage typewriter

Artwork on Loan
Large psychedelic-electronic print by Doghood (3' square) w/ easel
'Superstar' lighter print
'This is the Room You're In' painting
Large black & white lithograph (2'1 x 2'11)
Small multi-medium image of The Madonna (11' x 2'2)
Large black picture frame (2'10 x 3'4)

First-person Ugandan Perspectives

2010-01-04T20:52:00.001-08:00

Wow - Listen to these first person perspectives coming from Uganda in response to recent anti-gay legislation. They are really astonishing! This NY Times media feature includes statements by a transgender man (f2m), a religious fundamentalist, a straight ally, and a gay rights activist.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/03/world/africa/20100103_UGANDAGAY_FEATURE.html

One year later, still no accountability in Israel

2009-12-27T12:56:00.001-08:00

One year ago today, Israel's bombing campaign and ground offensive into the Gaza strip—known as Operation Cast Lead—began. At least 762 innocent Palestinians who did not take part in the hostilities were killed, including over 350 child casualties, and vast damage was caused to houses, factories, and infrastructure in Gaza.

ولن ننسى اننا لن نصمت

The atrocities against children are especially significant to me, since I ultimately quit my job for inaction in response to this humanitarian crisis. Here are some key statistics about child deaths reported by NGO organizations in the region:

At least 353 children were killed during and in the immediate aftermath of the operation; 116 were killed with precision missiles launched by unmanned aircraft and 66 died after Israeli forces obstructed medical access.
The number of Palestinian children confirmed killed during Operation Cast Lead represents more than a third of the total number of children killed in Gaza since the beginning of the Second Intifada on 28 September 2000.
At least seven children were used by Israeli troops as human shields; all seven were ill-treated while detained; one of them was detained for 10 days.
18 schools were completely destroyed, 260 schools were damaged and 26 children were killed while in, near, or on their way to/from schools.
At least 3,600 homes were completely destroyed resulting in the displacement of approximately 10,500 children.

White phosphorus attack on UN school
in Beit Lahiya, 17 Jan. 2009.
Photo: Muhammad al-Baba

Israel has not yet instituted an independent apparatus to investigate the violations committed by the army during the operation, and nobody has been brought to justice.

Those of us concerned with justice will not forget, and we will not be silent. Please see the following statement issued today 27 December 2009 by the Human Rights watchdog group B'Tselem—on the one year anniversary of the offensive.

Thanks,
Frank

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One year since Operation Cast Lead, still no accountability
B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
27 December 2009

Between 27 December 2008 and 18 January 2009, the Israeli military carried out an attack on the Gaza Strip named Operation Cast Lead. The magnitude of the harm to the population was unprecedented: 1,385 Palestinians were killed, 762 of whom did not take part in the hostilities. Of these, 318 were minors under age 18. More than 5,300 Palestinians were wounded, of them over 350 seriously so. Israel also caused enormous damage to residential dwellings, industrial buildings, agriculture and infrastructure for electricity, sanitation, water, and health, which was on the verge of collapse prior to the operation. According to UN figures, Israel destroyed more than 3,500 residential dwellings and 20,000 people were left homeless.

During the operation, Palestinians fired rockets and mortar shells at Israel, with the declared purpose of striking Israeli civilians. These attacks killed three Israeli civilians and one member of the Israeli security forces, and wounded dozens. Nine soldiers were killed within the Gaza Strip, four by friendly fire (i.e. by fellow Israeli military). More than 100 soldiers were wounded, one critically and 20 moderately to seriously.

As an Israeli organization, B'Tselem focuses on Israel's acts and its responsibility for human rights violations. However, it should be noted that Hamas also committed serious violations of international humanitarian law during the operation. Hamas's practice of operating within Palestinian civilian communities undoubtedly affects the legality of Israel's attacks that caused civilian casualties. This, however, does not legitimize every military action during the operation, nor does it prove that Hamas bears sole responsibility for all the harm to civilians.

One year after the operation began, extensive areas in the Gaza Strip have yet to be rebuilt. Israel's sweeping prohibition on the entry of construction materials prevents the rebuilding of houses that were destroyed and damaged, and more than 20,000 persons continue to live in overcrowded conditions in rented apartments, with relatives, or in tent camps. The prohibition also prevents rehabilitation of the infrastructure that was damaged: 90 percent of Gazans suffer electricity black-outs for four to eight hours a day, a result of the damage to infrastructure and of the severe shortage of industrial fuel. Some ten thousand Palestinians in the northern section of the Gaza Strip have no access to running water, and 80 million liters of raw and partially-treated sewage flows daily into open areas. The health system is unable to function properly due to the lack of medical equipment, and seriously ill patients have difficulty receiving necessary medical treatment.

The extensive harm to the civilian population and the enormous damage to property do not indicate, in and of themselves, that the military breached international humanitarian law. However, investigations B'Tselem made during and after the operation, and information from many other sources, raise doubts regarding the declarations of Israeli officials that the military acted lawfully. The suspicions regarding breach of international humanitarian law relate not only to the conduct of one soldier or another, but primarily to policy. In some cases, there is a well-founded suspicion that the harm to civilians resulted from breach of the principles of distinction and proportionality, which are intended to ensure that civilians remain outside the cycle of the hostilities.

Therefore, Israel is obligated to open an independent, credible investigation, and not rely on internal operational debriefings or isolated investigations that focus on a limited number of incidents and the responsibility of relatively low-ranking commanders. An independent and credible investigation is not only required by law, but is also vital in order to fulfill the public's right to know what the state did in its name in the Gaza Strip.

When the operation ended, human rights organizations, among them B'Tselem, wrote to the attorney general, demanding that an independent investigation be established to examine the military's conduct during the operation, but were refused. In March 2009, the organizations repeated their demand, and following publication of the Goldstone Report in September 2009, were refused yet again.

To date, no independent-investigation apparatus, which can also investigate the responsibility of the political and military decision-makers, has been established. As far as B'Tselem knows, 19 Military Police investigations have been opened into cases in which a suspicion arose that soldiers in the field violated army regulations. Only one soldier has been prosecuted regarding actions taken during Operation Cast Lead; he was convicted of stealing a credit card and was sentenced to seven months imprisonment.

The Military Police investigations currently under way do not meet Israel's obligations and are insufficient. Even if they lead to the filing of indictments, low-ranking soldiers alone will be prosecuted, while the persons responsible for formulating the policy will not be held accountable. Also, the investigations are being carried out by a body that is an integral part of the military and therefore, by definition, are not independent.

It's the collective that makes us strong

2009-12-23T17:28:00.001-08:00

Your festival is an inspirational and insurrectional carnival of great style, sassiness and subversion—I was honored to be a part of it!

- Filmmaker John Greyson, Fig Trees

We're blushing. The 2009 NY Queer Experimental Film Festival had to be one of our best. We had a greater turn-out than in recent years. We screened films and exhibited installations by artists throughout NYC, the country, and the world. And even in these troubled financial times, our box office saw a little boost from years past.

But, did you know ticket sales cover less than 10% of MIX NYC's annual budget? Believe us, queer experimental film exhibition is not a lucrative business.

So how do we do it? With the help of our generous community, of course. MIX is not only made possible by the tireless collaborative efforts of our all-volunteer staff, it also depends upon the good will of numerous individual donors.

It may be hard to imagine that the costs of our annual festival are covered by pooling together small contributions of $20 here and $50 there. But it's true. We scrimp and save all year long, put aside spare change, and cut expenses left and right. Rumor has it, some people have even sold their own blood just to make sure MIX happens year after year.

Why? Because MIX is unlike anything else in New York. As filmmaker John Geyson puts it, we are insurrectional. We promote and support subversive art. We love to challenge the mainstream. And most of all because we are queers who love to experiment!

We hope you do too, and we'd like to ask for your support. Won't you please chip in too? Donations to MIX are 100% tax-deductible, and we need them to keep us going.

And remember, the amount you give matters less than the fact that you contribute.

It's the collective that keeps us strong.

That's how we've done it for 22 years so far. Let's keep up the momentum and make MIX even more amazing next year.

Photos by JP Pullos

MIX NYC

79 Pine Street #132
New York, NY 10005
212.742.8880

mixnyc.org

MIX NYC promotes, produces and preserves experimental media that is rooted in the lives, politics, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. MIX's work challenges mainstream notions of gender and sexuality while also upending traditional categories of form and content. To add or remove a subscription, email us at: events@mixnyc.org

End the criminalization of HIV infection

2009-12-18T07:28:00.001-08:00

Do you know that HIV isn't spread by spitting, and that condoms are an effective HIV prevention tool?

Of course you do.

But this information seems to be outside the knowledge of many in the legal system across this country, where the criminal prosecution of people living with HIV often continues to ignore the facts.

It's bad enough that the criminalization of HIV wreaks havoc in the lives of those who are charged or jailed or labeled as bio-terrorists, like this case in Michigan.

But these cases are also spreading misinformation about HIV -- scaring people away from testing, treatment and care, and feeding into HIV stigma.

TAKE ACTION: I have endorsed a letter that will be sent to the CDC by the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project, Project UNSHACKLE, and the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, urging the CDC to take meaningful action to end the criminalization of HIV/AIDS infection.

Full history, details and links for further information and adding your endorsement are available at :
http://www.preventionjustice.org/blog/arrests-hiv-continue-cdc-must-act-sign

Please join me in endorsing the letter to CDC asking them to keep their own promises to address HIV criminalization.

Hold Your Noses and Celebrate Anyway

2009-12-14T07:46:00.000-08:00

by David Corn, Mother Jones

Democrats have been trying to pass a universal healthcare plan for nearly a century. But Woodrow Wilson dropped the ball on the first attempt, FDR gave up on the second, Harry Truman ran smack into the AMA on the third, Richard Nixon collided with Teddy Kennedy on the fourth, and Bill Clinton fell to Harry and Louise (and Bob and Newt) on the fifth.

Mark Fiore "Reform Madness"

Now we're on our sixth try, and the fight so far hasn't been a pretty one. The Republican side has been dominated by howling over death panels and socialism, transparently fake attempts at bipartisanship, and promises to filibuster and obstruct endlessly. On the Democratic side, activists have turned abortion funding and the public option into hills to die for, Olympia Snowe and Ben Nelson have become de factor kingmakers, and even at best none of the bills on offer will cover more than about two-thirds of the uninsured.

But you know what? This is still the farthest we've ever gotten, and with Democrats coming out of this week's series of negotiating sessions seemingly united behind a compromise plan, it looks like Harry Reid might actually get something passed through the Senate before Christmas. If that happens, a conference committee will likely report out a final bill sometime in January. And that will be the first time ever that Congress has even gotten to the point of voting on national healthcare.

The first time. So yes: It's not single-payer. The subsidies are inadequate. The public option, if there is one, will be so weak as to be a joke. Every interest group from insurers to doctors to seniors to pharmaceutical companies has been openly bribed to go along. Lots of people will still be left outside the safety net. It's a mess.

But so was Social Security when it passed. It left out domestic workers (because they were mostly black and Southerners demanded it), it left out farmworkers, and its payouts were pathetically small. But what it did do was establish the principle that the elderly should be taken care of. And eventually they were. The healthcare bill we're about to get is exactly the same: It does too little and it leaves too many people out, but it establishes the principle that everyone deserves decent healthcare. And eventually everyone will.

So hold your noses and celebrate anyway. It's taken us a hundred years, but if this messy, inadequate, infuriating healthcare reform passes it will be a historic occasion. FDR will finally be smiling.

Pass ENDA Now - No More Delays!

2009-12-06T09:10:00.000-08:00

Right now in this country, there is no federal legislation that protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers from job discrimination - and that puts people at higher risk of poverty, lack of health care, homelessness and other factors that can increase vulnerability to HIV or progression to AIDS.

But the bill that would end this discrimination - the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 3017/S. 1584) - is being delayed in the House of Representatives!

22 national organizations just issued a joint release saying that this delay is unacceptable.

Tell Congress to end the delay! Tell Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, now! Flood congressional offices with calls and emails!

Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at: (202) 224-3121. Give the operator your zip code and ask to be connected to your Representative. Then, after leaving your message, hang up and call again to be connected to your two Senators.

Suggested voicemail message:

My name is _____ and I live in (your city, state). I am calling in support of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 3017/S. 1584), to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from job discrimination. Job protections helps us fight HIV/AIDS so people have steady incomes and health care. Please pass ENDA immediately, without delay. I can be reached at _______ (provide your phone number and your street address). Thank you.
Or send an email to your Representative and Senators by clicking here.

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Bello Rodrigo!

2009-11-27T01:22:00.000-08:00

Bello Rodrigo!

Show Some Love

2009-11-22T11:31:00.000-08:00

Please support MIX NYC by voting for us to win $25k with #chasegiving. Please fan, vote, and RT! http://bit.ly/1ulkso

MIX 22: The Trailer

2009-11-16T14:04:00.001-08:00

MIX 22: Kicks off Tuesday Nov 17

2009-11-13T12:18:00.000-08:00

MIX NYC presents
The 2009 New York Queer
Experimental Film Festival

@ The MIX Factory 125 West 21st Street
Btw. 6th & 7th Aves. New York, NY
Subway: 1,C,E,F,V,R or W to 23rd Street
PATH Train to 23rd Street

Full festival details, catalog and tickets available at: mixnyc.org

If you listen intensely, and stand right on the edge of the platform, you can hear it. It's the sound of the 2009 NY Queer Experimental Film Festival rolling in toward the station. Arrival time: Tuesday Nov 17th, 8 pm.

Before you know it, you'll be on-board and hearing "Stand clear of the closing doors." Next stop: The MIX Factory!

So grab a seat and hold on: We're going down into the depths of the imagination's queer experimental underground. It's going to be a wild ride. We promise.

Schedule Overview

Tues, Nov 17 | 8 PM
Opening Night: Making All Local Stops
This year, MIX takes off with Green Fuse on the express track, a swirl of colors and frenetic editing. On the local track, pause with the meditative biography of Delphinium, about the early life of Derek Jarman. The works in this show are from all boroughs, and terminate Swedish-style with an erotic interpretation of everyone's caboose.

Weds, Nov 18 | 7.30 PM
Bulldozed!
From Brooklyn to Berlin to Nova Scotia, the films in this program trace different histories of gentrification and corporate takeover from the late 1960s to present day. From Brooklyn to Berlin to Nova Scotia, the films in this program trace different histories of gentrification and corporate takeover from the late 1960s to present day. Vanessa Renwick's House of Sound portrays a loss in Detroit, while Jem Cohen longs for the city of New York with Patti Smith, and Samara Halperin laments Astroland.

Weds, Nov 18 | 10 PM
Our Gorgeous Nightmares
MIX presents a banquet of fragrant imagery and flagrant catastrophe, fashioned by directors making love with designers and actors doubling as models poised on Jungian runways in hyper-colored darkness and swimming in dreamscapes encrusted with poetic texture.

Thurs, Nov 19 | 6 PM
Facilitate This!
EE Miller, guest curator
Facilitate This! considers representations of "the meeting" in queer imagination and history. How do we imagine meeting? How do we come together? The program includes a montage of fabulous meetings from features and movements past; a selection of short films; and presentations for the "perfect meeting" from kara lynch, Sarah Schulman, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi.

Thurs, Nov 19 | 8 PM
Fig Trees
Fig Tress is an operatic documentary about the struggle of two AIDS activists--Canadian Tim McCaskell and South African Zackie Achmat. Both have fought tooth-and-nail for the provision of anti-retroviral drugs to treat AIDS. In John Greyson's film they are ably supported by Gertrude Stein, a singing albino squirrel, and St. Teresa of Avila.

Thurs, Nov 19 | 10 PM
Luminous Darkness
Daniel Mckernan, guest curator
After the success of Homoccult & Other Esoterotica (MIX 2007), this lineup of shorts is a second coming of satanic queers and psychedelic wild boys. This is a new set of magickal, sexually transgressive videos focusing on erotic ritual and performance. Luigi & Luca, Lukas Beyeler, Gio Black Peter, Dominic Johnson, JodyJock, Zackary Drucker, and others show us works dealing with sex, violence, the occult, magick, and other mystic esoterica.

Fri, Nov 20 | 7 PM
Stepping Out of Time
Breaking down the language of dance, and luring the human form into new realms of cinematic experimentation, the films in this program are stories told primarily with the body, and its capacity to communicate with its shape and momentum. With a world premiere from Arthur Aviles and US premiere by Mara Mattuschka & Chis Harring.

Fri, Nov 20 | 7.30 PM @ Union Docs
Travel Queeries*
Travel Queeries is a feature documentary film that explores the life, culture, art and activism of queer individuals and groups throughout a selected group of European cities.

Fri, Nov 20 | 8.30 PM
Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry
Awarded the 2008 Images Prize at its premiere, Daniel Barrow's newest "manual animation" combines overhead projection with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent phone book chronicling the lives of each person in his city.

Fri, Nov 20 | 10 PM
Never Satisfied
A program of international sex and subversion, and a swift kick in the pants to conformity. This red-hot lineup includes a transgender homage to Peter Berlin and to psychedelic sapphistry.

Fri, Nov 20 | 12 MID
Misanthropic Mania
These defiant, dysfunctional, deviant heroes show unapologetic displays of camp, gender anarchy, bodily fluids and boundary bashing. It's a tsunami of expression, releasing frustration against the co-optation of queer, crashing down the walls of static identities. Catch Gary Fembot's sci-fi imagining of AIDS activism and Nica Ross's queeruptive take on The Wizard of Oz.

Sat, Nov 21 | 6 PM
Mirrors, Smoke and Glass
Through lenses and glass, distorted in mirrors, in retrospect and in spectacle, fragmented, pieced together and embedded in their surrounding environments, the artists in this program render reflections of themselves or paint a portrait of other artists.

Sat, Nov 21 | 8 PM
Bigger Than Life
Join author Jeffrey Escoffier and his guests Wakefield Poole (Boys in the Sand), Joe Gage (Kansas City Trucking Co.), Owen Hawk, and others, for this talk and clip show about the intesection of gay porn and experimental film. ASL interpreted.

Sat, Nov 21 | 10 PM
Creepy Dirty Girlie
Creepy Dirty Girlie includes both direct and indirect examinations of dark and queer aspects of women's sexuality not often seen in our commodity-driven media. We see desires that are unresolved, elude a single meaning, and extract pleasure where it has often been denied.

Sun, Nov 22 | 4 PM
A Different Take
Lights, sound, camera, action! Welcome to MIX NYC's fourth year of "A Different Take," a video production workshop for LGBTQ youth and young adults. This year, participants were paired up with college filmmakers who mentored students through their production process. Free admission for youth age 23 and under

Sun, Nov 22 | 6 PM
Do It To It
This program highlights works that actively demonstrate, reflect, and interpret the hard work that people do; these works have varying relationships with local and global communities and with activist and artistic projects, including Zavé Martohardjono's doc about Transy House in Brooklyn.

Sun, Nov 22 | 8 PM
Closing Night: Maggots & Men
Seeing Cary Cronenwett's Maggots and Men, you have nothing to lose but your perceptions of gender. This utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints an idyllic portrait of formerly pro-Soviet sailors at the Kronstadt naval garrison who rebelled against the perceived failures of the new Bolshevik state.

Installations

Once again, the MIX Factory will transform itself from the inside out, and in the process present a number of engaging, if not provocative, site-specific installation and performance pieces. Enrich your MIX experience before and after screenings by taking in these exhibitions and experimentations in multi-media.

Curated by Installations Coordinator Dominic Cloutier, with works by Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob, Lori Hiris, Kadet Kuhne, Marc Arthur, Inbred Hybrid Collective, Smith and, Lowles, Atif Siddiqui, Stephen Kent Jusick, Hector Canonge, Peter Cramer, Patrick Staff, Bill Hsu, and Adriana Varella.

Wildflowers of Manitoba, Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob

Get details about the whole line up
and buy your tickets online at:
mixnyc.org

Admission/Suggested Donation/Give What You Can
Opening Night - $20
Regular shows - $11
Closing Night and Special Events - $15
*Travel Queeries - $7

About MIX NYC

This is MIX's 22nd year presenting the latest in queer experimental film and previously unseen works from legendary figures in avant-garde cinema.

In addition to our yearly festival of screenings, exciting interactive installations, and infamous parties, MIX NYC also provides year-round community screenings, a summer media workshop for queer youth, and film preservation projects. MIX also is home to the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project, documenting how collective action transformed AIDS activism, queer identity and health care in America.

MIX NYC
79 Pine Street #132

New York, NY 10005
212.742.8880
www.mixnyc.org

MIX NYC promotes, produces and preserves experimental media that is rooted in the lives, politics, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. MIX's work challenges mainstream notions of gender and sexuality while also upending traditional categories of form and content.

MIX NYC, a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization, is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, Experimental Television Center, Visual AIDS, the Gesso Foundation, Gill Foundation, Phil Zwickler Charitable & Memorial Foundation Trust, and the generosity of many individuals!

Landrieu and Lieberman

2009-11-09T16:21:00.001-08:00

Now, I know a lot of my friends and family who are reading this don't have much money. So, don't think this email is about money. It's not. It's about action and something you can do to help us get over the hurdles that the RIGHT WING have planned to block HEALTHCARE reform in the US Senate.

Make no mistake. The only way to get over these hurdles is to make sure a solid majority of Senators back the best healthcare reform bill that's available. (Not that the House bill makes me leap for joy, but it's the best we've got for now.) So we've got to overcome the right wing's CONSPIRACY by beating them at their own political game.

HOW? By convincing moderate DEMOCRATS & REPUBLICANS that they should stand on the side of the American public, not on the side of the establishment and SPECIAL INTERESTS. We need them to prevent a FILIBUSTER in the Senate.

WHO? There are several moderates who are teetering on the edge, but who need a push from the CITIZENS of this country, to remind them to DO THE RIGHT THING.

Mary Landrieu is a Senator from Louisiana. You may or may not know her. She's a Democrat. But she's already under enormous pressure by lobbyists and interest groups to OPPOSE healthcare REFORM. She needs more convincing that she has a duty to all Americans, especially those who voted for President Obama, and that duty is to PASS the Senate bill.

Joe Lieberman is someone else we need to DO SOMETHING ABOUT. He says he'll KILL THE PUBLIC OPTION and prevent a vote by caucusing with the Republicans on the bill. If you don't know, Joe is an Independent who used leverage and power to MANIPULATE his way back into the Senate when the people of Connecticut didn't support him in that state's 2006 Primary Elections. He's a dangerous threat to best healthcare bill we've got.

So you'd like to know "WHAT CAN I DO?" Tell Landrieu and Lieberman not to stand in the way of progress. Tell them they must not undermine this incredible opportunity to bring EQUAL ACCESS in healthcare to all Americans. Even if you're not from their states, you can still tell them. They need to know THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING. They need to know they are accountable. Their constituents don't have to be the only ones giving them EXTRA PRESSURE. Any US citizen can make a difference by holding ALL our elected officials accountable.

Look, if Landrieu and Lieberman ABANDON reason, and BETRAY the electorate, you can bet that the citizens of those states will want revenge. But Louisianans and Connecticutians (yes, it's a word) won't have the only say in such matters of importance, either. The national political parties will come down on them, and ALL US CITIZENS will have a roll to play in bringing them down, too.

So GET IN THE GAME! How? Get on the phone. Start calling anyone you know in those states and remind them to raise hell until these two Senators are fully on board. And get on the Internet... you have REAL POWER there. You can LOG ON to senate.gov and communicate with any Senator you wish.

Progress on healthcare reform will not happen by itself. EVERYONE needs to do their part. It's not just the AMERICAN WAY, it's the ONLY WAY to bring about change on such a scale. Universal free healthcare does not have to be a myth. We can make it real. But only by doing REAL WORK. Only by taking responsibility, each one of us, can we establish real EQUALITY and JUSTICE for all.

Just my thoughts for the day. Here are some related links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PwiO44cGPY
http://www.slate.com/id/2233762
http://www.actblue.com/page/pressurelandrieu

Thanks,
Frank

P.S. One more thing you can do: FORWARD THIS EMAIL to others.

Two snaps up

2009-10-31T10:00:00.000-07:00

Love this photo by Keith Gemerek. Makeup by Dominic Cloutier.

Down the rabbit hole

2009-10-07T06:43:00.000-07:00

Pictures from my recent venture down the rabbit hole in Tennessee.

A new study in form and light.

Alice the wonder-bunny (and my roommie)!

Going off the grid

2009-09-24T01:01:00.000-07:00

Frank will be going off the grid for a spell, beginning Friday. Be back by Weds. If you need me, come find me in Tennessee.

It's Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse...

2009-09-23T05:45:00.001-07:00

MIX NYC presents

It's Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse But the Situation in Which He Lives
1970, 16mm on video, color, sound, 67 min

Saturday, September 26, 7:30 pm
Suggested Donation: $7

Post-screening discussion with
Filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim and
Film Scholar-Historian Ger Zielinski

Pre-screening introduction by
MIX NYC Executive Director
Stephen Kent Jusick

Co-presented with UnionDocs

322 Union Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.uniondocs.org

L to Lorimer Street / G to Metropolitan Ave
J to Hewes Street

Part of Rosa von Praunheim Weekend at Union Docs. The filmmaker will join Ger Zielinski following the Saturday screening for an in-person discussion about "It's Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse...."

In German with English subtitles. A radically critical denunciation of homosexuals who are content to fit into a gay stereotype of social superficiality and political passivity in the face of blatant discrimination, this film caused a furor in Germany. It also led to the foundation of the modern German gay liberation movement. The appearance of this film was crucial to the founding of the new German gay movement. Over 50 political gay groups sprang up in the wake of his film's showing in the cities and towns of Germany.

***

Filmmaker and gay-rights activist Rosa von Praunheim is one of the leading figures in gay and lesbian cinema and New German Cinema, although his deliberately controversial techniques, designed to challenge audiences, have sometimes caused him to be criticized by both gay and anti-gay supporters.

Ger Zielinski, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, where he is working on 1970s and 80s NYC queer minor cinemas and their scenes. He also spends months of the year as a researcher in the Institut für Europäische Ethnologie at Humboldt Universität in Berlin. He was an experimental film curator with the nomadic Pleasure Dome in Toronto for many years and continues to program independently.

MIX NYC Office: 79 Pine Street #132 New York, NY 10005 212.742.8880 info@mixnyc.org www.mixnyc.org MIX NYC promotes, produces and preserves experimental media that is rooted in the lives, politics, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. MIX's work challenges mainstream notions of gender and sexuality while also upending traditional categories of form and content.
MIX NYC, a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization, is SUPPORTED by the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Office of State Senator Tom Duane, Materials for the Arts, Experimental Television Center, Kodak, Visual AIDS, the Ford Foundation, Gesso Foundation, Gill Foundation, Phil Zwickler Charitable & Memorial Foundation Trust, and the generosity of many individuals!

09 11 2009 11:09 PM (EDT)

2009-09-21T22:22:00.000-07:00

Wow. In negative, it looks like the ghost of this WTC tower is still on fire, eight years later.

09 11 2009 11:09 PM (EDT)

2009-09-21T22:18:00.000-07:00

Pan left. Pan right. Zoom.

09 11 2009 11:09 PM (EDT)

2009-09-21T22:13:00.000-07:00

This light is too bright! Gotta wear my sunglasses tonight.

We're not there yet. Please show some love.

2009-08-09T14:27:00.000-07:00

Friends of MIX,

Earlier this week we sent a message about our need to raise $1800 after the Bank of New York Mellon rejected us for funding. We're still $1000 short of this very modest goal, so we're writing again urging you to please help us with a donation today. Even $25 would help.

Can you support MIX NYC with a donation of $25, right now?

That's what you would pay to take a date to the movies. So skip that next big blockbuster, and show a little love for queer experimental film today.

To make a tax-deductible donation of any amount visit us online at mixnyc.org.

Click the DONATE button and follow the steps to make a gift with your credit or debit card.

To send a check by mail, make payable and address it to:

MIX NYC
79 Pine Street, PMB 132
New York, NY 10005

Why is queer experimental film and performance art so hard to fund? For the very reasons why we love it so much! Because it's edgy. It pushes boundaries. It crosses lines and challenges norms. Sometimes it's sexually charged, and often it's politically controversial.

But for 23 years, MIX has been pulling off one of the hottest, most dynamic, avant-garde film festivals that NYC has ever known. That's a long time for a DIY arts organization to survive. Plus, to do it without corporate money and, for the most part, major philanthropic support is downright miraculous.

And how do we do it? With a lot of love and commitment from some pretty incredible people. Did you know that MIX's all-volunteer staff doesn't even get paid, despite putting in countless hours reviewing hundreds of film submissions every summer, presenting a week-long festival every fall, and producing events in every NYC borough all-year-round?

In these conservative financial times it's even more imperative that individuals like you—people who value the importance of completely original, completely queer and completely uncompromised experimental art—step forward to support the cutting-edge.

If you have love for queer experimental film, now is the time to show it. The best way to do this is with a financial contribution. Just think of the price of a regular movie ticket in NYC. It's up to $12.50, and to take a date, we're talking $25. So, skip that next big blockbuster and help keep the underfunded, non-commercial, queer experimental film underground kicking.

Really, it's up to us to make MIX happen. Commercial and corporate sources of funding just aren't going to materialize. Plus, that's fundamentally not who we are. We're as much a community of film lovers are we are an annual festival and underground arts organization. We think it's this community we have built together, with hard work and everyone chipping-in, that makes MIX so special. And we hope you do too.

Gratefully,

Stephen Kent Jusick
MIX NYC Executive Director

Frank Susa
MIX NYC Board Chair

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MIX NYC
Office: 79 Pine Street #132
New York, NY 10005
212 742 8880
info@mixnyc.org
www.mixnyc.org

MIX NYC promotes, produces and preserves experimental media that is rooted in the lives, politics, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. MIX's work challenges mainstream notions of gender and sexuality while also upending traditional categories of form and content.

Is MIX NYC too controversial?

2009-08-01T16:03:00.001-07:00

Friends of MIX NYC,

Is MIX too controversial? The Bank of New York Mellon seems to think so.

Recently, an old friend of the MIX Festival decided to use the BNYM’s employee matching program to donate to MIX. After looking at our 2008 website (now retired as we prepare for the 2009 Festival), the Bank decided not to honor the match because they considered MIX too controversial. Because of this, MIX lost $1800 in funding!

Read the full text of MIX's letter about
the Bank of New York Mellon's
decision not to fund MIX NYC.

This kind of rejection really hurts, both on a financial and emotional level. Financially, the loss is obvious. But, it is also disheartening to face the fact that the Bank of New York is probably not alone, and such bias has affected MIX’s bottom line for years. We were lucky to be given an honest explanation from them about their decision to turn us down. Who knows what countless other funders have shied away from MIX just because we’re “controversial.”

We want to assure you, though, MIX NYC will not compromise our commitment to artistic integrity, and we will not edit our website content just to be able to make a few more bucks from such timid supporters. This is our stand on content, not just on our website, but also in the films we show.

Freedom of expression in whatever forms it takes—nudity, political critique, sexual explicitness, parody, outrage, or outrageousness—we embrace it. In fact, the artistic freedom to contradict norms and create outside the box is part of what makes MIX’s programs so unique. This is what has brought together MIX’s diverse and loyal community of queer experimental artists (and lovers) throughout our 23-year history.

Rather than pander to so-called “standards” of the mainstream, we remain committed to supporting completely original, completely queer, and completely uncompromised experimental art. We are here for the very purpose of challenging mainstream notions of form and content. We are here for the underground artist who stands outside the limelight in order to provide a truly one of a kind perspective or voice.

Of course, to take such a principled stand, we need support from alternative sources. Yes, this means you. Especially in the face of this financial loss, as well as the current economic downturn, MIX needs you to stand with us, and keep us standing. The best way to do this is with a financial contribution.

First, we need to immediately recoup the $1800 loss. Luckily, the math is simple. Just 18 donations of $100 will do this. If you have $100 for queer experimental film, we need it now. And of course, our programs need year-round support. So, if you can give MORE than $100, please consider doing so.

Smaller donations can go a long way too. Really—any amount helps! Even if it’s just $10, $25, $50… can you please chip in too? We promise, the more support we get, the better we will be able to bring you the amazing, challenging (and yes, sometimes controversial) events you expect from MIX.

Gratefully,

Stephen Kent Jusick
MIX NYC Executive Director

Frank Susa
MIX NYC Board Chair

P.S. The annual MIX festival is made possible by the generosity of individuals like you. Please donate today.

MIX NYC
Office: 79 Pine Street #132
New York, NY 10005
212 742 8880
info@mixnyc.org
www.mixnyc.org

MIX NYC promotes, produces and preserves experimental media that is rooted in the lives, politics, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. MIX's work challenges mainstream notions of gender and sexuality while also upending traditional categories of form and content.

Would I go on a date with you?

2009-07-27T17:07:00.001-07:00

Would I go on a date with you?, originally uploaded by fmsnyc.

Check the chart and let me know how you do!

Picnic in the park anyone?

2009-07-16T11:25:00.001-07:00

Tomorrow evening, at 8 pm, one of NYC's greatest summer traditions of free music in Central Park will take place once again. The New York Philharmonic is doing a free concert on the Great Lawn, and I'm sooooooooo going. Want to join me?

They're playing a series of Aaron Copland songs, and then the real treat: Mahler's Symphony No. 1. Killer!!!

We can bring food, and even wine and beer are tolerated at these events (as long as we're discrete about it). It should even be possible to enjoy a few herbal delights, if we get a good spot.

Getting a good spot involves getting there early. I'm thinking of getting myself situated sometime around 5:30 or 6 pm. Then the show starts at 8, goes to 9:30, and is followed by a short fireworks display. FUN, FUN, FUN! And then it's only 10 pm... the evening is so young still at that point and NY is our oyster.

Who's down? Email me back a.s.a.p. if you want to come, and at what time. I'll figure out a good rendezvous spot for the first wave, and then msg everyone about the final spot once we've chosen it.

Email me, or call me, if you're coming along!

xx Frank

P.S. More details available here: http://nyphil.org/attend/season/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=1854&seasonNum=8

Bizzy as Salome! | July 23-25 @ 8pm

2009-07-02T20:01:00.001-07:00

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!!!

Salome! A Veiled Threat

July 23rd-25th @ 8pm

At the 2009 annual HOT! Festival
at The Living Theater
21 Clinton St.
New York, NY

An evening of multi media cabaret style performance featuring Ryan Lawrence, Jeremy Mikush, Eric Jaeger
Costumes by Luc Goodhart and Diego Montoya
Lighting by Peter Cramer

and presenting Bizzy as Salome!

In Salome! "We celebrate the radical feminist power of one of the Bible's most beloved and reviled femme fatales, Salome. Through the works of Charles Mee, Tom Robbins, Richard Strausse, Valerie Solanas, Oscar Wilde, and Charles Bryant, we explore these works through the use of theater, dance, live music, film, puppetry and burlesque. It's a total blast!"

"If you have seen the show already, I would encourage you to take another look as we are adding lots of fun elements to the piece. If you have already seen it and don't need to see it again, or can't afford it, etc. please send a friend or two. I have 3 nights to fill at The Living Theater and I would love to do just that. So please pass this info along to anyone you think might be interested." - Bizzy (Brian) Barefoot

Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door.
Seniors and students $12

SAVE THE DATES: JULY 23rd - 25th
For more info:
http://www.hotfestival.org/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=6&extmode=view&extid=113

Sister shows up in San Francisco for Pride 2009

2009-07-01T00:18:00.001-07:00

IMG_3785, originally uploaded by Tom Schmidt Photography.

Seen at Super Vision Pride, hosted by Tres III, San Francisco, June 2009

Cigar Daddy

2009-06-29T16:58:00.001-07:00

Cigar Daddy, originally uploaded by fmsnyc.

Frank the Cigar Daddy, spotted at the Faerie Freedom Village in San Francisco on June 28, 2009.

Summer Sublet in 3BR Apartment: $575/ month, Crown Heights

2009-06-26T11:23:00.001-07:00

A message from my friend Rios...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Summer Sublet in 3BR Apartment: $575/ month, Crown Heights
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:24:41 +0000
From: Rios O'Leary-Tagiuri <riosotag@hotmail.com>

I'm looking to sublet my room in our three bedroom apartment from July 1st until the end of August. The move-in date is flexible and it's possible that the room will remain available through September and beyond on a more permanent basis. But for now this is a temporary sublet ideal for someone who is in NY for the summer or looking for an inexpensive place to stay while seeking a longer-term arrangement.

We are located in Crown Heights near the Nostrand Avenue and President Street 2/3 train stops (literally 2 minutes away) as well as a short walk from the Franklin Avenue 4/5/2/3 train. We are about 35 minutes from Union Square in Manhattan. This area is extremely down-to-earth, calm, and neighbourly, with all the necessary amenities (a supermarket and several grocery stores, laundry and places to eat) at the end of the block. We are a 10 minute subway ride to park slope and Prospect Park at Grand Army Plaza.

The room is furnished with a queen-size futon, a desk, a mirror and two book-shelves full of books. These items are discrete and inobtrusive (not to mention useful) but would remain in the room during the length of your stay. (See pictures.) The room has two large windows complete with curtains and screens and a nice fire-escape beyond. The floors are shiny hardwood and the ceilings are high. The room is large for NY standards, measuring approximately 12 by 16 feet. There is a closet which will be available for hanging clothes and storing things.

The other apartment occupants are a 34 year-old male CUNY grad student studying the sociology of religion and a 30 year-old male performer/ Brooklyn Industries retail-assistant. This is a queer/gay-friendly household but anybody (male/female, queer/straight) is invited to stay here. The ideal occupant would be college age through late-30s, and steadily employed or able to pay $575 in monthly rent without issue. There is also a $300 security deposit which will be refunded to you when you leave.

I'm trying to show this room today Friday as well as this weekend though I hope to have secured an occupant by Sunday. If you're interested in seeing the room, learning more about it, or taking it, please call me at 617 721 0944. Thanks! Look forward to hearing from you. -Rios

Sister Poly-Andry Dandy Strikes Again!

2009-06-18T00:58:00.000-07:00

Photo by Gui Mohallem, May 1, Beltane at SMS

This is How the World Ends :: by Gregg Araki

2009-06-14T16:59:00.000-07:00

Gregg Araki is one of my absolute favs. As a young queer experimental filmmaker, his work revolutionized my interests in film as a medium for radical expression and representation. Then he made a series of equally more captivating works, and I became obsessed, briefly.

I'd heard about this television pilot he made for, of all things, MTV. But, I had never seen it until today. It's wacky and weird. It's also clearly made for the tween mass market, which is honestly quite a turn off. Nevertheless, it has a lot of Araki hallmarks and as TV pilot is shorter than a full length feature.

I offer it here for your pleasure, curiosity, or perhaps revulsion.

Separate church and state: Abolish marriage!

2009-05-26T13:26:00.000-07:00

The opinion given in today's CA Supreme Court ruling demonstrates how the fight for same-sex marriage continues to reinforce injustice, not support it. The "Marriage Equality" movement continues to empower the State and a majority of Americans in making sweeping decisions that interfere with the private lives of many, many non-traditional families, and not just queer ones.

The assimilationist strategies that mainline LGBT orgs have been pursuing -- despite their recent successes in the northeast and Iowa -- reinforce long-standing traditions of privileges for the few, not equal rights for all. Lisa Duggan put it this way in a Feb 2006 article in the Nation:

"In a bid for equality, some gay groups are producing rhetoric that insults and marginalizes unmarried people, while promoting marriage in much the same terms as the welfare reformers use to stigmatize single-parent households, divorce and "out of wedlock" births. If pursued in this way, the drive for gay-marriage equality can undermine rather than support the broader movement for social justice and democratic diversity."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040315/duggan

Even if the CA Supreme Court had overturned Prop 8 today, they would not have ushered in a new era of justice. All this gay marriage advocacy stuff does is support (and even INVITE) the State's interference in our vastly diverse and often non-traditional private lives.

Progressives, libertarians and conservatives CAN share common ground on the issue of so-called "same-sex marriage." Privatizing marriage (separating church and state) is a winnable fight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_privatization

While Alan Dershowitz is not my favorite legal scholar, on this issue I think he gets it right:

"Though some traditionalists would be certain to balk at an explicit division between marriage and civil union, a majority of Americans already agree that gay couples should be allowed to join in secular unions with the rights and responsibilities that generally accompany marriage.

So let each couple decide whether they want to receive the sacrament of marriage or the secular status of civil union. And let the state get out of the business of determining who should receive holy sacraments."

THIS FRIDAY: Mutineers!

2009-05-13T17:43:00.001-07:00

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Inbred Hybrid Collective and MIX NYC present

A new Book Club Burlesque
Inspired by "Mutiny On The Bounty"

MUTINEERS!
Taking Back the Piers

Friday, May 15, 8 pm 'til late

Location: On-board the Tender SS Lilac
Pier 40 (West Houston at West Side Highway, North Side)
Manhattan, New York

Donation: $5.00

A Book Club Burlesque inspired by "Mutiny On The Bounty" on board the good ship LILAC at Pier 40

With many talented artists confirmed to bring music, installations, dancing, and performance art to the various nooks and crannies of the historic Lilac, this event promises to be the event of the spring. For those who don't know, Book Club Burlesque is responsible for promoting sexy, literate fun through thematic choices. It is in every sense a Book Club, and in every sense a Burlesque party. It has been featured as a Voice Choice (Riverdale Sock-Hop) and features a revolving cast of eccentric contributors. Mutineers celebrates a life on the high seas, a naughty-cal night of art and adventure with plenty of booty-shaking!

Expect to dance ALL NIGHT LONG with DJ ECON from Happy Landing!

All contributors do so for ART's sake alone, but tips are appreciated and gathered in inverse order.
People you should expect to have read the book and been inspired by it:

Agnes DeGarron
Alexis Pace
Andy Thompson
Axon D'Luxe
Ben Lerman
Binky
Club Lum
Darlinda Just Darlinda
Dick Mitchell
Elisabeth Kley
Emily North

Eric Linton
Hex Project
Jeremiah Jones
Jonathan Bitchman
Julian of Nowhere
Lee Kyle
Lance Horne
Maia Star McCann
Miss Em
Ned Stresen-Reuter
Nicholas Gorham

Nicole Jaquis
Peter Cramer
Ricardo Caranza
Robert Appleton
Russ LaChance
Stephen Kent Jusick
Susannah The Goddess Perlman
Xavier
Woody Woods
... and more!

HOW will these people share their vast literary plunder and show you they're 20,000 leagues above the rest?! Come early, Stay Late, FIND OUT!

Friday, May 15th, 2009
Doors at 8pm, show at 8:30pm
The Lilac is moored at Pier 40
(West Side Hwy and W Houston St)

ABOUT Inbred Hybrid Collective
Inbred Hybrid Collective was established in 2005 with the mandate to stimulate a consciousness of the external factors affecting our human existence. The type of interventions associated with Inbred Hybrid Collective, achieved as artistic concept, constitute a provocation for the public to reflect upon the influence that this immersion has had upon them. Most recently Inbred Hybrid Collective made history as the first sanctioned performance artist at New York's Armory Show. We encourage our artists to fully bring their own creativity to each piece, relating their performance or installation to themes or text, and having sexy literate fun. Past Book Club Burlesque books have included: Lolita, Valley of the Dolls, Less Than Zero, The Scarlet Letter, Archie Comics, the Brothers Grimm Collection, Siddhartha, Stranger in a Strange Land, City of Night, Please Send Money.

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SAVE THESE DATES for these other MIX NYC
events coming up in May and June

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May 31 | 7 pm
Screening of The Polymath
2007, USA, video, color, sound, 75 min.
Union Docs | 322 Union Avenue | Brooklyn, NY 11211
Follow Samuel Delany (author of The Motion of Light in Water) to a literary conference where his books are compared to Joyce and Melville, then accompany him on a cheerful, row-by-row tour of a typical porn theater. Fred Barney Taylor's The Polymath includes home movies of Delany's middle-class Harlem childhood, a crazy art film he directed in the early '70s, and priceless trivia, like the fact that he wrote two issues of Wonder Woman for DC Comics in which she abandoned her superpowers and became a feminist secret agent. Post-event discussion w/ filmmakers. $5 donation. Reservations suggested. Email bodega@uniondocs.org for details.

June 12 | 8 pm
Forbidden Words, Forbidden Bodies
MIX NYC @ The BAAD! Out Like That! Festival 2009
Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance | 841 Barretto Street 2nd Floor | Bronx, NY 10474
What is forbidden to us is determined not only by the mainstream culture but also by our own home cultures. The selected works look through multiple cultural lenses to speak the artist's truths. They explore what we have been forbidden to speak about, from queer masculinity to HIV status, and what we have been forbidden to want, from a tryst in the restroom to a way out of gendered racial stereotypes.

June 18 | 7:30 pm
Live Wire/Remote, The Education of Abou Ben Adhem, etc.
Anthology Film Archives | 32 Second Ave | Manhattan, NY
World premiers by Jack Waters and Peter Cramer. Waters is a filmmaker, writer, media artist, choreographer, and performer. Cramer is an archivist, filmmaker, performer, and curator. Their 20-year collaboration is currently represented in the development of a multi-media opus-in-progress titled PESTILENCE, a concept initiated in residence at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy. They are the co-founders of LE PETIT VERSAILLES, an Operation Green Thumb garden on the Lower East Side that presents screenings, music, performance, visual art exhibitions, and new media; and the custodians of ABC NO RIO's extensive archives, under Allied Productions, Inc., the artist-run organization they co-founded.

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And check out our Call for Submissions
for the 22nd MIX Festival, coming this Fall

AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW AT MIXNYC.ORG

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MIX NYC Office: 79 Pine Street #132 New York, NY 10005 212.742.8880 info@mixnyc.org www.mixnyc.org MIX NYC promotes, produces and preserves experimental media that is rooted in the lives, politics, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. MIX's work challenges mainstream notions of gender and sexuality while also upending traditional categories of form and content.
MIX NYC, a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization, is SUPPORTED by the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Office of State Senator Tom Duane, Materials for the Arts, @Seaport, Experimental Television Center, Babeland, Kodak, HX, Go Magazine, Visual AIDS, General Growth Properties, Ford Foundation, Gesso Foundation, Gill Foundation, Phil Zwickler Charitable & Memorial Foundation Trust, and the generosity of many individuals!

I miss you Max.

2009-04-17T21:08:00.001-07:00

BKK Last Night, originally uploaded by fmsnyc.

Love you. Kisses to you. See you soon, I hope. Peace!

BKK Last Night

2009-04-17T21:06:00.001-07:00

BKK Last Night, originally uploaded by fmsnyc.

This gives a whole new meaning to the name of my friend pictured here, "Dark River."

Thanks Bill and Janna!

2009-04-16T22:52:00.001-07:00

Photo24_23, originally uploaded by fmsnyc.

...and Solomon, for hosting me in London for nearly a week! This is my favorite photo of you guys from our "flight" on the EYE.

Salome: A Veiled Threat | March 28

2009-04-08T00:19:00.000-07:00

These are a few of my favorite things

2009-03-22T20:05:00.000-07:00

Create your own travel map or travel blog

Travel Info at TripAdvisor

Daily Freak Show: Damiana Goes to MIX LA

2009-03-09T18:17:00.000-07:00

FEB 6: Perspectacle v 1.5 at the New Museum

2009-01-29T20:25:00.001-08:00

MIX NYC and The New Museum Present Perspectacle Version 1.5
Curated by Joshua Thorson

MIX NYC presents a special encore screening at The New Museum of a program originally curated by Joshua Thorson for the 2008 MIX Festival. Thorson has updated the menu of films since the original screening last fall. Taking off from a universalized conception of "Queer," Perspectacle Version 1.5 presents an argument about the "Queer" subject's varying strategies for the encoding/decoding of narratives/narrativity and the perspectival advantage of such a position.


Date	Friday, February 6, 2009
Time	7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location	The New Museum
Street	235 Bowery (F/V train to 2nd. ave. or 6 train to Bleeker St.)
City/Town	New York, NY
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www.newmuseum.org/events/283

WORKS IN THE PROGRAM

Cone, Matthew Robert Lutz-Kinoy, 2005
Synesthesia (excerpt), Tony Oursler, feat. Tony Conrad, 2002
Cat Zoom, Brett Levin, 2007
Wayne's World, Ryan Trecartin, 2003
Over My Dead Body, Dale Hoyt, 1983
HAARP's Rainbow Aerosol's July 6 2007, Dboots, 2007
Drama of the Gifted Child, Cecilia Dougherty, 1992
I: Subplot, Sarah McKiel, 2006
The Woman Who Went Too Far, Colin Campbell, 1984
Lover Come Back (excerpt), Delbert Mann, 1961
Love Comix, Barry Shils, feat. Ann Magnuson, 1982
Awakening of Desire, Simon Hughes, 1997
Protest Rushes (excerpt), Artist, 2008
New Report Artist Unknown, Wynne Greenwood & K8 Hardy, 2008
Off (excerpt), Tony Oursler, 1999

$8 for Museum Members, $10 for non-members
A co-presentation of the New Museum and MIX NYC

Notes from curator Josh Thorson

The works in this show can present an argument about the conscious nature of narrativity in relation to a subject proper (as in the difference between "we are the people" and "we are a people"). Here, the unifying word I will choose to name these subjects is "Queer." The Queer subject doesn't necessarily have to have anything to do with sexual predilection; "Queer" can simply mean a subject with the experience of being outside of banal normality and passivity and endless deferment.

"The singulier universel is a group that, although without any fixed place in the social edifice (or, at best, occupying a subordinated place), not only demands to be heard on equal footing with the ruling oligarchy or aristocracy (that is, to be recognized as a partner in political dialogue and the exercise of power) but, even more, presents itself as the immediate embodiment of society as such, in its universality, against the particular power interests of aristocracy or oligarchy…" — Slavoj Zizek, "A Leftist Plea for 'Euro-centrism,'" Critical Inquiry, 1998.

The Queer (ad)vantage is circular, wide open; it is in the looking awry, in the enjoyment that occurs when you are either horrified or you laugh knowingly at subtextual information that for most everyone else in the theater, unless they too have perspective, remains and must remain (for their egos to remain solid) hidden; it is in the constructing and recycling and molding of our own cultural comprehension. The Queer subject, both forced and compelled to live "outside," has had to encode/decode media and meanings in order to be able to find enjoyment as they trudge through the bogs of our cultural "common denominator" and create images that truly reflect.

"[Our] inner sky may remain autonomous and depend only upon itself, but on condition that by means of [our] wisdom, which is also knowledge, [we come] to resemble the order of the world, take it back onto [ourselves] and thus recreate in [our] inner firmament the sway of that other firmament in which [we] see the flitter of the visible stars. If [we do] this, then the wisdom of the mirror will in turn be reflected back to envelop the world in which it has been placed; its great ring will spin out into the depths of the heavens, and beyond; [we] will discover that [we] contain 'the stars within [ourselves]…'" — Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, 1970.

We are the people.

MIX NYC Mailing Address 79 Pine Street #132 New York, NY 10005 212.742.8880 info@mixnyc.org www.mixnyc.org MIX NYC promotes, produces and preserves experimental media that is rooted in the lives, politics, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. MIX's work challenges mainstream notions of gender and sexuality while also upending traditional categories of form and content. MIX NYC, a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization, is SUPPORTED by the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, Experimental Television Center, Kodak, HX, GO Magazine, Visual AIDS, the Gesso Foundation, Gill Foundation, Phil Zwickler Charitable & Memorial Foundation Trust, and the generosity of many individuals!

Job Opening: Interactive Marketing Officer

2008-11-19T14:42:00.000-08:00

Interactive Marketing Officer
U.S. Fund for UNICEF
NYC National Headquarters

Reporting to the Assistant Director of Interactive Marketing, the IM Officer will be responsible for the production of USF's online materials, including content for all U.S. Fund for UNICEF Internet properties and domains, e-communications, and interactive media.

To advance USF strategic objectives, the Interactive Marketing Officer’s key responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

Work with department colleagues on the development and production of all existing USF interactive properties, including: unicefusa.org and associated websites; eNewsletters, appeals, and others.
Under the supervision of the Assistant Director for Content, produce and deploy new micro-sites, email templates, and other creative assets. Coordinate with Integrations Officer to ensure data integrity and functionality.
Ensure that all USF Internet properties function properly, that all website user interfaces and workflows are user-friendly, and that all online materials maintain a consistent look and feel. Ensure content conforms to USF and UNICEF brand guidelines. Troubleshoot any problems that are identified.
Acquire and maintain administrative command over Convio (www.convio.com) CMS and eCRM tools. Use expertise to train/assist U.S. Fund colleagues in the use of Convio CMS and eCRM. Develop training materials as necessary.
Review and analyze site traffic and usage data to advise Assistant Director for Content where resource allocations should be reduced or expanded.

Qualifications:
A Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of three years of related work experience required. Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PhotoShop, XML, and Flash required. Understanding of content management systems, cross-platform web development and data flow issues required. Familiarity with Convio CMS and eCRM highly desired. Must have demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, work as a team member and manage several projects at once. Must have excellent design judgment, as well as interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

To Apply – Submit a letter of interest and current resume to jobs@unicefusa.org.

The U. S. Fund for UNICEF is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce.

frank and re-bowl-ution

2008-10-19T14:04:00.000-07:00

Okay, I never do this, but this time I'm asking for money! Can you PLEASE sponsor me in a BOWL-A-THON that i'm participating in this weekend?

Yours truly, Sister Poly Andry Dandy, is going bowling with the NYC (dis)Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to raise money and awareness for F.I.E.R.C.E., a youth-led activist organization for queer youth of color in NYC.

Check out www.fiercenyc.org to learn all about this awesome organization!

Our fundraising goal is $500, and we're about $200 short. Yikes! No goal, No bowl!

so please...

Follow This Link

Credit Cards Accepted!
Donations are tax-deductible!

You can use it as your “financial bail-out” write-off!

http://fiercenyc.kintera.org/bowlathon/nycspi

The NYC (dis)Order of Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have put together a Bowling team for a “ReBOWLution” benefiting FIERCE!

A Bowl-a-thon for Charity!

Take a look at our FIERCE Bowling Team Line-up!!!

Please Visit our Welcome & Donation page
Donate here:
Follow This Link

http://fiercenyc.kintera.org/bowlathon/nycspi

Hit the General (Team) Donations “tab”

Blessings & Salivations,

Sister Poly Andry Dandy

NYC (dis)Order
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

www.nycsisters.org

MIX21: Opens WEDNESDAY Oct 15!

2008-10-11T08:00:00.001-07:00


	Fagette by Ali Cotterill 2008, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min


	Mama no me lo dijo by Mujeres Creando 2003, Bolivia, video, color, sound, 8 min


	Allen Ginsberg Gives Great Head by X' Ho 2007, Singapore, video, color and b&w, 15 min


	Submissions by Atif Toor 2008, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min

MIX21: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival opens in less than one week, on Wednesday, October 15th in New York's historic South Street Seaport at 217 Water Street, between Fulton and Beekman.

This year's venue, the MIX Factory @ Seaport, is a former Liz Claiborne department store that allows us to present an unprecedented number of installations in the lobbies (both of them!), former dressing rooms and all the other recesses we could find.

In addition to the installations, there are over 100 films and videos to watch this year. Plus parties every night, performances between screenings, and our own afternoon "Tea by the Sea" social.

Below is the festival schedule at-a-glance. Full festival schedule and advance tickets are available online at www.mixnyc.org.

Wed 10.15 | 7 PM | Pre-Show: STODGY by Jessica Dellecav
Wed 10.15 | 8 PM | Opening Night: Buried Treasure
Wed 10.15 | 10 PM+ | Party: Mattachine at Julius

Thurs 10.16 | 3 PM | Reception: Tea by the Sea
Thurs 10.16 | 7 PM | Hollyweird: Queered Movies
Thurs 10.16 | 9 PM | Jack Smith's Sinbad of Baghdad
Thurs 10.16 | 11 PM+ | Party: Sticky at Annex

Fri 10.17 | 6 PM | The Art of War
Fri 10.17 | 8 PM | Pleather & Lace
Fri 10.17 | 9:30 PM | STODGY by Jessica Dellecav
Fri 10.17 | 10 PM | X Marks the Spot
Fri 10.17 | 11 PM+ | Party: Frisky Fridays at Sugarland

Sat 10.18 | 4 PM | A Different Take 2008
Sat 10.18 | 6 PM | Our Selves-Together & Apart
Sat 10.18 | 8 PM | Perspectacle
Sat 10.18 | 9:30 PM | STODGY by Jessica Dellecav
Sat 10.18 | 10 PM | Disobedient Laughter
Sat 10.18 | 11:30 PM+ | Party @ The MIX Factory

Sun 10.19 | 6 PM | Everything Dances
Sun 10.19 | 7:30 PM | STODGY by Jessica Dellecav
Sun 10.19 | 8 PM | Actions of Outcast Bodies
Sun 10.19 | 10 PM+ | Party: Anonymous at Mehanata

Full festival schedule and advance tickets available online at www.mixnyc.org

MIX NYC 79 Pine Street #132 New York, NY 10005 212.742.8880 info@mixnyc.org www.mixnyc.org MIX NYC promotes, produces and preserves experimental media that is rooted in the lives, politics, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. MIX's work challenges mainstream notions of gender and sexuality while also upending traditional categories of form and content. MIX NYC, a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization, is SUPPORTED by the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs, @Seaport, General Growth Properties, Materials for the Arts, Experimental Television Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, September 11th Fund, Kodak, HX, GO Magazine, Visual AIDS, the Gesso Foundation, Gill Foundation, Phil Zwickler Charitable & Memorial Foundation Trust, and the generosity of many individuals!

frank thinks...

2008-10-02T21:05:00.001-07:00

sarah palin is actually karl rove in a dress (and lipstick).

vote, god damn it!

2008-10-02T21:00:00.001-07:00

i'm not playin' around here. if you don't register your ass to vote this year, i'm gonna personally hunt you down and torture you in the worst way i know how. (hey, it's legal now, right?)

yeah, i'm gonna tie you up and force you to listen to me read the full text of the worst legislation passed by congress and the president in the last eight years, repeatedly and continuously, until you die from the pains of your own irredeemable guilt. to remind you, this includes such doozies as:

the patriot act (I and II)
the war powers act
the military commissions act
the no child left behind act
the jobs and growth tax relief reconciliation act
the partial-birth abortion ban act
the medicare prescription drug, improvement, and modernization act
the energy policy act of 2005
the FISA amendments act
and many, many more...

of course, there's also every one of the fucking supplementary spending bills that have funded our war against human rights everywhere and the sovereignty of nations (aka the "war on terror"), totaling between 1-3 trillion dollars (depending on who you ask).

and just to make things fun, i might also read you the text of bush's resolutions to withdraw from the anti-ballistic missile treaty and the kyoto protocol, too.

so, are you shitting your pants yet?

then register TODAY before it's too late. it's so easy. just go to: www.rockthevote.org

i mean it.

THU 9/25: Buy My Shitpile - Protest the bailout!

2008-09-24T05:39:00.001-07:00

SAY NO TO THE WALL STREET BAILOUT!

Thursday, September 25 @ 4pm

Bowling Green Park Plaza @ Broadway and Beaver Street
4 or 5 trains to Bowling Green or R, W or 1 to Rector St

Bring banners, noisemakers, signs, leaflets & your unsalable junk!

This is a historic moment. We need to act now while we can influence the
debate.

This week the White House is trying to push through the biggest
financial theft (swindle, scam, con, hoax, fraud, lie) and power-grab
in world history with nary a stitch of debate. They're asking for a
blank check for a trillion dollars to bail out George Bush's Wall
Street cronies who created this economic crisis in the first place.

HELLO?! WHY GIVE THE MONEY TO THESE CROOKS... IF ANYTHING,
LOAN IT TO THEM AND MAKE THEM PAY IT BACK WITH INTEREST
SO THE TAXPAYERS GET THEIR DUE!

If this passes, we can forget about any money for environmental
protection, to counter global warming, for education, for national health
care, to rebuild our decaying infrastructure, for alternative energy.

Let's rally and march against this bailout in the heart of the financial
district! Gather at 4pm, this Thursday, Sept. 25 in the plaza at the
southern end of Bowling Green Park, which is the small triangular
park that has the Wall Street bull at the northern tip.

Since Wall Street is asking us to give them money for their worthless
investments, some folks are planning to bring their OWN junk to Wall Street
and see if they'll buy it. Bring your collectible mugs, broken sleds and
limited edition Thomas Kinkade prints and add 'em to the pile! This
action inspired by Buy My Shitpile - http://www.buymyshitpile.com/

Do whatever you can for this historic event and contact all your groups and
friends. This proposed financial bailout is without precedent and we have to
stop it!

HAPPY LANDING (in New York Fucking City)

2008-08-21T21:03:00.001-07:00

So, it's that time again...

Time for a SEX POSITIVE PARTY SPACE to be filled with RADICAL QUEERS. This doesn't mean that you will be forced or coerced in any way, as we are all respectful, but it's about time we...

PUT THE FUCK BACK IN
NEW YORK FUCKING CITY

HAPPY LANDING
Saturday, August 23rd, 10 pm

DJ Econ | Food | Drinks | Film | Art

933a Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn

L to Graham Ave. or Grand St.
G to Metropolitan (if you like walking)

Please invite people that you find SEXY, or people you find being SEXY, or people you find doing SEXY things in weird places while being people!!

We'll have a DJ, refreshments, and condoms and lube available, but please bring your own supplies (dental dams, etc.) to augment ours as this is a private event we're doing. Last time we did this, the DJ outlasted the crowd, so let's prove we can still party for days at a time!!

NO COST for this event, but we will accept donations to aid in future events/cleanup. There will be a clothes check for those who prefer to go NUDE.

(People with extensive lists of diverse sluts are welcome to forward this.)

Salome! A Veiled Threat

2008-08-19T15:36:00.001-07:00

What: Salome! A Veiled Threat
An evening of dance, theatre, music, and film.

Who: Performances by Ryan Lawrence and Bizzy
Plus! Nazimova in the 1923 film Salome based on Oscar Wilde's play
Directed by Jeremy Gender
With sets and costumes by Aubrey Beardsley
Projected in 16mm by Stephen Kent Jusick with original score by Hayes Smith and John Swartz and lighting by Peter Cramer

When: September 5th @ 8PM

Where: Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston (btwn B & C)

Presented by Allied Productions

Circus Maximus Revisited

2008-08-11T16:34:00.000-07:00

The return of
Circus Maximus

at
The Living Theater
21 Clinton Street

Wednesday August 13
Starting at 9 pm

A three ring circus featuring a live redoux of "Stag Nation" and the sensurround moving images from the "Pestilence Studies" series, in a sexy party atmosphere.

Presented by the Film Makers' Cooperative

With the cooperation of
Allied Productions, Inc.
Inbred Hybrid Collective
Le Petit Versailles
and MIX NYC

Featuring the performance of
"Stag Nation"

And the moving images of
"Pestilence Studies"

By Subway: F to 2nd Ave or Delancey Street
By Bus: M21, M9

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=21+Clinton+Street+%2C+New+York%2C+NY

SIDE X SIDE Exhibition and Reading

2008-08-03T12:51:00.001-07:00

Kate Huh, Sara Marcus & Eileen Myles
Reading - Monday Aug. 4th
6:30-8:00

La MaMa La Galleria
6 E. 1st Street, New York City
between Bowery & 2nd Avenue

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 1-6 PM

SIDE X SIDE includes works by Scott Burton, Kate Huh, Nicholas
Moufarrege, Martin Wong and Carrie Yamaoka. The exhibition considers the impact of AIDS on a generation of artists faced with the onset of the epidemic. Beginning around 1980, as the first cases of what we now know as HIV were being diagnosed, the arts community in particular was hit hard, and once again artists were first responders to crisis. In the face of confusion and terror, artists engaged and responded to the needs of their communities, sharing information and productively
affecting change through non-traditional modes of activism.

This exhibition is not about AIDS per se. These artists allude to the
epidemic in ways both direct and more nuanced. Their practices run
parallel to a collective cultural catastrophe that intersects with many
societal injustices and crises. SIDE X SIDE shows these artists work
over time, with an acute awareness of crisis and its impact on them.

In the 70s, equal rights movements initiated by women, queers, blacks,
Latinos, and other minorities proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that
the personal is political. By the 80s, paradigms shifted once again.
As the artistic community took the representation of the epidemic into
its own hands, mainstream media began to pay more attention. "The AIDS
movement, like other radical movements, creates itself as it attempts
to represent itself," wrote Gregg Bordowitz in 1988.* The voices of
people with AIDS were now being heard. In addition, groups like ACT UP
and fierce pussy (of which Carrie Yamaoka was a founding member) were
instrumental in bringing change and transforming attitudes in a world
that is not without its prejudices. Moreover, artists provided vital
information to people in the streets. Activist tendencies followed
some artists into their studios, where they told more personal stories.

* Bordowitz, Gregg, "Picture A Coalition." AIDS: Cultural
Analysis/Cultural Activism. Ed. Douglas Crimp. Boston: MIT Press,
1988. P 195.

Live Dining at LPV tomorrow

2008-08-01T18:21:00.000-07:00

At Petit Versailles tomorrow we are hosting Nicole Fournier from Montreal who presents LIVE DINING an installation incorporating a dinner of local produce. While she's planning food for about 12 people I wanted to invite others to join us and add their own fresh from the market delectables to share. It's all very casual and there will be video playing later into the evening. Let me know if you will join us Saturday 8/2/08 @ 6pm. At 7 pm we will skype Richard Reynolds in London to discuss his book On Guerilla Gardening which includes Petit Versailles "gg" activities. Copies of the book will be available for sale courtesy of Jason Bennett & Bloomsbury Press.

Drag March - NYC 2008

2008-06-28T10:21:00.000-07:00

As seen at Disappear Here (2)

2008-04-03T21:52:00.001-07:00

Disappear Here, originally uploaded by FlickrSi.

As seen at Disappear Here (1)

2008-04-03T21:46:00.001-07:00

Disappear Here, originally uploaded by FlickrSi.

enjoying the simple things

2007-11-29T20:43:00.000-08:00

i confess, i like brussels sprouts more than most people would expect. they're nutty and buttery and full of fiber. tonight davina and i steamed some and enjoyed them along with a rice pilaf that jesse made over the weekend while he was in town. cranberries in the pilaf gave the whole dish some dimension, and then we topped it all off with just a few cashews.

land's end

2007-08-24T22:44:00.000-07:00

circle back on the beginning
where childhood falls through
where the colors name themselves

come to tomorrow's town
where light grazes the ephemeral shore
where emergence stuns the passerby

find life's muse, a painter
who's firm hand melts into
oceans of magnanimous might

try to say something
to save yourself from the edge
where you think time bends

dream harder and sing
reveal your visions through time
as light reaches past the gap

go further
be younger
journey to land's end.

__________

(c) all rights reserved, 2004

Check out my Chemo Calendar

2007-08-08T23:03:00.000-07:00

a simple thank you in exchange for the outpouring of support i've received in the last few weeks hardly seems adequate. i'm honestly overcome with gratitude. of course, it's this feeling that gives me certainty i'll ultimately make a full recovery from the hodgkin's. even before this, the latest of my many so-called "diagnoses," the secret of my success has always been the generosity of my friends. and in the next chapter of my medical saga, there's no doubt, it will not be otherwise.

since fist receiving the news about my hodgkin's, i've been more preoccupied than normal with questions about how i'll deal with the challenges ahead. i am also aware that i haven't even responded to many of your well wishes and offers of help. i regret that, but please believe that i haven't deliberately just blown you off. i assure you that i have your message and i fully intend to get back to you.

this is, of course, what i'm doing in part right now. there's a bit of an update since i last posted, so i wanted to share it with everyone.

my chemotherapy treatment hasn't begun yet, but i now know that it will begin on friday, august 17th. that's the most recent bulletin.

the reason i haven't begun yet is because i've been undergoing quite a few tests: to get baseline readings for my heart, lungs, blood, etc. i also had a "PET" scan, which shows where the cancer is actually active in the body. there's news on that front, too. it has spread from the lymph nodes in my chest, to those below my diaphragm in my abdomen.

there's a little bit of good news that comes with this: the number of treatments i'll go through will be no different than previously expected. the strength of the dosage will be a little higher, but nobody knows how the side effects will actually manifest, so that's still an open question. in the end, this situation means i'm technically in stage III of IV, a later stage than we first realized. but as far as i'm concerned, the difference is just semantic. my chances of getting through this are pretty much still the same.

okay, one last thing...

many, many, many people have offered to help me with cooking and/or just to be on hand to help me around the house with other basics, like light cleaning and stuff. in some cases, you might be able to pick me up from the hospital and escort me back home to my apartment after my treatments. etc. etc.

well, now you can! and you can also schedule yourself on my new and exciting "shared calendar" thanks to "google calendar." this is a public calendar that anyone who so wishes can view to see what my needs will be and when. plus, you can sign up for specific pre-designated time slots for particular kinds of help.

please check it out. we've tried to make this as easy as possible by creating a user log-in that anyone can use. here's how:

1. go to www.google.com/calendar

2. sign in with the following:

user id: chemocalendar
pass: 4frank

3. view and edit existing entries, or add entries

okay, that's enough from me for tonight. i'll follow up by e-mail again to walk you through the steps, in case this is not as user friendly as i hope it to be. but for now, we have a week to just play with it and get some stuff in order before the 17th.

much love and gratitude,
frank

And now for something completely different

2007-07-22T21:05:00.001-07:00

this is one of those awfully awkward posts that i wish i didn't have to write. but i received some news this week that basically demands that i reach out to you -- all my wonderful, loving and supportive friends. above all, this is not something to write about lightly. it even seems a little inappropriate to break such personal news this way. so please allow me to explain why i am broaching this via broadcast e-mail, and you will not only understand, but you will also forgive me for doing so.

so, what am i hinting at?

this week, after many months of various medical procedures, from my ankles to my skin to my kidneys, i got the astounding news that my doctors have detected something new and completely different going on in me. they actually detected it just prior to my ankle procedure back in march in a standard pre-surgical chest x-ray. they found that my lymph nodes were swollen. but based on the very mild nature of the swelling, we decided let's go ahead with the ankle and deal with this other stuff down the road. this week, we finally came to that road and i got a real diagnosis.

of course, as many of you now know, the ankle itself led to its fair share of problems. i wasn't able to walk for several weeks, at least three weeks longer than expected. then the wound wouldn't heal properly so i had to get that treated. along the way, i started to get blood in my urine, and we found that i had (not one, but three) kidney stones.

the next step was to surgically implant some tubes in my kidneys in order to drain them, and then i went through a series of concentrated ultra-sound treatments to break up the stones themselves. when i was finally pissing normally and able to walk around on my own without support any more, it was time to return to the lymph nodes.

the doctors did a lymph node biopsy last week. that also involved another round of surgery, to make a small incision at the base of my neck in order collect tissue samples from the area of my chest that was affected. five days later, the wound had healed up quite nicely but the results of the biopsy were in.

what did they find?

it is hodgkins disease (a.k.a. hodgkins lymphoma, a.k.a. cancer of the lymph nodes). yes kids, the next chapter of my never-ending medical saga is titled how i got cancer and lived to tell about it.

okay, that's a little flippant. but there's also a seed of truth in there. i will live to tell about it. this lymphoma is in a very early, and therefore very treatable, stage. catching it via chest x-ray was a supremely lucky windfall because it would have been much harder to treat if we hadn't discovered it until i had more serious symptoms. the down side is that, even so, the treatment is in fact chemotherapy. it will take twelve treatments over the next six months. but the doctors are completely confident that we'll beat this and the hodgkins will go into total remission, hopefully for the rest of my life.

so yes, take a deep breath,
and let out a big sigh of relief

:::::: ahhhhhhh ::::::

i'm not going to go into all the details of what hodgkins is exactly, how it affects the body, and how it differs from other non-hodkins type lymphomas. but there are lots of websites where one can learn more about this, if interested. (i was!) these sites are particularly helpful:

okay, it probably goes without saying, but in the coming months i will be turning to my community of friends and family for more support than ever before. for the time being, i am still in the early process of learning about the disease, the treatment and what else is going to be involved. i wish it were possible for me to call each and every one of you to go over all the details, or to discuss what specifically i need in the short term.

but to my incredible fortune, there are hundreds of you who are now aware, and concerned, and want to know what you can do to help. getting into all of that one-on-one, especially at the moment, would exhaust me, and exhaustion is something i will have plenty of without even trying.

in the next few days, i will be speaking with some of you directly. i believe then, i will probably ask some of you to help me out as "communication coordinators" who will help keep everyone else informed of developments. someone else will coordinate the details of post-treatment care. someone else will coordinate meals. someone else will coordinate movie nights at my house. etc. etc.

...you get the idea. so please, stay tuned. as they used to say on the radio, "more bulletins at once." peace out, frank

Leonardo Lost

2006-06-09T02:32:00.000-07:00

All week, I have repeated the same things over and over, each time someone has asked me how I am holding up since having learned that we've lost Leonardo. I've said, "This has been a hard week. It's tough. It's not easy. It's almost impossible to even say anything at all."

He took his own life, and he did this just this week. I know I'll have to come to accept on some level it was his choice to do so. But, nobody ought to expect that I or anyone who loved him will reach such heights of understanding and compassion anytime soon.

The suddenness of this is still one of my most preoccupying thoughts. I can barely believe it and thoroughly want someone to put a stop to this, as if this were some sort of cruel joke. But, it's not going to stop. He is gone, and so many lives are forever changed.

And so I keep asking myself, what does this mean? What does it mean that he has had his last dance? And of course, why, why, why?

Who is now reading this?

2006-05-26T21:17:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my Blogger web log... okay, "blog." There I said it. But please call it whatever. Call it my not-so-secret diary, or my on-line real-time confession session. You already know what it is. You've seen this before; it's not so new.

How does my blog work? What will it look like? Will I use it? Um... is this thing on?

Really, at the moment I am just playing around with this clever little interface. I want to learn about this, toy with that. I want to figure out all of its functions and secrets.

And I will try to assume nothing about it, certainly nothing about how it might turn out. I will let it reveal everything it is, everything it can become, gradually along the way.

Please do join in the fun and post without ceasing. (Or, I suppose you could also just give me a call.)

Who is now reading this?
by Walt Whitman

Maybe one is now reading this
who knows some wrong-doing of my past life,
Or maybe a stranger is reading this
who has secretly loved me,
Or maybe one who meets all my
grand assumptions and egotisms with derision,
Or maybe one who is puzzled at me.

As if I were not puzzled at myself!
Or as if I never deride myself!
(O conscience-struck! O self-convicted!)
Or as if I do not secretly love strangers!
(O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it;)
Or as if I did not see, perfectly well,
interior in myself, the stuff of wrong-doing,
Or as if it could cease transpiring from me
until it must cease.

Leaves of Grass. 1900. 302.

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