Love & Rockets - Art by Los Bros. Hernandez

would like to be here, thx.

MIXD ZINE: call for submissions! Call for submissions for MIXD compilation zine!  Showcasing writing and art by and for mixed-race folks, the idea of MIXD was born out of conversations and dialogues with other non-white people and my own questions and understandings of mixed-race experience, embodiment, and identity. 

The goal of the zine project is to open up another space for mixed-race non-white people to write, to connect, to (un)learn, to heal, and to empower and challenge each other in conversations about what collective liberation could look like and mean.

∆ ∆ ∆ Submission Criteria ∆ ∆ ∆:

** Deadline for submissions: May 15th! ** - Writing content can take on various forms – personal writing, essays, academic-based research, poetry, etc.- and art submissions are also encouraged! - The zine will be printed in black and white and likely half-size (8.5 x 11inches folded), so keep that in mind in terms of submitting content - No word limit // Feel free to submit multiple things - Anti-oppression and an intersectional analysis are bases for the project – I’ll be in touch with you if there are any questions or concerns that come up while reviewing submitted content and we can talk it out(!) - compilation and printing will take place in Montreal – if you submit, you’ll be sent a copy! There will also be updates when the zine is finished – get in touch if you’d like to get (multiple) copies to distro / share / read, whatever. ** - email submissions to MIXDZINE@GMAIL.COM by May 15th! **

—————— Some ideas / prompts for submissions: ”mixed”: what does it mean? for you(r understanding of yourself) / in your life / interactions / relationships? • owning difficult, complicated, or at-odds parts of ourselves • the body as site(s) of conflict and violence • (current) colonial histories and decolonization • liminality, racial ‘ambiguity’ and navigating spaces, relationships, and interactions • the idea of ‘community’ and belonging • diaspora • re-learning / discovering family, (hi)stories, lineages,and cultures • mixed-race identity and it’s intersections with queerness, transness, class, disability, and other identities and experiences • the limits and potentials of ideas of ‘community’, ‘POC’, and ‘mixed’ identity markers and frameworks • racial hierarchization within non-white and mixed people and differences in experience and oppression • acting in solidarity • fighting the erasure and perpetuation of anti-blackness and colonial violence towards indigenous folks ‘out there’ and within non-white spaces and relationships • for mixed-white folks: what space(s) does whiteness occupy? - in yourself, in relation to your other racial identities and histories, in POC/mixed/non-white spaces and struggles? what oppressive dynamics inherent in whiteness (and white supremacy) have you learned to unlearn, to mitigate, to destroy? how?

♡ PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REBLOG AND SHARE WITH [OTHER] MIXED FOLX! ♡

This project is entirely submission-based, so the more content received and folks told, the better! xxo cinder

Hey this looks awesome but I just want to make sure of something because of the language you used (mixed race non-white people): Is this open to mixed race people who are mixed with white? Thanks. —Veronica

oops, yeah, totally fair! it is open to mixed-white folks (like me, ha) sorry that was unclear!

This looks really great--gonna try to stay accountable to myself and post this so I can try to write something

suicide tw

lol part of my problem is that within all of the legitimate and meaningful considerations about this decision i have so many thoughts that don’t really make sense. like leftover teenage liberation handbook feelings/vague shame that i am not like, too busy building cob houses or doing...

Noah wrote: "

it’s also really hard for me to think about the future/jobs i want/how to ethically exist within the current world without ultimately concluding that i should probably just kill myself."

I feel like this all the time, like A L L T H E T I M E . Feels like moving in slow motion all the time and not being able to focus when you need to and all of us are just getting older or giving up. This is a really depressing post, but also true. I try to focus on things and people that make me happy, but it's also really hard to not feel mixed up and dumb inside. It's hard not to just want to drop out of life. And then you feel dumb because wasn't this feeling supposed to go away in high school?

It's been a rare thing to meet someone new who seems great and not find out some horrible shit about them. And it just makes you feel disheartened and like what's the point of meeting anyone new anyway.

Dream ride

ESG (Emerald, Sapphire and Gold) are a band from the South Bronx, New York, U.S.. The band originally consisted of sisters Maria Scroggins (congas, vocals), Renee Scroggins (vocals), and Valerie Scroggins (drums), and friends David Miles (guitar) and Leroy Glover (bass). A later incarnation of the band consisted of Deborah Scroggins, Maria Scroggins (congas, vocals), Renee Scroggins (guitar, vocals), and Valerie Scroggins (drums). ESG have been influential in a wide range of musical genres, including hip hop, post punk, disco, and dance-punk.

Leave home. Miss home.

Crabapple - He’s Not You (live at Rickshaw Stop)

camera by Screamqueens

truly we live in the digital age, this barely happened 6 hours ago

ripperz

For the daytime crowd

This happened last night and was sorta nervewracking, but ultimately really amazing to play with 3 other bands full of people who I really care about and think are amazing. A buddy show even at a huge venue feels safe and great, which I don’t think I’ve felt in a long time. Also I’m stoked on new songs.

—-**THINK AND DIE THINKING 2014**—-

ALL-AGES EACH DAY IS $7-$10 dollars Thursday Jan 2nd 9pm - 1 am PRE FEST WARM UP PARTY! @CAFE STRITCH (374 S 1st St San Jose, CA 95113 (408) 280-6161) Bread Club Joyride! Momatoru Sourpatch + DJ’S SPINNING PUNK/INDIE/RIOTGRRRL/WHATEVER ————————————- Friday Jan 3rd 6 to midnight @BILLY DEFRANK CENTER (938 The Alameda San Jose, CA 95126 (408) 293-3040) The Root Beer Floats Darto Vaaska The Impalers Dead Pressure Tall Can Oxygen Facial (formerly Melting Wreck) The Bedroom Witch SBSM Permanent Ruin ————————————- Saturday Jan 4th 3 to midnight @BILLY DEFRANK CENTER Bestfriend/Girlfriend Dogbreth Colonia Las HIjas De La Chingada Stillsuit Leer Jabber Saint Lorena Street Eaters Wild Moth Acid Fast Bascom Crabapple Wild Assumptions MayB Knot Margy Pepper ————————————- Sunday Jan 5th 3 to midnight @BILLY DEFRANK CENTER Daisy World Rosanonymous Leo Henderson Salt Flat Olivia Neutron John Itzel Watercolor Paintings Heavy Flow Tender Buttons The Exquisites Hazel’s Wart No Babies The Albert Square This or That No Bone Venkman ——————————— MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS SOON ABOUT : tables / workshops/side fest activities and more! STILL LOOKING FOR FOLKS TO TABLE AND HOST WORKSHOPS CURRENT WORKSHOPS INCLUDE: HEALTH & WELLNESS ZINE MAKING SEXUAL HEALTH A DISCUSSION ON OTHERNESS HOMEMADE JOURNALS/PAPER-MAKING CURRENT TABLERS: ART AND CRAFTS BY MICHAL KAMRAN HAIRY PITS ZINES BY SAOIRSE & BREAD ZINEWORKS CONTACT us — Thinkanddiethinking@gmail.com for more info and to book space at the fest. Tablers and Workshop coordinators get free admission to the fest.

Come hang out in January this will be the best start to your year ever! Intentional space all year. Best buds forever.

Modern Contempt - Warm Water Lens

New lifestyle vid by San Francisco’s premier beach mods, Modern Contempt (mod cons).