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Few, but Roses – Queer Artists' Collective, Los Angeles, CA

Few, but Roses – Queer Artists' Collective, Los Angeles, CA

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Few, but Roses – Queer Artists' Collective, Los Angeles, CA

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Opportunities to support and be supported by our g Opportunities to support and be supported by our good friends at @thesidewalkprojectla Right now they have a need for clothing for the community they serve. Help them help others. They especially appreciate larger femme sizes in shoes and clothes đź–¤ Drop off Wed to Fri 12-6pm at 768 Stanford Ave. Also, their next health and wellness event is Wednesday, 9/3 and will feature the opportunity to join their long acting injectable PrEP pilot program. They offer gender specific care for cis & trans women, nonbinary and trans men. This event is for unhoused and unstably housed people, drug users and s*x workers. Join them!
I debated what, if anything, I wanted to post to m I debated what, if anything, I wanted to post to mark the 4th of July. In particular, I questioned whether to place any commentary within the traditional framework of the holiday. Of the men quoted above - most numbered among "The Founding Fathers - most were enslavers, violators of the most fundamental human dignity, including three of the four presidents quoted. Every one of them involved in the framing of the Constitution lacked the moral fortitude to correct America's original sin, and instead established a country on a foundation of iniquity that fundamentally belied the substance of the quotes above. Because of that I wondered if there was any value in referencing their thoughts on this day, firmly believing Audre Lorde that 'The master's tool will never dismantle the master's house' I eventually chose to use these quotes however, because as we are currently experiencing the final debasement of whatever imperfect version the rights and liberties we all possess, we are watching it happen cloaked in a grotesque mockery of patriotism. I will accept any criticism or objection one wishes to send my way, but personally I am tired of hateful and ghoulish jingoistic nationalism being justified because it is wrapped, in the words of Langston Hughes, in a false patriotic wreath. For all of the flaws that this country has (and as a historian, I know they are myriad), what we are seeing now is not just a betrayal of what things we have actually done well, but a perverse celebration of our sins. We are watching the elevation of autocracy facilitated by the fundamental lie that not only have the evil deeds of our past not been evil, but they were actually virtuous. The hate and the iniquity and the harm of the past is being held up as a model for how we *ought* to be - and it is all being wrapped up in a flag while being made reality with the swing of a truncheon. I do not believe that America has ever actually been what the quotes above hoped it would be (or whether those hopes were ever even genuine to begin with). But I do believe there's something here worth fighting for, even if that means laying the axe to the root to achieve it.
Several of our artists serve the DTLA and Skid Row Several of our artists serve the DTLA and Skid Row community with @thesidewalkprojectla and they are currently in the thick of things as the federal government targets vulnerable Los Angelinos and the LAPD escalates the situation and brutalizes innocent bystanders while claiming to keep the peace. Make sure you head over to @thesidewalkprojectla's feed to get a reporting on what's actually happening from the people actually trying to protect and preserve and heal the downtown community. And please consider supporting The Sidewalk Project at their website or through the link on our website (under the 'Activism' link). "Without community there is no liberation" - Audre Lorde Come be part of a community in need.
We are seeing this play out in real time on the st We are seeing this play out in real time on the streets of Los Angeles, on the streets of New York - the police, nominally present to maintain the peace, are instead far more focused on establishing their place in the hierarchy relative to citizens exercising their first amendment rights. Their primary concern is asserting their authority, demanding that it be obeyed, and using coercive force when it is not. We are watching in real time as the LAPD fires weapons upon journalists who are live on the air - people who obviously pose no threat to the physical safety of the police, but rather a threat to the LAPD's control of the narrative of events. This is not the natural order of things. Hierarchical rule is not inherent - if it were, if it were natural, it would not need to be enforced through such overt violence. Community is natural to humans. Community is what allowed us to survive across the span of time. Community is what will keep us safe now. #wetakecareofus
Our merch store is now open! Come support artists Our merch store is now open! Come support artists while telling cisheteronormative patriarchy to shove it. At fewbutroses.art and link in bio.
Never forget this. Never let them forget this. Never forget this. Never let them forget this.
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