dykeumentary

Since my special effects/CGI budget is…ummmm… $0 — I appreciate seeing how other moviemakers tell surreal tales with pictures. And yay! that a woman finally won a best film oscar.

Waiting for the right moment

Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones gives 6 rules for allies (cross race/gender/sexuality/nationality/religion etc) in her keynote speech given 2/19/10 at a luncheon sponsored by Abriendo Brecha Vll Conference and The Seventeenth Annual Emerging Scholarship In Women’s and Gender Studies Conference UT Austin.

This must have been this time of year because I watched the snow melt, then the tulips come up from my window.

Go figure.

This matters a lot to me.
This situation is about power — capitalism, racism, classism and community organizing.
There is more information about the fight at starlitestays.wordpress.com

There have been several violent crimes in my neighborhood lately, including a police chase through my backyard (!), a shooting, and a stabbing. You can read about it here Ditmas Park Blog

Several people in this recently-gentrified neighborhood and on the blog are quick to say that “suspicious” (let’s be honest: they mean “Black”) people are responsible, but at my job we have insider information about this situation.

So I’ve wanted to make some sort of movie like this for a while. I’ve been trying to figure out why I have a kind of allergic reaction to racist/state violence and why I can’t bear to see pictures of children suffering. And why I think that people should tap dance when courting me, and wear more fabulous outfits generally.

I put this video together this week, I think I will keep working on it. I am very interested hearing the stories of girls born between 1965 and 1970, and finding out who we have become as adults.

In case you didn’t know, the images of the man with the police, and the bombing of the (inhabited) city block that the Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on are from the anti-MOVE violence in Philadelphia . The mug shot is of Assata Shakur.