Kitchen Girrrls

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Kitchen Girrrls

Gender Studies: What Histories Do We Want to Claim?

this is so inspiring. The amazing Ann Cvetkovich discusses lesbian separatism, Michigan's Womyns festival, contemporary queer cultures, Allyson Mitchell, and affective archives.

DIY Business Ideas

Do you prowl pricey antique markets for odd ball treasures?
well look no further, a lovely londoner named supermarket sarah has the one-stop shop for you and yours. Break away from that materialist world that favours the new and hates on the old, save a few bucks well helping out this awesome new DIY take on the aged old antique market!

Ladyfest Toronto!

M A S I A O N E
http://www.myspace.com/masiaone

K A T I E S T E L M A N I S
http://www.myspace.com/katiestelmanis

E M M A M C K E N N A
http://www.myspace.com/emmamckenna

R A T T A I L
http://www.myspace.com/rrrattail

B R E S C I A R E I D + A L I G R E E Y
http://www.myspace.com/bresciabloodbeard

$10
(no one turned away for lack of funds)

Host:
Ladyfest Toronto
Type:
Party - Mixer
Network:
Global
Start Time:
Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 8:00pm
End Time:
Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 1:00am
Location:
TRANZAC :: MAIN HALL

D O O R S 8 p.m.

L A D Y F E S T i s happening November 25-29
www.ladyfesttoronto.com

FACEBOOK

About:
Ladyfest Toronto is an annual non-profit interdisciplinary festival organized by a grassroots, open, do-it-yourself collective of feminists each dedicated to having fun with feminism and putting good politics into practice through art. Each year the Ladyfest Toronto collective organizes a festival of art, music, performance, poetry, and politics meant to celebrate community and the projects and accomplishments of Toronto feminists. By offering a space to showcase some of the many Toronto artists dedicated to making their work pro-feminist, political, resistant, and inclusive, Ladyfest hopes to work as a hub of feminists activity that connects existing communities and generates new ones. In addition to practicing a non-hierarchical method of organizing the festival, our collective operates from a sex and body positive, non-exclusive, anti-oppressive, pro-feminist, politically charged framework and embraces all feminist peoples. We are absolutely dedicated to making the entire festival accessible, inclusive, and safe in every way. We hope that by making spaces for community members, artists, and musicians to share and perform we can open up places from which Toronto’s various pro-feminist political voices can be heard, where new communities can be made, and existing ones can work in coalition on shared projects and toward common social and political goals. Ladyfest is not just an annual festival; we hope that it is the kind of event that can generate new projects, possibilities, and communities and above all proliferate politics without pretentiousness. Ladyfest Toronto operates according to several key values; these include accessibility, DIY-ing, positivity, exposure, connection, and inclusion.

Who wants to make a movie with me?

Joanie 4 Jackie from Miranda July on Vimeo.

Oh Ms July! your riot girl bleach blonde fro and DIY ambition really makes me happy, warm and fuzzy! So when i found out that Miranda July and a group of NY college students were reviving Joanie 4 Jackie I almost pooped myself!

What its all about:

YOU ALWAYS SUSPECTED IT, AND NOW YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE:

Girls and women are making movies every day.

EVERY woman who sends her movie to Joanie 4 Jackie receives a Chainletter tape. Each tape is an unpredictable compilation of 10 lady-made movies including her own. These video Chainletters and their companion Viewer's Digests are part of a continual correspondence between women moviemakers and with you.

The first 7 Chainletters are available for you to own.

MOVIE MAKING

There's two variables on the video camera. There's the lens: The eye. This is the same eye that's watching you all the time anyways if you're a woman. Especially in public, but even when you're alone in your room. The eye is programmed into your brain. When you are making a movie you stop pretending that you aren't aware of the eye. THEY ARE LOOKING AT YOUR ASS NO MATTER WHAT YOU WEAR.
THE DAD IN YOUR HEAD WATCHED YOU MASTURBATE.
YOU BRUSH YOUR HAIR INTO THE THE SHAPE OF THE HOLE IN HIS HEART. You stop pretending that you are innocent and unaffected by the eye. You turn and face it: the camera. You look into its eye and see yourself and you say: "I see you watching me." I know you are there and I'm not embarrassed to admit it. I admit the role I play everyday in this movie made not by me. I'm not embarrassed because just surviving being watched everyday has trained me to be an expert on the eye. Every woman is an expert on the eye. An expert actress, and an expert at controlling situations while being watched. THIS IS MOVIE MAKING. And making movies means that you are a watcher. Of course you are. You have to be self-conscious all the time just to take care of yourself. So there's the eye and there's one other variable: the on/off button, which is about control. Because this is the one time that you can turn the eye off. You can keep secrets or you can tell lies or you can tell the real truth thru manipulation of the eye-on / eye-off. I'm talking about editing. Editing equals gorgeous control. DEAR DR. WILKINS, I AM MAKING A MOVIE. IT IS ABOUT OUR APPOINTMENTS. I JUST THOUGH I WOULD WARN YOU. DEAR DAD, I AM MAKING A MOVIE. IT IS ABOUT YOU. I PLAY THE PART OF YOU.

DEAR CARRIE, I AM MAKING A MOVIE. IT IS ABOUT THAT GAME WE USED TO PLAY CALLED EVERLASTING LOVE IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLANKET. I WANT YOU TO BE THE LEADING LADY.

the website

Sticker Making Tutorial

People were asking how I made the stickers so I thought I'd make a tutorial.

1. Gather Supplies:
- Naked Lady Drawing (don't worry, if I can do it, so can you)
- Scissors
- Large Label / Sticker paper
- Black pen
- Blue Tack
- Clear Packing Tape
- Adult Classifieds (sex ads from the Now Magazine)
- Glitter (optional)

2. Cut out your Naked Ladies, in two parts if you can, it makes it easier to distinguish the figures

3. Trace them on the Adult Classifieds (I recommend using the blue tak to keep them from moving around)

4. Fill in some of those extra features with your black pen, arms, flesh folds, legs, then cut them out

5. Tape your Ladies to some sticker paper, you could even add glitter on them before putting the tape down, to make it extra exciting. I added the web address to mine, to spread the pussy pirate word.


6. Cut them out, now go stick them somewhere awesome, spread the large-lady-love!