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“Men-ups!” a project by Rion Sabean featuring men in traditional female pin-up poses.

Not to miss the point and all, but heyyyyy mr august.

My new drawing series, We Don’t Need Another Hero, features people of colour as outlaws of their post-apocalypse, drawn as if posters for fictional movies.

As an artist of colour, my racialised existence has inherently informed my work, but this new series explicitly investigates racial politics. I’ve sought out peers from various sociocultural and racial backgrounds to propose characters, costumes, and fictional surrounds to represent themselves as survivors of their armageddon. The post-apocalyptic genre seems a relevant forum to discuss Indigenous and people of colour immigrant experiences living in settler colonial realities.

Subjects include contemporary Indigenous artist Tony Albert in “Yesterday When The War Began’, Samoan circus and burlesque performer Fez Faanana in “Attack of the Under Water Woman”, Indigenous activist Robbie Thorpe in “Armageddon Out of Here”, Papua New Guinean performance artist Pandie Panther in “Uritai Headhunter: Warrior of Paradise”, Colombian hip hop emcee Ben Beracasa aka Clandestine Voice in “When the South Rises” and Indigenous historian and activist Gary Foley in “Creature from the Black Platoon”.

Gallerysmith will host We Don’t Need Another Hero from 13th October 2011. Opening event on Friday 21st October 6-8pm, to be opened by Gary Foley and featuring performance by the Ladies of Colour Agency and tunes by DJ Pandie Panther.

Some preview pics..

Pandie Panther “Uritai Headhunter: Warrior of Paradise”

felt-tips on paper, 127 x 97cm, 2011

Third World Terrorist in “When the South Rises”

felt-tips on paper, 127 x 97cm, 2011

(portrait subject Ben Beracasa aka Clandestine Voice)

“Creature from the Black Platoon” starring Gary Foley

felt-tips on paper, 97 x 127cm, 2011

Tony Albert stars in “Yesterday When the War Began”

felt-tips on paper, 127 x 97cm, 2011

Robbie Thorpe as Djuran Bunjileenee “Armageddon Outta Here”

felt-tips on paper, 127 x 97cm, 2011

photography by the lovely John Brash @ fotograffiti

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OMG OMG OMG OMG

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cassket:

After being told a thousand times that cis white gay men were the most privileged people on the planet, definitely more privileged than Christian 
white straight men, a professor goes and performs a study like this:

Harvard University researcher Andras Tilcsik sent two realistic but fictitious CVs to 1,700 white collar job openings, such as managerial positions.

One CV mentioned relevant experience in a university gay society as a treasurer, while the other listed experience in the ‘Progressive and Socialist Alliance’.

Mr Tilcsik said that since employers are likely to associate both groups with left-leaning political views, this would separate any ‘gay penalty’ from the effects of political discrimination.

The results showed that applicants without the gay reference had an 11.5 per cent chance of being called for an interview. However, CVs which mentioned the gay society had only a 7.2 per cent chance. The difference amounted to a 40 per cent higher chance of the heterosexual applicant getting a call.

When I look for jobs I also wonder about whether I should effectively out myself on my resume. Apparently, I shouldn’t, although it’s kind of hard not to mention previous work experience on Bilerico and PageOneQ since I worked on both sites so long and learned a lot from my involvement in both projects.

There’s a school of thought that it’s best for everyone to come out in every part of their lives since that’s the only way things will advance, although I’ve noticed that proponents of that tend to have jobs where being queer is an asset (like working in LGBT media). I remember going to a certain straight person’s lecture and being told that everyone should come out, and if they lose their job, well, don’t worry, you didn’t want that job anyway. She was married to an oil exec and never worked a day in her life.

I definitely won’t fault any LGBT person who doesn’t want to out themselves to a potential employer, especially in this economy. Jobs aren’t that easy to come by, homophobia isn’t over, and an employer who only wants to employ straight people will find it easy to do so.

But the data is good to know for those of you out there who are deciding whether or not to de-gay your resume.

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So I got back into tumblr just to encounter the word “thinspiration” within like 60 seconds. Well, thinspire this, douchebonnets.

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I’m back now. Let’s see how long this lasts.

Excerpt from Communities of Care, Organizations for Liberation
by Yashna Maya Padamsee.

I like a lot of things about this quote, I definitely feel like taking care of each other is something that’s really undervalued.  I still think that self-care and spending time alone is really important, though.  Alone does not have to equal isolation.

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