Saturday, December 10, 2016

Net Neutrality

From 2014:

"The American Library Association will continue to work to ensure all information resources have equitable internet access — not just those supported by groups with deep pockets."

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/killing-net-neutrality-means-killing-economic-equality-access/

 

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Fwd: No President


No President
n+1 editors and contributors on the election.
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Dear reader,
 
This is not the email we planned to send you this month. Like so many of you, we at n+1 are still processing the consequences of last Tuesday's presidential election. As we wrap up Issue 27, due out in December, we've been publishing responses from editors and contributors in a series on our website called No President. The title comes from a line in founding editor Mark Greif's piece:

Having seen the slogan and heard the chant, "Not My President," I feel the slogan should instead be "No President." Not only is Trump no president in attitudes and beliefs, but in effect we should decide we do not have a president, through the paradox of the legitimate election of an illegitimate officeholder.

We hope that these short essays prove useful to you in the coming days:

Mark Greif, No President
Dayna Tortorici, What Can Feminists Do?
Marco Roth, The Disaster
Nikil Saval, What Are We Trying to Figure Out?
Keith Gessen, Angry White Men
Rachel Ossip, I Voted for All of Them
Pankaj Mishra, Rise of the Egocrats
Karla Cornejo Viillavicencio, Undocumented Election Night
and more.

You've probably heard publishers' calls to support independent media. What they say is true: this country needs fact-based journalism and subscriber support to produce the kind of work that keeps citizens informed. But it also needs strong voices from the margins—small, dissenting publications to stay vigilant, keep the level of discourse high, and champion literature even in a culture that takes it for granted.

This is the role we aim to fulfill. To do it, n+1 needs you. If you don't subscribe, please support the magazine and its writers by subscribing today. If you're already a subscriber, consider donating. Help us fight the forces of reaction in the arts and politics. With your support, we can and will continue to publish the ambitious, challenging, and provocative writing we've produced for the past twelve years.

Thank you for your support—especially in dark times. Most of all, thank you for reading.
 
Yours,
Mark Krotov
Publisher

Upcoming Events
5 PM, November 15
Mark Greif at UC Berkeley

Room D37
Hearst Field Annex
University of California, Berkeley

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Founding editor Mark Greif in conversation with Heather Love, Sharon Marcus, and others.

7:30 PM, November 15
Emily Witt in Seattle
Town Hall
1119 Eighth Avenue
Seattle [map] [tix]

Emily Witt discusses Future Sex with Pepper Schwartz.

7:30 PM, November 16
Emily Witt in San Francisco
Green Apple Books on the Park
1231 9th Avenue
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Emily Witt in conversation with Anna Wiener.
7PM, November 16
Sophie Pinkham and Keith Gessen
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Sophie Pinkham discusses Black Square with founding editor Keith Gessen

7:30 PM, November 17
Emily Witt in Portland
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Emily Witt in conversation with Andi Zeisler
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Monday, October 24, 2016

Bain & Hernandez ATA window performance Friday November 25, 4-9pm ... "The Other You"

 Bain & Hernandez ATA window performance Friday November 25, 4-9pm ... Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco


The Other You

A gesture can contain the DNA of an entire persona. From a gait, a life story is told. We will inhabit the ATA window for several hours to perform a marathon of spontaneous character transformations. Not theater improv, this work is what we've both been doing for 2 decades: using character/persona/alter ego to get at the things that people are, that people do. To explore what is inherently human vs what is consumed as an idea of who we are, or who we are supposed to be.  

ATA's storefront window is advertising architecture along one of the most moneyed commercial strips in this country. When display windows like this contain the human form, the signal is for viewers to consume, to conform to the specific fashion being portrayed. Instructions are being given on how to look, be, buy...

Last year we loved thwarting the shopper's impulse by being well-dressed, friendly non sequitur in the window; this year we will continue by populating the space with a continuous personality parade from afternoon til evening on Black Friday.

Claire Bain and Alfred Hernandez are Bay Area artists. They both employ persona, using their bodies as material to create impressions of being and story. They have each shown work at numerous venues, and sometimes collaborate.

See also:

Http://Personbain-index.blogspot.com (Claire Bain)

http://www.alfredsvisions.com/ (Alfred Hernandez)




Wednesday, September 28, 2016

News We Need - Sep 28, 2016

Thank you, Gay Shame! Dissent is our civic duty, and you do a great job 👓💚

Friday, September 23, 2016

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Will you join me?

Extreme legislation targeting LGBT people is spreading from North Carolina to Alaska. We're standing up and declaring #WeAreNotThis.

The outcry on behalf of LGBT people's safety and dignity is echoing from coast to coast.

I just signed onto ACLU's action to protect Human rights.

Will you join me? https://www.aclu.org/WeAreNotThisTAF

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

From Quraysh Ali Lansana's great essay in Poetry Magazine



- "Art, Artifice, and Artifact"
P. 45, Poetry, 
April 2015, Volume 206, Number 1

Monday, February 1, 2016

GOOD PEOPLE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO FEAR THE RICH

"...Since they are filthy rich they build higher and bigger, and they busy themselves - oh my! - in taking away everywhere our daylight..."