ESL or You Weren't Here

Hey y’all I’m selling some works on paper so I can pay rent and other bills this month. Here are the ones currently available for a very reasonable price. Depending on where you are, shipping might be free of charge. They’re numbered. The first one is 11 x 7.5 inches. The rest are 11 x 15 inches. DM for more info. And thank you so much for looking & sharing <3

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If you’re in NYC tomorrow, Cecily Schuler & I will be reading at Dixon Place for the reading series Queer Art Organics, curated by Aimee Herman. Doors open at 7, reading starts promptly at 7:30.

Queer Art Organics Cecily Schuler & Aldrin Valdez

FREE

Dixon Place 161A Chrystie Street New York, NY 10002

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

This movie came out in 1995. I remember watching it on PayPerView when I’d stay home sick. It would play on repeat. I’d only been in the US for almost two years and around the first time I watched this movie, it had been a year after my grandmother died in the Philippines. I’m thinking about the isolation and loneliness I felt as a 10 year old - immigrant, queer, bakla - living in a mostly white suburban town, with my parents whom I had just started to live with & barely knew, and my older siblings going through their own struggles. I’m thinking about how I had to keep all of those feelings and experiences confined in my body, unspoken and made invisible even to me, for survival.

“What was missing in my life?” “What did I do to deserve this?” “What was the best thing I accomplished?”

#FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth

“White middle class professionals provided the main leadership of the anti-imperialist movement, but it gained support from farmers (for whom William Jennings Bryan especially spoke), from labor, from recent immigrant groups notably the Irish and the Germans, and from blacks. Of all these, perhaps it was the black anti-imperialists who identified most closely with the Filipinos. They saw themselves like the Filipinos as victims of U.S. racism and racist policies. Evidence of this sympathy was to be seen in the opposition of most of the black press to McKinley’s Philippine policies and in the unusual rate of desertion of black troops serving in the Philippines, some of whom went over to fight on the Filipino side. On July 17, 1899, in anticipation of the coming presidential election, a meeting of Boston blacks was held to further the influence and organization of anti-imperialist sentiment in the black communities of the nation. This meeting adopted the following resolutions.” •

Jesse Williams  (via bsw-msw-wwe)

the struggle is so real 

Please sign this petition so that Bayna does not end up serving 15 years in prison! https://www.change.org/p/lgbtq-asking-the-judge-for-leniency-in-the-sentencing-of-bayna-lehkiem-el-amin