Los Angeles Queer Resistance

Some of you may know that I am working to secure housing and co-create a community home. I’m reaching out to y'all for help in supporting the folx who are being displaced from the Peacock Palace/Halldale House to make this into a reality for us all. This home and the folx who are being affected the most by this have been such staples in our community for years so let’s show up and support as best as we can!!We have varying levels of economic access and a little over a month to find and secure housing. We are reaching out to our friends, family & community for support with raising money for our security deposit for new house and moving costs. Any funds raised beyond that will be used to support making the house a community resource. 

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i was just informed that a vegan company based out of portland, oregon US is claiming to have made a breakthrough in “Asian cuisine.” they premise the necessity for their product based off of ignorant, disrespectful claims -

CLAIM 1: “the number of vegan alternatives [to fish sauce] is staggeringly small” -  to which i say do you think maybe you’re just ignorant? that you didn’t grow up SE asian? so you don’t have access to our vegan fish sauce? are you saying that it doesn’t exist because white people can’t have it? because surely you aren’t so deluded to think that SE asian buddhism didn’t mean that veganism was a thing there long before it was a thing here, in the white american world? do you think that that white supremacy and first world veganism have colluded to make everyone think that non-white vegans don’t exist or that we do but we’re just doing it wrong? because i assure you, it exists

CLAIM 2: fish sauce is “gross.” i don’t know where to start with this one. i’ve let this culture’s white supremacist anti-vietnameseness translate into raging self-hate long enough to still tolerate this disrespectful “FREAKY EXOTIC ASIAN FOOD” bullshit. fish sauce is vietnamese blood. you cannot begin to understand its role in our culture. i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, you know your veganism is shit when you rely on old racist tropes to promote it

yeah yeah. fuck you too.

Love,

okay listen, you one-dimensional single-issue little brat, i’ve been trying to phase into having really understanding, non-presumptuous disagreements with people, but damn are you making it hard. i didn’t say having a code of ethnics that includes a comprehensive compassion for animals is racist. i specifically call what ^they^ did a perpetuation of a racist trope. if you are honestly just unaware of what a trope is, look it up, throw some nuance into your understanding of systems of oppression because, as a vegan of color, i assure you, it is actually possible for multiple systems to co-exist and clash. but if you do know what it is and are actually just unwilling to accept that anything our fellow vegans do in the name of animal liberation can ever be problematic, and that calling certain asian foods “gross” (stinky tofu and durian for example) is a racist trope that can be weaponized to mobilize a systematically white supremacist society in favor of veganism, well then, i see right through that bullshit mess of a response you gave. 

let me repeat and condense: my point is not that it is racist for vegans to take issue with what some people eat if those people happen to be people of color, my actual point is:

Hey Y’all for those of you who don’t know me. My name is Car-Oh I’m a Queer Trans FemmeBoi from Los Angeles. I recently started investing more time listening to my body and what helps me in my healing. Art has always been a huge part of my healing process but it wasn’t until recently that I started investing time and manifesting my magic. Part of this has to do with the fact that I now have access to my QTPOC community. I’ve seen the magic that my community creates and how it can be healing when we support each other and and invest in each other. I want my community to have access to my magic. With that being said: I wanna make a coloring book!

I wanna make a coloring book that celebrates my community. I’m dedicated in creating visibility for us. I’m looking for any POC who ISN’T CIS+HETERO be part of the magic. Sooooooo if you’re interested in being part of this magical process I’m asking for the following: -3 or more pictures of yourself ( Preferably no phone camera pictures, but if that’s all you have access to, that’s okay, we can make it work!)            - Frontal face picture            - Profile face picture            - Fully body picture with your bombest outfit heheh            - Picture with (chosen) family.            - An object that reminds you of your identity            - Your Name/Chosen Name, Pronouns, 2 sentences about yourself. (NO NUDITY, ATLEAST FOR THIS ONE, I HOPE TO EXPAND IN THE FUTURE THOUGH ;) If you want to be a part of this but feel a little bit shy, you can always share knowledge, send me queer folx/elders that you wanna see celebrated (PLEASE ASK FOR PERMISSION IF YOU WANT TO SUBMIT SOMEONE ELSE, CONSENT IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT), spread the word,etc. Those that end up in the coloring book will not only be on it, but they will also get to pick which picture ends up in the book as well as a full color portrait of themselves, a copy of the coloring book with a personal thank you letter! <3 I’ll eventually fundraise for the material, but for now, I wanna get this up and going. I also hope to sell these once they are done! There will be a sliding scale of 12-25 dollars for folx, Community will NOT be turned away for lack of funds. Money raised from this will go to buying supplies, surviving, and supporting community (that looks like so many things!!!!!)

Original Sins #5 - The No-Sin Situation (2014) 

Story: Chip Zdarsky , art: Chip Zdarsky

Get it now here

For the past 3 months, co-editor Elena Rose and I have been working on Queer & Trans Artists of Color, Volume Two, featuring:

Mimi Thi Nguyen

Lexi Adsit

Vivek Shraya

Indira Allegra

Tina Takemoto

Mattie Brice

Amir Rabiyah

Juba Kalamka

and 9 other brilliant queer and trans POC artists!

The last fundraiser only raised half of what I was trying to raise, so I am trying to raise the rest now (enough now to pay each of the artists $100 for contributing their time and wisdom to being in this book). Please support queer and trans artists of color by DONATING TODAY!

Anyone who donates $50 or more will have their name on the acknowledgements page of the book. Any money raised above the goal will be put towards having a launch party for the book in Oakland in a wheelchair-accessible location.