Love Yourself.

Do it. It's way more fun than hating yourself to please other people.

img borrowed from http://curvesahead.tumblr.com/ and The Love Yourself Campaign.

International Girl Gang Underground Zine.

For those of you who have yet to hear about the International Girl Gang Underground Zine it's about time you check it out. Stacy Konkiel of Soul Ponies and feminist writer and artist Kate Wadkins joined forces and decided to put out a collaboration zine pertaining to the riot grrrl movement of the 1990's and how we can move together as a new movement (or an evolved one.)

"Did riot grrrl ever go away? Maybe it just evolved. Right now there are thousands of people around the world who are producing music, writing zines, hosting workshops, and staging rebellions that are profoundly influenced by the Riot Grrrl movement of the 1990's." -Excerpt from their webpage calling for submissions.



Together Stacy and Kate are calling out the riot grrrls. They want your essays, memories, and experiences of being a riot grrrl in the 90s. But going a step further, they also ask people to write about how to bring on a revival of sorts. How do we "get off the internet and into the streets"? How do we "reclaim feminism for the 4th wave"? How can we "create spaces for working class, POC, international and rural women and queers". All in all, it's going to be an EPIC reunion and a giant step into the future together.

Tonight Stacy and Kate were both on the radio program "Feminist Magazine" based out of LA, where they talked about their mission and how to be a part of this movement. Check it out! These women are completely and utterly inspiring.

Listen Here.

Girl Gang.

This is perfect. This is exactly what I want to be a part of.

New York New York

Finally.. finally finally after all this time there is going to be a gigantic march on Wall St to fight back against the financial bailout. FINALLY! It's happening April 29th and there are supposed to be about 10,000 people there. COME! MARCH! Let's get our money back and actually DO SOMETHING about these rich bastards who walked away without so much as a slap on the wrists.

Looks like I'm going to New York.

Small things.

It seems that anywhere I go these days I find an overabundance of extremely conservative right wing propaganda. Books are being written by Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Carl Rove, etc. I have yet to walk into a book store where the political books are even as far as political parties. Why? I went into a Barnes and Noble a couple nights ago with my partner and was BOMBARDED by Sean Hannity's face. Not only did he have an ENTIRE display, but his books were ALL over the store. It was pretty discouraging. So, instead of just walking right back out of the store, my partner and I took charge and turned every single one of his books around and then replaced the display with 1984 by George Orwell. I wish people would start to form their OWN opinions rather that what is said on Fox News. Is it really THAT HARD?! The worst part is that the news KNOWS that people are so lazy that they'll just listen to anything they have to say. Instead of doing the right thing and explaining both sides of the story, they knowingly brainwash and it actually WORKS.


img borrowed from superstangeland

It's just scary how right on 1984 actually is.



My favorite part of our little book replacement scheme was overhearing a worker saying "I just flipped those books back around!" after our little move had been discovered. After placing the 1984 books on top of Sean Hannity, a Barnes and Noble worker just stood and laughed at our new display and said "That's pretty funny!" and then dropped her head into another laugh. It made me feel pretty good that someone actually got what we were trying to say. As silly and small as it was, we still got a reaction. I even noticed a man pick up one of the books we put on top and start flipping through. It works!

A couple of weeks ago we were in a Borders and an entire wall was dedicated to conservative writers. Why not have a wall of books that we could ALL learn from? Let alone anything about the history of the country. So my partner replaced every single book with books like The Communist Manifesto, The Federalist Papers, Anarchy, and The Constitution. It's only right that people of all sorts should be getting a variety of information, rather that being force fed incorrect and hateful propaganda. People have completely forgotten what our country was based on. They don't understand that "conservative" now means a completely DIFFERENT thing than it did when our country was formed. Now it's about hate. It's about separation and religion and regurgitated information heard on the news. It's about fear and a lack of education. It's scary truth be told.
Thanks to a picture I saw on Left Take of a Sean Hannity book being placed in the "douche" aisle, we've begun doing this as well. It only feels right.

Consider this a mix tape of sorts.

I've been making mix cds, posting virtual mixes, and youtube playlists all over the place lately. This is no exception. I've always been into music. Deep in love with it. I worked for a record label I really like last summer and got the chance to DJ in San Francisco which is something I've always wanted to do. Just the fact that I could play Beat Happening made me swell with joy. It's spring now. I'm drinking coffee now. Here are some bands I'm into.

Explode Into Colors See this band live. No, seriously. You think it sounds good here? Nothing compares to seeing them live.



Mika Miko I LOVE THESE LADIES! What up 1990?!



The Raincoats One of my all time favorite bands.



Brilliant Colors The best band I saw at the Slumberland Anniversary party (besides Go Sailor of course!)



Dear Nora Another one of my very long time favorite bands. Is it bad that I used a video that I made?



YACHT They are SO AMAZINGLY FUN! On top of having amazing messages in every song. This is my favorite song of theirs right now.



Lo-Fi-Fnk I randomly found this band and sort of realized they will be my summer soundtrack. My Cut Copy of 2010.



Cut Copy



Beat Happening The band I loved enough to get tattooed.



Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Just so good...



The Trons WE'RE BEING REPLACED!