Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Indie Comics Festival and Thinking Online
May 31, 2010
I was gonna make the last part say “Thinking Aloud,” but for god’s sake this is the internet: the only thing aloud about these thoughts are the typing noises! First thing’s first: I’m gonna be tabling at the Olympia Comics Festival in WA this Saturday, June 5th! I’ll be sharing a big-ass table with the [...]
2010 | Bloggage | Tags: animation, art, cartoons, Comics, conventions, festivals, indie, life, olympia, politics, psychology, social justice, washingtonComments (0)
Arizona: Taking the Brown Out of America
May 13, 2010
Alright, so first Arizona comes up with a bill that allows police to apprehend brown people on mere suspicion of being illegal immigrants. Now there’s another bill banning ethnic studies courses from public schools in the state of Arizona. Los Angeles is now boycotting Arizona business – I don’t mean the people of Los Angeles [...]
2010 | Bloggage | Tags: education, immigration, politics, racism, warComments (0)
What I’m Working On
May 20, 2009
Cross-posted from my Livejournal. Typed this up for May 18th’s “Shatter the Silence” event for fen of color and allies. Click on the banner below to find out more. :) I have no flowing prose to offer today. I’m much too busy to write an essay or a story. I’m too busy drawing one. I’m [...]
2009 | Bloggage | Tags: Blackbirds, Comics, politics, race, updatesComments (0)
Does Passively Allowing Violence To Happen Count As Non-Violence?
April 7, 2009
Funny thing about non-violent protest. Even when the protesters are non-violent, those to whom they are protesting are always entitled to use force against them. Oppressors listen to non-violence because it is protest made on their terms. That’s real power. It’s like conversations about [insert any one of my beliefs here] that I attempt to [...]
2009 | Bloggage | Tags: life, politics, radicalism, violenceComments (1)
After the Auditions…
March 28, 2009
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: Comics, media, New York Times, politics, raceComments (2)
The Bird and The Conquest of Bread
March 23, 2009
A short story. —- -the bird I was in a dark room 1107 with my friends J*** and K******, hanging out around a nameless professor’s computer as we always did (and weren’t supposed to do). We were waiting for the delivery lady to bring in the milk crates and boxes of mini-cereals that serve as [...]