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OMG, why does this look SO GOOD? - - -  Side note: Today was quite crappy (mostly ‘cause it was so unproductive). Although, I did get to see some of my favorite PNCA and Tumblr peeps today. Didn’t get to hang out much, but it did warm my heart to see their faces. Found out THIS MORNING, that I had to go to graduation rehearsal.  Also, spent several hours on campus, only to realize I wasn’t going to install today—too many fumes in my installation space. I need to wait until the paints dry, otherwise my dildos will absorb all that stink. Wore fliip-flops ALL DAMN DAY. Obvs. the wrong choice when walking around downtown.  What I’m looking forward to: hanging with a few friends this Sat. night (unless the mrs. made plans already, but I doubt she did. She has midterms this week & next). Anyway, dinner & drinks w/friends and a birthday party? I’m into it.  Also, I would like cake…and cuddles. That’s all.

OMG, why does this look SO GOOD?

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Side note: Today was quite crappy (mostly ‘cause it was so unproductive). Although, I did get to see some of my favorite PNCA and Tumblr peeps today. Didn’t get to hang out much, but it did warm my heart to see their faces.

Found out THIS MORNING, that I had to go to graduation rehearsal. 

Also, spent several hours on campus, only to realize I wasn’t going to install today—too many fumes in my installation space. I need to wait until the paints dry, otherwise my dildos will absorb all that stink.

Wore fliip-flops ALL DAMN DAY. Obvs. the wrong choice when walking around downtown. 

What I’m looking forward to: hanging with a few friends this Sat. night (unless the mrs. made plans already, but I doubt she did. She has midterms this week & next). Anyway, dinner & drinks w/friends and a birthday party? I’m into it. 

Also, I would like cake…and cuddles.

That’s all.

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photo by Victor Maldonado

photo by Victor Maldonado

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Today’s Goals

  • Work (read through 2 papers, scan & email to students)
  • Work on Place’s website
  • maybe shower…maybe
  • Update calendar to coincide with focus week & thesis due dates

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In “Shit We Did Today”

  • ate vegan chorizo y papas for breakfast
  • drove all over the damn town, looking for thrift stores
  • found a pretty awesome free box with: silverware, a big comfy coffee mug, and a brand-spanking-new deck. Who throws away sports equipment?
  • ate Reubens and Tots at McMenamins, because EVERY SUSHI RESTAURANT IN PORTLAND IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS (or at least during lunch)
  • found a badass fire pit for $25!
  • got Lisa some comix
  • overheard an uninformed discussion on religion.
  • upgraded my phone. It should be here by the end of the week. 
  • purchased an Otter case and stylus for the new phone
  • went to work, and a student actually contacted me!!
  • drank shit tons of water
  • now, waiting for Lisa to get back from the store w/decaf, so I can use my new, big, comfy mug!

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Reading!!

Super excited. Just checked out the following from the library:

     Maria P.P. Root, Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1997).

     Leon Wolff, Little Brown Brother: America’s Forgotten Bid for Empire Which Cost 250,000 Lives (New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1970).

     Tim Wise, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2008).

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I have a month to re-work my thesis installation.

Well, more like 3 weeks.  Wow, I have some major deadlines coming up. !!!

Within the next 3 weeks, I need to:

  • finish up my Reed grad. app. It’s due by April 1, if I want to begin this summer
  • complete the UoP grad. app. due…don’t know; it’s not listed on their website or application. I emailed them. If I don’t get a reply by tomorrow, I’ll call their office.
  • re-work my thesis work. Does it matter than my thesis paper is titled differently from my work? Because I’ve had some realizations about the work…

In the next 3 months, I plan to:

  • make more work. I have some ideas, but grad. apps. are taking up my…everything
  • Clean up CV
  • submit portfolio to some Portland and SF galleries (mostly, I just want a reason to go back home)
  • find some festivals, and submit work
  • continue research & write paper about why I spell my name as (maría)petra fortes-schramm, and not Maria Fortes-Schramm. 
  • keep updating my website

That should keep me busy.

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Successfully avoiding the grad app.

  • Lisa made corn tortillas as part of our breakfast.
  • Ate home fries, eggs & tortillas
  • Took vitamins
  • Watched a couple episodes of Toddlers & Tiaras, all the while telling myself, “They only use the most sensational clips,” white saying “That kid’s gonna be fucked up.”
  • Watched a couple episodes of CSI (Las Vegas, of course! The rest are crap).
  • Make out session somewhere in the middle of all that TV
  • Dinner of black beans, lettuce, avocado & salsa
  • Shaved our heads & showered
  • I went to gallery openings at The Settlement, while Lisa went to study
  • rode bus to the coffee shop to meet Lisa
  • ordered a Hazelnut mocha.
  • wrote in journal regarding grad school
  • turned on laptop in attempt to write grad app essays
  • logged into Tumblr.
  • ftw

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Another List

Today I:

  • made GF, vegan pancakes for breakfast
  • went to work
  • talked to several friends, including the ever-inspiring Courtney Coles.
  • meeting
  • impromptu road trip to Mt. St. Helens
  • SHOT A FULL ROLL OF BW 100iso 120 with my Holga
  • groceries
  • throwback dinner of rice and hot dogs. yup!
  • work online
  • made this list for shits and giggles

Tonight I will:

  • drink more water. beef jerky makes me thirsty
  • brush my teeth for 10 minutes
  • log off
  • make out, maybe more
  • sweet, sweet sleep
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Saturday Planz

So far:

  • Woke up around 4:30 with thoughts of cultural assimilation/appropriation.
  • Came to the conclusion that I am culturally white (this requires more thought/writing!!!)
  • Decided to make breakfast: biscuits, gravy & bacon. (Lisa offered to cook the bacon)
  • Drank tons of water
  • made oolong tea
  • Stretch, stretch, stretch

Later on:

  • Will walk downtown for coffee
  • write thank you cards, very late thank you cards
  • gonna go to a volunteer meeting for Place
  • might go to a performance tonight, featuring some of my favorite performance artists.
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chubbycartwheels:

ronfancy:

digbicks:

Non-sign II is an installation by seattle based art collective Lead Pencil Studio located at the Canada-US border near Vancouver. The sculpture is made from small stainless steel rods that are assembled together to create the negative space of a billboard. While most billboards draw attention away from the landscape, Non-sign II frames the landscape, focusing attention back on it.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…

This is fantastic!  And not very far from me.  Might need to go see this one.

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detribalizedaztec: ultramaricon: I read this as a manuscript and I cannot wait to teach it this semester. Description from Duke UP: The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fishnet stockings or bobby socks, platform heels or saddle shoes, dark lipstick, and a bouffant. Or she donned the same style of zoot suit that her male counterparts wore. With their striking attire, pachucos and pachucas represented a new generation of Mexican American youth, which arrived on the public scene in the 1940s. Yet while pachucos have often been the subject of literature, visual art, and scholarship, The Woman in the Zoot Suit is the first book focused on pachucas. Two events in wartime Los Angeles thrust young Mexican American zoot suiters into the media spotlight. In the Sleepy Lagoon incident, a man was murdered during a mass brawl in August 1942. Twenty-two young men, all but one of Mexican descent, were tried and convicted of the crime. In the Zoot Suit Riots of June 1943, white servicemen attacked young zoot suiters, particularly Mexican Americans, throughout Los Angeles. The Chicano movement of the 1960s–1980s cast these events as key moments in the political awakening of Mexican Americans and pachucos as exemplars of Chicano identity, resistance, and style. While pachucas and other Mexican American women figured in the two incidents, they were barely acknowledged in later Chicano movement narratives. Catherine S. Ramírez draws on interviews she conducted with Mexican American women who came of age in Los Angeles in the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s as she recovers the neglected stories of pachucas. Investigating their relative absence in scholarly and artistic works, she argues that both wartime U.S. culture and the Chicano movement rejected pachucas because they threatened traditional gender roles. Ramírez reveals how pachucas challenged dominant notions of Mexican American and Chicano identity, how feminists have reinterpreted la pachuca, and how attention to an overlooked figure can disclose much about history making, nationalism, and resistant identities. I WISH I WAS IN THAT CLASSSSSS!!! The closest copy is in McMinnville…

detribalizedaztec:

ultramaricon:

I read this as a manuscript and I cannot wait to teach it this semester. Description from Duke UP:

The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fishnet stockings or bobby socks, platform heels or saddle shoes, dark lipstick, and a bouffant. Or she donned the same style of zoot suit that her male counterparts wore. With their striking attire, pachucos and pachucas represented a new generation of Mexican American youth, which arrived on the public scene in the 1940s. Yet while pachucos have often been the subject of literature, visual art, and scholarship, The Woman in the Zoot Suit is the first book focused on pachucas.

Two events in wartime Los Angeles thrust young Mexican American zoot suiters into the media spotlight. In the Sleepy Lagoon incident, a man was murdered during a mass brawl in August 1942. Twenty-two young men, all but one of Mexican descent, were tried and convicted of the crime. In the Zoot Suit Riots of June 1943, white servicemen attacked young zoot suiters, particularly Mexican Americans, throughout Los Angeles. The Chicano movement of the 1960s–1980s cast these events as key moments in the political awakening of Mexican Americans and pachucos as exemplars of Chicano identity, resistance, and style. While pachucas and other Mexican American women figured in the two incidents, they were barely acknowledged in later Chicano movement narratives. Catherine S. Ramírez draws on interviews she conducted with Mexican American women who came of age in Los Angeles in the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s as she recovers the neglected stories of pachucas. Investigating their relative absence in scholarly and artistic works, she argues that both wartime U.S. culture and the Chicano movement rejected pachucas because they threatened traditional gender roles. Ramírez reveals how pachucas challenged dominant notions of Mexican American and Chicano identity, how feminists have reinterpreted la pachuca, and how attention to an overlooked figure can disclose much about history making, nationalism, and resistant identities.

I WISH I WAS IN THAT CLASSSSSS!!!

The closest copy is in McMinnville…

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Tomorrow’s Tasks

  • Meet with TC re:that possible job
  • pick up the last few items on grocery list
  • prep and make Pozole Verde
  • call Reed Admissions
  • make and/or draw something
  • update title of that one piece on my website from “untitled” to that one title that is magnificent and magical
  • go to Dirty Looks screening @ PNCA
  • Export longer loops of “A Thousand Dicks” videos
  • get some sleep
  • oh yeah! try and hunt down Chas. He owes me a coffee. I intend to collect on that debt.

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Although most boys figure out how to bring themselves to orgasm by age thirteen, half of girls don’t have their first orgasms until their late teens, twenties, or beyond. Teenage girls widely agree that they get the message loud and clear that masturbation is something boys do, but girls don’t, can’t, or shouldn’t. The cultural focus on intercourse tells young women to expect they’ll begin to experience sexual pleasure once they have sex with a man (whether or not they’re even interested in sex with men). Nearly all teen boys, on the other hand, experience sexual pleasure long before they get their hands—or other body parts—into a partner’s pants. Despite the massive advances in women’s equality, young women’s sexuality is stuck in a surprising paradox. Young women are sold provocative clothes but aren’t taught where to find their own clitoris. Many girls give their boyfriends oral sex, but are too uncomfortable with their own bodies to allow the guys to return the favor. It’s still a radical act to say that women need and deserve access to information about their own sexual pleasure—not just about the risks and negative consequences of sex.

Dorian Solot, I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide.  (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)

There is so much reforming that needs to be done in sex education

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Because, I know how much everyone wants to know how my day went.
  • TA’d with Joan Handwerg. Seriously, loving this position and offering help where I can.
  • Raw lunch=quick, cheap, and makes me feel better, but…
  • it didn’t last long, and by 3pm I was HUNGRAY.
  • Pho for dinner at Pho Jasmine on Killingsworth. OMG, so good.
  • Prepped crock pot vegetarian chili for supper/tomorrow’s lunch.

Now?

  • backing up my damn hard drives.
  • watching supernatural, and praying for a gay incestuous, sweet, brotherly love sex scene. ‘Cause, seriously, y’all, these two actors exude SO MUCH SEXUAL TENSION.
  • about to mix myself a drink…maybe…
  • waiting for my backup to complete before I edit and render video
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