"Please wear me with pride
and understand that I fit
like no one else would."
and understand that I fit
like no one else would."
January 23rd
2:17 PM
2:17 PM
![[oceanside outside altar, haiku written by roe, intentions, organization button, etc. / july 2010]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly9mv1656r1qbvmfzo1_500.jpg)
[oceanside outside altar, haiku written by roe, intentions, organization button, etc. / july 2010]
January 18th
2:40 PM
2:40 PM
[qtpoc pin@y artist: urgent medical support!] please circulate
support K’s teeth. the funds will be used for dental surgery costs + related expenses. thank you for any support you can provide!
Since 2007, K. Barrett has faced a chain of oral surgeries— impacted wisdom teeth that resulted in painful allodynia on the chin and jaw, decay into 3 root canals, and last year, 2 longstanding abscesses that weren’t receptive to anti-biotics only to be treated w/ oral surgery.
Along with this dental history, K. was attacked and injured at work in november 2009. This traumatic experience resulted in extensive nerve damage to their right foot, arthritis, bone shifting/foot fractures as well as a sprained thumb and wrist now with arthritis and the likelihood of carpel tunnel syndrome. Treatment under worker’s comp has been slow, grueling, and often, dehumanizing. Though, the most recent court case ruled that K. should receive foot surgery, they waited for over 1.5 years for this surgery. Finally, surgery happened in the beginning of December, but Worker’s Comp (WC) has yet to update compensation or make adequate payments for basic needs to be met.
This medical journey also led K. to face increased homophobia, racism, transphobia, and ableism that has exhausted them spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. Frequently, WC doctors, surgeons and professionals will accompany gender shame or victim-blaming without understanding the particular difficulties that someone with several identities has to face professionally.
The money donated will help pay for K’s latest dental costs that include 1filling and another root canal. Though these procedures seem minimal, K. like many QTPOCs, simply seeks care that is accessible, welcoming and respectful.
Please help and ease strain for K. during this time of hardship! Thank you for all of your love, support, intentions, suggestions, and hope during this time.
Again, thank you for your time during a hectic winter time and hope that this arrives to you in warmth.
For Questions:
kaybarrett(at)gmail.com
(also, paypal account email)
—-please circulate widely, if possible——
January 9th
11:32 PM
11:32 PM
![[2012 GRATEFUL #12: me with my chosen fam c. / last winter 2010-2011. entitled with my quote on facebook- kay says: “we are very different places coping with our injuries.”]
c. is good, supportive, hilarious, and sharp with wits and style. moving to the east coast has been a slow paving of fam, of people who feel it artistically and politically, who can late night love on some poetry or film or conference or queer tsismis/chismis.
our true story:i attended an event engaged in the experiences QTPOC AG/stud/masculine/butch people being affected by the prison industrial complex. one of the moderators of the event, opened the program Q & A with about 100 people present at the university (some of which were my own youth/students) with a comment to the effect of “let’s take the time to applaud our men (read: straight cis men of color) for coming today. all our men, please raise your hand and we thank you for coming today.” it dismissed the purpose for queer womyn and trans people of color being centered at this very specific event for LGBTQ programs. immediately, c’s eyes perked up, her head shook in disapproval and you could hear her scoff…. and we caught looks. you know that spark initiative in your political spirit when the world tugs you, says, that is not appropriate….oh nuh uh…? well, right after that interesting display, i raised my hand, stood up addressed the audience and panel, “peace everyone, who in this room is queer, transgender, genderfluid, gender non-confirming people/ POC and/or mixed people? everyone raise your hands if that is you. now everyone give us an applause for our resistance and struggle.” c. was the first to stand up, to applaud and to feel the room. later, over having thai food at a restaurant (that is now our go-to spot) c. told me that we had to be friends, that we were meant to be creating trouble and touching base all the way. since, we have never toned down our fiery, when other people have told us that we are too angry, sharp, too loud, too big, too anything, this is never the case with one another. just the other day at trader joe’s, she stankfaced and told off ableist hipsters who were making fun of me and my cane.
since then, c. has always supported my career, offered food in hard times, let me go a few rounds of tears and let me cook with full autonomy of her kitchen. we’ve also worked on this initiative in progress that questions transmisogyny in cis womyn of color political and art spaces, Community Response… i am blessed by her ability to be viciously articulate and truly keeping it succinct, in-line with the agenda. such a rare skill, really. she works from a cultural interdisciplanary media vantage using documentary. she’s with a fancy schmancy PhD and discusses a range of topics most notably, afro-latina caribbean feminist underground hip-hop. i’m sorry, how fly is that? mmhm, y’know. also, we have similar taste buds as far as food is concerned and if you know me, that gets cred real quick. additional factoid: c. is someone i mention in my poem “brown out shouts” who i lovingly quote as they talked about their needs regarding desire and sexy times.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxkfaopsRW1qbvmfzo1_1280.jpg)
[2012 GRATEFUL #12: me with my chosen fam c. / last winter 2010-2011. entitled with my quote on facebook- kay says: “we are very different places coping with our injuries.”]
c. is good, supportive, hilarious, and sharp with wits and style. moving to the east coast has been a slow paving of fam, of people who feel it artistically and politically, who can late night love on some poetry or film or conference or queer tsismis/chismis.
our true story:
i attended an event engaged in the experiences QTPOC AG/stud/masculine/butch people being affected by the prison industrial complex. one of the moderators of the event, opened the program Q & A with about 100 people present at the university (some of which were my own youth/students) with a comment to the effect of “let’s take the time to applaud our men (read: straight cis men of color) for coming today. all our men, please raise your hand and we thank you for coming today.” it dismissed the purpose for queer womyn and trans people of color being centered at this very specific event for LGBTQ programs. immediately, c’s eyes perked up, her head shook in disapproval and you could hear her scoff…. and we caught looks. you know that spark initiative in your political spirit when the world tugs you, says, that is not appropriate….oh nuh uh…? well, right after that interesting display, i raised my hand, stood up addressed the audience and panel, “peace everyone, who in this room is queer, transgender, genderfluid, gender non-confirming people/ POC and/or mixed people? everyone raise your hands if that is you. now everyone give us an applause for our resistance and struggle.” c. was the first to stand up, to applaud and to feel the room. later, over having thai food at a restaurant (that is now our go-to spot) c. told me that we had to be friends, that we were meant to be creating trouble and touching base all the way. since, we have never toned down our fiery, when other people have told us that we are too angry, sharp, too loud, too big, too anything, this is never the case with one another. just the other day at trader joe’s, she stankfaced and told off ableist hipsters who were making fun of me and my cane.
since then, c. has always supported my career, offered food in hard times, let me go a few rounds of tears and let me cook with full autonomy of her kitchen. we’ve also worked on this initiative in progress that questions transmisogyny in cis womyn of color political and art spaces, Community Response… i am blessed by her ability to be viciously articulate and truly keeping it succinct, in-line with the agenda. such a rare skill, really. she works from a cultural interdisciplanary media vantage using documentary. she’s with a fancy schmancy PhD and discusses a range of topics most notably, afro-latina caribbean feminist underground hip-hop. i’m sorry, how fly is that? mmhm, y’know. also, we have similar taste buds as far as food is concerned and if you know me, that gets cred real quick. additional factoid: c. is someone i mention in my poem “brown out shouts” who i lovingly quote as they talked about their needs regarding desire and sexy times.
