Tag: Arts
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Coco Riot featured in Bitch Magazine
Friend, artist and big supporter of Shameless, Coco Riot, has been featured in Bitch magazine for their amazing art! We are so proud to work with you and to call you a friend, Coco! A queer hispanic migrant artist, Coco Riot believes that art is not a tool for social change but social change itself. In their work Coco Riot loves exploring the multiple social possibilities of drawing and language through installation, animation film, print media, … READ MORE
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Putting together an alternative playlist
Readers! Listeners! Shameless wants to put together a podcast of music by women, trans, genderqueer and non-binary folk that comes through non-mainstream channels, from parts of the world that often feel out of reach for those of us in Canada. Can you help us? Send songs through sendspace.com or another online file sharing program to sfeldbloom@shamelessmag.com, and email some notes about the artist - where they come from, who they are, and what’s awesome about them and … READ MORE
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2011: A Shameless Retrospective
What a year! People say that every year as they bid the previous one adieu but 2011 has been full of world events that have shocked and touched us. Worry is one of the words that comes to mind when we think about 2011. From worry over the economy to fretting about our political climate, it’s clear the past year was fraught with events that, despite the fast pace of our lives, has caused us … READ MORE
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Video: WRTN/SPKN Triangle Program
WRTN/SPKN is a story writing and story telling project that took place at the Triangle Program with a group of LGBTQ high school students in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. For several weeks, we explored creative writing (particularly memoir) through practices including free association, “cut-up,” word strings, found poetry, and collaborative writing. We experimented with voice and form, and the relationship between the written and spoken, and visually explored word. Throughout our creative process, … READ MORE
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Pop culture wake-up call: you can call it art, but it’s racism.
I love Florence + the Machine. I discovered her a little late, some time after “Dog Days are Over” had hit it big in North America. Her voice is incredible and her songwriting is amazing, orchestral, all-encompassing, overwhelming. But maybe I should say I loved Florence - after seeing her latest music video for her latest single from Ceremonials, “No Light, No Light,” I’m just not sure. With warnings for racism, white and Christian supremacy, here’s … READ MORE
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Free film festival screenings: Spotlight on Muslim and Arab Women’s Stories
In April I made a short film for a class project exploring my love for moustaches and the pressure I feel to remove my natural facial hair. It was quite possibly one of the most empowering things I have ever done: to pick up a camera, create a narrative, edit film and have my own self-told-story shown on a TV screen. When a professor at Ryerson (where I go to school) got wind of the film … READ MORE
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Call for participants: Parkdale Street Writers
PARKDALE STREET WRITERS A free writing group for youth 16-29 led by local authors, poets, graphic novelists and lyricists at the Parkdale Library https://www.facebook.com/parkdale.street.writers http://parkdalewriters.ca LOCATION AND TIMESx2028 Parkdale Library (basement auditorium)x20281303 Queen Street West, Torontox2028 Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Starts October 11th 2011 and runs until July 1, 2012 - please register! FINE PRINTx2028 Participants must be 16-29 years old. Workshops are free, but please register by getting in touch (sometimes we fill up)! All supplies and snacks are provided for … READ MORE
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Event and interview with Leanne Prain, author of Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery
Hoopla, by the co-author of 2009’s bestselling Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet & Knit Graffiti, showcases those who take the craft of embroidery where it’s never gone before, in an astonishing, full-colour display of embroidered art. Hoopla rebels against the quaint and familiar embroidery motifs of flowers and swashes, and focuses instead on innovative stitch artists who specialize in unusual, guerrilla-style patterns such as needlepoint nipple doilies and a ransom note pillow; it demonstrates … READ MORE
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Sexy R2-D2, and other harbingers of the sexualization of fandom
Mouths agape, my co-worker and I took in the sight of a woman dressed as the slave version of Princess Leia (from Star Wars). We were managing a booth at Toronto’s recent FanExpo, and were amazed at the substantial amount of leg on display. I wouldn’t consider myself a prude, but the abundant partial nudity at FanExpo took some getting used to (it was my first time at a fan convention). Once I adjusted, I began … READ MORE
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Event: Pride and poetry Iranian queer poetry
Head to Toronto’s 519 Church Street Community Centre this Saturday, July 9th at 7 p.m. for a night of contemporary Iranian queer poetry hosted by the Iranian Queer Organization. Poems will be translated in English. For more info on the Iranian Queer Organization please visit its website: IRQO was founded the summer of 2006 with the aim of familiarizing the Iranian society with sexual diversity issues and working toward the decriminalization of homosexuality. Other goals include serving … READ MORE
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But That’s Not Normal… Or How Even People In The Liberal Arts Are Enshrined In Gender Norms
There is something I would like to share with all of you, readers. I’d like to talk about a conversation I had this past week with a new coworker and friend, J. During our dinner hour (as J and I munched on some delicious falafels and chicken kebabs), we began to discuss how certain persons at work appear or act uncomfortable around J. To provide some background, J and I work as ushers/concession at a theatre … READ MORE
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Meet Laura
Works of Art: An Intro Hello to all the Shameless! I’m here to share some thoughts, rants and maybe even an occasional insight on arts and culture with you. It’s going to be lots of fun, I promise, and I’m super stoked to be here. I have a firmly established penchant for works of art of all types. From poetry slams and lit readings; photography and fine art exhibits; rock concerts and nights at the opera; … READ MORE
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a love letter to feminism (for real)
cross-posted on www.shaungatagore.com I feel blessed and honoured to be a part of the anthology, Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex. Not only because it gave me space to put down in print and solidify forever my XTREME-RAGE-AGAINST-GRAD-SCHOOL, but for many other reasons as well. As the editor has stated many times, including in the book, it is not a “hate-on” feminism or academia. To me, it is exactly the opposite: in deconstructing all … READ MORE
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Kickaction’s Blogging Carnival is Back for a Fourth Edition
Starting Tuesday, March 8th, Kickaction.ca is inviting young women to connect, speak out and blog on issues they care about during a month-long blogging carnival! For four weeks during the month of March, starting on the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day - more than 6,000 young women share stories and opinions about weekly themes such as immigration, sexual identity, gender, art and cyberspace and much more! For its fourth edition, the Kickaction Blogging Carnival … READ MORE
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Call for Submissions to Young Aboriginal Women’s Creative Essay Contest!
Calling all Young Aboriginal women (trans, Two-Spirit, gender non-conforming inclusive; First Nations, Metis, Inuit. status and non-status identified) across Canada ages 16 to 29! Do you want to be part of one of the biggest gatherings of women in the world happening in Ottawa July 3rd to 7th?! The Aboriginal Women’s Leadership Circle for Women’s Worlds 2011 invites young Aboriginal across Canada to submit their written, artistic, or otherwise creative submissions to attend Women’s Worlds 2011. … READ MORE
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Call for Submissions: AQSAzine
Call for Submissions AQSAzine Issue #4: Ancestors and Descendants, due Jan 15th. Dear family, sisters, brothers, allies and revolutionaries, Submit and spread the word about AQSAzine Issue #4: Ancestors and Descendants - “Where’d you come from/Where are you going?” Submit because you cannot but know what your roots are, where you came from and how you came to be. Because you cannot be present here without knowing about “back there.” Because you have yet to learn who your … READ MORE
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Shameless Contributor Interview at Ms. Magazine Blog
Super-awesome, longtime Shameless art contributor Hyein Lee has been interviewed about art and feminism for the Ms. Magazine blog! Check out the interview here. … READ MORE
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Guest post: review of Canadian Dimension’s “The New Feminist Revolution” issue
This guest post is courtesy of Adriana Rolston. Adriana is a pro-sex feminist, a recent journalism grad and an erotic baking enthusiast. She is the online editor of 1234V, a vajournal, and checks facts at Chatelaine. Canadian Dimension’s “The New Feminist Revolution” issue addresses some of the pivotal issues facing the feminist movement today. The left-wing magazine that serves as a forum for independent political discussion touches on topics like the mobilization of a new generation … READ MORE
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New documentary explores the issue of shadeism
In the opening of the documentary Shadeism, director and writer Nayani Thiyagarajah stands on a beach looking intently at the sun. As the sun rises, her voiceover says, “the sight of the sun is not always a good thing - at least not in my family. Though we may come from a small island that sees sunshine almost daily, the sun doesn’t receive a lot of love from us.” In this short 20-minute documentary, Thiyagarajah, a … READ MORE
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Opportunity for Playwrights!
Are you an Emerging Female Playwright? “Nightwood is a fertile breeding ground for new female talent.” - Michele Landsberg, Toronto Star Nightwood Theatre’s 12th annual emerging playwriting program, Write From the Hip, is now accepting submissions from 18-29 year-old women looking to develop and write a full-length play. Write From the Hip is a series of workshops, mentoring and hands-on seminars in writing skills and professional play development specifically designed for emerging playwrights. Past mentors have included: … READ MORE
