Mindpirates proudly announces an Art Porn Night:

On two floors .. and in a few dark corners.
Films and porn shorts
Video installations
A performance by SADIE LUNE around 10 o’clock
And Music by Henri Steeg

A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner
Community Action Center (69 min – 2010)

Travis Mathews
I want your love (2010)

Signe Baumane
Teat Beat of Sex (2010)

Sadie Lune
Yum (2010)

Because we love porn.
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2012-01-18

Start Time: 22:30
Date: 2011-09-15

Title: Girl Talk: a cis and trans woman dialogue
Link out: Click here
Description:
Girl Talk: A Cis and Trans Woman Dialogue

Queer cisgender (i.e., nontransgender) women and queer transgender
women are allies, friends, support systems, lovers, and partners to
each other. We are interested in putting on a show about relationships
of all kinds – sexual and/or romantic, chosen and blood family,
friendships, support networks, activist alliances — between
transgender queer women and cisgender queer women. These relationships
and activist alliances are close to both of our hearts, and integral
to our feminist and queer politics. We are both deeply invested in
fostering artistic and activist alliances between cis and trans women.
(We’ve also both been impressed with the work about the intersections
between cis queer men’s and trans men’s communities that we’ve seen
Kirk Read curate, for example — “Ding Dong,” “The New Brotherhood.”
The queer women’s equivalent is long overdue!)
Date: 2011-03-24

Title: XXXhibition: An Art Show Celebrating Sex Workers
Location: Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco 2501 Bryant Street,
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Description: Please join us in honoring International Sex Workers Rights Day by celebrating the talents and gifts of our local community! On Thursday, March 3 from 6-9pm we will showcase art from more than a dozen Bay Area sex worker artists.

The exhibition will feature paintings by Sadie Lune, art prints by Annie Sprinkle, erotic oil paintings by Nancy Peach, photos of St. James Infirmary workers by Rachel Schreiber and Barbara DeGenevieve, video previews from the Sex Worker Film and Art Festival by Carol Leigh (aka the Scarlot Harlot), mixed media collage by Kalash, textile by Zee Boudreaux, and much more.

This event is hosted by the Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP-Bay Area), St. James Infirmary, and Hookers, Escorts, Masseurs Association (HEMA).
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2011-03-03
End Time: 21:00

In my hometown of Baltimore last month, I experienced something for the first time in a loooong time: waking up to snow falling out of every window in my mother’s house. My mouth didn’t close for 20 minutes, and I kept saying “Oh my GOD!!!”

Now that I just returned from Aspen to visit my art-wife, Lula Mae Day and her beloved, Talbott Walker, I’m old hat at snow. We even stood on giant “icicles”, big frozen sheets in the middle of the Roaring Fork River. We wrote songs, took footage for a new video in the Winter Collaboration series, I learned to dance ochos at Tango class, and Lula taught me to crochet. We sat in the biggest hot springs in the world, looking through the steam at the snow covered mountains, just like convalescing Victorian protagonists. And yet it felt like not much at all, the perfect way to make art, just flowing because that is what we do together without stress or distractions.

Anyway, Baltimore. My beloved Grouper, Tim Kreider, infamous creator of The Pain- When Will It End came down from his turret in Brooklyn to write in his undisclosed location on the Chesapeake and cannoli taste-test with me. He is my Grouper because I am his #1 Groupie, a dynamic that grew out of my adolescent adoration of his comics and ignorance that cartoonists rarely have groupies.

So! We met Joe McLeod from the City Paper at Club Charles one night for Tim’s interview, since he has a new book of political cartoons coming out. Which will be followed by a ‘book-book’ with no drawings at all.

You can read about it: http://citypaper.com/news/columns/the-pain-never-ends-1.1108733
and if you live in Baltimore, see him present the book at Atomic Books (one of the long-lasting coolest places in Baltimore and shining star of the painfully lean selection of accessible and appealing bastions of weird when I was a desperate teenager, which also now carries Bend Over Magazine) on February 25.

Breaking Ranks: Human/Nature

Readings & Performances

Sunday, February 13, 2 – 5PM

Admission FREE | Meet in the Mess Hall, Building 944, Fort Barry

Reservations are not required, but we invite you to click here as a courtesy RSVP
Exhibition

ongoing through February 20

Admission FREE | Building 944, 3rd Floor

Gallery Hours | Tuesday – Friday + Sunday, Noon – 5PM

“Breaking Ranks” in military usage indicates the movement of a group to fall out of line, allowing each person to go his or her own way.

The Bay Area artists, performers, and writers included in this annual exhibition break ranks from the status quo to investigate the

arbitrary division between Nature and Culture.

Readings & Performances | Sunday, February 13, 2 – 5PM

On Sunday, February 13, we’ve invited artists to create site-specific performances that activate both the natural landscape and the cultural

history of military presence at Headlands. The day is organized as a progression, starting in the Mess Hall in Building 944, Fort Barry at 2PM,

with artist guides leading audience members from site to site in and around Headlands’ campus.

Site 1: Building 944 Fort Barry

A. Anisse Gross tells the untold story of parsley, and serves up parsley treats.

Site 2: A 15 minute guided walk up the hill to Battery Wallace

B. Christian Nagler & Cassie Thornton lead the walking experience.

Site 3: Battery Wallace

C. Sarah Fran Wisby enacts conversational poetry.

Site 4: Building 961

D. Matt Runkle reads fiction about a post-functional city

E. Elise Baldwin performs with dioramas, live video, sound & light.

Site 5: A 10 minute guided walk back down the hill

F. Jesse Nathan, en route, ambushes from hilltops with poetry.

Site 6: Gym Building

G. Alex Nichols contemplates bird poems, containment, and word cages.

H. Denise Leto broadcasts feminist embodiment and eco-poetics.

Site 7: Building 944 Fort Barry

I. Jesse Nathan recites poetry.

J. Qilo Matzen performs a piece in the latrine about water and queer cruising.

Watch a video preview of Qilo Matzen performing in the latrine.

**PLEASE NOTE Qilo’s piece contains graphic language and suggestive behavior**

Plan to wear comfortable walking shoes, or alternately, feel free to drive or bike the short distance between locations.

In case of rain, indoor performances will proceed as planned; outdoor pieces may migrate inside.
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2011-02-13
End Time: 17:00

In France and some other European countries it is common practice to be legally denied the right to officially change gender (which makes things like banking, travel, working outside of the country, etc., hell for trans people, as well as their sense of personal identity) without a doctor’s certification that you have been surgically sterilized.

Trans people there have even more at stake, agency over the anatomy and fertility of their own bodies, than issues of stigma, phobia and visibility. Besides changing the sterilization protocol (its not a law, per se, but what a committee of doctors have recommended so judges never grant official gender changes without it) the goal of the groups and individuals marching in Existrans is to take gender identity “disorders” out of the next issue of the DSM.

Existrans is an annual march in Paris, and the second largest GLBTQ event after Pride.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/william-hamon/5117629770/

The sign says “Trans and Whores, our bodies belong to us”

Thanks, Anton, for the inspiration.