Estelle Srivijittakar, Lolcats & logcabins

Heather Rassmussen, Estelle Srivijittakar

Denmark takes away right to privacy for blind voters

On Wednesday I read that one of my blind friend’s in Utah just experience voting by himself for the first time thanks to his voting machine having built in text to speech. On that same day, I also read that the blind in Denmark not only don’t get to vote by themselves, they have to have a council member present when they’re voting. This rule was supposedly implemented to make sure that the sighted helper wasn’t pressuring the blind voter to vote in a particular way, but what it really does is just strip that voter of their right to privacy.

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India gets Third Gender Added To Election Rolls

NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Indian election authorities Thursday granted what they called an independent identity to intersex and transsexuals in the country's voter lists.

Before, members of these groups -- loosely called eunuchs in Indian English -- were referred to as male or female in the voter rolls.

But now, they will have the choice to tick "O" -- for others -- when indicating their gender in voter forms, the Indian election commission said in a statement.

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Guerilla Girls, Canada, & Women Artists of Color

From feministing

The Guerrilla Girls are at it again. Two of the original members performed at the Acadia University Art Gallery in Wolfville, Nova Scotia last weekend. I loved this excerpt from the local coverage on what the Girls got riled up about:

They talked about tokenism, how the art world showcases the same artists of colour over and over instead of showcasing the diversity of artists of colour. They asked: "Is tokenism a solution to the problem of exclusion or is it an extension to the problem of exclusion?" Or, as their poster says, If February is Black History Month and March is Women's Month, what happens the rest of the year?

It's amazing that after 20+ years of existence, the Guerrilla Girls' message is still as resonant and needed as ever. Art museums average 15% women in curated exhibits, women of color .003%, and 4% of museum acquisitions are of work by women artists. Ridiculous.

There's no question that the Guerrilla Girls' methods are funfunfun, but are they effective? I'm not blaming the lack of change on these creative, bad ass women, but I do wonder if their antics entertain the choir more than challenging the power brokers. Thoughts?

Kami, the hiv+ semsame st. puppet

kinda tuned out what bill clinton was saying...kami's pretty sweet though. she's the "first hiv+ puppet in the world" higly doubtful but on television i guess so...she's in the South Africa sesame st. show. win!

Opposition to the Health Care bill

Tracey Emin, Heather Rassmussen, Buck Angel

Kucinich on the Healthcare Bill

Aids Memorial Quilt, Heather Rassmussen

Scary Surrealist Excercise Warning it's scary! FOR HALLOWEEN!

So last night i went over to my friend dee's house to play some scary surrealist writing games. Here are my answers to questions exploring attachment to an unknown object, which in this case was a Stuffed Ghost Cat-

1. Is it diurnal or nocturnal?
It comes out on the cusp of daybreak to bring those unfortunate soul caught in its midst & drags them into its mealy graves.

2. Does it know love?
The only love it knows is the sound of a coffin snapping shut.

3. What does it eat?
It crawls inside you and eats ur insides for midnihgt treats and turns you into a walking shell of maggots and bones.

4. What is its spacial orientation in relation to the human body?
See above.

5. What time period does it belong to?
It is eternally, everpresently. Killed in 1879 at the hands of torurous and cruel children.

6. What happens when it is submerged in water?
It drags you down to the depths of its murky swamps to meet a ragged witch whose cackle splits your eardrums and cracks ur spine.

7. What element does it correspond to?
it is as chilling and piercing as the wind, as ravenous as the earth's overgrown weeds, and as demanding and ruthless and a fire.

8. What disease does it correspond to?
The black plague.

9. What zodiac sign does it correspond to?
It is as stubborn as a taurus, as merciless as an aries, as vindictive and sly as a scorpio, as methodical and industrious as a virgo, as tempestuous as an aquarius and as gentle as a cancer whilst singing you its lullabies of death.

10. What crime is it?
Justifiable homocide.

Ableist but it made me laugh so haaaard