Month: February 2008

The Sex Workers’ Art Show TourThe Sex Workers’ Art Show Tour @ Whittenberger Auditorium. 7p. free. 18+

The Sex Workers’ Art Show Tour is coming to Indiana University,
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 7 pm at the Whittenberger Auditorium,
Indiana Memorial Union. This event is FREE and open to the public
(18+, please)!

The show is an eye-popping evening of visual and performance art
created by people who work in the sex industry to dispel the myth that
they are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses!

The wildly successful cabaret-style show is hitting the road again,
bringing audiences a blend of spoken word, music, drag, burlesque, and
multimedia performance art. Intelligent and hot, disturbing and
hilarious, the performances offer a wide range of perspectives on sex
work, from celebration of prostitutes’ rights and sex-positivity to
views from the darker sides of the industry.

The show includes people from all areas of the sex industry:
strippers, prostitutes, dommes, film stars, phone sex operators,
internet models, etc. It smashes traditional stereotypes and moves
beyond “positive” and “negative” into a fuller articulation of the
complicated ways sex workers experience their jobs and their lives.
The Sex Workers’ Art Show entertains, arouses, and amazes while
simultaneously offering scathing and insightful commentary on notions
of class, race, gender, labor and sexuality!

For more information, visit http://www.sexworkersartshow.com or email
cps@indiana.edu

Sponsored by: Office for Women’s Affairs, Commission on Multicultural
Understanding, GLBT Student Support Services, Kinsey Institute, Gender
Studies Department, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, CommUNITY
Education Program, OUT, Crossroads, Keshet, Women’s Students
Association, Feminist Law Forum, Feminist Majority Leadership
Alliance, Friends of Middle Way House, Sigma Lambda Gamma, Progressive
Librarians Guild, PFLAG of Spencer, IN, bloomingOUT, Boxcar Books

Baby Dee, Tammar, and The Silent Era @ John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium. 8p. $7.

Spirit of ’68 Promotions and IU Department of Gender Studies Present:

Baby Dee (Drag City Recording artist)
w/ Tammar
+ The Silent Era
@ John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium
Wednesday February 27, 2008, 8pm
$7 General Admission

From the press release:

 Baby Dee released her latest record, “Safe inside the Day” (January 22, 2008), on Drag City Records, to much critical acclaim. The album was produced by Matt Sweeney and Will Oldham, of Bonnie “Prince” Billy fame, and Will also performs on many of the songs on the album. Other performers on this latest album include Andrew WK, Robbie Lee, Max Moston (Antony and the Johnsons), Bill Breeze (Psychic TV), John Contreras (Current 93), and James Lo (Chavez). Baby Dee will be bring along a full band for this tour.  Band members will be John Contreras (a cellist that plays with Current 93, Calexico and others), Alex Neilson (a drummer who has played with Will Oldham, Jandek, Isobel Campbell and many more), Emmet Kelly (guitarist – The Cairo Gang), and Paul Oldham (Will’s brother).  

Baby Dee is the moniker of a musician who has performed in various capacities for most of her life. She has performed as a street musician in New York, as the harp-playing bear in Central Park, in circus side-shows, and even had a steady job as the organist in a Catholic church in the South Bronx. She ultimately changed her decision about her life’s work in the church because of her sexuality. Baby Dee spent most of her life as a male before finally making the decision to become a woman. The transformation was purportedly tough, but strengthened her in the long run – which clearly shows through in the performance of her music. www.babydee.org 

Tammar will grace the stage with their hauntingly beautiful and beautifully haunting indie-pop. There is no such thing as too much reverb.  http://www.myspace.com/tammarband  

The Silent Era is a wondrous mix of folk and fantasy with hints of Western-European and Middle-Eastern musical influences.  Sure to soon be a Bloomington favorite, the band is comprised of seasoned Bloomington artists, including Vincent Edwards (keyboardist, formerly of Murder by Death), Caleb Weintraub (guitarist, song-writer, vocalist, painter, and assistant professor of drawing and painting at Indiana University), Eric Radoux (multi-instrumentalist), Katie Wrightmire (violist), Taylor Peters (double bassist), and John Taylor (percussionist).   http://www.myspace.com/thesilentera  

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24/7 DIY Media Conference @ The Internet.

I also saw this on Boing Boing.  A DIY Video Conference put on by USC:

24/7: A DIY Video Summit will bring together the many communities that have evolved around do-it-yourself (DIY) video:
artists, audiences, technology providers, academics, policy makers and industry executives. The aim is to discover common ground, and to chart the path to a future in which grassroots and mainstream, amateur and professional, artist and audience can all benefit as the medium continues to evolve.

It looks like they will be streaming some of Friday’s academic content on the web.

Link to conference website.
Link to live video stream of panel discussions.
Link to info about forums, IRC channels, and other ways of communicating amongs conference participants

Your Campaign Here

Keep Out All That I Fear Yard Sign

One of the yard sign designs that Chiara and I submitted for the Your Campaign Here project, titled Keep Out All That I Fear was selected for production and distribution.

Link

Update: The IDS did a very, very short story on the Your Campaign Here project and Chiara was interviewed:

The first winning sign was a collaboration of two artists, Chiara Galimberti and Geoffrey Hing. Galimberti, an Italian native, said since she is not a U.S. citizen and therefore ineligible to vote, the contest was a chance for her to participate in the campaign.

“Just seeing all the debate, I thought it was a strong avenue for politics without being a part of it,” Galimberti said. “I’m an outsider, but I still have strong political ideas.”

Link to IDS article.Update: I saw this minimalist campaign sign on Boing Boing:

Link to Boing Boing post about the sign.

webserver_auth module for Drupal 5

I’ve been playing around with Drupal for work and wanted to use mod_auth_kerb to authenticate Drupal users. The Webserver Auth module seemed helpful, but only worked in Drupal 4. I got the module working with Drupal 5.5 running on Apache 2.2.3 using mod_auth_kerb 5.1.

Link to my patch to make webserver_auth-4.7.x-1.x-dev work with Drupal 5.x
Link to documentation  on updating  Drupal 4.7 modules to Drupal 5.

CRITICAL ISSUES LECTURE SERIES presents Rashad Shabazz, Berkeley University “Carceral Geographies and Black Masculinity: The Prisonization of Black Living Space” @ Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Bridgewaters Lounge (IU Campus). 4p.

CRITICAL ISSUES LECTURE SERIES presents Rashad Shabazz, Berkeley University “Carceral Geographies and Black Masculinity: The Prisonization of Black Living Space”
Time and Location: 4 p.m.
Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Bridgewaters Lounge
Sponsors: African American and African Diaspora Studies

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IU Black History Month Events.

From the BHM website:

On behalf of the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs and the IU Bloomington Black History Month Committee, we are inviting you to join us celebrating Black History Month. The Black History Month website will navigate you through the activities that the Indiana University and Bloomington Communities will feature during the month of February.

The 2008 Black History Month theme is “Building Our Community: Celebrating Our Past; Securing Our Future.” During Black History Month, the campus and the community will come together to celebrate the invaluable contributions that African Americans have made to our community and to our larger society. As we strive to build a better and more equitable community for all of our citizens, our celebration will include programs and activities which, while taking a look at our past, will offer a vision for the future.

The variety of programs planned for Black History Month include our keynote lecture by Terrance Roberts, a member of the Little Rock Nine; Film Director Raquel Cepeda and the Blood Diamonds Documentary; Step Afrikah! Step Show Performance; and the African American Dance Company and its 11th Annual Dance Showcase. Our hope is that you will regularly refer to the calendar of Black History Month programs and activities on this website and join us in our month long celebration. A full schedule of events and contact information are available on our calendar link.

Sincerely,

David F. Hummons,
Chair, IU Bloomington Black History Month Committee

See http://www.indiana.edu/~bhm/events.html for event listing and details.

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