tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82782811402321349952024-03-05T16:48:53.264-08:00MITOTE CHOREOGRAPHICS Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.comBlogger322125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-43566090934100746742018-06-08T12:24:00.001-07:002018-06-08T12:24:56.744-07:00Native American Voguing <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Native American Voguing <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By P. Dante Cuauhtémoc, M.F.A.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Critical Dance Studies Doctoral Program at the University of
California at Riverside <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My research focuses on
how Native Americans of the Western Hemisphere have deployed the dance form of
vogue (voguing) as a method of decolonization, anti-colonialism, and
resilience. Though the dance form of vogue was founded and stewarded by
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Black and Latinx
communities, I have observed Native Americans using the form to create their
own kinships, as well as form political-artistic alliances with other queer
peoples of color. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My project will be to
examine how queer Indigenous peoples, often self-called Two-Spirit (2S,
2spirit) people, have created their own families, kinship networks, and
ceremonies (often due to being ostracized from their tribal communities,
because of their sexual orientation or identity). Though in the past, some
tribes revered 2spirit people, the project of British and Spanish imperial
colonialism’s “heteronormative patriarchy” destroyed this cultural value for
some tribes –which in turn has led to the extreme general mistreatment of
LGBTQ2S peoples. Seeking family, and ways to offer their love, talents, and
life, some Two-Spirit peoples have entered the spheres of “Imperial Drag
Councils” (private societies in charge of drag balls and gay neighborhood
cultural affairs), created “Two-Spirit Powwows”, and participated in “The
Ballroom Scene” (where voguing is stewarded). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today, throughout the
Western Hemisphere, Native American 2spirit people vogue to celebrate and
openly proclaim both their queerness and the indigenous ancestry, while
simultaneously protesting imperial heteronormative patriarchy. This work is significant,
because, to date, there are less than fifteen academic works that address
voguing, and there are less than two articles that look at this culture and its
ideologies from the lens of Indigenous studies. Little work on Indigenous dance
directly address its efforts and struggle of queer coalition of color community
building. Thus, this project’s contribution is to the expansion of the work of
these fields of Native American Studies, Queer/Trans/LGBTQ+ Studies, and Dance
Studies, by challenging, though synthesis, the borders of these fields of study
that have been previously been established as discrete. In this unique way, I
build on the generous and growing trend to recognize and remember the work of
2spirit people in sustaining the resilience of both their Indigenous
communities, and the broader LGBTQ2S communities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-58731624627913621632018-03-17T22:29:00.001-07:002018-03-17T23:02:31.798-07:00To you my mountain <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">To you my mountain </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">P. Dante Cuauhtémoc, M.F.A.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">(Winter 2016) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I am the wind.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hail and ice.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Water and daggers of obsidian. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I speak my mind, and cut with shade.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I bless the earth with my wet dance, and flowers to bloom.</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />Healing mist of a morning due.<br />Deathly hollow screams in the night.<br />Cool breeze on a sunny day.<br />And there you stand, mountain.<br />The one who does not fear or tremble or bend to my push.<br />Unyielding in your admiration of my chest and thrust.<br />You see me.<br />You smile.<br />And you stand there.<br />Unshaken.<br />Absorbing my dew.<br />In your valleys I rest my head.<br />Hugged by your minerals and metals.<br />Enriched is the soil of our love.<br />Beautiful is the sunset against the clouds of our heaven.</span>Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-6914296491497269572018-01-09T06:56:00.000-08:002018-01-09T06:56:04.064-08:00I vogue in the rain <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Today I vogued in the rain </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">without a jacket or 'brella </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">without caution or wind </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I danced in you Tlaloc </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">like any tlaloque </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">dew of the air.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I vogued for you </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">my family of the sea</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">ocean falling upon my face</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">a splash </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">a bust </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">a trickle of what I know is not a trick </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">but a memory </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">on monday</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">of my past when I as a little boy would bask in your radiance and create a dance for you to heal the earth mother from all the poison of oil and plastics that lay upon her flesh and in my bones.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I vogued in the rain today</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Butch Queen Performance </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">and sum other stumble between al'that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I cried today</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">thinking of those without my medicine </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">without water or food, medicine, that keep them alive</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">every 15 minutes hearing </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Acquired immune deficiency is homicide</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Acquired immune deficiency is homicide</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Acquired immune deficiency is homicide.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Let Us Praise the Masters of Slow Death </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">in the rain</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">moist </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">In times of great sadness </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">it is only a blessing </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">to feel the tears of the eyes much bigger than my own </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">in a time of sickness</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">without compassion </span></div>
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Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-6049665709432674702017-11-27T07:43:00.004-08:002017-11-27T07:44:25.649-08:00November 27th, 2017-- Blessings<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is another Monday, and I have have been very angry and overly confused at the fact that I have so much to do, and I am pretty sure it is impossible for me to do all the things that I need to do.. this comes from multiple levels of abuse coming my way, and and lack of support, due to graduate school, and myself, coming from a limited resource family. But more, I find myself wondering, and wondering, where should I go? What should I do? Why am I not having fun like other gays my age... I see so many of my friends having fun on weekends, while I continue to work, thinking that it is fun-relaxing research, but indeed, it is work beyond work beyond work. Many times I want to be something else, like a cute little guy that richer bigger guys take care of..... but that leads to levels of slavery and lost of personhood I cannot stand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And so what?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have learned that I yearn for that which I do not have. and because of that, I cannot have anything. More I am in bad mood, because I started in a place of loss, negativity, and desolation. And so, instead of that, I will focus on what makes me great, and happy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am so thankful that I have so many friends around the world. More I am so happy to be a part of the House of Lauren. They have been more than generous with their support of my research, and I am so happy that they love me and my work enough to support my continuance with it. I am thankful that I have a good chair and good advisors that try hard to support me. And I am thankful that I can reflect and express. At the end of the day, I love expressing myself, I love feeling myself, and I love being catalytic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps that is who I am,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cuauhtémoc Peranda</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Father Dante Ome'Lauren</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Poet, Scholar, Dancer, Educator</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Glitter Shaman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Catalysis</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and I am thankful that I can redefine myself everyday!</span>Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-23759132414371665792017-09-26T16:12:00.000-07:002017-09-26T16:12:03.069-07:00Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Happy Birthday, I love you <b id="docs-internal-guid-4fe295ab-c06a-6e2c-9fbc-428dd0faa19c" style="font-weight: normal;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The vision of radical </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Third World Feminism </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">necessitates our willingness to work with those people who would feel at home in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">El Mundo Zurdo, the left-handed world</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: the colored, the queer, the poor, the female, the physically challenged. From our blood and spirit connections with these groups, we women on the bottom throughout the world can form an international feminism. For separatism by race, nation, or gender will not do the trick of revolution. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Autonomy</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, however, is not separatism. We recognize the right and necessity of colonized peoples throughout the world, including Third World women in the U.S., forming independent movements toward self-government. But ultimately, we must struggle together. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Together </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we form a vision which spans from the self-love of our colored skins, to the respect of our foremothers who kept the embers of revolution burning, to our reverence for the trees – the final reminder of our rightful place on this planet. The change evoked on these pages is material as well as psychic. Change requires a lot of heat. It requires both the alchemist and the welder, the magician and the laborer, the witch and the warrior, the myth-smasher and the myth-maker. Hand in Hand, we brew and forge a revolution.”</span></div>
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Cuauhtémoc: I'm really interested in 'what is a story? And, what qualifies a story, or storytelling, to be truth, or understood as history?'</div>
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The Glitter Shaman: Bitch! Even creation stories have creation stories!</div>
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Grandma Azúcar: I think what the Shaman was expressing, was the frustration we students have been having with "the school." Mi hij@z think truth es qué something we have not fabricated--but all receipts are recorded, made, reproduced, and stored, through some pinche <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">flawed human methodologies. And, they always require careful translation and transcription in order to be shared. See mijo, I think your task isn't about truth at all, but a praxis of navigating dancing storytelling to produce transcriptions that are meaningful to those who are in need of that navigated knowledge, but do not have resources, honors, and credentials necessary to access the resources you so easily browse... También, be careful of your privileges mija...</span></div>
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The Glitter Shaman: Facts and alternative facts (lies), are all discourse, and are all chisme--and it all is glitter! It is important to acknowledge the creative bias that exists in all creation, but it is also gloriously necessary that you honor the differentiations and disidentifications in glitter.</div>
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Cuauhtémoc: Its like what a daughter of the Kiki House of Mona Lisa affirmed with me at the ball, "realness is first, everything starts with realness."</div>
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Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-85438051727461604692017-09-05T08:05:00.001-07:002017-09-05T08:05:33.938-07:00Sweaty Hugs are Necessary in Extreme Heat <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">It was quite chilly last night. And today, I awoke refreshed! More, I seem to have regained much of the clairvoyance I had lost to confusion, and thus lamented all through the weekend for its return. It is something, a heavy something, to know that heat affect me so much. And, it's not an issue of having A/C, but more an issue of needing to be outdoors, and do work, without dripping into the hungry earth, or the sensitive laptop. The heat seems to compound anxieties, forcing </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">fragility in action, leading to inaction, frustration, and morose contemplation. Such a process, so dire and deep, is hard to escape. Yet, somehow, acceptance of the grossness of it all, is how I made it through my time in a 2009 Northwestern Summer; and with the wisdom of contact improv (in all its sharing of sweat), I have found hugs to be the medicine I need to jolt me back from linear destruction. Of course, cool weather, mist, and Karl the Fog, always seem to do the trick as well.<br /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/phdlife?source=feed_text&story_id=929362910548629" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">PhDLife</span></span></a></span>Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-71132411645318762262017-07-24T20:46:00.001-07:002017-07-24T20:46:53.380-07:00You are not a failure <div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="82j7h" data-offset-key="4bm8t-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="4bm8t-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">"Yes son, I see you are in a rough spot. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5tn9g-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">You are not a failure! How could you be?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6bf46-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Failure is but a poison of the white man to make you lessor.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="49ji7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">To tell you, and make you believe, that your black skin is a failure to be white.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7kvpb-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">To force you to forget the erudite brilliance that is your African heritage.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="253ls-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">To force me to die and my blood become the salt of the earth of the reservation. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c62bm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">No my son, we do not have to drink or smoke the white man's poison. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3ogni-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">No my son, you are not a failure. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7phri-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">What has vogue taught you?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="71e2q-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">WE. DO. NOT. DIE!</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a8d5l-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We but dip and bounce back. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="74ibv-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">What they have called the death drop is but a dip into hell to return with the grace and resilience of the divine.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b6lau-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">What they have called the death drop is but a minor dip into hell, with a promise to return to strike and fly! </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="35jjj-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We are voguers. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5nr6a-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We are voguers. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3nofo-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We know how to die and come back to life.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4qjqc-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We know how to be asleep and woke. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5ea0q-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">You are not a failure. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1bstq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">You are but dipping."</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d89fv-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">A message from The </span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="d89fv-1-0" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #dce6f8; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="d89fv-1-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">Glitter Shaman</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="d89fv-2-0" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8g9c9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Translated by P. Dante Cuauhtemoc Ome'</span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="8g9c9-1-0" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #dce6f8; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="8g9c9-1-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">Lauren</span></span></span></div>
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Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-61526590245888340412017-05-26T13:37:00.000-07:002017-05-26T13:37:12.516-07:00Queer Indigenous Vogue, Realness, and Fierceness: Dancing our selected kinships, and our resilience into being. <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 12.8pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Bell MT, serif;">As a Ph.D. student, our research is who we are and what we are. For the time we are in the program, our research focus defines us--because it is not only our work, but how we work, what interests us, and predicts what our future can be. Here is a current snapshot, a current focus, of my research: </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Bell MT", serif;">Dancing our selected kinships, and our resilience into being. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bell MT", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT", serif;">My dissertation will focus on how Native Americans of the Western Hemisphere have deployed the dance form of vogue (voguing) as a method of decolonization, anti-colonialism, and resilience. Though the dance form of vogue was founded and stewarded by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Black and Latinx communities, I have observed Native Americans using the form to create their own kinships, as well as form political-artistic alliances with other queer peoples of color. My project will be to examine how queer Indigenous peoples, often self-called Two-Spirit (2S, 2spirit) people, have created their own families, kinship networks, and ceremonies (often due to being ostracized from their tribal communities, because of their sexual orientation or identity). Though in the past, some tribes revered 2spirit people, the project of British and Spanish imperial colonialism’s “heteronormative patriarchy” destroyed this cultural value for some tribes –which in turn has led to the extreme general mistreatment of LGBTQ2S peoples. Seeking family, and ways to offer their love, talents, and life, some Two-Spirit peoples have entered the spheres of “Imperial Drag Councils” (private societies in charge of drag balls and gay neighborhood cultural affairs), created “Two-Spirit Powwows”, and participated in “The Ballroom Scene” (where voguing is stewarded). Today, throughout the Western Hemisphere, Native American 2spirit people vogue to celebrate and openly proclaim both their queerness and the indigenous ancestry, while simultaneously protesting imperial heteronormative patriarchy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT", serif;">In this project, I will focus on the Indigenous voguers (who I know personally and meet with often through the ballroom scene) of Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and Mexico. My informants will include, but are not limited to: Omar Apocalipstic (Huichol), Sissy Prolific (Paiute), Legendary Overall Mother Amazon Leiomy (Taino), Waawaate Fobister (Anishinaabe), Felipe Rose (Lakota Sioux), and Landa Lakes (Chickasaw). To investigate how Native American LGBTQ2S are using vogue, and its ballroom scene, to create their own Indigenous kinship networks, I will conduct an intimate ethnography—which I define as a conglomeration of interviews and face-to-face participatory engagements to produce personal oral histories as evidence of vogue practice. To move deeper, and examine how Indigenous vogue produces new interpretations of “authentic American Indian” identity using drag and realness, I also plan to participate in vogue balls and 2spirit Powwows, to produce and analyze self-reflections, and conduct choreographic analysis of vogue performances. I will showcase, through digital ethnography, how 2spirit peoples use social media to create and sustain kinship networks. With review of queer history and 2spriti literature, I will better situate contemporary dance practices of 2spirit peoples, and how they have sustained their communities, and lives, through the continual project of colonialism. Lastly, I will demonstrate what forms of medicine vogue has produced through its gift of uniting LGBTQ2S American Indian peoples, and through its establishment of queer coalitions of color.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT", serif;">To date there are less than fifteen academic works that address voguing, and there are less than two articles that look at this culture and its ideologies from the lens of Indigenous studies. Little work on Indigenous dance directly address its efforts and struggle of queer coalition of color community building. Thus, this project expands on the work of these fields in by challenging, though synthesis, the borders of these fields of study that have been previously been established as discrete. In this unique way, I build on the generous and growing trend to recognize and remember the work of 2spirit people in sustaining the resilience of both their Indigenous communities, and the broader LGBTQ2S communities.</span></div>
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Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-25513420045153411602017-05-17T09:02:00.004-07:002017-05-17T09:02:44.205-07:00THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN RESISTING THE 45THTHINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN RESISTING THE 45TH<br />
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1. Don't use his name;<br />2. Remember this is a regime and he's not acting alone;<br />3. Do not argue with those who support him--it doesn't work;<br />4. Focus on his policies, not his orange-ness and mental state;<br />5. Keep your message positive; they want the country to be angry and fearful because this is the soil from which their darkest policies will grow;<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />6. No more helpless/hopeless talk;<br />7. Support artists and the arts;<br />8. Be careful not to spread fake news. Check it;<br />9. Take care of yourselves; and<br />10. Resist!</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />Keep demonstrations peaceful. In the words of John Lennon, "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight! Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor."</span></div>
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And most important--When you post or talk about him, don't assign his actions to him, assign them to "The Republican Administration," or "The Republicans." This will have several effects: the Republican legislators will either have to take responsibility for their association with him or stand up for what some of them don't like; he will not get the focus of attention he craves; Republican representatives will become very concerned about their re-elections.</div>
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<br />(Copy to paste to your wall - blog - print and paste on a wall - e-mail to that bitch suzy who gonna help the revolution, with breakfast)</div>
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Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-7279697813629301042017-04-21T06:03:00.004-07:002017-04-21T06:03:31.358-07:00A glace of the sisters Performance & Pedagogy, Part 2, Aleta Hayes<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Bell MT; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">this text is still in process & is only a draft of what I hope is something </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>publishable</b></span><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When selecting artists to help her create, organize, and produce The Chocolate Heads, which is another version of a dance/art/music company, Stanford’s professor of the arts of dance and theatre, Aleta Hayes, found only the best! She had cultivated a sophisticated sensibility to detect originality in potential. Anyone she asked to join her in an artistic creation was offer that opportunity because Aleta had witness, heard, or felt a connection to something deeply creative and unique within them. She was a seer of what the American Imperialism has forced us to ignore into blindness: non-translatable creative and expressive brilliance. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As an academic, one of my responsibilities is to make the knowledge that I explore, accessible to my readers. Now, generally speaking, my readers are my peers, in class, and in the field of dance studies--so, my writing attempt to speak with the eloquence expected of me in those spaces, which is esoteric and exclusionary with its inherent University educational privilege. Well, Aleta had none of that. But don’t get it twisted, she had other things to do and say in academe. For instance, she understood dance to, yes, not be within the translatable rage of most languages outside of dance--but, that did not mean we couldn’t be creative with also our redistribution of knowledge kept in each dance. And so she spoke about her work, wrote about, had other comment, had other write about it, cultivated conversations, cultivated exchanges, and has shared her work with as many people and organizations globally. For her, the effort, commitment, and responsibility of sharing your work, the work of dance: kinetic-cultural research, was primary and necessary. From children to elders, she found new ways of presenting her new research in new combinations for the new people in her life. To begin fresh, always forced our work to be fresh and challenging.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As I myself have journeyed through the process of being her student, to her apprentice, to her assistant, and then to currently her peer, I have made many observations of her unique way of teaching and composing works-of-art. One such observation was her ability of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">performing pedagogy</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While performance is often seen a farce, an illusion, built for pure entertainment, and nothing more, as artists and scholars of the arts, we know there is so much more, and that this kind of labeling of performance is propagated in order to diminish the powers of the arts. Sometimes work is so good, you cannot help to bear witness and cry--which was one of her goals: to make the audience cry. This idea of crying, as a way to express how impactful the work was on the witness, was the evidence of success upon which Aleta’s bravery was predicated upon. She created life changing work--the works, and she herself, are being of greatness. And thus, to her credit, these achievements were attained because she was always </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">performing </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and choreographing everything in her life, including pedagogy. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Considered the methodology and praxis of transmitting and evaluating knowledge integration in a learner: teaching, and its overarching concept or </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pedagogy</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, is one of the most sacred practices of a human right we know of today. And, then here in the United States, we are mostly without a National rigorous and effective pedagogy standard. There is a lack of a necessary focus, and need of a National Standards and Expectations of Dance Literacy, Choreographic Tools, Performing Effectively, etc...Though there are somes standards for dance, most of these standards are not at all robust or current. Only through NGO’s, such as Luna Dance Institute in Berkeley, California (Luna), are there people arguing for requiring and standardizing dance expectations; and then also Luna teaches, trains, and shares all that they know. To me Luna Dance Institute embodies a commitment dance education back into the lives of the children, thus restoring our future. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Bell MT'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To perform is to enact, to give life to something that is still. That is what it takes to read a script of a play. A play, is just a book, a list of words, that can be read, and in the imagination, made into a cognitive production, but it take the whole body, the whole person, to enact a play, to perform words into something passionately executed, authentic, and convincing. But most importantly, every creation, rehearsal, and recital of the play will be different. And this was Aleta’s approach to teaching, pedagogy, directing, leadership, and being creative. Pedagogy was a script to be performed. A script that can be edited, devised, thrown away, recreated, and reenacted in new ways, in new fierceness, every time. She, like this practice, as adaptive, and dynamic. With this approach to teaching, she had taught me that it is really easy to teach anyone, because what you build within a performance of pedagogy, is an improvisation of a lesson, and is now built out of an interaction with another person spontaneously and presently, rather than prescribing a lesson onto a person and “hoping to Dear God” everything will somehow stick, everything will work out. People are not machines, they are dynamic being weaving existence with you, a single “industrialized” model of pedagogy has proven ineffective over and over again. This, her more adaptive mode-model of performing pedagogy, is what is needed in this contemporary age of instant access to all information via the internet through our text messenger machines. As teachers, we must be well rehearsed to use all tools around us, in our present day quotidian performances, to main stage productions, and to community ritual ceremonies, to ensure the proper preparation of our students to learn with us, and then for themselves.</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8fcc5825-9095-3e19-e995-3e0b8290fbf5"><br /></span>Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-74420799689590887582017-03-17T13:41:00.001-07:002017-03-17T13:42:15.050-07:00Vogue Femme: Trans* Blaqtin@ Adventures<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "bell mt"; font-size: 9.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vogue, Voguing, Performance, or Presentation, is a dance form that comes out of the New York City underground Black & Latinx ballroom scene culture of drag, runway walking, fashion, and body realness. Since the mid-1980’s, vogue has spread throughout the United States, and internationally to Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, Canada, Japan, France, Jamaica, Spain and Russia. Though its popularity/notoriety in popular culture ebbs and flows, it remains a treasured means of communication, empowerment, expression and unity for Queer and Transgender People of Color who stewart the ballroom scene’s balls (pageantry competitions). This quarter, the course will focus on Vogue Femme, currently one of the most popular techniques of vogue, which was born in the 1990’s out of the Transgender Latina ballroom scene children, who needed a dance style that was more feminine, and less masculine, than the earlier techniques of Vogue Old Way, or New Way Vogue. With Vogue Femme, we will explore the embodied knowledge kept in the techniques of vogue, to get a taste for the Trans*Latinidad deep in the kinesthesia and rhythms of the dance. By the review and werk of the FIVE ELEMENTS OF VOGUE, we will build our confidence and body strength, break a sweat, learn fabulous choreography, and create our own personal-expressive dance phrases to whip out whenever we feel a beat! We will have fun! We will get strong! And we will be Fierce! “THE TEA WILL BE SERVED HOT AND SWEET!” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bell mt"; font-size: 9.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cuauhtémoc Peranda, A.K.A. Overall Prince Dante Lauren Tan Chichimeca, M.F.A., (Mescalero Apache/Mexica- Chichimeca) is a two-spirit butch queen voguer from the Iconic House of Lauren, International. He has been voguing since 2008, and has choreographed vogue for his own projects and for professional dance companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has had the pleasure to learn voguing from the House of Avant-Garde's School of Opulence in Chicago, and now continues his vogue research and teaching as the Principal Investigator of the Chichimeca Vogue Lab at the University of California at Riverside's Ph.D. program in Critical Dance Studies. He has performed throughout California, and has presented dance work in New York, Seattle, London, Honolulu, Berlin, Cambridge, and Tijuana. He is graduate of the dance program at Stanford University, and has received his MFA in choreography and performance from Mills College.</span></div>
Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-49063719324084850232017-03-09T16:55:00.001-08:002017-03-09T16:57:47.841-08:00The Queen call it Reading <div style="display: block; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto;">
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Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-9280302295122001972017-02-17T04:22:00.000-08:002017-02-17T04:22:44.910-08:00Prayer for the Boo<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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Dear Boo<br />My love of the night<br />in a phone call I hear such fright<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />of<br />The Future.<br />As uncertain as the moon's sight<br />forever biting at our love<br />coaxing us to bear that soul<br />that melts us<br />feeds us<br />bind us<br />and for now, has kept us apart.</span></div>
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Dear Boo<br />I miss the intensity of your noes,<br />nestled up against your sweet eyes<br />beside calming cheeks<br />I miss it because<br />those nose boo kisses helps us feel<br />both<br />grounded<br />and in outer space<br />where no boo has gone before.</div>
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Looking at our future,<br />and all its possibilities<br />knowing too well the past<br />I stop<br />I pray<br />I will not go back to the day<br />of being frozen<br />in the great unknown...</div>
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"...must trust the unknown"</div>
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<a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1353484057" href="https://www.facebook.com/jomamajones" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Jomama Jones</a> once said:<br />"Life is Motion, Life is Motion, Life is Motion!",<br />and I believe her.</div>
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As long as we keep dancing<br />as we know we want to<br />the moon's bite, reminds us<br />it is only the pinch<br />for us to yell AYE!<br />and LET'S GO!<br />and be the peaceful, happy, and good boos,<br />like<br />I know, we are.</div>
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Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-56980184666411239322017-02-07T14:23:00.000-08:002017-02-07T14:27:05.734-08:00Grad school is hard...<div lang="en-US" style="margin: 0in;">
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Joy, Extra dancing, Extra Tacos...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">YAASSS!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">With that Triple
"S" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">For
that triple "D"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Come to
me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Taste
this</span></div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Taco.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Y se
llama paco.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I love
you extra big </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Mis amores son largos, gordos, y grandes.</span></div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We
betta' werk hermanas,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">because,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Grad
school is hard.</span></div>
Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-46377779904026481642017-01-21T21:31:00.001-08:002017-01-21T21:31:50.625-08:00The addict <div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4blvj" data-offset-key="bvsdt-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="bvsdt-0-0">"Glitter Shaman:</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9pikt-0-0">Reaching for perfection, he forgot he had gnawed off his arm. There was nothing there to extend, but a little blood and bone. Still he felt the need to catch the sun in the night. He burned himself over and over upon the fire, with legs to weak to notice what he had fell into--to weak to run, jump, gallop out of the flames that were to engulf his whole body. And, there was no sun to catch. His mind was lost. It was she, the transgender lady of the starts, that took him out of the fire, and retrieved his arm from his stomach. it was she, the mistress of water on earth that slapped him out of the hallucination induced by the horny white rabbit of mescal, playful love, and tender kisses. Unable to stay long, as her current pulled her back to the flow, she left him a shell, which he used to contemplate--meditate back into wholeness: reality. As the sun rose, his brothers began to bloom, and he rushed to be held once again in their garden. Still unable to fell his old-new arm, he reached for their embrace...</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fp32f-0-0">How do you think his peers responded?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a6phi-0-0">Antonio:</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9brai-0-0">They rejected him? Huh? because he didn't follow the rules, and he broke all of their trusts.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2l2v5-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3vhfe-0-0">Glitter Shaman:</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="biufr-0-0">Not quite. Xochipilli was welcomed back, and was hugged so tightly, seed sprang forth to cover the earth. Still today, his friends and family, his brothers, embrace his body with radical tenderness: tattoos and vines." </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ah0gj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7i23e-0-0">---A story from the </span><span class="_5u8u" data-offset-key="7i23e-1-0" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #dce6f8;"><span data-offset-key="7i23e-1-0"><span data-text="true">Glitter Shaman</span></span></span></div>
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Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-5314547235070429292016-12-05T21:31:00.003-08:002016-12-05T21:31:38.876-08:00The last day of my first time teaching Introduction to Dance Studies. <div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="89r9f" data-offset-key="6ba8n-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="6ba8n-0-0">Me: *takes final exam*, Have a great holiday! </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8tsfm-0-0">Student: I just want to say that I really loved this class. And your passion and enthusiasm, it made section so good. You are so commitment to the subject of dance, it was really inspiring. To be honest, I wasn't really into this class at first. I was like, dance, whatever, its just people doing things and moving But then you guys really opened my eyes to seeing the meaning in the dance, and how dance really does change the world, and brings people together. Anyways, thank you for your teaching, it was amazing! </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b4t4a-0-0">Me: *lives*, Oh thank you! Please keep engaging with dance. I am so happy to hear this. Thank you, it was an honor to be your teacher and TA</span></div>
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Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-74557644344356094232016-11-20T20:14:00.003-08:002016-11-20T20:14:49.503-08:00graduate school 11-20-16<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
To write and read and grade and "budget", while my gay rights are under threat, while my undocu-queer lovers are in danger, while my career may be destroyed, seems so ridiculous, and I am beyond frustrated.</div>
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Every time I read another headline about Trump's moves to settle fraud cases, or pick another cabinet member, I wonder how much longer it will be until I am without rights, unions, work, money, homes, loans, or a career. I wonder, even more than before, if my dream of beco<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">ming a Professor of Dance is even possible--not only for the lack of employment, but because in the future, Dance may not even be a field. I doubt it, but it is a scary thought as de-funding of the arts is even more possible.</span></div>
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Beyond all of this are my limits. Or, I should say, deep inside myself, away from the politics of the country, is my energy that is constantly near depletion. Between conferences, meetings, classes, teaching, grading, lecturing, writing papers, reading, collaborating, planning, is this very sad thing, of which I am unsure I can afford living as a graduate student. I am following all the tricks and and strategies of my peers, following "the hustle", and for now I am okay--but I am for sure living like an outlaw, juggling legality. I am for sure wondering how long I can keep this up, or what will happen this next coming summer. Without a "home" to really return to, I am constantly scared that if I fail, I will be lost in the streets of the Inland Empire.</div>
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Now, I know, yes, there are plenty of peers that will help me out. I will most likely not be forced to live in the stacks of the Rivera Library, but how does that feel? To live in the care of peers because you have nothing else? I do not know, and I do not want to find out.</div>
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It is with these thoughts that I look to the strength of my undocu-queer friends and peers. They are the ones taking huge chances towards their survival and education, against deportation. Without sometimes an ability to work, get loans, or get scholarships, how do they make that hustle work? I never really know, but I am grateful when they let me in on their secret lives.</div>
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I miss my full time job with benefits. I miss my 3 part times jobs with benefits. I miss making art and never sleeping. And I miss my dad helping me out, and calling me to check up on me. I miss all of those things, and I feel very alone.</div>
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In the desert of it all, in the small budget of the winter, I wonder if I will be able to pay back all of my bills, and still get a fucking stupid card for my friends...but I am not sure I will be able to.....</div>
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...we shall see...</div>
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Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-21212556467912959512016-11-12T22:34:00.001-08:002016-11-12T22:34:34.934-08:00Realness?<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">M:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dear Dante, what is realness?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">D:</span><br />
<div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You wanna talk about realness? Let's talk about realness! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Realness</i>, as a term, comes from the Ballroom Scene, and so I must start there. However, I am not going to use Peggy Phelan's (realness as "just" passing) or Judith Butler's (realness as something that cannot be read) ideas of realness, I am going to use the Ballroom's idea...which is living your truth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now to say that there is a singular truth is to think inside of a western construct of individuality. Instead, I pose to use the perspective of the Black Radical Tradition (from Cedric Robinson), which says we are many, and we share with each other many ideas. We are not individuals, but many individuals in our collective accumulation of experiences. This allows us to know that there are many truths, many realness that we can explore, dance, and become.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To look at realness as an academic-ethnographer, the Ballroom Scene provides us evidence that there is no such thing as "real" or "authentic". Thus, if valuations and qualifications can be simulated, then there is no differentiation between the "real identity" and the "mask/veneer/facade". What this reveals, is that there is a "real identity of the other, known inside ourselves, as ourselves" -- then, realness is the praxis of excavation of those identity performances and dances, and presenting it, performing it, in originality and fierceness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I hope that clears some things up.</span></div>
Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-84721195889717417902016-11-05T21:12:00.002-07:002016-11-12T22:43:37.526-08:00CORD+SDHS Conference Paper <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To Learn the
Kids: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dipping into
the Genealogy of Voguing’s<span style="font-family: "bell mt" , serif;"> </span>Pedagogies<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>Abstract <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Voguing, a primarily improvisational form, requires the
dancer to perform in kinesthetic discourse with a Master of Ceremonies (MC) and
the surrounding audience at the Ball. Participatory in nature, all people
present to voguing (in the Ball) have actions to do in anticipation or reaction
to the dancer’s improvisation. This paper investigates how new codifications of
voguing techniques are born or regulated, as voguing leaves that Ball space,
and is abstracted from its forming community. As non-ball participants learn to
dance and teach voguing, fears of an inauthentic practice percolates up for the
traditionally Black and Latino queer and transgender dancer-practitioners. The
“5 Elements of Voguing”, which mandates a dancer show their skills, at minimum,
in doing “Hand Performance, Duckwalk, Catwalk, Spins, and Dips”, provides a
code of technique that enacts a level of protection for voguing from its
dilution. This required display maintains some sort grounding and control of
the combined techniques for improvisation, or new choreographies, that form
voguing. This paper finds that though older legendary dancers of voguing teach
the children (novice dancers) how to vogue, in turn, the children are the
creative force who expand voguing by 1) creating new sub-categories (version of
voguing), or by 2) modifying the previous technique formats. If authentic
voguing is tied to a technique, which is constantly in evolution, then we must
look to the genealogy voguers as a living authenticity. As new generations of
queer Black and Latino youth and non-ball dancers vogue, there are new
techniques of voguing born. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-64425144449586049372016-09-06T16:16:00.003-07:002016-09-06T16:16:41.724-07:00her, with the <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt;">Have you heard of her</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">The woman with the wild hair</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and a wild hear</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">she is made of the dew of sunlight</span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">and the zest of night</span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">she</span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">with the softest eyes</span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">creates art with every breath</span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and in every footstep</span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.0pt;"><br />
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Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-27882354733862901922016-09-06T16:16:00.001-07:002016-09-06T16:16:20.279-07:00lost it <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Courage is like a lion</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">and then</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">then</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">fuck</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">that poem died quickly</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><br />Lol</span>Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-49858849281842093392016-08-28T16:16:00.001-07:002016-09-06T16:19:39.873-07:00my boyfriend <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Yes my boyfriend is Asian,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">But there is so much more to him than that.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Yes my boyfriend is Asian, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">But did you know, I fell in love with him because he got be a quesadilla when I was hungry after working 3 shifts non-stop?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Yes my boyfriend is Asian, </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><br />But he's a caring, and strong man. He took me to the hospital after less than a week of dating me, and sat with me all night as I got medical care. When my family wasn't around to help me, he stepped into my life with tender valor and inexhaustible support.<br />Yes my boyfriend is Asian,<br />But I bet you don't know his ethnicity. He was born from beautiful mix of Japanese and Korean heritage--not without its conflict and and share of frustrations. He is American, just as much as I am, and we like to dance in our new discoveries between our naked flesh, under the feathery layers of culture and blankets.<br />Yes my boyfriend is Asian,<br />But I am never quite sure why that is a surprise to you. Should I only date inside my own race, ethnicity? Is dating him somehow an oppression of myself? My possibilities? Of him? Of his liberties? I never know quite what it means to be a bigot, but I know it is based in a fear of learning more about each other, and resisting tasting the deliciousness that all of life has to offer. And something too, about conquering and controlling other people, rather than sharing and making love in all its forms. I can tell you, he and I, are not bigots.<br />Yes my boyfriend is Asian,<br />But I am Native American, Latino, Apache, Aztec, French, Spanish. I am many things, and I am in love with the many things he is, and he loves the many things I am. We are more than our biological historic topographies in our flesh. We are the love we see in each other's eye, hearts, knees, and noses.<br />Yes my boyfriend is Asian,<br />And we are very bad gays together. We failed at being the sexy hunky dudes on floats for Facebook or AT&T. We were not that cute millionaire boyfriends on that new edgy talkshow. He was not the white boy, I was not the white boy, who saved the other from the oppressive family, and we did not go off into the Burning Man cocaine filled bliss of a future. We work in social justice through acaemics. We eat, we dance, we chill. Our queer bodies of color in love do no fit the narrative of gay very well. oh well. dijo del whale.<br />Yes my boyfriend is Asian,<br />And I am his Boo<br />and He is my boo<br />And we are together<br />in love</span>Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-87190382039433466172016-03-17T06:10:00.001-07:002016-03-17T06:10:28.301-07:00The Wind and the Mountain <span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I am the wind.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Hail and ice.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Water and daggers of obsidian. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I speak my mind, and cut with shade.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I bless the earth with my wet dance, and flowers to bloom.</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><br />Healing mist of a morning due.<br />Deathly hollow screams in the night.<br />Cool breeze on a sunny day.<br />And there you stand, mountain.<br />The one who does not fear or tremble or bend to my push.<br />Unyielding in your admiration of my chest and thrust.<br />You see me.<br />You smile.<br />And you stand there.<br />Unshaken.<br />Absorbing my dew.<br />In your valleys I rest my head.<br />Hugged by your minerals and metals.<br />Enriched is the soil of our love.<br />Beautiful is the sunset against the clouds of our heaven.</span>Cuauhtemoc Perandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693783064262296972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278281140232134995.post-85597350950041513822016-03-06T10:08:00.001-08:002016-03-06T10:08:00.981-08:00The boy <div>
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By the ocean </div>
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Beside the forest </div>
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His skin milky soft </div>
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Honey down his cheeks </div>
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A mind so sharp, the sun fears his cuts of shade </div>
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A boy lives by the ocean </div>
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He is to be followed </div>
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Wind cool of mist, and weary of the heat </div>
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Dear bird on the tree</div>
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Why do I fear so much </div>
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No! She said to me</div>
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Ocean, I want more! </div>
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Ocean, what do I do </div>
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Yes, she said yes. </div>
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The Mother Earth is soft </div>
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And speaks only through supporting you </div>
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She tells me and gives me a path</div>
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To him </div>
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But what is this in my way? </div>
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Naked sexy boys </div>
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AIDS? </div>
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Ocean, will you heal me? </div>
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No! Rain will heal you</div>
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To know, the boy is with you through earth.</div>
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