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The Flow: Artist Jessica Scherlag
Posted on: May 2, 2010
posted by Christa & Emilyn
The procrastination continues for us here at The Flow. Sorry about that!
So this week we are featuring Jessica Scherlag, a senior art major at Drew University (Christa’s alma matter and Emilyn’s current place of study). Next year she will be attending NYU for Visual Art Administration Her work has a strong feminist narrative and she considers a lot of gender related issues in her process (plus she is an organizer with the feminist group on her campus!) You can find out more about her here. And the works from her Senior Studio course (its the equivalent of a thesis for art majors at Drew) at her website. More art after the cut!
Bows, 2010. 42 X 23 inches. Acrylic on cardboard.
posted by Christa
I’ve always had love in my heart for femmes and have struggled with the femme label that is often placed on me and how that affects how I perceive my identity. I feel like there is a lot of distain towards femmes (maybe dismissal is a better term?) within the radical queer community and femmes face a lot of invisibility in the both the queer community and mainstream society (partially because they pass as straight). One quote that has always stood out for me is from Stone Butch Blues when one of the femmes says “If I’m not with a butch everyone just assumes I’m straight. It’s like I’m passing too, against my will I’m sick of the world thinking I’m straight. I’ve worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian.” So when I heard this piece by Ivan Coyote, I couldn’t help but swoon just a little bit.
text after the jump
The Flow: The Best of Ani DiFranco
Posted on: March 28, 2010
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No feminist music collection would be complete with out a little Ani Difranco. We could probably post about an Ani song for a year and still have some good feminist lyrics to work with. So we decided to do a best of. These are our favorite political/feminist Ani songs! We uploaded the mix so you can download them here: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7fcba7b234d0c6ea75a4fc82078ae6c89c8414983fff7c58416b94653a3044fd
Thanks to everyone who sent us the songs Christa was lacking in their library.
Clearly we can’t post the lyrics of all of the songs, but we linked to them and here is a good site where most of Ani’s songs are listed
Best of Ani Difranco!
(Not in any particular order)
1. If He Tries Anything- Out of Range
2. Talk To Me Now -Ani Difranco
3. Origami -Educated Guess
4. Roll With It -Not So Soft
5. Not Angry Anymore -Up Up Up Up Up Up
6. Little Plastic Castle -Little Plastic Castle
7. In or Out - Living in Clip (Originally released on Imperfectly)
8. Present/Heroine -Red Letter Year
9. I’m No Heroine- Living in Clip (Originally released on Imperfectly)
10. Face Up And Sing – Out of Range
11. 32 Flavors -Living In Clip (Originally released on Not A Pretty Girl)
12. Lost Woman Song -Ani Difranco
13. Not A Pretty Girl -Not A Pretty Girl
14. Your Next Bold Move -Reckoning
15. The Story -Ani Difranco
16. Millenium Theater -Reprieve
17. Subdivision -Reckoning
18. Letter to a John -Living In Clip (Originally released on Out of Range)
19. My I.Q. – Live Version (Originally released on Puddle Dive)
20. Reprieve -Reprieve
21. Decree – Reprieve
22. Gratitude – Not So Soft
23. Shroud -Reprieve
24. ‘Tis of Thee -Up Up Up Up Up Up
25. Paradigm- Knuckle Down
What is your favorite Ani song?
The Flow: Just A Girl
Posted on: January 31, 2010
posted by Emilyn and Christa
Can’t resist posting this classic:
“Just A Girl” by No Doubt
The Flow: Lenelle Moïse
Posted on: January 24, 2010
posted by Emilyn and Christa
Emilyn and I have wanted to put a piece up by Lenelle Moïse for some time now but I was waiting til I had a bit more free time to write down the lyrics to one of her pieces (its hard to find them online). I first saw Lenelle at a spoken word show/art opening with queer women artists in New York. I liked her so much that I booked her at venue where I worked with the collaboration of Drew SDS and a few other campus groups. She has great politics, beautiful poetry, and fantastic stage presence. I felt compelled to post something by her now because Lenelle is Haitian-American and one of her poems was recently posted online. Here is Mud Mothers. Below I also included a video of her piece “Envy” as well as some links!
MUD MOTHERS
the children of haiti
are not mythological
we are starving
or eating salty cakes
made of clay
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posted by Emilyn (Drew SDS) and Christa (Philly)
Dave End is a gender-bending queer performer from West Philly. His act is really fun and involves a lot of sequins 
His lyrics are also great, as you can see below. We wanted to use the lyrics from Phat Camp, which are also great, but there was no fun video to go along with it.
…And By Queen
And by “Queen” you thought they all meant royalty
like they knew your potential Read the rest of this entry »
The Flow: Bitch
Posted on: December 27, 2009
by Meredith Brooks
I hate the world today
You’re so good to me
I know but I can’t change
Tried to tell you
But you look at me like maybe
I’m an angel underneath
Innocent and sweet
The Flow: Blue Blanket
Posted on: December 20, 2009
-posted by Christa (Philly) and Emilyn (Drew SDS)-
by Andrea Gibson
still
there are days
when there is no way
not even a chance
that i’d dare for even a second
glance at the reflection of my body in the mirror Read the rest of this entry »
The Flow: Black Girl Pain
Posted on: December 13, 2009
-posted by Christa and Emilyn (Drew SDS)-
The song for this week is actually by a dude, but the lyrics fit our criteria, so enjoy! Also, the video isn’t an actual video, just a series of pictures, but you get to hear the song, which is the important part.
“Black Girl Pain” by Talib Kweli
(feat. Jean Grae)
-posted by Emilyn (Drew SDS) and Christa-
I’m really excited to announce that we are showcasing a visual artist this week! Katherine Murdock attended Drew University with Emilyn and I and has does really interesting work with different mediums. She has done paintings/works with themes of sexual assault, environmentalism, and breast cancer. You can check out her work and artist statement on her website: http://katherinemurdock.carbonmade.com/ Enjoy some of her pieces below!
Partially Censored Pink Mannequins, 2009 (digital photo)
Raped, 2007 (Oil Paint)
