Archive for the ‘Queer’ Category
We featured Kian Goh at the Unspoken Borders Conference this year, during the Talk20 session. Having Goh be part of the conference was fantastic, particularly because of her direct engagement with the queer community on design issues. One of her projects is featured in our hot-off-the-press publication. She was also recently interviewed by the American [...]
Here are some scenes I took from this year’s NYC Pride. It was a beautiful thing to see so many family taking over the streets!
Yesterday, the Judson Memorial Church located in Manhattan hosted a conference called “How the Church Failed Us: A Way Back from Spiritual Violence“. Attendance was sparse, but I believe this was a result of poor outreach rather than disinterest and relevance of the issue. The conference brought people of Christian faith together to discuss how [...]
I appreciated reading this article about the 1 million+ scholarships available for white ethnic groups, providing clear perspective of how much money exists to support white privilege. I am not necessarily advocating that these scholarships be eliminated because they do serve a purpose for some communities, and certainly there are many white folks living in [...]
[There are] concerns involving “And Tango Makes Three,” the illustrated children’s book based on a true story of two male penguins in New York City’s Central Park Zoo that adopted a fertilized egg and raised the chick as their own. Complaining about the book’s homosexual undertones, some parents of Shiloh Elementary School students believe the [...]
I’ve been meaning to write about how excited I am to be part of the Radical Women of Color Bloggers‘ blogging community! It’s one of the main reasons I decided to actually start a blog. Prior to learning about them, blogging seemed like another individualistic, elitist, white, hetero-normative thing to do. Little did I realize [...]
What a hot clip! (Flash required). This is a British commercial. With such an “edgy” approach, I doubt that it got much, if any, play in the United States. Blogged with Flock
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An investigation of the systems, infrastructure, and design processes that create or perpetuate socio-economic and environmental stratification of communities, this publication explore issues of the environment (constructed, cultivated or untended), public health, mobility and access, communication, and race, class and culture. Featuring authors from design fields of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and urban design.
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