Mindshare & Memory: LGBT Slam Poems and Videos

Grok These, Please: Queer Slam Poems and Creative Poetry Videos Praising and Raising our Work: On Mindshare and Memory Riveting. Emo. Uplifting. Heartbreaking. Heart-opening. Poetry heals, helps and heartens all who encounter its majesty, power, artistry. When a poem is passed from hand to hand, eye to eye, heart to heart, soul to soul, the bearer and the receiver are forever changed. Writer Neil Hilborn’s touching performance in his slam poem “OCD” has recently gone viral, bringing to mind the many LGBTQIA poets and creatives in our midst with their own stories of love and life. Slam poems and artistic poetry performance videos dovetail so nicely into the framework of social media, aka “Short Attention Span Theater.”...

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Warpaint Movie Review

“All that I know is I’m breathing.” - From one of the songs on the “Warpaint” soundtrack Carey and Audrey, the two totes adorbs heroines in Al Benoit’s coming-of-age girl-girl drama “Warpaint” fall delightfully in line with the 20-something year old indie filmmaker’s aesthetic, in that there is (seemingly) no aesthetic—that’s how seamless this fully Kickstarter-funded production is. In her own words, here’s a nice little backgrounder from the director.   “Warpaint, a short film, tells the story of Carey and Audrey, two seventeen year old girls who fall in love over a summer at their parents lake houses. Warpaint was a passion project, inspired by a someone very close to me. We made it on a very minimal budget and a tight...

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Russia Introduces Bill To Remove Gay Parenting Rights

Source “Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.” - Alexandr Solzehnitsyn “Waves of protests surrounded Vladimir Putin’s return to power as Russia’s President in March 2012. Since then, parliament has passed so many new laws restricting civil liberties that some people now call it the ‘mad printer.’” - Amnesty International Wire (Amnesty.org) Russia’s Civil Liberties Record: Getting Worse and Worse In Word & Deed “Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn According to the Associated Press, Russian State Duma Deputy Zhuravlev (Putin’s United Russia Party/parliamentary caucus) is introducing a law making “nontraditional sexual orientation” viable grounds to remove...

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