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DESCRIPTION:REVERIES AND RAGE: On Colonization and Survival\nAn Evening of Queer and 
 Trans* People of Color-centered performance and community 
 discussion\n\nOctober 26, 2013\nDoors open: 7:30pm\nPerformances begin: 
 8:00pm\n\n::::\n\nWith performances by:\n\nCeleste Chan\n\nAlice 
 Choe\n\nFredrick Cloyd\n\nKyle Casey Chu\n\nJezebel Delilah X (JDX)\n\nThao 
 P. Nguyen\n\nMauro Sifuentes\n\nManish Vaidya\n\n\n_____\n\nand when we 
 speak we are afraid\nour words will not be heard\nnor welcomed\nbut when we 
 are silent\nwe are still afraid\n\nSo it is better to 
 speak\nremembering\nwe were never meant to survive\n\n-Audre 
 Lorde\n_____\n\n\nAs Queer and Trans* People of Color (QTPOC), our lives 
 are rooted in deep histories as well as present-day struggles, against 
 political, economic, psychological, and spiritual forces that have sought 
 to assimilate and annihilate us along with our peoples. The world has been 
 systematically configured to undo us, to wretch us from local knowledge, to 
 colonize our lands and our imaginations. The tenacity of hegemony means 
 that as QTPOC, every day of our lives is in some way or another confronted 
 with the pervasive violence of systemic whiteness, heteronormativity and 
 homophobia, cis-normativity and transphobia, all configured through other 
 elements of our diverse lives: religion and/or spirituality, class, 
 nationality,…the list is long.\n\nAs Audre Lorde reminds us, ‘We were 
 never meant to survive.’ And we mourn that many of our own have fallen. 
 But we are here. We have survived, we continue to fight: for rights, for 
 visibility, for equity, for decolonization, for our own places in the 
 world, for our voices to be heard and listened to.\n\nWe rage. We rage big 
 for the heartbreak of our ancestors that still rings deep in us; for the 
 violations of our bodies, our spirit practices, our livelihoods; violations 
 that have worked to sever the fabric of our communities. We rage at the 
 mandate for our docility; our insipid mediocrity; our forgetting, our 
 submission. And we refuse it.\n\nAnd we dream. We dream of change and 
 beauty and self-love and loving others and full bellies and clean waters 
 and growing healthy, fierce children and community prosperity. We dream of 
 not just cultural survival but cultural thriving. We dream of a more just 
 world all around us. And we see dreaming as a vital birthplace of social 
 change. Dreaming begets thought and action.\n\nTwo elements of our ongoing 
 practices—for our survival, our defiance, our blooming, for justice. With 
 the vigor of our loving fury, this is: REVERIES AND RAGE.\n\n_____\n\n::: 
 Tickets :::\n\n$10-15 in advance / online\n\n$15 at the 
 door\nreveriesrage.brownpapertickets.com\n\n\nWant to see the show, but 
 can't afford the ticket? Email sifuentes.mauro@gmail.com ASAP for more info 
 on our volunteer opportunities and our limited low-income complimentary 
 tickets.\n\n::: Notes :::\n\nPlease be on time. No late admittance after 
 8:10pm. The Women's Building is wheel-chair accessible. Fragrance-free 
 event. Alcohol-free and substance-free event. Thank you for helping us make 
 this event as accessible as possible. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/16/18744981.php
SUMMARY:Reveries and Rage: An Evening of Queer and Trans* People of Color-centered performance and
LOCATION:Women's Building, 3543 18th St., San Francisco\n\n(closest BART station is 
 at 16th st)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/16/18744981.php
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