Marched with THOUSANDS of peaceful protestors last night in Oakland. Felt so anxious and afraid at beginning, I kept clenching and unclenching my fists. But as we got moving, as I joined my voice in the chants, I began to feel stronger and more connected. I kept the straight white male friend I went with […]
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Vajayna Men’s Choir preview – Bernie Sanders (Mister Sandman)
One week away from our show with The Singing Bois and Felix Lee in San Francisco! Here’s a chipmunkified teaser of an original parody. Enjoy! Then grab your tickets and join us on the 16th!
Vajayna Men’s Choir Sneak Preview #3: Practice!
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Sorry. So sorry. If you come to our concert, I promise not to inflict more corny jokes on you. But no one said anything about cheesy.
Vajayna Men’s Choir Sneak preview #2: Bigger Vowels
This is what happens when you master your fundamentals. Want to see more? Check out our show on June 16, 2016
Vajayna Men’s Choir: Sneak Preview #1
We’re hard at work prepping for our show — one month away! See what we’ve been up to: Then, grab your early bird tickets for the show!
Call for participants: Vajayna Men’s Choir Workshops!
Hi all! After a 6 years, I’m thrilled to announce that, thanks to a beautiful collaboration with The Singing Bois and a generous grant from the Queer Cultural Center, I’m resurrecting a dream project: the Vajayna Men’s Choir! The VMC is a group of transmasculine-identified people singing and joking about current events, trans politics, […]
Underdoggery: can we get over it?
Don’t get me started on the ‘organized’ response to Prop 8. Or Carrie Prejean. Or Amazonfail. But all of these kerfuffles taken together seem to be the start of a dangerous, if annoying, phenomenon. It’s that LGBT folks are squandering the media attention, social space, and otherwise opportunity to be proactive in our post-Bush happyfuntimes. […]
Preview: Information Use in Activist Organizations
This summer I’m doing a lot of reading to support my thesis research, which I’ll (hopefully) start in the fall. I’m going to study the information behavior (info seeking & use in particular) of staff/volunteers at several queer/trans activist organizations in order to identify key patterns to determine processes that have exceptionally positive or negative […]
Hello Information-Oriented Universe!
I am currently a Master’s student in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. I’m specializing in Library & Information Services, and I’m particularly interested in community information/informatics, from a people-focused perspective. But before I got here, I did a bit of organizational consulting for a queer South Asian community/activist group in Southern […]