Songs to Aging Children Come - Carol Lipnik

Carol Lipnik and Rachelle Garniez did a magic-filled night of music covering some lesser know Joni Mitchel and Laura Nyro songs.

Last Sunday at Pangia to an audience that contain the creative support group for downtown artist: including Nicky Paradiso, Barbara Maier Gustern, John Kelly, David Cale, Paul Soileau (just moved back after a residency Austin) aka Christeene, Joseph Keckler , Penny Arcade, Mike Thorn (legendary English music producer now resident in NYC with his wife and soul partner Layla imagine 40 years together) , just to name a few.. it was an unforgettable night of music magic, Pangia has survived this terrible period of gentrification somehow thanks to Stephen and Arnaldo, I go there regularly to listen and discover,

Carol and Rachelle opened the show with this video of an obscure Joni song that they just released as a single and is as you can see on youtube, Yes it was a night to remember,

(also give a youtube listen to the songs that each artist has written and sung in other performances. Carol does a cover of Heaver that I adore .. the talking heads song)

I NEED A BREAK FROM THE NON-STOP CAITLYN JENNER -KARDASIAN MEDIA MACHINE.

I NEED A BREAK FROM THE NON-STOP CAITLYN JENNER -KARDASIAN MEDIA MACHINE.

I NEED A BREAK FROM THE NON-STOP   CAITLYN JENNER-KARDASIAN MEDIA MACHINE. C-J-K is a life-long cross-dresser with full knowledge of his fetish for women's clothing by each of v three wives... C-J-K , like a small group of heterosexual married men whose wives share and participate in their husband's fetish (good for them even if it is none of my business) C-J-K modified v gender expression by having an extreme body make over to have C-J-K look like v fantasy of vself does little to actually educate the public of the suffering of falling outside the acceptable gender expression of what is named appropriate male and female behavior .. and heavily policed by public perception and society's institutions including but not limited to schools and churches. C-J-K is still pandering to old form and discriminatory definitions of male and female behavior, Sorry but dress, accessories and self-name-age does not a woman make . Rather than expanding the definition of the arch of gender expression C-J-K and a legion of entrepreneurs are supported by many activists who should know better. 

Change is not adjustment! ; Change is Change. For

I suggest time is better spent watching the web series TRANSPARENT(amazon), films like  For Girls It Is Different educating yourself to the meaning and freedom of gender queer identity (truly radical response to repressive gender rules ) and detox your-self from tabloid sensationalism rather than compassionate support of a wider expression of gender behavior. Fighting for the right to be different in gender expression including early childhood anti-bullying training is to me the right path to supporting each individuals right to control their own body and behavior.

I am attaching a talk by CeCe MacDonald who story of harassment and fight back is eeing attacked .xample=ry...and how CeCE sees v role in society ...And the role artists have with a gender illusion, full frontal attack seen in the truly transgressive work of artists like Joey Arias, Christeene Vale (Paul Soileau),Flotilla DeBrrge, J.Jack Halbertstam, Dark Matter, Dandy Darkly, as well as many other artists whose names I ask you to list please l. Watch you own language (I try to do so .. i use the vocabulary suggested by my friend Justin Vivian Bond re pronouns use in my writing: v for his/her, Mix for Mister, Miss, Mrs etc : start here: … and look beneath the language that may trigger you ..or me ..to what is essentially important .. LANGUAGE IS FLUID AND SOMETIMES TOXIC .... and please remember I put this up as a discussion point to encourage speaking aloud the thoughts that we repress because of fear of being wrong or being attacked. When we speak respectfully together and enter a discussion with mutual respect if not agreement that is the ground rule for hearing and engagement. Both speakers talk of intersectionality ..the new word for multiple issues politics ..and I welcome the inclusion as it harks back to the basic political organizing points of the original GAY LIBERATION FRONT and Third World Gay Liberation in 1969/70 which I would suggest also moved forward the radical ideas leaned from the early feminist movement and the equality struggle in the Black Power movement that proceeded the STONEWALL REBELLION

https://youtu.be/qzwF1VM1n7c

and thus blacklivesmatter presentation https://youtu.be/TEr9q7594tA