Students of Color Conference 2010 - RECAP!

So this post is kind of overdue, but this past weekend (Nov 20-21), I had the opportunity to attend the Students of Color Conference held at UC Santa Barbara. I went with a delegation of 114 people from UC Davis. It took 7.5 hours to drive to UCSB, and 6.5 to drive back to Davis. This past weekend has been mentally and physically draining but not just because of the long drive.

I'll have to give props to the SOCC 2010 planning committee because I'm sure they were stressed out planning for such a big conference. Props to those in charge of the Davis delegation, too. I generally enjoyed myself and had good conversations with awesome people last weekend.

I guess I'll be recapping my experience at SOCC. Despite generally having a good time, I left the conference feeling "meh" which is mostly due to my experience at the workshops I went to... I guess I wasn't too bummed out mostly because I had good company, but.... I just wish the workshops I went to were better... Or that they were more conscious about intersectionalities, inclusivity, and privilege. That's probably really vague, but I seem to always leave conferences feeling that way.

Davis is Burning - Drag Tina Turner!

Preview #2, originally uploaded by jeffersaurusrex.

One more photo.
November 4, 2010
Freeborn Hall, UC Davis

Preview Pic - Drag Nicki Minaj!

Preview Pic, originally uploaded by jeffersaurusrex.

November 4, 2010
Delta Lambda Phi presents... Davis Is Burning
DRAG NICKI MINAJ!

Sex and "Being Naked" Are Not Valid Activities or Interests

...According to Facebook. Someone confirm this for me, please. I felt like updating my profile and wanted to add "being naked" to the list, but it kept disappearing after I saved. I figured that it was either censoring "inappropriate" activities or that there has to be a group that exists with that title already (since interests and such now also link to separate pages). I don't know. SO, I decided to test some out.

Masturbating, fucking, and sex also do not work.

But then I decided to try really obscure things that could not possibly have pages that already exist.
Killing raccoons and setting them on fire, putting my friends' organs in a blender, eating raccoons on my birthday, fisting lesbians, and watching porn all work.

WHAT? I can fist lesbians, but I can't fuck, masturbate, have sex, or be naked? How does that make sense?

Dirty sex also does not work. I think they are filtering out certain words because I can put "watching porn" but not "watching porn with sex scenes."

OH, FACEBOOK. *slaps you*

This has to be the poorest attempt at censorship (or something?) ever. Fisting lesbians but not being naked. I'm not knocking "fisting lesbians" (because that can be fun), but on most people's scales of "inappropriateness", that's probably more inappropriate than being naked. Inappropriate meaning... a parent would not want their child to read that. I don't know.

Edit:
Works: Penis, safe sex, unsafe sex, sex while married, sex with multiple partners, POL POT
Does not work: Vagina, blowjobs, cunnilingus, HITLER, Nazis

WHAT, I don't get it!

Who wants to add to the list?

There's Something About Film

06170002, originally uploaded by jeffersaurusrex.

From Memorial Day weekend. As you may (or may not...) know, my Canon Digital Rebel's autofocus randomly stopped working at the Goodriddler CD Release show (which I posted about a few blog entries ago). So.... If I can get a job over the summer and make enough money, I really want buy a used Canon 5D (the first one). But that's wishful thinking because my summer schedule isn't really convenient for potential employers since I'm taking several classes. :(

Anyway, since my Digital Rebel is kind of broken and it's really hard to use manual focus with such a tiny field of view on a crop camera, I've been shooting in film again. I have a couple of rolls of black and white film to develop, but I need access to a darkroom first... In the meantime, I've had some color film developed at CVS (because I don't know how to do that myself). This was one of the pictures.

I don't know why, but I just really like how film looks. The photo itself is really nothing special. But as my partner said, I think it captures his happiness and his craziness/silliness perfectly. Even if the highlights are overblown, it's a little blurry, and the colors are a bit off.... It still LOOKS more interesting than digital. Hmm.

Canon A2
50mm f/1.8 II
Fujifilm Super HQ 200 (expired in 2005)

Ethnic Studies Rally @ Hart Hall, UC Davis 5/26/2010

06170017, originally uploaded by jeffersaurusrex.

Androgyny. It is awesome.

Eleanor Jackson of the English "electropop/synthpop" duo La Roux.

http://awmusic.ca/2009/09/30/la-roux-la-roux/

(can't find a photo credit... sorry! please tell me if you know...)