Hi, I’m dj lotu5. Welcome to my new blog. I’ve been blogging for a while at Delete The Border. I plan to still do some updates there, but I want to focus my personal blogging on this site. I want to write about the interplay of technology, sex, gender, desire and resistance, as the subtitle states, and I’m not sure all of my ideas “fit in” with Delete The Border. Most importantly, I’m unsatisfied with Drupal as a blogging tool. I do enough blogging that I’m frustrated by Drupal’s lack of blogging specific features.
Also, I’m currently writing my thesis for the European Graduate School, which is part of the European Institute for Trans-Disciplinary Studies. I want to use this blog as a space to work on that project and put my thoughts out there and get some feedback on them.
Another thing I’m working on now is getting my Master of Fine Arts degree at UCSD, with a focus on performance and media art. So, I’ll be writing about projects for that here as well .
When I say “resistance”, I mean, broadly, anti-capitalist resistance, but specifically the contemporary autonomous social movements all around the world that are generally referred to as the anti-globalization movement. Part of the difficulty here is that this “movement of movements” defies definition and is constantly in flux, and that’s part of what’s so attractive about it. I’m particularly interested in anti-neoliberal movements, anti-corporate-globalization movements, autonomous media movements, squatting, no borders movements around the world and queer/trans/gender activism.
Part of why I like the way that the movement(s) defy definition, is because I feel like I do too. I identify as genderqueer and transgender, as half-colombian, half-unitedstatesean (I like the term en espanol estadounidenso, and it doesn’t have a good translation. America is a term that should refer to North/Central/South America, so I don’t identify as American), and as a creator, artist/activist/slut/clown/media maker/social sculptor/radical tech/networker/blogger/podcaster. And I live in the borderlands of San Diego/Tijuana, an in-between space in itself. So I see myself as composed of a bunch of inbetween spaces, liminal spaces, partial, fragmented identities that are all temporary and contingent and swapping out from moment to moment.
Lastly, why the slut in the title of this blog? I am a sexual being and a being driven by desire. I consider it an important part of who I am. Unfortunately, I live in a society that is sex-negative and anti-queer. I love who I want and sleep with who I want and am dedicated to radical sexual freedom, not only for my own ability to live how I want, but also because I think that patriarchy is a fundamental part of how capitalism and colonialism is keeping its hold on the world. So, I think that by reclaiming our sexual agency and power, we can do our part to bring an end to the oppression and misery and destruction that has such a strong hold on the world today. Up with pleasure!
But enough about me. Come back here from time to time and you’ll learn a lot more about me and hopefully join me in a conversation. That’s another reaon I’m unsatisfied with drupal, is that I really value anonymous comments, because I want to hear from you, and I’ve had a hell of a time getting it to work in drupal, so comments on my blog have been limited in the past, but I think they’re essential, so let me know what you think!
Lotu5. I am so in love with your new blog, mainly because I have always been an active blogger and these days blogging about identity, politics, queerness, sexuality, and anything else that inherently informs the way I approach the world, has become therapeutic and liberating. Also too, I am eager to engage in this dialogue with you, that is the space where we explore the in-between spaces we occupy, concepts of identity that place us anywhere but on a definite continuum… concepts of borders that affect how and why we approach life the way we do… yadda yadda yadda. Anyway, you should do the rambling. MAD ABRAZOS!!!
October 16, 2007 @ 3:46 pm