ANNOUNCEMENT: The Mutual Aid Book Sale is back!!! ❤️
Catch us at @sleepybloc Sunday 24 May, 9AM - 2:30PM, Marrickville, for your winter reads, a smorgasbord selection of lit and art mags & book trinkets. We’ll be joined by @blancsbake & @gorillasambal.syd on the day, a golden opportunity to hang with community, stock up on sambal and scrummy treats before Winter.
All proceeds go to @rasil_yahya@roza_family1238@ragh45360@gigi.mahmoud0 and Aboriginal families supported by Mob Mutual Aid via @paul_silva_dunghutti_man .
We particularly need to raise funds to help a young Gazan mum meet urgent surgical costs for her two-month-old baby, totalling $5000USD. If you're able to donate at all before the day of our book sale, that'd be so appreciated. Everything little bit counts towards saving a life. All funds with receipts will be sent and posted after the booksale.
Stay tuned for more details re: our enviable selection.
Can't make it on the day? Donate directly:
PAYID [email protected]
Art lovingly made by @viroraptor
professional landscape shots from very serious collaborative shoot with my favourite lens - hand - eye coordinator @42069mm for press for the things i do involving business needing commerce marketing branded branding here i am commodity
in the absence of each other can you become yourself here i am human coming here i come here becoming human i am here in absence of here i am can you be here becoming absent here i can be
‘here’ ‘hear’ not to be confused with ‘listen’ did you notice the dentists are women these days did you pay your taxes did you eat cake did they let you have you said sorry do you want to book me do you dream of electric sheep do you crave something different have you tried will you again against what are you struggling
this is an act of vanity and celebration of the talent of my sibling and the beauty of the photographs an act of making took place look it happened
professional portrait shots from very serious collaborative shoot with my favourite lens - hand - eye coordinator @42069mm for press for the things i do involving business needing commerce marketing branded branding here i am commodity
in the absence of each other can you become yourself here i am human coming here i come here becoming human i am here in absence of here i am can you be here becoming absent here i can be
‘here’ ‘hear’ not to be confused with ‘listen’ what’s the sound what’s that what is here have you looked i’m looking and i know now what i see has hit the cornea just waiting for the signal in the brain give it a moment by the time the star’s done crossing the southern sky it’ll feel like the idea of understanding (maybe)
this is an act of vanity and celebration of the talent of my sibling and the beauty of the photographs an act of making took place look it happened
✨ Announcing Sound Sorcery #7:
SPOKEN WORD feat. imbi✨
imbi is an artist currently residing on unceded Gadigal Land. imbi works with language, voice, energy and body as tools for self-expression, abstraction, and deepening both individual perception and interpersonal connection.
Their practice is intuitive, embodied and immersive — inviting presence, vulnerability and transformation through sound and feeling. imbi creates spaces where listening becomes ritual and expression becomes communion.
Prepare yourselves for the magick of their mysticism to unlock yours: through spoken word, poetry, or bring your instrument/singing voice to dig deep into the grooves. Join us on Thursday May 21st, 6:30pm at The Pleasure Club for an evening of jazz duets, grooves and shared expression 🎸💫
🔗 Book your free tickets via the link in bio!
~ jazz magick for women & gender-diverse baddies of all colours & abilities ~
The Sound Sorcery Jam is for women and gender diverse people to gather in a fun and encouraging space where our unique sound/voice can be nurtured, and where we can connect and support each other’s growth and expression in community.
The Sound Sorcery Jazz Jam is generously supported by City of Sydney @cityofsydney and @innerwestcouncil .
Thank you to our partner The Pleasure Club @alwaysapleasure.club for hosting us.
Reserve your free tickets through the link in our bio.
it’s only as big a deal as you make it
baby, my whole life’s been the drama
theatrical thief
stealing hearts in honour of emotions larger than large(r than)
stealing glances - filthy and confused
stealing groceries from corporations
stealing time back as if we can hold it if we concentrate hard enough can we hold it
stealing away into solitude because something inside can’t hack it until it can again
*roll your eyes*
I am rolling mine and rolling around in the dirt now
29 years have happened since I’ve been here and amongst them
noise in the city feels like constipation and I need my forehead to unclench or I’ll grow a third asshole and swallow myself whole through the pineal gland
Could you imagine?
Grappling with the responsibility of human aliveness - I can sink my teeth into it
promise I’ll keep on keeping on I promise something is happening I can feel it I trust it I have to
every time I fuck myself on an ancient giant I kiss the big body and feel like flying
That’s gotta be something
There’s also something about the spectacle and spending less time here and choosing when to come back to it and the particular stage this particular curtain reveals when pulled back… it’s… its… you know
Thinking about death and baby red belly black snakes and shells and shorelines and cliff faces and trains and trash and paper mache and puppets and terrors and silence and being alone and how to talk to the self and if the self talks back and food waste and planetary collapse and kisses and going steady
my heart is very big and so is my mouth
I love my friends so much - thank you
if a freak sings in the middle of Dharawal Country and no person is there to hear it, do they make a sound?
Feeling grateful to be a part of developing A LOVED WOMAN again this past few weeks with Emma-Maye Gibson (Betty Grumble) and Karmyn Gibson. It has been a privilege to step into the very real family history of what this work grapples with. Motherhood, empathy, violence, healing. Digging through court documents, we held space and navigated family in situ and on the floor. These artists are all quite special and I greatly enjoyed contributing to shaping the piece.
Writers, Performers, everything: Emma-Maye Gibson, Karmyn Gibson
Collaborators: Declan Greene, Frankie Clarke, Daniel Herten, Imbi
Producer: @_zoehollywood
The showing was also presented with some beautiful and delicate footage taken by @n_i_s_a_e_a_ of Parramatta Girls Home.
Group photo taken by @byron_martin_ !
@griffintheatre@bettygrumble
TDOV: a gathering of us, for us Sunday 29th march
on this day we honour the living, breathing truth of trans life not just survival, but joy, sound, sweat, and laughter spilling into dusk
a backyard becomes a tiny world music drifts through warm air hands ink stories into skin smoke from the bbq curls like a prayer
we gather not only to celebrate but to hold each other up to remember that none of us are meant to do this alone
all proceeds from this day flow to Beyond Bricks & Bars
a trans-led decarceration project doing the sacred, urgent work of bringing our people home and keeping them there
live offerings from @malaikangelking@neadnextdoor@jomalii@ocean_musician@infinite.complexity@vegan.goth@el_beaux_@lexil0vesyou_
More offerings! - tattoos, ceramics, haircuts, raffles, food, drinks, softness and connection
come as you are leave a little more held
and finally through Gumbaynggirr Country
in the soft spiral sporting serendipity and self containment
slipping on rocks into creeks and into crevices
filled with mineral magick and madness meeting myth
beyond dreams this world is
with its generosity
something simple in the marinating of lamb
and other things once felt impossibly far
found in the corner of eye or caught in a moustache hair
howdy do to the sun as it rises and don’t forget to pack your charger
simple care in the hang around an extra fifteen for coffee and then come home and land gentle gentle gentle
the sky called us gay slurs and it felt good
felt right
never said don’t forget where you came from
and the reflection like a mirror pointed at the tie dye and silence
patting them on the head
hand holding
kissing on the mouth and the trunk
massive golden cricket
shadow like a beast
massive golden moments
feelings braided into ribbons flying on her tail
watch ‘em flip flap in the wind and wonder if they’ll pull me over
closed eyes open heart the future is here and yesterday
and then the sea turtles and leopard sharks and so many fish of so many colours and the birds and a hammer head after we left big mothers’ embrace
and this felt like facing fear too
bucket list business again
Nguthungulli
wonder wonder wonder
threw it back to decade before
threw a tantrum head under towel refusing to delight in the majesty of nature due to tired and grumpy
sweet child
this time turned towards sea turtles and rode the waves and felt elated
towel around shoulders for the wind and momentary rain but smile stayed and dove down and spat out the water from the snorkel like a dolphin
sibling life long companion
person who knows on a cellular level and sees through it and sees the growth and change in each other
person to celebrate alongside
sacred secure and staunch
so taught me what love can be
so learnt on the depth and possibilities of healing
Dhungutti Country
right by Yarriabini
first leg
John gifted fresh eggs (at least 3 of 12 double yolks but lost to Otto’s egg fetish rampage) and holy honey upon arrival
sang out ‘imbi’ and knew it was safe
synchronicities everywhere
Dulwich Hill at Water Gums farm
that’s a hip camp
grasshoppers and radio towers
bucket list business
didn’t do much just climb the mountain and read and basic need meeting slow good
dirt in the arse crack type rhythm
stared at the skies and put the fire on and put the fire out and leant up against Gemima
called them satellites when they were and took my shoes off
slept when the sun went down and rose with heavy eye lids let them be heavy
let them be heavy
so quite out there
new songs and new trees
at the end of the day it’s a bit hippie business
there will be no white flag
and still
so much surrender
and stillness
so much gratitude
exercising the muscle
posting poems again because i have to
this one triggered by the shock of recognising how deeply definitions of ‘love’ have been significantly affected & changed and coloured by the world around - esp. ‘political discourse’.
‘love’ as a powerful tool to be wielded, as a course of action, as ritual and practice and guiding light.
‘the heart’ as collective pace maker and time keeper and the life within the fascia.
(i) believe in love.
a quick repost without Gemima’s privates on display 😳🫣🤭
*~*~*~* tropical transexual taxi *~*~*~*
imbi and their wonderful chariot Gemima are offering private rides around Bunjalung Country this Tropical Fruits 🍌🍒🥭🫐🧃
The lack of taxi drivers around fruity season is an ongoing issue so, this lezzo will be your dezzo to ensure you get from A to par-T in a smooth, safe and sexy fashion
With CD’s, sour candy, water, plastic bags and tissues on hand, your driver will chaperone you to and from the function with doula-like care and as much or little conversation as you crave. This way you can get freaky n fun at the fezzi without the fear of winding up cabless and craving ur bed
Beyond the parties , longer/more remote trips are available via booking - price negotiable (day time waterfall moment? trip in n’ out of town for groceries? Etc etc)
The service is available for the 29th, 30th and 31st - get in quick to secure your safe travels !
🚗 ! disclaimer ! 🚗
imbi is on their Red P’s -
they are a good driver and have received many testimonials confirming this fact.
still, this is a casual and relatively experimental exercise in offering mutually beneficial service amidst the beauty of a queer festival - do what feels right
💰💸money talk💸💰:
~ each ride will go towards meeting the petrol cost, beyond that the profits will go towards the transsexual’s hopes, dreams and basic needs
~ 5% of final profits going to the Mob Strong Fund
~ $10 deposit taken upon booking to secure your spot (& compensate any lost time if u get too loose n the booking falls thru)
~ cash or payID accepted
🌟trips 5km and under are covered by deposit - no additional $$ !🌟 🌟5-10km —> $5-$15🌟 🌟10-15km —> $10-$20🌟 🌟15-20km —> $15-$25🌟 🌟20km + —> let’s chat <3🌟
~ tips, treats and other trinkets greatly appreciated ! 💫
