Jennifer Doyle

If you are in Fresno check out this exhibition organized by Felix Solano Vargas, up till Friday!

Following up on last month's World Without a World Cup event — join us at @humanresourcesla for a mixer & forum designed to spotlight fútbol communities & countercultures, FIFA and Olympic refuseniks, league historians, players, poets and artists. The aim is to make connections between scenes, spaces of play, dial into the challenges of this moment and share how we show up for each other. Sunday Feb 22 5-8pm Doors open at 5, roundtable/forum starts at 6. “Nobody earns a thing from the crazy feeling that for a moment turns a man into a child playing with a balloon, a cat toying with a ball of yarn, a ballet dancer flying through the air with a ball as light as a balloon or a ball of yarn, playing without even knowing he’s playing, with no purpose or clock or referee.” — Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow Attending/presenting: members of @dykesoccerla , Las Futbolistas, @nolympicsla , @peoples.fc , @semartsposse , artist-poet @nico_avina , historian of Latinx women’s leagues in LA, Kathy Pululpa, and public historian & UCR Prof Jorge Leal (@implacable ). Hosted by Advik Beni & me JD)! Photo: Hansen Dam Park, Los Angeles. Michael Wells, 2006.

This Wednesday evening, I'll share writing/ranting about The World Cup, art/sport washing and talk about how not to do it. In other words, I'm here to rain on the parade! FIFA is the largest criminal organization in the world. It's a disgusting operation. Many of us, when we think about the World Cup, feel a mortal sense of dread even as we know we'll be swept up in the sport spectacle. Many of us feel this way about every World Cup — but this one? For this one it is important that we not let ourselves go numb. It is possible to lift up art about the game as it's lived. It's possible to program to our communities without selling our souls. People and orgs in LA do this every day. Let's share notes and brainstorm. photo: Michael Wells

This book is terrific. Harrison Browne is a hockey player. He transitioned socially and played professionally, as a trans man in women’s hockey. Rachel Browne, his sister, is an investigative journalist. This book is accessible. It is well-researched and clearly written. Great for people who feel overwhelmed - by the violence of anti-trans hate, but also by the contradictory information out there about sex difference and sports. Teachable!!!! This book was written to make space for people to question and learn. Great, great for students and also for political organizers who maybe don’t feel they know enough to lead on these issues.

I have so much to say about sports I feel like I’m going to explode. Join me for a rant, a breakdown of the challenges of arts programming around and about sports, the problem of FIFA and a forum about arts/sports washing. Bring questions, curiosity, passion and rage! It’s a chance for us to talk to each other about WTF we are doing. ⚽️🔥 Photo by Michael Wells, part of Municipal de Fútbol, a collab with @jonathan_maghen (for which I wrote love letters to the grassroots game).

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I am deeply excited to say that we are screening Fox Maxy’s 2023 feature film Gush at UCR next week, Monday Nov 3rd 1pm in the CHASS Interdisciplinary Screening Room (INTS 1128). This screening is part of our class “Intermediate Video and time-based experimentation” but is free and open to all! Many thanks to our cosponsors @ucrchass @ideasandsociety @ucrenglish @ucriverside_art_department @annabetbeze @sentimentalprof and most of all to @foxm4xy for sharing this brilliant work with us.

Important message from @seed_the_vote ! “Fight the Power” ya’ll and join us in knocking doors and calling voters to get Prop 50 passed! Last day to register to vote for this CA Nov. 4th special election is October 20th. Together is the only way ✊ Note: prop 50 allows us to redistrict to fight fascism and the rigging of elections. Fire with fire! CA goes back to its traditional districting practices after the 2030 election (and census, which what triggers the whole process normally). If you are seeing a lot of ads against, it's because the billionaires really hate this idea.

Join us this Saturday 9/20 @humanresourcesla for a full day of activations (12-6) and a full night of howling performances (7-10). Schedule of Events Noon - 1: artist talk with @ashtonsphillips Ashton Phillips and @nickigreenstudio Nicki Green in conversation with @wesleighhhh Wesleigh Gates 2-4pm Mobile Sewing Station activation and participatory patchmaking session with Elizabeth Frances Folk @elizabethfrancesfolk 5-6pm Open Rehearsal of protest songs with Tanner Pfeiffer @t_fife_ and 8TPS choir @8tps.music 5-7pm Action Table from @genderjusticeLA 7- 9pm Live performances and readings, including an improvisation for fungi by @sharonchohikim , a reading on shared toxicity and the vitality of the open wound by @aroussiak_gabrielian , a reading of Susan Stryker’s words on reclaiming monstrosity by @nickigreenstudio and @ashtonsphillips , a howling trans choir performance by Tanner Pfeiffer @t_fife_ and his 8TPS choir @8tps.music , a new performance piece by @hello.bgosse Beatrice Gosse with experimental percussionist @phenomenologopolis ; a site-specific grappling hook performance by @sadiegreyduck ; a non-linear lecture performance on trans horror by Wesleigh Gates @wesleighhhh ; and a howling set of incandescent noise designed to make you move by Xina Xurner @xinaxurner . Coda: Give Me Sodomy or Give Me Death by @badlylickedbear Organized by @ashtonsphillips with support from @sentimentalprof @pau_s_pescador and @chrisevargas Link in bio for tix

Join us this Thursday from 7-9 @humanresourcesla for the opening of Howl with a special performance from @wfumihsu and flash tattoos from artist @delatorre_artstudio At 8pm, Umi Hsu will perform an original duet with yeast and accordion from their ongoing investigation into the criticality and power of yeast as collective agents of transmateriality interwoven with a piece composed by Umi to help fortify the fungi living inside the Divine Portent joule bricks. Howl artist Salvador de la Torre will also be there offering T4T flash tattoos alongside his participatory chosen name tile installation. Bring your empty HRT vials to be ground into glass and transformed into a ceramic glaze as part of this work. Salvador de la Torre is a Mexican-born Texas-raised artist, educator and storyteller based in Southern California. Their drawing and performance work invoke the power of personal experience and family history to create artworks that exist at the intersection of activism, art production and praxes of self-acceptance. Their work engages politics of migration, memory, queerness, and gender in ways that remind us of the power and solidarity that can exist in quotidian gestures. De la Torre’s production opens channels for theorizing vulnerability, intimacy, and proximity as radical undertakings in the space of the borderlands and beyond. In doing so, their work forges complex narratives of joy, struggle, adaptability, exhaustion and tenderness, as counternarratives that assert the wholeness, nuance, and humanity of immigrant communities, and queer subjectivities. Umi Hsu is a Taiwanese American sound artist and ethnomusicologist who traces the contours of migration, memory, and transformation. Combining experimental performance, field recording, ethnographic writing, audio narrative, oral history, and songwriting, they make sound art and audio experiments to trace the contours of migration, stories, and memory. Their work has been presented by LACMA, CTM Festival in Berlin, and TingShuo Hear Say in Tainan; featured in LA Times, LA Weekly, and Arts at MIT; and recognized by NEA, Mellon Foundation, and City of West Hollywood Video by @ashtonsphillips

@whateverjeanne and I are organizing a CAA panel - proposals due Aug 29. Please share!

Tonight, NYC.