Events
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Start: Feb 16 2010 7:30 pm
Globetrotting troublemaker John Ross will read from his two new cult classics: "Iraqigirl", the diary of a teenager coming of age under U.S. occupation in Mosul, Iraq that has been called "an Anne Frank for our time", and "El Monstruo - Dread & Redemption in Mexico City", the tangled tale of the most contaminated, corrupt, crime-ridden, and chaotic city in the Americas that has just been selected as "book of the year" by the San Antonio Express News. | 17
Start: Feb 17 2010 8:00 pm
Representatives of the Speaker's Bureau for Austin's important comprehensive plan will be speaking at Monkeywrench to get community members involved in the planning process. The Speakers Bureau presentation is designed to introduce citizens to the Comprehensive Planning Process and what it means for the Austin community. Here is the website for IMAGINE Austin: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/compplan/ The web site is loaded with information including the planning process, the project journal, how to sign up to the interest list and take the on-line survey. | 18
Start: Feb 18 2010 7:00 pm
Join our new group of radical female-identified people for a screening of "Teeth," a feminist horror movie. What does that mean? Well, come find out! In keeping with the theme, bring your favorite (vegan) movie snack. SYNOPSIS: High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad's increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth. *Event open to female-identified people only.* | 19
Start: Feb 19 2010 8:00 pm
Metahuman is a hip-hop lyricist, filmmaker, speaker and performance poet, a political dissident, radical transsexual activist, autobiographical confessionalist, outspoken social misfit, friend, lover, and teacher. Metahuman mixes politics with the visceral love of flow to create a unique sound that blends old-school rap metaphors with radical queer politics. Metahuman also writes and produces films, including the short comedy “Queerer Than Thou” which has screened at over 30 film festivals worldwide. He also runs the LA-based arts collective Trans/Giving. In addition to the performance at Monkey Wrench, Metahuman will also present a workshop on transgender youth at the Abriendo Brecha VII conference at UT on Saturday, February 20th, 11:30-12:45, Asian Culture Room, Free and open to the public. | 20
Start: Feb 20 2010 7:00 pm
While the Honduran military coup of June 28th, 2009 is not without historical precedent, the massive and ongoing Honduran resistance to it is. No one expected Hondurans to rise up as they have—daily and in the hundreds of thousands—in protest against a de facto government that can most accurately be described as fascist. One of the most interesting elements of the Honduran resistance is its avidly non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian character, despite a near-complete absence of self-consciously anarchist organizing within Honduras prior to the coup. In this talk Adrienne Pine will discuss what we can learn from the Honduran experience and how we can act in solidarity with Hondurans, whose situation has only worsened with the institutionalization of the coup government through a U.S.-led fraudulent election. -- |
