Mujer Libre
31st May 2007, 06:13
To celebrate the queen's birthday...
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The Queen's been giving head service to Australia for a long time and now it's a chance to return the favour. Let's show her what this great nation was built on - criminals, perverts and stolen land. So poofters, sheilas, reffos, squatters, deviants and outsiders - your time is now. Get your arses to Melbourne for a long weekend turned on by radical sex and politics.
WHAT From juicy talks and a picnic in the park to sexy gigs and parties after dark, Camp Betty is a series of bottoms up Camp events to get people together with sex and gender as the common ground. It is 5 days of theory, workshops, talking, partying, action, recruiting, and making up and out.
WHY We want to make gender and sex radicalism central to our politics and our understanding of the world today. We want a politics of gender and sex that goes beyond liberal acceptance or assimilation, beyond state protection and tolerance for difference. We want to create experiences of struggle, sex and fun where we don't just talk about the lives we want, but live them.
HOW DIY - Do it yourself. This weekend will be as open, decentralised, and as diy as possible but we don't mean that in a no-responsibility taken kinda way.
WHEN Queen's Birthday Weekend, 7-11 June 2007
WHERE A bunch of hot spots in Melbourne's inner north
WHO You + a bunch of folk who want to fuck shit up and fuck up shit. We've been around things like: Bite; Genderschmender; State of Emergency; Gingham Menace; Vixen; Civil Rights Defence; Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Q.U.E.E.R.; Queeruption; A Space Outside. We think you get the gist now. And if you don't, come along on the weekend and we'll explain.
WE would love you to:
* join us at our meetings at Irene Community Warehouse, 5 Pitt St, Brunswick, to help out with basic logistical tasks for Camp Betty. Stuff to get done includes publicity, infoshop, food and billeting, child care if needed, and a big party. Meetings are weekly on Wednesdays at 7:30pm.
* organise your own event or workshop. Betty's diary is filling fast but there is still time to arrange a show and tell. Maybe, you can demonstrate how you've learned to tie shoelaces with your tongue. Or something more practical. Or something more theoretical. But seriously - workshops and events that help facilitate radical politics and action are really what we're gagging for.
Camp Betty website (http://campbetty.net/)
It sounds like it's going to be fantastic- very radical and fun!
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The Queen's been giving head service to Australia for a long time and now it's a chance to return the favour. Let's show her what this great nation was built on - criminals, perverts and stolen land. So poofters, sheilas, reffos, squatters, deviants and outsiders - your time is now. Get your arses to Melbourne for a long weekend turned on by radical sex and politics.
WHAT From juicy talks and a picnic in the park to sexy gigs and parties after dark, Camp Betty is a series of bottoms up Camp events to get people together with sex and gender as the common ground. It is 5 days of theory, workshops, talking, partying, action, recruiting, and making up and out.
WHY We want to make gender and sex radicalism central to our politics and our understanding of the world today. We want a politics of gender and sex that goes beyond liberal acceptance or assimilation, beyond state protection and tolerance for difference. We want to create experiences of struggle, sex and fun where we don't just talk about the lives we want, but live them.
HOW DIY - Do it yourself. This weekend will be as open, decentralised, and as diy as possible but we don't mean that in a no-responsibility taken kinda way.
WHEN Queen's Birthday Weekend, 7-11 June 2007
WHERE A bunch of hot spots in Melbourne's inner north
WHO You + a bunch of folk who want to fuck shit up and fuck up shit. We've been around things like: Bite; Genderschmender; State of Emergency; Gingham Menace; Vixen; Civil Rights Defence; Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Q.U.E.E.R.; Queeruption; A Space Outside. We think you get the gist now. And if you don't, come along on the weekend and we'll explain.
WE would love you to:
* join us at our meetings at Irene Community Warehouse, 5 Pitt St, Brunswick, to help out with basic logistical tasks for Camp Betty. Stuff to get done includes publicity, infoshop, food and billeting, child care if needed, and a big party. Meetings are weekly on Wednesdays at 7:30pm.
* organise your own event or workshop. Betty's diary is filling fast but there is still time to arrange a show and tell. Maybe, you can demonstrate how you've learned to tie shoelaces with your tongue. Or something more practical. Or something more theoretical. But seriously - workshops and events that help facilitate radical politics and action are really what we're gagging for.
Camp Betty website (http://campbetty.net/)
It sounds like it's going to be fantastic- very radical and fun!