Too Sexy for 501c3

Too Sexy for 501c3 Rant #301

2010-08-04T17:50:00.000-07:00

What in the hell has been going on with the Oscar Grant movement?

And I am not talking about the infamous “Violence is Not Justice” PSA that Youth Uprising put out (but that was pretty fucking bad).

I’m talking about the patriarchy.

Yes, I said it.

There is something eerily similar about the type of patriarchy that has emerged in the Grant movement to what has been coined “disaster patriarchy.” It’s like a mix of opportunism with a we-have-no-time-to-focus-on-women’s-liberation-we-are-in-a-state-of-emergency! madness. Shall we call it "riot patriarchy"? “rebellion patriarchy”? “emergency patriarchy?” Either way, the endless bombardment of machismo is just embarrassing. It makes me want to throw up in my mouth a little.

The rush of testosterone that fills the crowd when the riot police move in terrifies, fascinated and humiliates me. I am humiliated to be part of a movement with such bravado. I don’t know how to describe it really. It reminds me so much of the organizing that went down after Katrina….

I really wanted to punch a guy in the face that grabbed me during the last demo but how could I do that when 20,000 members of law enforcement are just waiting for an excuse to pounce? Don’t get me wrong, Too Sexy for 501c3 does not endorse nor participate in violence against egotistical organizers—not because it’s unprincipled behavior but because it’s just not very sustainable and we don’t like being lectured by those peacemaking-coalition-builders about how we have to put our claws away in the face of repeated disrespect.

I wonder if this most recent wave of manliness has gone completely unchecked? At the risk of being painted as a petty bitch or outside agitator by all, I ask you, are we only going to discuss gender justice and sexual harassment when we talk about reproductive rights? I’d much rather see it being brought up by men of color than the white anarcho-femmes who travel to Chiapas every year and try to school me on Zapatism@.

I know people have brought up the opportunism and the egoism in the Grant movement but the thing about all this opportunism and egoism is that patriarchy is like its food. We’re just feeding the beast until it self-congratulates itself into a national Oscar Grant movement tour complete with pictures of organizers on shirts instead of Grant's.
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I'm tempted to begin a conversation applying Marcuse's theory that the market is sustained by sex drive to the activist community in the Bay Area... but I don't want to bore you to death with more of my beating dead horses and it is already a f-ing miracle that you are still reading. I’ll have to brush up on my Marcuse and save that for another rant down the line.

Now that I have gotten all that off of my chest, lets get back to business shall we?... Have you given feedback on the new design?? All you have to do is CLICK HERE!

Yours in dyslexic banter,
Half of Too Sexy for 501c3

p.s. please email me resources, zine and journal articles about riot/rebellion patriarchy. What I have been reading so far is soooo unsatisfying. Feel free to comment on the irony of my rant in light of our new tshirt design (if you think it’s ironic, you obviously don’t get it). Or use the comment section to vent about your experiences with riot/rebellion/disaster patriarchy as well—that’s what we’re here for! I would heart you for it!

New Design=Yay!

2010-07-31T20:14:00.000-07:00

Hi Sexy Literate Dreamgirls, Boys and everything in between and out of the binary!

We’re posting a new design we are working on in the hopes that we can get some feedback.

I wanted to go with "We're not poly! We're building community!" but my co-conspirator did not agree so the original quote by Yosimar Reyes,“We’re not hoes! We’re building community!” is what we are working with.

What do you think?

Wow there are some Stupid White People at the Anarchist Bookfair

2010-03-16T15:27:00.000-07:00

If I have to listen to another lecture from a white person with dreadlocks or a mohawk about why their hair is acceptable, I am going to vomit. With that said, I'm sooooo glad the anarchist bookfair is over!

Thanks to those that dropped by to say hello and purchase a shirt or scarf from Too Sexy for 501c3.

Here are some pics from the fair:

The hot woman with the white glasses was giving out fliers for a zine about the non-profit industrial complex's impact on sex worker rights! yay! yes, she is wearing one of our "Non Profits Can't Riot" T-shirts in pretty pink.

P.s. before you get all upset and write a bunch of rude comments about my remark concerning stupid white people with mohawks or dreads, please click here.

P.s.s. My hermana Victoria told me she helped set up a free hair cutting booth for said stupid white people at humbolt state. You rock, Victoria!

Selling Shirts this Weekend at the Anarchist Bookfair!

2010-03-12T21:32:00.000-08:00

So although my ideal way to spend the weekend is not with a bunch of smelly hippies and train hopping half shaved headed music snobs, Too Sexy will be at the anarchist book fair selling shirts, warning female bodied folks about the manarchists and passing out copies of the zine, "What are you talking about? Why should I cut my dreads? Whats wrong with a Mohawk?: Answers for white people on appropriation, hair and anti-racist struggle" by Colin Kennedy Donovan and Qwo-Li Driskill.

We have a bunch of fresh pressed Tshirts in large sizes and colorful tanks.

Please stop by and chat us up! especially if you see some sensitive-man-bros crowding our table! We'd much rather make fun of them with you!

Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
Where: SF County Fair Building, Golden Gate Park
When: Saturday and Sunday, March 13th and 14th

Free – presented by Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore

Sat 3/13 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sun 3/14 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Happy (belated) Valentine's Day

2010-02-15T20:48:00.000-08:00

Thanks for coming out over the weekend to Mangos With Chili's Whipped show and buying more shirts than we have ever sold!

Hope you had a scandalous Valentine's Day and we'll see you Saturday at Whipped's San Francisco show!

Click here for more about Mangos With Chili's "Whipped"
Saturday 2/20
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, 1519 Mission St, SF

And just a reminder that we are still accepting nominations for the Too Sexy for 501c3 Award. To nominate click here!

New Shirts on Sale this weekend and next at "Whipped"!

2010-02-08T21:15:00.000-08:00

Thanks for coming out to support Too Sexy for 501c3 at the Bikery's craft fair! We were excited to debut the new shirts and have great conversations around the nonprofit industrial complex's relationship to academia and art. What radical artists receive funding from the Ford Foundation? Guillermo Gomez-Pena?! I know. I know. We don't want to believe it has gotten as bad as it has....

Here is some medicine for your melancholy--Our fierce Too Sexy for 501c3 model and Black diaspora/feminist film scholar, Z, sporting a new T at the craft fair with much sass:

Our new shirts are available this weekend and next at Mangos With Chili Valentine's show, "WHIPPED: QTPOC RECIPES FOR LOVE, SEX, & DISASTER," the second annual show about the miracles, dreams and cream our hearts make. Valentines exchange to follow show, so get your love notes ready!

Friday 2/12 & Saturday 2/13
La Pena, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

Saturday 2/20
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, 1519 Mission St, SF

8pm, $10-15 sliding scale

for more info on the show click here.

See you there!

New Shirts (and Undies) Hot Off The Presses!

2010-02-08T20:35:00.000-08:00

Here are some of our new designs. Thank you for the inspiration, we love the way your sexy minds work together! *fans self* We will be back with more inked up second hand shirts galore before you can say "FordGuggenheimCarnegieRockefellerMellonMonopoly"!

Bunny hates nonprofits too

2010-02-06T00:14:00.000-08:00

Octavia proves rabbits are photogenic while we were screening the new shirts to sell at the Bikery's craftfair today. See you there!

Saturday, February 6th
3-5:30pm
Craftfair and Bakesale at the Bikery
2289 international blvd (@23rd ave), oakland --next to EastSide Arts Alliance.

and don't forget that we are still accepting nominations for the Too Sexy for 501c3 status and The New The Man Awards! click here to vote! and lets talk shit today at the craftfair!

Shirts for Sale Tomorrow at the Bikery's Craftfair!

2010-02-05T12:54:00.000-08:00

Hey Vixen Readers of the Too Sexy Blog!

Our new shirts will be on sale tomorrow at the Bikery, Cycles for Change's community bike shop!

Come and check them out and lets have a discussion about alternatives to government funding of movement organizations!

Saturday, February 6th
3-5:30pm
at the bikery
2289 international blvd (@23rd ave), oakland --next to EastSide Arts Alliance.

INTRODUCING THE "TOO SEXY FOR 501c3" AWARDS!

2010-01-23T18:08:00.000-08:00

Apologies for the long absence. We have both been busy in nonprofitville and forgot, just for a second, to dismantle it from the inside with our sultry, bow chica bow wow, sexiness--the nonprofit kryptonite.

Ms. Shoelaces is off in the land of her birth: Texas(!) to check out the Southern Too Sexy movement but upon her return we will be printing the new t-shirt designs.

For now, lets kick off 2010 right--with the TOO SEXY FOR 501C3 AWARDS!!!!!

Yes, you read right: We are excepting nominations for your comrades who rock the boat without a paper trail!

You know, those organizations that are just a group of people in someones messy kitchen who manage to scrap together the little resources they do have and throw a better demo than a temporary coalition of ten nonprofits fighting for housing rights! The ones who with a stick of gum, some eye glitter and spraypaint that can send a message farther than Democracy Now! The ones who don't get paid to revolt and who don't write it in their resumes!

Yes, you know them! They are the ones at the demo who aren't wearing the same shirt as their coworkers! Their banner is a sheet, their signs are cardboard and held up with popsicle sticks! Foundations will not fund them because they are scared to death of the raw honesty that can come blurting out of their mouths at any moment! Nonprofits will not employ them because they have spent time in jail or their skirt is too short or they are simply Too Hardcore for the Ford Foundation.

It is time we recognize those of us that resist the professionalization of community work!

BRING ON THE NOMINATIONS!!

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On the flip side, we will also be accepting nominations for THE NEW THE MAN AWARDS.

The New the Man is for the nonprofit organizations or individuals that are doing the work of the oppressors for them under the 501c3 tax code. Those nonprofits that get funded by the banks that foreclose on homes and then use that funding to 'fight' for housing rights. Those nonprofits that deny our loved ones adequate medical care and then force them to speak out in support of health care in low-income communities. Those nonprofits that are named after Black women from the civil rights movement yet have no Black women in power positions. Those migrant rights groups that backed Hillary Clinton or have an "Obamanos" bumper sticker.

Do you know any Executive Directors that don't pay their employees a living wage and then spend their eco tourist vacation in Costa Rica? What about the Exec directors that use the wrong pronouns and hit on every new young woman doing the phone banking? Or an Exec Director that has never done the phone banking themselves? Now is the time to call them on their shit! Now is the time to start demanding they answer some questions! This outrageous behavior must be stopped!

To nominate, comment here or email thenewtheman (at) gmail dot com.

*You can nominate one individual and one group for both the Too Sexy and New The Man awards.

You can also just let us know who you would like to nominate, you know who we are. ;)

Worked on designs over the weekend

2009-11-30T14:28:00.001-08:00

Thank you for voting on our new T-shirt designs!

After much discussion, we decided to make most of the screens since we don't actually believe in democracy. It tends to alienate the minority--especially when only a tiny group of conspiring individuals are concentrating the actual power, like Ms. Shoelaces and I. I'm convinced "Too Sexy for 501c3" could swiftly turn oligarchical unless supporters like you learn how to better self advocate so please stop lurking and give us some feedback!

For realz thu, here are some designs we are working on:

What do you think? The bottom two look grayish because they were scanned. of course, all of the designs will be more colorful and on shirts in the end.

Tell us which shirt you want to see next!

2009-11-22T13:06:00.000-08:00

Hi Fans and Foes of the post Paperwork Revolution,

We are having some discussions around what we'd like to print next week and we'd love your brilliant input.

So far here are some ideas:

1) I lost my friends to the the NPIC" or "I lost my friends to their non profit jobs"

2) "The NPIC gave me PTSD" (this idea is from Cecilio)

3) "Ivory Tower Hustler" (inspired by master ivory tower hustler, Zakiyyah)

4) "Non Profits are the new The Man" on front. on back, "The means have become the ends."

5) Too Sexy for the Academic Industrial Complex.

Which one do you like the best? or do you have other ideas? email us at thenewtheman (at) g mail dot com or comment here.

Hurry up and comment! Voting is almost closed!

We know the postpaperwork revolution will only come from collective effort! we are excited about your ideas for tshirt (and underwear) slogans you come up with on your short lunchbreak from your nonunionized, low pay, no credit, long houred nonprofit job to save the world. (or your research slave, vision impaired by small book print, florescent lighted, hot for teacher, undergrad/grad school scam). Please send them hot ideas our way and we, or course, credit you (!) on our way to demystify the beast.

found this ww2 picture of hunter's point naval shipyard

2009-11-19T13:39:00.000-08:00

You can create your own Too Sexy shirt for FREE!

2009-11-19T11:03:00.000-08:00

Do you have a shirt that desperately needs to convey a beyond the nonprofit message? Need to spruce up that old shirt with your nonprofit's logo? Low on cash? We have an option for you! Email Paperwork Revolution at thenewtheman (at) g mail dot com and you can come by the next time we screen so we can dialogue in real life (and not over this cyberchange medium) and you can print your own sassy T!

See you on Sunday at Mangos With Chili East Bay Show!

2009-11-10T20:46:00.001-08:00

Come check our our shirts Sunday at the fabulous Mangos with Chili show! Mangos With Chili is a floating cabaret of QTPOC bliss, dreams, sweat, sweets & nightmares.
Sunday we will be selling shirts to benefit their show, "BELOVED: A Requiem for Our Dead because we refuse to forget you."

November 15th, 8PM
Hechos en Califas Festival
La Pena
3105 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA
$12-16, no one turned away for lack of funds

Shirts on sale at Mangos With Chili Tonight!

2009-11-07T15:35:00.000-08:00

Come check our our shirts tonight at the fabulous Mangos with Chili show! Mangos With Chili is a floating cabaret of QTPOC bliss, dreams, sweat, sweets & nightmares.
Tonight we will be selling shirts to benefit their show, "BELOVED: A Requiem for Our Dead because we refuse to forget you."

November 7th, 8PM
The Lab
2948 16th St
San Francisco, CA 94103
$12-16, no one turned away for lack of funds

November 15th, 8PM
Hechos en Califas Festival
La Pena
3105 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA
$12-16, no one turned away for lack of funds