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COM|PASSionate Events

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Hello there COM|PASSionate REVOLUTIONARIES! We hope your Friday is going well as you head into the weekend. Here is our event round-up and announcements for upcoming fun community loving!!!

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EVENTS

Get out, take care of yourself and heal in community!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Don't forget there's lots of upcoming ways to get involved!

  • The Trans* Asterisk Conference at UC Riverside is quickly approaching! Don't forget to register by 2.6.15 to make sure that you get your conference t-shirt and lunch reserved! TODAY'S THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER AND ENSURE YOU GET A TSHIRT AND LUNCH!!!
  • Worts and Cunning's upcoming Changeling Zine has extended it's submission deadline to the end of February. Share your story!

RECOMMENDATIONS

Feeling like some quiet time at home is what you need? 

  • MOON RECOMMENDATION: Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard! Need some soul searching creation honoring inspiration? Get lost in the collection of creative manifestos on Rebelle Society, a website for the creatively maladjusted.
  • SUN RECOMMENDATION: Need some fire to move you through your weekend?  Read, consume and engage in the dialogue going on over at Black Girl Dangerous, amplifying the voices of Queer and Trans* People of Color.

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*Events are put on by the CR Community/CR Community members. Other events are by friends of the CR Community or of interest to the CR Community. Feeling a little nervous about getting out and involved? Email us and if we can we'll make some introductions so you have a friendly face to say "Hi" to when you get there!

**Most of these events will be local to Southern CA (unless we notice an event that sets us off into road trip dreamland.) If you want to do a COM|PASSionate event round-up for your local area let us know!

***Are you an individual, meet-up or community group that has some COM|PASSionate events of your own? Email us for details on how to submit your event to our calendar!

compassionaterevolt@gmail.com

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There are photographs in this post that were borrowed lovingly from the internet and do not belong to us. All are linked and credited to the best of our abilities in hopes of attracting more traffic to the photographers and websites who have blessed us with this imagery. The inclusion of a photograph here should not be interpreted as an assertion of the subject's or artist's identity or beliefs. If there is a photo included here that belongs to you and you want it removed, please email compassionaterevolt@gmail.com and it will be removed promptly, no questions asked.

MHM 4: Energy + Advocacy

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Happy Monday Everyone! We hope everyone had a wonderful Super Bowl weekend! Not football fans either? Well, we hope you had good snacks. We're mostly in it for the vegan tofuffalo wings (perhaps some COM|PASSionate food blogging should be in the works.) Today's Mental Health Mash-Up will be in blog format (we're also dreaming up some videos, prezi's and other magic to come.) We'd like to welcome anyone popping over from LibSyn! "Hey, friends! This here's the main blog-- we hope you podcast listeners stick around and check out some of what the other folks are doing around these parts!"

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In this "episode" of the Mental Health Mash-Up we would like to talk a little about community energy and advocacy as well as, of course, how this plays into our mental health and self-care. Last week this post from Non-Profit With Balls (they're awesome by the way- check them out) on Trickle Down Community Engagement came through our feeds. This concept isn't a new one to a lot of us in the COM|PASSionate REVOLT community and was really more of an "Amen, Vu, Amen, thanks for saying this in a way that we wanted to laugh as much as cry," moment! It really struck a chord with us and got us thinking about the sustainability of the work, how we're being compensated for it (financial and otherwise) and how we take care of ourselves while we're doing it.

On the last episode of Mental Health Mash-Up: Disclosure, we encouraged folks to take a moment to check in with how much educating they were willing to do along with what information they were trying to relay. We implored you all to remember that  it is NOT your job to educate others on your identity-- even if your identity is something they may not be familiar with. We also discussed the very relevant possibility that in some cases, if one has the energy and desire, a little educating of those around you can go a long way in making your journey smoother.

It's a bind. We know.

And  it doesn't just happen on the personal level with those we choose to tell in "perfectly" (read comical, awkward, ridiculous, etc) orchestrated "Coming Out" performances. It takes us off guard and happens when we're asked to talk to a friend of a friend, a kid of a friend, a sibling/cousin/roommate, etc going through a similar journey. It happens when we're asked to educate our colleagues or speak to a group about our lived experiences. How many of us have become accidental activists in this way, when asked to lay out our struggle, even though we haven't fully figured out yet to some group, because we were the only one's that had any information about being {insert identity journey here.}

It's not all bad. A lot of us have found it to be a really affirming and passion fueled part of our lives. Story, experience, knowledge and wisdom gained sharing are central pieces of what we're doing here on COM|PASSSionate REVOLT because we believe it to be healing-- to ourselves and others. And lived experience storytelling and resource sharing has long been a piece of the LGBTQ civil rights movement's gains in strength and visibility.

It's an admirable thing to share your story AND it's not your job.

It's imperative to our individual and community's mental health that we each find our own balance of if and how much of this we are able to do.

It's AS important to say, "No, I don't have the space/time/energy/etc" or "Yes, I do have experience speaking on this topic here is my workshop rate, dates I'm available and other sliding scale/trade based ways you can compensate me for my expertise" as it is to say, "Hell, yes, I have some free time and I'd love to come talk to other folks about how awesome our community is and how they can be more awesome to us!"

This check-in with ourselves in the arc of our lives, the space of our year and our moment to moment present is a way that we can honor ourselves as complicated, fabulous, 3 dimensional beings traversing this complicated, fabulous, 3 dimensional life journey!

So, in conclusion, thank you for reading all you queer educators, lived experience panelists, non-profits of one, vegan tofuffalo fans and folks that have accidentally found us through a series of serendipitous link clicks and hours of internet surfing.

We sincerely appreciate rolling through this rough and tumble journey of life with you as our community!

Please, take us for a ride in your back pocket as you wander, skip and cartwheel through this big beautiful and sometimes chaotic world!

And if you need a little extra support or guidance in how to say "No, I need to take care of myself" check out Non-Profit With Balls' very inspirational Contact Page.

Until next week,

In revolutionary COM|PASSion,

Skye + Traci

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Tarot Tuesday: Some of my Favorite Resources

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TarotTuesdayBanner Today I'd like to share with you some of my favorite other tarot resources in the big wide world.

First, if you're local to Southern California I heartily recommend you check out Califia Collective's Introduction to Tarot course: Reading the Cards - this Friday in Long Beach! It's being taught by the incomporable Alexis of Worts & Cunning and is affordable and promises to be full of learning and playfulness and goodies galore.

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The internet is full of people sharing fabulous explorations of tarot. No list could ever be truly complete, but here are a few folks whose work I particularly love and/or whose work has supported my own tarot journey over the years.

Aeclectic Tarot is a huge - I mean HUGE - store of of resources. A lively community of scholars, professionals, aficionados, newbs, and all-around tarot-lovers has co-created a wealth of reviews, readings, experiences, stories, scholarship, advice, games, discussions, and random loveliness. This place really supported by tarot study, especially in the middle years of deepening and exploring and beginning to read professionally. Worth a trip down the bunny hole.

Beth at Little Red Tarot is doing fantastic work, is catalyzing a queer tarot community, just started a tarot learning course that I'm hoping to do together with my niece, is manifesting a queer tarot deck, writes lovely articles for Autostraddle, and is all around awesome. She is also recruiting writers - particularly folks of color and magical queerdos. Send her some love!

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a shining star, and you can find her at brownstargirltarot.wordpress.com - her work bridging tarot with radical healing and social justice is super inspiring. Check out this lovely interview with her too!

Trung Nguyen is an artist working on a gorgeous and inclusive tarot deck - you can read a wonderful interview with him here, or check out some his work on his tumblr here.

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That should keep you busy for a while. Happy exploring! <3 Let us know who your favorite tarot peeps are!

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Kaeti is a therapist, teacher, and dreamer based in Long Beach, California. All of her work (and play!) is interested in dismantling intersections of oppression and breathing magic and radical healing into all the daily corners of her life, into all the spaces of community she helps weave.

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There are photographs in this post that were borrowed lovingly from the internet and do not belong to us. All are linked and credited to the best of our abilities in hopes of attracting more traffic to the photographers and websites who have blessed us with this imagery. The inclusion of a photograph here should not be interpreted as an assertion of the subject's or artist's identity or beliefs. If there is a photo included here that belongs to you and you want it removed, please email compassionaterevolt@gmail.com and it will be removed promptly, no questions asked.

MHM Ep. 2: Language + Access

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Happy Monday REVOLUTIONARIES! MHMBanner

Episode 2 of the Mental Health Mashup is now live on LibSyn! You can also listen below:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/compassionaterevolt/MHM2LanguageAccess.m4a

In this episode Skye + Traci will discuss some of their intentions and perseverations behind the Mental Health Mashup. Specifically, how access to language best serves and/or limits community conversation, education and identity processes.

We hope you enjoy and we'd love to hear your thoughts!

You can reach us at compassionaterevolt@gmail.com

www.compassionaterevolt.com

www.compassionaterevolt.wordpress.com

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In COM|PASSionate REVOLUTION,

Skye + Traci

Engaged Theory Makes Change Possible

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Happy Friday REVOLUTIONARIES!!! We talk a lot about collaboration, community and, of course, living consciously + connected. We talk because it's important to be in conversation about these things. We also want there to be action, we want to be a part of the action, we want to inspire you all to take action and we want to engage in action together!

We also realize that to live consciously and connected in this world can be a daunting task. Especially for those of us that already feel and experience things with intensity and vibrance. It is with this in mind that we want to honor those doing this exhausting and powerful work. We want to honor those out there that are courageous enough and dedicated enough to fight and create space for all of us to have these important and scary conversations so that we can heal together on a holistic level. We want to make sure everyone knows about this amazing conference that's happening...

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The Vegan Praxis of Black Lives Matter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oos58_D5n4o

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Go visit Sistah Vegan , donate to the cause and get involved in the conversation because...

"Engaged theory makes change possible."

Carol J. Adams

In COM|PASSionate REVOLUTION,

The COM|PASSionate REVOLT Team