Abolition Feminism Anthology Release
Celebrate the release of the Abolition Feminism Anthology edited by Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, and Brooke Lober.
An evening of art, poetry, and dreaming beyond the Prison Industrial Complex.
With Asantewaa Boykin, Maria Moore, Inés Ixierda, Clarissa Rojas and Brooke Lober.
Abolition Feminism is a two volume exploration of the topic incluluding many amazing authors, activists and organizers and one of my own writings and art pieces, Protect Celeste Guap.
November 11, 2023. 5pm
The Peoples House
893 Willow st, Oakland
Legalize Positivity: Comics and the Prison Industrial Complex
I will be speaking about the comic Legalize Positivity, a brief comic history of HIV criminalization with Clio Reese Sady as part of the SDSU Womens Studies Abolition Feminism Speaker Series.
September 28, 2023, 4-5:30 pm
Online and in person at Arts and Letters 104
Mujeres en Lucha Zine
Resharing the Women of Color report back from the 2018 Zapatista Womens Encuentro zine. for International Womens Day. Created by Corazones Diasporicos.
Over 100 Indigenous Cultural Items Returned
Returned Grinding Stones in Earth from Returned Land
More than 100 Indigenous cultural items were voluntarily returned to Indigenous people during a “participatory rematriation” the weekend before Thanksgiving.
Precolumbian pottery, Native American grinding stones taken during construction decades ago, burden baskets found in an attic, ancient arrowheads, and endangered abalone shells are among the items returned to the care of the intertribal Indigenous women led Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.
The invitation to return found, stolen, and misappropriate cultural items was shared on social media as part of an effort to encourage non-Indigenous people to “go beyond just giving thanks and give things taken back” this holiday season.
The exhibition of returned itemes was curated by Inés Ixierda with the Sogorea Te Land Trust Creative team.
All returned items originating from within the territory will be returned to the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation and all other items will be rematriated to Indigenous people of the lineage of their creation.
To learn more about Sogorea Te Land Trust here.
RETURNS: Participatory Rematriation
This November dont just thanks,
give things taken back.
RETURNS is a creative engagement sharing stolen pieces of the history of this land that have been returned to the care of Indigenous people. It is open for viewing and participation. You are invited to return things taken.
Are there Indigenous cultural items in your attic?
Have you unknowingly hoarded something sacred?
Did you inherit or find something important to the people whose land you are on?
Do you have generational benefits based on inequalities related to colonization and feel urged to redistribute your wealth towards Indigenous led work?
RETURNS
November 18-20 2022 1-5 pm
125 10th St. Unceded Oakland
This participatory rematriation is curated by Inés Ixierda in collaboration with Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation. More information at https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/returns/
Hex the Patriarchy!
Reimagining the hex as a spell for feminist autonomy, a call for collective self defense, and a tool for self-determination, this sigil was cast to destroy and transform the Patriarchy while manifesting a feminist future.
Amazed that this DIY sigil craft hex, once wheatpasted on the street and screenprinted in my backyard, is now at Oakland Musuem of California Hella Feminist Show!
Co Conjured with Lacey Johnson.
Hella Feminist at OMCA!
Amazing to be included in Oakland Musuem of the Art’s Hella Feminst show, a major exhibition combining art and historical artifacts exploring diverse individual and collective stories of feminism! Showing through July 2022-January 2023.
In addition to including the inconic Hex the PAtriarchy Tee, I was commisioned to create an offering in the restorative realm of the exhibiit. As a survivor of mixed linaeges and patriarchal violence, I conjured a curanderas cabinet of remedies.
Dont miss all the amazing works! Up through January 2023.
NQAF Opening Night!
That was amazing! Un mil gracias to everyone all the artists, performers, organizers and everyone that came out for the opening night of the National Queer Arts Festival!
Inés Ixierda, Gaia Wxyz, Xtal Azul, Gaudmother, and Orion Camero at the Vaz a Ver/ You Will See opening.
See more pictures from the National Queer Arts Festival Here!
National Queer Arts Festival! Vaz a Ver / You Will See
Im delighted to be co-curating the 25th annual National Queer Arts Festival Visual show with Xtal Azul!
Come celebrate the 25th annual National Queer Arts Festival Visual Show! Move through this portal and bathe in divine visions for our collective queer, trans, and two-spirit post future now. Vaz A Ver/ You Will See’s opening night with a series of performances, dance, music and ceremony!
Visual Show Featuring:
Val Campean
Irina Contreras
Alex De La Mareas
Demian DinéYazhi´
Gaudmother
Edgar Fabian Frias
Tje Galéon
Avé-Ameenah Long
Naima Lowe
Francis Mead
Astrid Art Star Mejia
Victoria Montaño
MCXT: Monica Canilao
and Xara Thustra
Cristy Road
Sadie Robison
Sins Invalid
Val Quezada
Gaia WXYZ
Curated By Inés Ixierda and Xtal Azul.
Disability Justice From A to Z
Inés' eyes peeping over the cover of the Sins Invalid coloring Book, eyeliner on point.
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So excited to get my Sins Invalid Coloring Books! I love Sins Invalid and I love this project.
I drew Solidarity, Support and Sustainability. 🖤
"Solidarity means that our pains and struggles, goals and triumphs, are a part of each other. We are invested in each other’s well-being. We all need Support, and we receive it from our friends, partners, communities, care providers, assistive devices, the earth, and our ancestors. By working together in these ways we create the possibility of long term survival. This is called Sustainability.”
Learn more about Sins Invalid! Get a coloring book!
A leg brace that laces up around the thigh and the shin, with a hinge at the knee, and a shoe at the bottom. It is modeled after Frida Kahlo’s brace. It appears to be walking, followed by a vibrant bundle of flowers and herbs with a bee hovering behind it. Behind the brace and the plants is a large circle that evokes the moon. At the bottom of bubble letters separated by hearts that read “Solidarity,” “Support,” and “Sustainability.”
Rematriate the Land!
Shes here! So honored to be a part of the LAND BACK Art campaign!
Powered by NDN Collective, For Freedoms, and Indígena, this project put 20 billboards by Indigenous artists and their allies across the country to connect artists, activists, and allies to working to dismantle and defund systems of colonial violence, invest in Indigenous communities, and return land to Indigenous hands.
I created this piece is based on Sogorea Te’ Land Trust founders and life long urban Indigenous grassroots organizers, Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone) and Johnella LaRose (Shoshone Bannock). It shows the ghost of a city behind the new growth of plants overtaking it as two Indigenous women with long braids down their backs look onwards, envisioning another future against the bright ombre of sunrise.
The future is Indigenous, support Indigenous led land return.
Queer Projects on Indigenous Land
Excited to be a part of this emergent conversation! Please join us!
How do we create liberatory spaces on stolen Indigenous land?
Where do queering and decolonizing and unsettling land intersect and support each other and miss or collide?
How are queer led land projects and intentional spaces navigating collective approaches to healing historic harms, land access, landback, and rematriation?
These are some of the questions a loose network of queer spaces, and intentional land project organizers are beginning to ask ourselves. You are invited to our emerging conversation.
Hosted by Sogorea Te’ Land Trust as part of our ongoing online political education, art and community learning engagements.
Participants:
Inés Ixierda & Vick Montaño
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
Deseree Fontenot & Hasmik Geghamyan
Mugworts Queer Cabin
Sacha Marini
Fancyland
Layel Camargo
Shelterwood Collective
Jasmine & Loma Unsettling the Klamath River
QTPOCALYPSE: Call for Submissions!
QTPOCALYPSE Art Zine / Survival Guide
Every End is a Beginning
Call for Submissions:
Artists in the apocalypse, Cuirs creating in chaos, How are do you make/ it through?! Why? What?
Call for QTBIPoC* +2Spirit art, writing, practices, processes,and creative strategies to help us make it through the end times and beyond.
Deadline 8/31/21
Edited by @ines_ixierda & @leahkinglive
Open to: Bay Area-based Queer, cuir, trans, non binary, two spirit, Black and Indigenous and People of Color.
Written submissions requested at approximately 500 words max.
Up to 3 Image files as .jpg, png, or pdf at 300 dpi
Selections will be collected into a limited edition fine art print zine/ survival guide for free distribution.
All artists included will receive a small honorarium and print copies of the zine.
Made possible with support from Headlands Center for the Arts and CNTRL/SHFT collective.
bit.ly/3jTtD4X
Questions? qtpocalpsezine@gmail.com
#qtbipoc #callforsubmissions #artzine #survivalguide #telluseverything #practices #processes #creativestrategies #everyendisabeginning
Legalize Positivity at Comic Velocity
Legalize Positivity will be distributed at the upcoming Comics Velocity show in New York! Legalize Positivity is a brief abolitionist comics history about HIV criminalization commissioned by Visual Aids and drawn by Clio Sady and myself. Come through!
Comic Velocity: HIV and AIDS in Comics
PS122 Gallery
150 1st Avenue
New York, NY
June 11–July 11, 2021
Gallery Hours: Thurs—Sun, 1–6PM
Opening Event: Saturday, June 12, 1–6PM
Comic Velocity: HIV and AIDS in Comics, curated by Paul Sammut for Visual AIDS, explores how artists and activists have used comics to create and shape conversations about HIV and AIDS.
Comic Velocity collects both historical and contemporary educational material, activist projects and artists’ works that demonstrate how the medium of comics continues to contribute to the public understanding of HIV and AIDS through its democracy, accessibility and immediacy. The exhibition features a selection of items from the UK HIV/AIDS Graphic Communication Archive, and the work of creators Alison Bechdel; Remy Boydell with Michelle Perez; Howard Cruse; Jennifer Camper; Kate Charlesworth; Chris Companik; Jon Eikenberg; James Romberger, Marguerite Van Cook, and David Wojnarowicz; Carlos Sánchez Becerra; David Shenton; Michael Slocum and many others.
As part of the exhibition, four newly commissioned comics projects from J. Amaro & A. Andrews, Inés Ixierda & Clio Sady, Carlo Quispe, and Mel Rattue will be available as free take-aways. These new works explore contemporary issues and experiences surrounding HIV/AIDS such as HIV criminalization, women’s’ anti-stigma activism, and the fear of getting tested. Launched online in summer 2020, these new comics can also be viewed here.
Reading Decolonization is Not a Metaphor
Im excited to be hosting this amazing study group and discussion Beyond Metaphor for Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, featuring Chumash scholar and artist Sarah Biscarra Dilley!
In this workshop, participants will have an opportunity to discuss and interpret Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s 2012 essay, Decolonization is Not a Metaphor with careful attention to place-based context.
Recognizing the complex history and ongoing present of lands now encompassed in “California,” the discussion will focus on an embodied, reflective, and relational understanding of the text – hopefully supporting good relationships, balanced collaboration, and rooted movements.
There are many ways of knowing and academic approaches to knowledge are only one. Academic texts can be challenging and many of us have not had access to the brilliance our Indigenous relatives working in academia, theory, and knowledge production have created. This workshop invites all of our comrades, collaborators, supporters, allies, and accomplices to engage with Indigneous Theory and join this virtual discussion.
To prepare, please review a copy of article Decolonization is Not a Metaphor.
It can be a dense text! Try not to overthink it too much, absorb what you can, draft questions for what may not gel.
Here are [some] tips [I find helpful] from Dr. Roy Perez (writer and an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego.) that he wrote for his students on how to read theory in a humanities/interdisciplinary context because he wants his “students to read theory with more confidence and less self-sabotage”.
1. Theory is an effort by writers to make sense of phenomena for which we don’t yet have sufficient language. So, reading theory can feel difficult, and the writing can seem unnecessarily complicated. It's helpful to think about why and how we read theory.
2. Be easy on yourself. You will feel lost often. Grasping theory is an iterative process, which means ideas get stated over and over in different ways. Ideas evolve within an essay and from one essay to the next. Like all writers, theorists improve over time. Stick with it.
3. Theory is a poetic process and an imaginative endeavor. Style and language matter to theorists in a way that they might not to a scholar whose goal is to transmit data or information. Clarity isn’t always better because it often simplifies things that need to be complex.
4. Reading closely and actively is more important than reading completely. When time and energy are tight, you can get more out of taking your time with five pages than getting through 50. Make the most of what you can read.
5. Reading actively includes: marking passages that are confusing or clear; writing notes in margins; establishing a practice of jumping around pages for footnotes and rereading; capturing questions as they cross your mind; and writing (in complete sentences) about the reading.
6. Theory is a cumulative project. This means that the language we have now didn’t exist when the authors were writing, and many of these authors gave us the language we have now. It also means that theory is a conversation, not a singular thesis: ideas move and change.
7. Find and follow pleasure where you can. Some ideas will blow your mind, so track down those conversations and read more about those ideas. You won't connect with all theory, but pay attention to your gut when you do connect. You'll write better about stuff you like.
Original source: https://twitter.com/ultramaricon/status/1308099756510466049
Compiled (via twitter) by: Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher (PennGSE) with permission from the
authors.
Presenter bio:
Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini [Northern Chumash]) is an artist and educator residing at xučyun/Huichin (Oakland), nitspu tititʸu tsʔitɨnɨ chochenyo, in the unceded homeland of the Chochenyo-speaking people (unratified Treaty “E” region). Her written, visual, and material practice is grounded in collaboration across experiences, communities, and place, connecting extractive industries, absent treaties, and enclosure to emphasize movement, embodied protocol, continuity and possibility. While her foundation is shaped by body, land and the worlds in and around us, she is currently a PhD Candidate in Native American Studies at University of California, Davis, nitspu tititʸu tsʔitɨnɨ patwin, in the unceded homeland of the Patwin-speaking people (unratified Treaty "J" region).
Inés Ixierda is a Mestizx interdisciplinary artist, media maker and organizer in Oakland/ Huichin. Her community work is grounded in autonomous feminism, survivor led self determination, abolitionist dreams, ancestral knowledge and matriarchy. She has been a core member of collectives including Queer Magic Makers, Corazones Diasporicos, Mugworts Queer Cabin, and Cntrl/Shift art gallery. She leads Sogorea Te’ Land Trust’s creative and media projects, political education, events and works on the land with plant medicines.
Sogorea Te Land Trust is Urban Indigenous Women led Land Trust. Sogorea Te’ calls on us all to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do.
Rematriation and Indigenous Feminisms
Excited to be organizing this amaiing lineup!
As we move through pandemic, political crisis, and unrelenting settler colonial violence in our world, we are nourished and inspired by the deep knowledges and creative contributions of Indigenous feminists and artists located in various parts of the world that include Oceania (Pacific) to Huichin/Oakland, California.
In celebration of our survivance, please join us on International Women’s Day for "Rematriation and Indigenous Feminisms: Creative Visions From Oceania to Huichin" with Indigenous women artists, scholars and poets from Huichin/Oakland, Hawai’i and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The program includes:
Dr. Ngahuia te Awekotuku
(Aotearoa/NewZealand)
Joy Lehuanani Enomoto
(Hawai'i)
Bean Kaloni Tupou
(Tongan currently living in Yelamu/San Francisco)
Victoria Montaño
(Yaqui currently living in Huichin/Oakland)
Jean Melesaine
(Samoan currently living in Huichin/Oakland)
Viola Le Beau
(Pit River Tribe currently living in Huichin/Oakland)
Inés Ixierda
(Mestizx Bolivian-American in Huchuin)
Hosted By Dr. Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu
(Tongan currently living in Huichin/Oakland)
Comic Release: Legalize Positivity
So honored to have worked on Legalize Positivity, a brief comics history about the injustice of HIV criminalization in the U.S with Clio Sady for Visual Aids! This commission aims to continue this legacy of using comics to bring attention to the AIDS pandemic and to work against stigma by sharing peoples experiences and information visually.
We started working on this project in support of folks who have experienced HIV criminalization long before the current Covid-19 pandemic and unprecedented police and criminal justice accountability uprisings of early 2020, but looking at it now, I think the core issues are more relevant then ever.
Please check it out and learn more about HIV criminalization and the activists working to dismantle it in the United States, visit the Sero Project and The Center for HIV Law & Policy. For a global perspective, visit the HIV Justice Network and HIV Justice Worldwide.
Full visual description pdf for screen readers available here. Podcast from Visual Aids and the printed version to come!
Keep Struggling. Dont Give Up. Dont Sell Out.
Laying low trying to survive this pandemic and not forget that another world is possible.
Queer Disabled Bolivian Brujas for Black Lives from shuttered downtown Oakland/ Huchuin, unceded Ohlone land.
Words from the closing of the Zapatista International Encuentro for Women in Struggle.
Life Delayed Due to Pandemic.
All upcoming art shows, events and engagements on hold un till further notice. Shop Closed. Hope everyone is doing ok out there. <3
Jade Ariana for Hex the Patriarchy.