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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Via White Crane Institute // JONATHAN DAVID KATZ
1958 -
JONATHAN DAVID KATZ is an American activist, art historian, educator and writer. I only know the year of his birth so I'm choosing this date at random (if you know his actual date, I would appreciate getting that information).
He is currently the director of the doctoral program in Visual culture studies at SUNY Buffalo. He is also the former executive coordinator of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University. He is a former chair of the Department of Lesbian and Gay studies at the City College of San Francisco, and was the first tenured faculty in gay and lesbian studies in the United States. Katz was an associate professor in the Art History Department at SUNY Stony Brook, where he also taught queer studies. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1996.
Katz is the founder of the Harvey Milk Institute, the largest queer studies institute in the world, and the Queer Caucus for Art of the College Art Association.
Katz co-founded Queer Nation San Francisco. He has made scholarly contributions to queer studies the focus of his professional career. He was the first artistic director of the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco and has published widely in the United States and Europe.
His forthcoming book, The Homosexualization of American Art: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and the Collective Closet, will be published by the University of Chicago Press. An internationally recognized expert in queer postwar American art, Katz has recently published Jasper Johns' Alley Oop: On Comic Strips and Camouflage in Schwule Bildwelten im 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Thomas Roeske, and The Silent Camp: Queer Resistance and the Rise of Pop Art, in Plop! Goes the World, edited by Serge Guilbaut. In 1995, Katz was kicked out of Rauschenberg conference at the Guggenheim for mentioning Rauschenberg's relationship with Johns.
Katz was co-curator with David C. Ward and Jenn Sichel of the 2010 exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. This was the first major museum exploration of the impact of same-sex desire in the creation of modern American portraiture. David Wojnarowicz's video A Fire in My Belly was removed from the exhibition in November 2010, causing controversy. Katz was not consulted before the work's removal.
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Via [GBF] New Dharma Talk: "Responding When People Hate Us or Hurt Our Feelings"
Our latest dharma talk from Dave Richo is now live:
"Responding When People Hate Us or Hurt Our Feelings"
https://gaybuddhist.org/
Find the handouts mentioned in his talk here:
https://gaybuddhist.org/wp-
Sunday, February 12, 2023
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - February 12, 2023 💌
What I used to do is wait in line and I’d do mantra or breathing. I’d go into my vipassana meditation. But now I’m interested in whether waiting in line at the bank can itself be the thing. I notice my impatience, notice the feeling in my feet as I am standing there, notice the different levels of reality of the people I’m looking at. Am I seeing a bank teller or am I seeing the Divine Mother as a bank teller? I allow myself to play with the moment more, still dealing with the stuff of the moment rather than going away.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Moving Beyond Hope
To
cling to hope is also to be shadowed by its opposite, fear, which is
ready to pounce whenever we let go of that hope. Bodhisattvas are moved
to act by something deeper: a compassionate generosity of spirit that
wants to express itself and, although it seeks results, does not require
them.
David Loy, “Don’t-Know Mind and the Election of Our Lives”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Mind and the Third Jhāna
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Via Be Here Now Network
Krishna Das – Pilgrim Heart – Ep. 130 – The Love That Lives Within Us
February 10, 2023
“Sanskrit
is considered to be a revealed language. What that means is that the
sound is actually the sound form of the Divine. It’s...
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Via White Crane Institute /// From Harry Hay's Radically Gay
Today's Gay Wisdom
2018 -
TODAY’S GAY WISDOM
From Harry Hay's Radically Gay, edited by Will Roscoe:
Harry Hay's Gay politics represent an alternative to postmodernist, queer theory and dogmatic Constructionism. Indeed, Hay is the only contemporary Gay thinker who could be said to offer a unified theory of Gayness -- one that begins by defining its subject in multidimensional terms and then accounts for its individual and historical origins, its diverse forms and their history, the psycho-social development of Gay individuals, and the nature and sources of Gay oppression. Postmodernism offers at best a politics of resignation, one that rejects the possibility of an "outside" to power, of a subject-SUBJECT alternative to subject-OBJECT social relations, and the means of getting there is through a politics that affirms Queer identities and cultures.
Hay is not bothered if his ideas are called Essentialist or if his activism is deemed "identity politics" — he is happy to emphasize his differences with Social Constructionism and Queer theory — provided that the word radical precede these labels. The original meaning of this word, "to the root," serves well to convey the underlying theme of his philosophy and politics. The key principles of Harry's radical Essentialism can be summed up as follows:
- It is, first and foremost, Gay-centered — a "situated knowledge" (to borrow Donna Haraway's terminology) reflecting the social standpoint of contemporary sexual minorities. It is not neutral on the question of Queer well-being; it seeks to create knowledge that contributes to that end.
- It posits Gay presence rather than absence in the usual state of human society.
- It conceives of its subject in multidimensional terms — not merely as sexual preference but as a difference manifest in gender roles, social identity, economic roles and sometimes religious roles, as well.
- It seeks to tell history from the bottom up, using those documents, records and artifacts that reveal the common experience of the largest number of Queer folk and not only the discourse of elite heterosexuals and social institutions.
- It recognizes various levels of meaning — individual, social, trans-cultural, and spiritual. It does not assume that the way an individual describes herself will be identical to the institutional definition of labels that have been applied to her.
- It is multicultural and comparative. Rather than a unitary instance — "the modern homosexual" — it employs the notion of a family tree (like Wittgenstein's concept of "family resemblance") to conceptualize the relationship between the Queer identities and roles of different cultures and historical periods.
- It views history as a process of continuity-within-change rather than as a series of sharply defined periods of ruptures. Concept/labels like "Sodomite" and "Urning," "homosexual," and "Gay," have overlapped in their usage. Neither can be defined without reference to the other.
- It focuses on praxis. It seeks to analyze the interaction between individuals and their societies and cultures. It looks for instances of symbols and ideas in action as well as in discourse.
The mass coming-out that transformed the quiescent homophile movement of the 1960s into the dynamic Lesbian/Gay liberation and civil rights movements of the 1970s and 1980s was in large measure a function of joining a community where a negative label could be replaced with an affirmative identity. Hay's writings show that this was no accident. The cultural minority model was a carefully thought out political analysis and strategy on the part of the Mattachine founders.
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Gay Wisdom for Daily Living from White Crane Institute
"With the increasing commodification of gay news, views, and culture by powerful corporate interests, having a strong independent voice in our community is all the more important. White Crane is one of the last brave standouts in this bland new world... a triumph over the looming mediocrity of the mainstream Gay world." - Mark Thompson
Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989!
www.whitecraneinstitute.org
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Developing Unarisen Healthy States
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Via Daily Dharma: Listen With Your Whole Self
Listen
with your body, your heart, your eyes, your energy, your total
presence. Listen in silence, without interrupting. Fill any spaces of
silence between you with love.
Beth Roth, “Right Speech Reconsidered”
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