aesthetics for breakfast, semiotics for lunch

thatneedstogo:

“Get me a vodka rocks”

“Mom, it’s breakfast”

“And a piece of toast”

Via Yeah, That Needs To Go

8pm

I have so many feelings about this, I just don’t know what to do.

conkelverse:

Debbie does Dungeons & Dragons.

Via Conkelverse

2pm

may you be safe from harm and danger.
may you feel at peace in these weird and scary times.

and may you find a way to feel empathy towards everyone.

—http://amandapalmer.net/blog/20130423/

10am

An Open Letter from Playwright Mallery Avidon

I’m producing this play next month. I don’t often blog about my work, and I usually hesitate about discussing my motivations for a project publicly.

But, ‘queerSpawn’ is the play my company chose to be the first project we produced independently in New York. Below is a letter the playwright (also not one to usually discuss her motivations) wrote. It encapsulates what I think in a way even more elegantly than I can.

A Collection of Shiny Objects presents queerSpawn

An Open Letter from Playwright Mallery Avidon

Dear Friends & Colleagues,

The world premiere of my new play queerSpawn is being produced by A Collection of Shiny Objects at HERE next month.

This play is very important to me. It is about a teenage boy with two moms who is being bullied at school. It is about being 14 and being different. It is about The It Gets Better Project and what homophobia is doing to our culture. And it’s about imaginary friends and what it means to never feel safe. (But it’s funny! I promise!)

Part of the research I did for the play was going on a weekend retreat through the organization Colage (which is a national service and advocacy organization for kids and adults with LGBTQ parents) I met a bunch of teens and young adults from all over the country, from places like Florida and Texas and Utah and Georgia and Louisiana, and the thing that stuck with me the most was that these young people didn’t feel safe in their own lives and didn’t have the agency to create that safety. The only time they felt safe was at Colage events where they were with people who were like them (everyone’s family structure there was different and unique but being different together was much easier for them then trying to fit into a world that constantly told them their family was wrong.)

I hope for a world where everyone feels safe in their lives. I do not know how to make change other than by doing the thing I do. Which is to write plays.

And so I wrote a play and now it is finally being produced. The company is small and we are trying to raise money on Indiegogo, any donation you make is tax deductible. I know that there are harder things and more important things going on in the world than a small play about a small story about a teenager in crisis but this story feels big to me and feels like it relates to all the other stories. All of the things that are wrong. That if we just somehow could accept all of our differences more then everything would be a little better. Maybe I am naive. But if you feel like supporting this project it is an amazing group of artists and maybe the time that people spend in the theater with this story could have the tiniest impact on something. I have to think that it might.

To donate please click HERE.

If you are in New York please come to the show (if you donate $25 you get a ticket or $50 you get a pair).
For tickets and information, click HERE.

The full email is here: http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=03b413397280cb07b71c9ce94&id=ab882879ce

12pm

28 Ways To Live Life Like Lucille Bluth