S.O.N.G.

Build Solidarity. Build Sustainability. 100 For Justice.

SONG has been selected to be part of 100 for Justice in an effort to get folks to give to 100 important organizations around the US: “Use $100 of your stimulus package to…give $ back to our communities, support local economies, and stimulate the kind of world we want to live in. ” Click here to learn more about the project, and give to SONG or any of these other powerful organizations.

7807 Inc.; an emerging media arts collective dedicated to creating works of community transformation, is in search of participants for its debut film project, based on the Stud-for-Stud (S4S) community.

This currently unnamed documentary aims to offer a direct, honest, balanced and in-depth look into this evolving community by focusing on several non-feminine lesbian, queer and bisexual women and transgendered persons that are attracted to, date and cultivate committed relationships with other masculine identified women better known as studs, butches, doms and aggressives (AG’s).

Several topics will be covered in this project, which will include (but not be limited to):

* The definition of Stud-for-Stud
* “Coming Out” as S4S
* S4S Attraction Who Does What? S4S Bedroom Behavior
* S4S Love & Relationships
* S4S = “Too Gay”?
* S4S Discrimination from within the lesbian community
* Cultural response to S4S

…and other subjects of interest.

IN SEACRH OF…

7807 seeks masculine identified single or coupled lesbian, queer and bisexual women as well as transgendered persons that reside in the states of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina and/or in the cities of Baltimore, MD, Washington DC, New York City and Los Angeles, CA; between ages 18-50 from diverse racial, ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds, including (but not limited to):

* College Students
* Performance artists (I.E. Hip-Hop Artists, Spoken Word Artists/Poets, Dancers, Singers, Musicians, etc.)
* Visual Artists (I.E. Painters, Sculptors, Photographers, Graffiti Artists, etc.)
* Corporate, academic or entrepreneurial professionals
* Car / Motorcycle enthusiasts
* Cultural, Political and/or Community activists

…And women from other various walk of life.

Parties interested in being a filmed participant in this project are asked to take a few moments to completely fill out the questionnaire attached along with this e-mail. Please send the requested information along with other questions regarding this project to 7807pro@gmail.com.

Deadline for all submissions is SATURDAY, JUNE 21 2008.

Thank you for your time, and we look forward to your involvement in and/or support of this groundbreaking and thought-provoking project!

7807-questionnaire.doc

A Place for Fresh Ideas: Check Out the Boggs Center:

“On Detroit’s east side, in neighborhoods where vacant lots and burned-out shells of former homes dominate the landscape, a radical vision is emerging. It is a futuristic view of urban redevelopment that draws heavily upon the past.” -Curt Guyette, Metro News

Many people think that Detroit is the blue print of the future of the US. By this we mean, that Detroit has experienced massive industrial build up, then pull out, and then urban collapse, losing half of its population, and now, trying to envision a different and sustainable future that puts poor people and people of color at the center of topics such as food sustainability, collective building, and gardening. For some time, at SONG, we have been thinking and learning about what it would truly mean to create a new kind of infrastructure–where land takes back cities, people take back communities from commerce, and we build democratically-led spaces.

At the Boggs Center in Detroit, they are thinking about these things too. That is why SONG sees the Boggs Center as kindred to ourselves.

From the Boggs Center website:

“For nearly forty years, the Boggs’ home…has been a community center and think-tank drawing together individuals and organizations from diverse backgrounds. People from around the world have come to create and discuss visions and strategies relating to local community struggles, workers’ movements, and global campaigns for social justice.”

GO TO: www.Boggscenter.org for more info, and check out their great blog called ‘Unending Conversations of Hope’!

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Do you know about sites of resource that SONG should be getting the word out about? Email us at: Caitlin@Southernersonnewground.org