CRJ 
@cynthia@post.lurk.org
- pronouns
- she/they ella/elle
- languages
- Spanish, English, Spanglish
- website
- https://www.cynthiarodriguez.org
- newsletter
- https://cynthiarodriguez.substack.com/about
Writer, performer, singer, art historian, organiser, liminal, learning.
Escritore, intérprete, cantante, historiadore del arte, organizadore, liminal, en aprendizaje.
Backup: cynthia@mstdn.social
Joined Feb 2021
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"There's a sweetness in clumsy efforts. Stubborn hope always trumps lazy greed, & gentle hearts tear vulgar castles down.
Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid.
Love,
Godspeed You! Black Emperor"
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I'm not good at many things, but I'm kind of fine at #writing and #performance, particularly in the #poetry department. I have a poetry book, called Meanwhile, about people who live in between stages and don't fulfill success standards in regards to migration, sexuality, growing up, bodies and minds.
You can read more about it and my work on my website: https://www.cynthiarodriguez.org
If you want to buy it, get it from: https://cynthiaescribe.bigcartel.com/
Join my newsletter for sporadic updates and texts: https://cynthiarodriguez.substack.com/
Videos of some live performances and home recordings: https://peertube.co.uk/accounts/cynthia/video-channels
Looking to get involved in more #multimedia opportunities and incorporate #music and #video as some of my live performances show. Maybe not relying so much with a live band anymore, but more #algorave, #foundsound and #noise guided by a #diy #punk ethos in my practice.
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Suggestions of creative #writers who use the Fediverse/Mastodon rather than Big Tech socials? I already follow @pluralistic and he's really inspiring my practice. I literally only have Big Tech accounts to share my gigs now. Don't want to rely on that anymore eventually.
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#introduction Hello! I'm a 34-year-old mestizx #queer from Borrado territory aka Monterrey, #Mexico, but have been based in the East Midlands in the #UK for over a decade. Writer and performer, into vocal loops. Interdisciplinary, intersectional, international. Living with #ADHD #dyslexia
Interests: #decolonialism #transformativejustice #fatliberation #migration #mixedmedia
Increasingly into #decentralisation against #surveillancecapitalism and looking for #GAFAM alternatives.
"There's a sweetness in clumsy efforts. Stubborn hope always trumps lazy greed, & gentle hearts tear vulgar castles down.
Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid.
Love,
Godspeed You! Black Emperor"
CW: war, politics, solitude, GY!BE
Sorting out old files and found this timeless message from GY!BE ca 2003. Little has changed.
Typed text here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor
A través de mi amigo Max y su newsletter Regios Will Be Regios, me vine enterando que en #Monterrey también tenemos un iceberg de teorías conspirativas y #leyendasurbanas. Entre graciosas, intrigantes, prejuiciosas, atemorizantes e históricas. Algunas de ellas ya vienen xilograbadas en nuestro ser, y las llevamos a todas partes con nosotres.
Playing around with #SonicPi. So far, so fun! It's bringing memories back from what I had learned at the #algobabez workshop five years ago at Notts Pride. I think then they used #SuperCollider to teach and it was connected to synths tho? This is a good re-start. 
I'm not good at many things, but I'm kind of fine at #writing and #performance, particularly in the #poetry department. I have a poetry book, called Meanwhile, about people who live in between stages and don't fulfill success standards in regards to migration, sexuality, growing up, bodies and minds.
You can read more about it and my work on my website: https://www.cynthiarodriguez.org
If you want to buy it, get it from: https://cynthiaescribe.bigcartel.com/
Join my newsletter for sporadic updates and texts: https://cynthiarodriguez.substack.com/
Videos of some live performances and home recordings: https://peertube.co.uk/accounts/cynthia/video-channels
Looking to get involved in more #multimedia opportunities and incorporate #music and #video as some of my live performances show. Maybe not relying so much with a live band anymore, but more #algorave, #foundsound and #noise guided by a #diy #punk ethos in my practice.
Suggestions of creative #writers who use the Fediverse/Mastodon rather than Big Tech socials? I already follow @pluralistic and he's really inspiring my practice. I literally only have Big Tech accounts to share my gigs now. Don't want to rely on that anymore eventually.
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“To be asked to communicate whether in writing or in person with the person who has harassed you, is to be asked to reopen channels of communication that you closed to protect yourself. The person who abused you is given more chances to express himself.”
“Reconciliation can be experienced as the enforcement of communication.”
https://feministkilljoys.com/2021/01/27/apologies-for-harm-apologies-as-harm/
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“If an apology is made to keep a relationship going that is harmful, an apology is harmful.”
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The eighth annual international Gender Census 2021 is now open until 10th March!
https://smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercensus2021
It's for anyone whose genders (or lack thereof) aren't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and the results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
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ideas living rent-free in one's head implies the existence of idea landlords
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Aaa what happened here? I missed you folx 
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Let’s #CleanUpTheWeb one web site at a time (starting with yours). Remove tracking devices from surveillance capitalists like Google, Facebook, etc., from your sites and tell people you’re doing it.
For lists of alternatives, see: https://goodreports.com/ https://switching.software
Been having this song in my head all day, straight out of 120 Minutes circa 2004.
Codeseven - Alt.Wave
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Pues estoy con el puto pintor
Cueva de Altamira, 11 de febrero del 27.980 aC.
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Wendy Carlos, angry essay about trans stuff by her
Seeing a lot of discourse about Wendy Carlos and her transition over on birdsite right now - after the BBC posted an old clip of her demonstrating the Moog - and it strikes me as a bit odd that few people seem to be taking her own words on the matter into account, so here are those words, from the late 90s, in all their tired-of-this-crap glory.
PTSD, fear of music, shitty music scene, confidence
Also, during that time I started playing with a band aaaaaaaaaaaaaand long story short, I would've been better off making my own music with words on a computer. 
Finding this instance and seeing they have newsletters and a visible presence of algo, tidalcycles, etc. is making me get a bit more excited to try. But then, my music experience from the previous paragraph ended so bitterly and in such a humilliating way, I'm a bit scared? Until recently, I was too traumatised to even *listen* to music, let alone make it. Eep.
Joining this instance has made me a lot more interested in trying #algorave and #livecoding music.
First knew about it about 4/5 years ago at Nottingham Pride when a group of women from Sheffield gave a workshop about it. It was fascinating, but I left it in the backdrawer of my mind because most of the software they used was for Mac and I'm PC bruh.
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Looking for THE CURE - WISH on vinyl. Anyone have one they are willing to part with that doesn't require a kidney donation hit me up. Or if you know of a place that will ship to the states with covid still in full swing.
CRJ has moved to @cynthia@mstdn.social:
has moved to @cynthia@mstdn.social:
- pronouns
- she/they ella/elle
- languages
- Spanish, English, Spanglish
- website
- https://www.cynthiarodriguez.org
- newsletter
- https://cynthiarodriguez.substack.com/about
Writer, performer, singer, art historian, organiser, liminal, learning.
Escritore, intérprete, cantante, historiadore del arte, organizadore, liminal, en aprendizaje.
Backup: cynthia@mstdn.social
Joined Feb 2021
