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CATGIRL GOTH RAVE: Now with location information!
CATGIRL GOTH RAVE VI: A MOLAR BECOMING-ANIMAL
SHORT VERSION: CATGIRL GOTH RAVE. 10 HERON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA. DECEMBER 18TH. 9 PM -- ???
DRESS CODE MINIMUM ALL BLACK, CREATIVE GOTH/CAT PREFERRED.
(Feel free to distribute this invitation to individuals; please do not distribute to mailing lists or other social networks without permission. You can get permission by emailing rachel@akrasiac.org, or you can link people here.)
LONG VERSION:
Remember, Remember, Eighteenth of December, [0]
Catgirls, glowsticks, and goth.
No justification why catgirl goth raving
Should ever be forsought.
For five years, catgirls and our allies have gathered in the homes and warehouses of the greated Boston area in order to engage in acts of non-violent resistance to the primatarchy. While phat beats, repeatedly blinking light sources, and black velvet are arguably among the master's tools, we reshaped them to fit our paws, tentacles, and other appendages; one celebration even featured a claw machine. Our rememberances of Foxy Day have been part of a worldwide movement for greater rights for foxes in catgirl costumes everywhere. [1]
Unfortunately, as spoken by the prophet, "we had five years left to cry in," [2] and the majority of the catgirl and fox population has been run out of the Boston area. (Surprisingly all of the coyotes left too, presumably because their prey had migrated? Usually they're much more adaptable.) Fortunately, we spent the five years dancing instead of crying, so it wasn't a total loss, but the geographic dispersal [3] of the fox-catgirl population has made organization and resistance much more difficult. While new technologies are capable of collapsing distance in certain ways, in other ways the distance between our embodied selves limits our ability to produce the world we'd most like to inhabit.
However, despite the efforts of the Teleological Species Archaicists (TSA from here on out) to limit the mobility of transspecies individuals, many of us are folding our ears into our hair and disguising our tails as belts and making our way to San Francisco for our yearly pilgrimages all the same. The TSA attempt to dissuade us from travel by embarrassing those of us with visible whiskers or claw machines in place of our genitalia; they wish for us and those like us to stay put rather than assemble, in order to organ-ize us by preventing our organization.
We must resist! Only by gathering together at 10 Heron St. and choreomaniacally responding to the siren song of several DJs can we ourselves become sirens, warning of and producing a future emergency of identity breakdown. By facing away from the DJ [4] and avoiding introspection we can instead outrospect, circumspectly, and send transformative energy into the surrounding area. If all goes well, after a good six or seven hours of celebration, everyone within fifty miles will grow fur and really, really, really enjoy catnip.
Since it's San Francisco, no one should really notice.
CATGIRL GOTH RAVE: If we're going to turn you into a cat anyway, you might as well come to the party.
Hope to see you there,
-r.
[0] The Fifth of November, Observed
[1] For history, see:
http://www.akrasiac.org/rachel/sketches/foxyday1.txt
http://www.akrasiac.org/rachel/sketches/foxyday2.txt
http://autumnfox.akrasiac.org/cgr2007.txt
http://autumnfox.akrasiac.org/cgr2008.txt
http://autumnfox.akrasiac.org/cgr2009.txt
[2] Stardust 1:4
[3] Whether or not catgirls are always-already diasporic is beyond the scope of this party invite. I will merely point out that while the common understanding of diaspora involves an originary homeland, it is not yet proven that catgirlism is genetic or familially based at all. The Committee On Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects continues to ignore my calls and thus I have not been able to begin human/animal testing with regard to this matter.
[4] http://www.ishkur.com/articles/trancecracker.php
SHORT VERSION: CATGIRL GOTH RAVE. 10 HERON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA. DECEMBER 18TH. 9 PM -- ???
DRESS CODE MINIMUM ALL BLACK, CREATIVE GOTH/CAT PREFERRED.
(Feel free to distribute this invitation to individuals; please do not distribute to mailing lists or other social networks without permission. You can get permission by emailing rachel@akrasiac.org, or you can link people here.)
LONG VERSION:
Remember, Remember, Eighteenth of December, [0]
Catgirls, glowsticks, and goth.
No justification why catgirl goth raving
Should ever be forsought.
For five years, catgirls and our allies have gathered in the homes and warehouses of the greated Boston area in order to engage in acts of non-violent resistance to the primatarchy. While phat beats, repeatedly blinking light sources, and black velvet are arguably among the master's tools, we reshaped them to fit our paws, tentacles, and other appendages; one celebration even featured a claw machine. Our rememberances of Foxy Day have been part of a worldwide movement for greater rights for foxes in catgirl costumes everywhere. [1]
Unfortunately, as spoken by the prophet, "we had five years left to cry in," [2] and the majority of the catgirl and fox population has been run out of the Boston area. (Surprisingly all of the coyotes left too, presumably because their prey had migrated? Usually they're much more adaptable.) Fortunately, we spent the five years dancing instead of crying, so it wasn't a total loss, but the geographic dispersal [3] of the fox-catgirl population has made organization and resistance much more difficult. While new technologies are capable of collapsing distance in certain ways, in other ways the distance between our embodied selves limits our ability to produce the world we'd most like to inhabit.
However, despite the efforts of the Teleological Species Archaicists (TSA from here on out) to limit the mobility of transspecies individuals, many of us are folding our ears into our hair and disguising our tails as belts and making our way to San Francisco for our yearly pilgrimages all the same. The TSA attempt to dissuade us from travel by embarrassing those of us with visible whiskers or claw machines in place of our genitalia; they wish for us and those like us to stay put rather than assemble, in order to organ-ize us by preventing our organization.
We must resist! Only by gathering together at 10 Heron St. and choreomaniacally responding to the siren song of several DJs can we ourselves become sirens, warning of and producing a future emergency of identity breakdown. By facing away from the DJ [4] and avoiding introspection we can instead outrospect, circumspectly, and send transformative energy into the surrounding area. If all goes well, after a good six or seven hours of celebration, everyone within fifty miles will grow fur and really, really, really enjoy catnip.
Since it's San Francisco, no one should really notice.
CATGIRL GOTH RAVE: If we're going to turn you into a cat anyway, you might as well come to the party.
Hope to see you there,
-r.
[0] The Fifth of November, Observed
[1] For history, see:
http://www.akrasiac.org/rachel/sketches/foxyday1.txt
http://www.akrasiac.org/rachel/sketches/foxyday2.txt
http://autumnfox.akrasiac.org/cgr2007.txt
http://autumnfox.akrasiac.org/cgr2008.txt
http://autumnfox.akrasiac.org/cgr2009.txt
[2] Stardust 1:4
[3] Whether or not catgirls are always-already diasporic is beyond the scope of this party invite. I will merely point out that while the common understanding of diaspora involves an originary homeland, it is not yet proven that catgirlism is genetic or familially based at all. The Committee On Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects continues to ignore my calls and thus I have not been able to begin human/animal testing with regard to this matter.
[4] http://www.ishkur.com/articles/trancecracker.php
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I am currently preparing for an unrelated Christmas game I am running on Thursday, but after that I will get on with producing stuff people can make and/or play with (if they want to). As an outsider to La Révolution Catgirlaise, I can't promise they will be the best thing ever though. AT LEAST HE TRIED
Rax, do you have anywhere you could lay hold of some printer card? I will only be able to provide things in PDF form. If you can't get any then I can always make stuff so as to be folded over; if you use fairly stiff paper then the two layers should combine to be pretty card-like. Actually, that would have the added benefit of it being easier to match up the two sides: trying to print on both sides of a sheet of card and have everything come out aligned can sometimes be a pain, depending.
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I will try to email everything by tonight!
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