Comments on: A review of the SPEAK CD.

By: pazenlavida

pazenlavida — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:42:43 +0000

I ordered mine today! I’m making all my friends order one.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:40:38 +0000

Meep! *blush*

By: The SPEAK CD is waiting for YOU | VivirLatino

The SPEAK CD is waiting for YOU | VivirLatino — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:01:53 +0000

[...] from Flip Flopping Joy comes the link to this SUPER review of the SPEAK CD, of which our lovely Mamita Mala is a part of! A taste of the review: Most of the pieces rely on minimal sounds – light percussion, synthesizers, background noise – if there’s any sound besides the speaker at all, so E. Rose Sims’ “On Cartography and Dissection” is a jarring change of pace, with an orchestrated score that matches the dark tone of her exploration of monsters. The piece is a brilliant series of connections between colonialism and transphobia and racism, with mapmaking serving as a metaphor for the naming and conquering of the human body. Flags are planted, already-established realities are ignored, and healthy, natural identities are twisted, by colonizers, into “a wrongness, a distortion.” Sims’s voice brims with sadness and anger as thunder crackles behind her and she ponders what Medusa felt the first time she saw her own reflection. [...]

By: Blackamazon

Blackamazon — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:22:02 +0000

YEAH

and teh mentioned radical love and I squeed and then giggled cause i thought of your photo and blood dripping vampire ginas

By: Aaminah

Aaminah — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:16:10 +0000

omg…. i do not read the mainstream feminist blogs, so i read your comment and was like “what the hell is she talking about?” so i had to go over and see… omg… i am just too flattered! BUT… honestly, all credit for the coolness of the answering machine format has to go to Matthew because i didn’t know anything about it until after the fact, LOL. He just recorded me, and then he played around with the recording later and set it that way, which turned out very cool.

By: bfp

bfp — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:59:48 +0000

I know, and you got a GLOWING review, which rocks my world! )))))

it’s SO great reading all the different reviews because everybody seems to pick out a few different fav’s–

By: Aaminah

Aaminah — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:56:45 +0000

wow… if i didn’t already know, that is a hella review and i woulda ordered for sure! thanks Julie!

By: bfp

bfp — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:56:19 +0000

hey woman, have i ever told you how freaking happy i am to hear you’re feeling better????? I saw your amazing comment that you left, and I meant to comment but just got busy and never got around to it and then forgot! but now I remember, and I wanted to just say–I’m SOOOO glad that you’re feeling better–I’m SO glad–having hypothyroidism myself, I know what it’s like to get on that horrible cycle, where they mess around with those stupid counts–you get obsessed, and it becomes a big battle trying to get your dosage up–and they act like you’re trying to steal cocaine or something! I know that mess, and I am just so glad that you, at the very least, are feeling better, and getting a little balance in this fucked up medical system!!!!!

By: La Lubu

La Lubu — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:51:23 +0000

Looking forward to getting my copy!