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The Bend It Extravaganza
Radical, Free, Queer, and All Ages since 2003
For more information email: the.bend.it.extravaganza@gmail.comMusic
we like music.... and burlesque!
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"Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other ..." by Kate Bornstien, The Teenage Liberation Handbook, Lies My Teacher Told Me, "Dangerous Angels" by Francesca Lia Block, Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg, The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon by Tom Spanbaeur, Cherrie Moraga, James Baldwin, Gloria Anzaldua, Audre Lorde.. and so much more!
Latest Blog Entries
- Jun 18, 2011 6:34 PM 2011 Extravaganza
- Mar 15, 2011 6:20 PM Become an organizer for 2011!
- Jun 16, 2010 7:42 PM Official Publicity Email 2010
- May 17, 2010 11:19 PM Bend-It Extravaganza 2010
- Sep 3, 2005 3:53 AM Poster for the Gender Bender Bandit's Show
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- SeattleDIY Collective
- Allyship LGBTQ
- Bent Writing Institute
- Vera Project
- Rosco Kickingstone
- eden
- Kaitlyn Mooney
- Tofutti
- Dont Stop Believin Reco…
- Anne Berry
- hollow earth radio
- P::::O:::::P
- vain Hair salon
- Megan Savannah Lytle Ra…
- sterling thomas snow
- Sam
- talbot tagora
- t wrecks
- Matthew Steele
- Tom Y
- Addison Suderman
- garrett
- YOUTH SPEAKS SEATTLE
- Stonewall Youth
- The Stranger
- Fausto
- bikery
- DOOMHAWK
- Seattle Young People's …
- GOSSIP
- THE LAMBERT HOUSE
- SCREAM CLUB
- Sarah Galvin
- Queer DJcrew
- Cabiria Jones
- Three Dollar Bill Cinema
- Tom Anderson
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About me:
Bend It is a queer artist activist collective that makes the world a more fabulous place by building welcoming, liberated spaces, strengthening community, and creating meaningful alternatives for queer young people and their friends.
Bend-It holds 4 major Values.
DIT — Do it together. We promote working together as a community to get things done. We have agency, resources, and the ability to create change. We strive to strengthen and expand the wider queer community as well as to recruit allies and build ties with other communities.
Respect — We are committed to respecting ourselves, people in our community, and the world at large, keeping mindful of the larger effects of our actions and events. We will strive to create a safe space in our collective itself and in all the events we put on.
Anti-Oppression — We hold anti-oppression based values in organizing and event planning. We are committed to working on our own internalized–isms and to make our events welcoming and accessible to all. In particular, we are focused on creating a safe space and empowering ourselves as young, queer organizers.
Glitter — We value sequins, individual style, rhinestones, making creative space for artists, and theatricality. We encourage genuine, intentional artifice. We all bring our unique selves to this community and our diversity makes us strong. We invite self-definition in all forms, and embrace a wide definition of queerness.
Since 2003, Bend-It has had been organizing a three-day arts festival during the weekend of the Seattle Pride Parade in June. We designed our festival as a meaningful, non-corporate, proactively inclusive alternative to Pride, hosting community artists-led workshops, concerts, photography exhibits, film festivals, fashion/drag/burlesque shows, and spoken poetry open mic nights. We have encouraged DIY (do-it-yourself) and DIT (do-it-together) mentalities by offering reciprocal skill-building workshops—as opposed to top-down, one-way interactions.
We are in a new year and we need new organizers to continue this tradition.
Check out a weekly Monday meeting
in the Community Room at Kaladi Brother's Coffee
511 E Pike St
@ 630 pm
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Who I'd like to meet:
Radical Queers
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- Zodiac Sign: Cancer
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BirthDIYfest 
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Cindy Wonderful 2 years ago
Addison Suderman 2 years ago
Kids and Animals 3 years ago
Neumos Seattle 3 years ago
Neumos Seattle Oh yeah plus this......Sep 17:::::::::OM:::::::::::at Neumos.....also going to be sweet
3 years ago
Angel Eliza 3 years ago
UNDERRIDE 4 years ago
Dave End 
4 years ago
Cindy Wonderful 4 years ago
10 of 116MoreHello friends, We are asking all of you people who like our music videos and want to see more, to pledge now to help us complete our music video for our new song “How could it be”. Its a new collaboration with Nicky Click and Electrosexual, and editor/director Tank Skyfire. We have shot the video, and now just need the money to continue editing. IF you love our videos and would like to see more, please make a pledge and not only do you help us, you also get great incentives like mp3s, a scream club name, free entry (Check out the list for complete details). Plus a portion of proceeds go to the GREATER NEW ORLEANS RELIEF FUND to help clean up the gigantic oil spill that continues to pollute the water even right now, and 100% of any money after we meet our goal goes to the fund too. So you can help us out, help out some people in Lousianna, get some great music. Then watch a rad video when its all over. We thank you in advance, and invite you all to spread the word. xox cindy
Keep Music On !!! Peace
New Self-released Self-titled LP coming soon! CD Release show w/ The Globes at The Vera Project in late November '09.... Check back for details :)
The CASUALTIES-sep.5 at Neumos going to be raaaaaad
Hi Hun, Great Idea. I'm glad you are useing Art to help and build a Community. We Support you Wholeheartedly. Keep it up!
I Post Sermons on Fridays. There is background and tidbits in the Blog. The Videos go on the Main Page with feeds from Youtube. There are 3 Youtube Feeds. The Purple one has a variety of recent Sermons. The Red one has Chapters from my Book, "Awakenings in an Age of Angels". The Green one has the Sacrament Service, Selected readings, and music. I look forward to talking with you.
Hugs,
Angel
Young upstart producer Nick Vogt sliced and diced together a brand spankin' new music video for underride. The Candy Girl vid from the album One of Us features guest appearances from our favorite KISW Rock Girls.
WARNING: Too many views may cause premature blindness.
"Music vid by Nick Vogt."
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........From cw......