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Kaaya: Beyond Gender, 15 of 20

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Kaaya_15
Caption: “My childhood dreams have come true and this photographs shows it. My family used to dress me as a boy and I hated it. Today I am free. This picture gives me a great feeling. Today I am free. Looking at this photograph gives me a great feeling as it shows me drying my hair after a bath like all other females. – Bobby”

Kaaya: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

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Delivr, an API [application program interface] that creates postcards from any Creative Commons licensed image on Flickr.

Greg Downing's photo workflow for the web [96kb PDF]

Photopermit.org “is about keeping photographers out of trouble, and supporting them when trouble looms.”

You Can't Take Pictures Here

Security guards [street lingo = rent-a-cops] harassed a street photographer for taking pictures of a building at One Bush Street [at the corner of Bush and Market in San Francisco]. Mathew Honan has quickly put together a contest that invites other street photogs to go to One Bush Street and take more images of the building and post the links in his comments section. One lucky winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to the iTunes Music Store. Here are a couple of Flickr sites (1, 2) that show off images from photographers exercising their freedom of expression.

ACLU's “Bustcard” [print the PDF and carry with you]

Kodachrome, an eulogy

Doug Menuez's True Moments

Framed & Exposed: Canning Film or, Viva La Digital

Really short stories: “The most basic rule is that they're just a sentence or two, totalling 25 words or less. Less hard-and-fast – but equally vital – are a theme, plot, characters, and narrative development. Everything you'd see in any good story – but short enough to fit into the time it takes to reach the bottom of that bitter little cup, as you ponder on how even the briefest experiences can make life more meaningful.”

Shooting video for the web

Yes, a ton of these links above came from CreativePro.com [subscribe for free]

https://www.tiffinbox.org/817/

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Delivr, an API [application program interface] that creates postcards from any Creative Commons licensed image on Flickr.

Greg Downing's photo workflow for the web [96kb PDF]

Photopermit.org “is about keeping photographers out of trouble, and supporting them when trouble looms.”

You Can't Take Pictures Here

Security guards [street lingo = rent-a-cops] harassed a street photographer for taking pictures of a building at One Bush Street [at the corner of Bush and Market in San Francisco]. Mathew Honan has quickly put together a contest that invites other street photogs to go to One Bush Street and take more images of the building and post the links in his comments section. One lucky winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to the iTunes Music Store. Here are a couple of Flickr sites (1, 2) that show off images from photographers exercising their freedom of expression.

ACLU's “Bustcard” [print the PDF and carry with you]

Kodachrome, an eulogy

Doug Menuez's True Moments

Framed & Exposed: Canning Film or, Viva La Digital

Really short stories: “The most basic rule is that they're just a sentence or two, totalling 25 words or less. Less hard-and-fast – but equally vital – are a theme, plot, characters, and narrative development. Everything you'd see in any good story – but short enough to fit into the time it takes to reach the bottom of that bitter little cup, as you ponder on how even the briefest experiences can make life more meaningful.”

Shooting video for the web

Yes, a ton of these links above came from CreativePro.com [subscribe for free]

https://www.tiffinbox.org/518/

Kaaya: Beyond Gender, 14 of 20

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[Sorry I temporarily dropped publishing this series: Way too much happening at home and at work that takes precedence!]

Kaaya_14

Caption: “In my family, we have four siblings. There is so much love between our Guru and siblings that we do not feel at ease unless we have seen each other at least once a day. We are close with our transgender families. We love each other more than we love our blood relatives. – Chanchal”

Kaaya: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

More apologies – this time to Parthiv Shah who put this show together; I found the captions and will play those out from here on out. I will also try and go back and append missing captions to all the other images that have already been published as part of this series.

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Rucksacks In Nottinghill

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Photograph sent by Ram Rahman:

Nottinghill

You gotta love this. If you are brown, in or around London, don't carry a rucksack/backpack or wear a large coat. And definitely don't run with any of the aforementioned items in hand onto a bus or attempt to get onto a train. You are asking to be harassed.

I am apalled by this. The thing that gets me the most is about “looking a bit foreign.” Hello! London is quite likely the most cosmopolitan city in the world [thanks to their colonial past, but that's another post]. Are they going to stop just everyone who isn't WHITE and interrogate them? I called this a long time ago when this whole Iraq mess was brewing; the civil liberties of brown and non-white people was going to take a major hit. And it's happening. Slowly but surely our travel will be restricted, our intentions questioned and lives rebuked.

I was listening to Rush Limbaugh on the way into work [gotta know what the neo-conservative muckymucks are talking about right?] and Roger Hedgecock who is sitting in for ol' Rush took a phone call from some butthead in Orange County who has worked up some sort of legislation to make profiling of “Puerto Ricans and Blacks” legal! Amazingly, Mr. Hedgecock let the guy ramble on and on and then agreed with him in the end. The parochial nature of these nationally syndicated talk-shows really worries me.

Anyone else feel marginalized?

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