Yanna Henriquez (Democratic district leader candidate), U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley, Ari Espinal (Democratic district leader) & Francisco Moya (then Assembly member for the 39th district) at the Queens Pride Parade (1 June 2014) Democrats vs. democracy in Queens: the race in the 39th Assembly district (2018) by Pauline Park I have friends (lots of […]
Norsk II presentasjon fra “Maria Stuart” av Friedrich Schiller av Pauline Park “Maria Stuart” er et spill av Friedrich Schiller; dette er min tilpasning av den tredje scenen i den fjerde andlingen av sykket for presentasjon i norsk klasse vårsemester 2018. Maria Stuart: Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587, reigned 1542-1567) Elisabeth: Elizabeth Tudor, queen of England […]
NYC QAIA response to NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s statement on Israel’s Independence Day ***for immediate release*** contact: noprideinoccupation@gmail.com Pauline Park: (718) 662-8893, paulinepark@earthlink.net Emmaia Gelman: (917) 517-3627, emmaia.gelman@gmail.com Leslie Cagan: (347) 581-1182, lesliecagan@igc.org 19 April 2018 — New York — New York City Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (NYC QAIA) condemn New York City Speaker Corey Johnson’s […]
Pauline Park speaking at the Queer Korea Festival/Seoul Pride Parade (June 2015) Maria Jacobson interview with Pauline Park (Arbetaren, winter 2000) [I translated the original Swedish text of the interview into English and that translation is below the original Swedish text.] Mordet på Amanda Milan, en prostituerad transkvinna som höggs ihjäl i somras utanför Manhattans […]
Thoreau on seeing the moonlight admit the mountains (photo: “Sunrise with Moonset. Vermillion Lake, Alberta” by FYW Photography, Calgary) “The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how […]
Bill Bramhall’s cartoon on Trump’s steel tariffs (3.7.18) I was struck by Donald Trump’s absurd & contradictory comments on steel tariffs and China and was inspired to write this #ResistTrump limerick: Donald Trump wants to hit back at China While he grabs some poor woman’s vagina; His tariffs on steel Show no ‘art of the […]
Hungarian satirical map of 1887 (Európa béke-mappája) I’ve loved maps since as long as I can remember and I was intrigued by this satirical map from 1887; I posted it to Facebook and a nice Hungarian translated the long poem at the bottom for me. Gábor says, “it is heavy and somewhat outdated language (and spelling). The […]
Paris: rue Rambuteau (4ème) France 2015: Paris & Versailles I lived in Paris from January through June 1992 but did not have the opportunity to return to the City of Light until May 2015; my week in Paris was a trip down memory lane, bringing back a flood of memories from the six months I […]
Pillow Talk: transgender identity, people of color & intersectionality by Pauline Park Kyoung H. Park is a Korean American playwright who emigrated to the United States from Chile, where he was born and raised; he is the first Korean playwright from Latin America to be produced and published in the united States; he is the […]
2017 LGBT year in review by Pauline Park 2017 was a hell of a year and that’s using the politest language I can think of. The year that just passed was dominated by Donald Trump, who has loomed large for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people and especially for LGBT activists since he was […]
2017 year in review Pauline Park 2017 may have been a disastrous year for the country, with the election of Donald Trump, but for me personally, it was a year of progress and growth. Trump’s election and new administration dominated the news throughout 2017, but happily, neither had any direct impact on my life. Activism […]
Joan of Arc & the uses & misuses of history: LGBT/queer historiography by Pauline Park The writing of transgender and queer history is an important component of the project of transgendering the academy, but it is one fraught with peril, conceptual and otherwise. The peril is particularly apparent when activists engage in the writing of […]